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    "id": 662385,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Munene",
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        "legal_name": "Mary Wambui Munene",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the ranking of schools. It is better to rank our schools. You must get number one and two. If teachers know that one time they have failed, they are going to put more effort so that their schools can be ranked number one or two. It is better to think of how we are going to support the teachers. They should be given enough money to make sure that our children pass exams. Nobody can steal exams if the Government puts measures to curb cheating. It is good for this country. If we are not going to rank schools, we are going to make some teachers to just work ordinarily because they will not be competing with anybody. Even as Members of Parliament, we have competitions. We know what we want to do in order to be elected again. So, it is better to rank our schools. When the students know their school needs to be number one, they are going to put more effort. Even if we say we are not going to rank schools, during prize-giving days, students are given presents. So, we can know which students have done well. So, we are cheating ourselves that we are not ranking our schools. It is better to think of how we are going to make sure that all the schools in this country have enough teachers, including the schools which employ Board of Management (BoM) teachers. We need to ask our Government to make sure that education is given priority in this country. So, let us do something for every school. Let us employ more teachers so that even when people get out of our schools, it is known that qualifications from Kenya are good. It is better not to condemn ranking. I beg the Cabinet Secretary to go back to the ranking of schools. I am saying that because I know that in my constituency of Othaya, we used to have girls’ and boys’ schools which used to do better. But those days are long gone because they know that they will not be ranked and so, they do not work hard. Let us have competition between the girls and boys in schools. Even the least developed schools are going to be given categories so that they can work better. It is good to make sure that the schools are ranked. I support this Bill and thank Hon. Chris Wamalwa for bringing it."
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