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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Rotino",
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        "legal_name": "Philip Lotiolo Ruto Rotino",
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    "content": "said, basic education is very vital. It is a constitutional right for every Kenyan to have basic education. It is very important to provide incentives to children from remote areas. Many of our children do not go to school because they do not have food in their homes. When food is provided in school, they go to school. So, I want to propose that these incentives must be put in the Bill. Food should be part of the incentives so that our children can go to school. Many children drop out of school because of lack of food. I believe that provision of food in schools is going to help the situation. Schools are really head teachers. When there is a good head teacher in a school, the school prospers. So, the appointment of head teachers in consultation with the sponsor is very important. The Sub-County Education Board should consult with the sponsor of a school in the appointment of a head teacher. Many times, TSC directors appoint heads of schools without consulting the sponsors of the schools, which leads to big problems. It is very vital that, that particular element is entrenched within the Sub-County Education Boards so that school sponsors are involved in the appointment of head teachers. Nowadays, there are rampant cases of indiscipline in schools. Schools are not the same schools that we knew long time ago. There is a lot of indiscipline in schools because of the head teachers and principals of schools. Many of the school principals have no experience. Many of them are appointed because they are friends of the TSC directors or the sponsors or they are people of the same religion as the sponsors. Such head teachers never stay in school. Several times, when I inspect schools in my constituency, I find that principals and head teachers are not in schools. They leave the schools to be run by deputy head teachers or chairmen. The county boards should take charge. They should be given authority to discipline teachers when they do not go to school. I want to talk about chaplains in school. We know that religious-based schools are doing very well in this country. Those are schools that are run by religious organisations. They perform well because of the discipline that is instilled in the students. The sub-county boards must put a lot of pressure on this so that head teachers, together with TSC directors, are appointed in consultation with teachers. It is important that we put emphasis on this. We have a perennial problem of shortage of teachers in our areas. You will find a school with 800 children has only five or six teachers. This Bill should address this perennial problem of shortage of teachers. We have problems with under-staffing. Otherwise, we are going to constantly remain with this problem of shortage of teachers. If this is not addressed by the sub- county boards, we are really going to have a problem. We cannot provide education to all while some schools do not have teachers. With those few remarks, I support the Bill."
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