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    "id": 516944,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Manje",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Wathigo Manje",
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    "content": "Private schools perform better than public schools and how else can you hold them back apart from removing the ranking part of it? It is like we are trying to justify not working in schools. Private schools are doing very well in this country and maybe in future that is the right way to go. However, if we do not rank them then we are demotivating them and if they will not continue performing well then our country will not perform. There is a school that I started about four years ago which is seated right here and if we do not rank them next year, it means we will not see the results that we have been trying to plant all along. I am in constant communication with the head teachers in my constituency using social media and all of them are supporting the idea of ranking. They are saying that if there is no ranking, then students will not be motivated to pass examinations. This will bring down the big schools. You will never hear again about Alliance High school or Njiri’s High School where I studied. I would support that idea of competition in this Motion. Ranking is everywhere. Talk of motor vehicles, the difference between a Mercedes Benz and a Renault is because they have been ranked internationally. This ranking gives you the direction of where to go. It is natural. If you want to rank the animals according to their strength you will possibly rank the elephant at the top and the rat at the bottom. So, this is something that is natural. If you educate students in schools, in the curriculum implementation there is that relationship between the curriculum developers, the former Kenya Institute of Education (KIE), the implementers who are the teachers and the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) that evaluates. If they evaluate and they do not rank then the process is not complete. I want to support this Motion."
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