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    "id": 521081,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/521081/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 135,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anyango",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 130,
        "legal_name": "Dalmas Anyango Otieno",
        "slug": "dalmas-otieno"
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    "content": "It is time we insisted that the mean standard scores in schools must be of a particular minimum. I know some schools which have never had a mean score of above 250 year-in, year-out. We are managing a consumption-driven economy and since 1997, the teachers have been making demands for huge pay increases. There is no matching productivity. That productivity should be exercised by the new TSC, now that it is going to be complete. If a school is going to have mean scores of below 250 and is not able to take any students to national schools or any of the good secondary schools because of poor results, there should be an explanation. There should be a report to the community why somebody is assuming that some communities produce kids that cannot be taught. Yet, it is the teachers who have not done a good job. One time, I gave notice to the teachers in my constituency that unless one is a graduate, after ten years, you will have no opportunity to head any of my primary schools. They thought I was joking. The policy now is that the vacancies will be advertised and if there are graduates, including those below you, they will take the headship and you will not move ahead if you have done nothing to improve yourself. The new TSC should insist that every teacher improves himself and there should be evidence to that effect. You cannot be in the teaching profession when you do nothing to improve yourself. We are not going to pay higher salaries if there is no productivity. We are sure we are going to have to pay because of the muscle of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) to keep demanding higher and higher salaries. They are not alone. So many other people are seeking better pay, but that better pay must be matched by productivity. That productivity must be supervised by the new TSC. Now that it has full membership, we expect to have a secretariat that is professionally capable of managing teachers as the basic human resource capable of developing our national human capital."
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