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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. G.W. Omondi",
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        "legal_name": "George Washinton Mallan Omondi",
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    "content": "Without this, we will be struggling in the next century, but our society will still remain the way it is. This shows up in every sector of our lives. It shows in the poor performance in education and later in life in corruption and bad economic management. We need to start at the schools because there are only two places where morality can be taught or imparted in our children. It is at home with the parents and at school. At home, we will not go very far because the demand on the parents to put food on the table, pay school fees and generally keep the family going is too much. The mother and father do not have time for the child. That also is a dead end. That only leaves us with the school. As other speakers have said, we need to start there and install moral uprightness and behaviour in our children. We need to do more than just send those chaplains into schools. Of late, even the teachers themselves are only concerned with education and making sure that children pass exams. In schools today, there is no career guidance development. Children leave school and they do not know what to do. This means that there is no guidance and counselling from the teachers. It is very sad when you go to a school and find that a child got “As” in all the subjects but their choice of career in the university is nursing or early childhood education. This means that even the teachers are not taking good care of those children. It is important that we post some people who will not only give moral guidance, but also teach the children what they should become when they leave the education system. It is also true that what the youth do when they are out of school is informed by what happens when they are in school. This is because children spend most of their time in school. This is the area where we should start from if we want to build our youth. It will take us many years but if we do that, we will end up with a more morally upright society which we crave for. 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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