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    "content": "education system for the last three weeks saying that we cannot pay Kshs1.3 billion a month. It appears that it is now going on for another two weeks because there is a court ruling that has been put to the future. What is the cost to the country when the education system is shut down for that long? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, secondly, there has been a threat by the TSC to attach the salaries of teachers for abandoning work. Who will compensate the parents who have already paid their fees in full to send children to school only to be told to go and hang around the libraries or to play in the playground? It is very shameful when the Chairman of the Committee tells us that learning is going on in the country. I am a parent of a pupil who is in a public school, and is as much as this school has not been shut down and the children have not been sent home, what these children are doing is just playing around or being told to go to the libraries. Parents do not send their children to school to play or go to the libraries. We can do that at home. We send our children to school so that they can learn. So, if the TSC will attach teachers’ salaries, who will compensate the millions of Kenyans who have spent their last coin to send their children to school and there is no service being rendered? Finally, we, as a nation, need to be careful because it is the children of the poor who are in public schools that are currently affected. The children of the rich are in private schools which are going on with learning. When we are quantifying losses and the lost opportunities here, we must also look at the consequential loss. If the children of the poor are going to stay out of school for three weeks or a month, what is the implication in the long term? Will they be able to effectively compete with the children of the rich in this country or the Jubilee administration which now finds itself in a position to resolve this problem only cares for those who have means at the expense of those who do not have means?"
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