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    "id": 662391,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Memusi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Elijah Memusi Kanchory",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have been sitting here waiting to contribute to this very important Bill. I take this opportunity to congratulate my good friend, Hon. Chris Wamalwa, for bringing this Bill. As we debate this Bill and as Members have contributed, I cannot stop myself from thinking what informed the former Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Education, Science and Technology to come up with a decision to stop ranking schools. I think whatever advice he got was ill-advised. I support this Bill and say that if ranking is used properly, it is a motivational tool. Ranking, if used properly, is a tool that will help those interested in decision making to come up with proper decisions. If a parent wants the best for his or her child or, if they want to take their child to the best performing school, then what will they use to determine which school performs well? This can only be done through ranking. If leaders like us want to motivate and reward those who are performing well, then ranking is the only tool that we can use to come up with a decision that a certain school is performing better than another. For those that are not performing well, ranking is also used to tell us that there is a problem in those schools. Why are they not performing? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, my colleagues have already spoken and I would like to just agree with what Hon. Njomo had earlier contributed to this Bill. There are a lot of ideas that have come up from this Bill but, from what Hon. Njomo has said, we can cluster schools. Schools in the same position can be clustered in the same way and ranked the same way. If you want to rank a national school with a school in the interior part of this country, it will be unfair. However, those with equal strengths can compete equally. There are those colleagues from pastoralist areas who have talked of the challenges that those areas face and I represent those in pastoralist areas. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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