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    "id": 662311,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Bill may inadvertently be admitting the diminishing role and stature of Parliament. As we speak now, ranking is happening even in our schools. It is a natural phenomenon. If you go to the counties and the sub-counties, ranking is done and, in fact, people will tell you the top school. In fact, whenever the results are announced, all the major national newspapers will tell you the best school in that year’s exam. I find it curious that we are attempting to motivate ourselves. Without ranking, it is trying to motivate ourselves by comparing self with self. That is an irony. I think everyone would want to know how they are doing and the only way to do that is to compare yourself with others. I went to the great Cardinal Otunga High School in Kisii back in the 1980s and to date, those of us who went there in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when we go back to that school, we are treated with a lot of respect. Why? We happen to have been the generation which despite the fact that the school was a district school, managed to elevate the status of the school to fight with the giants of the time which included; Mang’u High School, St. Patrick’s High School-Iten and Alliance High School. I proudly dare say that it was the A-Level class that I sat in in Cardinal Otunga High School which for 32 years now, managed to put that school among the top 10 schools in Kenya. That has given us a pride of place in the school up to today. It is granted of course that some schools have misused ranking. These are few because when you talk to the school administrators, managers and the Ministry of Education administrators, they want ranking. We should have a method of dealing with the few who abuse the process, for example, those who hide behind ranking and misuse it for commercial activities or overburden students. That is the way to go."
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