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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kang’ata",
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        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "Those people do not have a union. It is very easy for us to forget them. But they perform the important role of inspecting schools, coming up with reports and ensuring that teachers do a productive job. I will see how that can be integrated into my amendments in order for us to help our inspectors ensure that our schools are inspected on a regular basis. Recently, I was analysing results in my constituency. I felt that something needed to be done. I found out that in a whole ward, only one or two schools managed to get an average of 250 marks. The rest got below 250 marks. That is in Kiharu, in Murang’a. So many schools were unable to reach the minimum threshold. That means a vast majority of the students do not transit to secondary school. They simply get out of school and become social deviants. Therefore, I ask my colleagues to consider those two issues: Firstly, introduction of school feeding programme, and secondly adequate funding of school inspectors. We need to see how that idea can be recast in this Bill, so that we can boost the quality of education in this country. Another aspect of this Bill, which is progressive, is that the views of religious leaders have been incorporated. I have noted that there has been a move towards secularisation of our education sector. I do not belong to that school of thought. I have made my own observations, though not scientific. I have come to the conclusion that the more religious a school is, the better the results it produces. Looking at our high schools, the top notch schools are all religion-based. Examples are Alliance Girls High School and Strathmore School. They both have that correlation with religion. We must resist the notion of secularisation of education. That is why I have seen several clauses in this Bill which appear to give religious institutions a say in the running of our education institutions. I am very happy. On that note, I take this opportunity to castigate those people who are trying to introduce comprehensive sex education in our schools. Those people are trying to sexualise our young people. I ask the Committee to guard against those people who are trying to sneak in child pornography through the notion of comprehensive sex education. By allowing the church to have a bigger say in our education system, we will ensure that we counter-check those people who are trying to deceive us with that programme. We have seen that the more religious a child is, particularly at the primary and secondary school levels, the higher the probability of that child finishing school and getting good marks. Even if that child becomes “ mkora ” after form four or university, at least it is fine at that level. At the basic level, it makes sense for us to integrate religious institutions into our academic life. With those remarks, I beg to support the Bill and ask hon. Members to support the two amendments that I have proposed."
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