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    "id": 662284,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ngikor",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Ngikor Nixon",
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    "content": "It is true they are making noise. When there was ranking of schools in examinations, you could see how our national schools celebrated when the CS announced the results. When it was removed, those celebrations are no longer there. The meaning of celebrations is to appreciate somebody who has passed or got something good. When there is no ranking, those celebrations lose meaning. There is no reason to celebrate. Are you the first one? Everybody can celebrate all over the country, but with ranking, we can make those celebrations to have meaning in our schools and even to the individual students at their own level. They can celebrate knowing that they were number one or two. Without ranking, celebrations lack meaning. So, ranking is very important to the performance of our schools and that of our students as individuals. Ranking makes some communities practise their cultures. In the community I come from, you cannot perform some cultural things if you are the last born or second born. The first born takes lead and the rest come after. So, we need to rank our schools in terms of their performance so that those who excel can be appreciated by the entire community or nation. If we do not do that, our students will not have commitment in their studies. I suggest that we should rank schools within the specific categories of the schools. National schools should be ranked together. The CS should come up with regulations to guide this process, so that national schools are ranked together, county schools together and sub-county schools are ranked together. This should take into account the available infrastructure, teaching staff and teaching materials. Some small schools, especially in Turkana, are ranked with schools like Alliance High School. Students in a school like Morlem Mixed Secondary School in my constituency have never seen a tarmac road. They have not seen a coffee tree yet you rank them together with students in Alliance High School. It is impossible. We want the schools to be ranked according to their categories and the facilities available in those schools. Schools in upcountry should be ranked together with similar schools. Schools in areas like North Eastern and Turkana should be ranked differently. We cannot lump all these schools in one category and rank them yet they face many challenges. Every area has its own challenges. We want the CS to categorise these schools further. Schools from arid and semi-arid areas should be ranked differently from other schools, so that every student is given what is required. When it comes to admission to public universities, the slots are distributed uniformly in the entire country, but some schools have advantage over others. The minimum requirement for university admission is similar for all the students. We also want the CS to look at that. The minimum grade for joining public universities should not be uniform across the country because the schools are not the same. The other issue is that of availability of teaching materials like text books. Some schools do not even have text books yet we rank them together with those that have text books. It is not good for us to continue doing that. The CS should put regulations in place to assist our schools when it comes to ranking. Schools should be ranked in national examinations because this brings about competition, which without ranking makes no sense. We compete to see who is number one and who is number two. With those few remarks, I support."
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