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    "id": 697582,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "people is important. It is something that must be looked into as we consider what a quality and holistic childhood education will look like. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am going to mention something on Section 7. I am concerned with where it says “parents will be liable for not taking their children to school to a fine or possible jail term.” Parental choice is important in the education of their children and protection of that right. We must consider procedures for home schooling because there are parents who do home schooling. Home schooling can be equivalent to formal schooling which we must make sure we do not criminalise. I think there is an overlooked thing there that we must pay attention to. I had prepared many things to say but I know that time is not on my side. So, I will go to one last section which I thought is important to touch on. It is the question of Section 17 and 20 of the Bill; the criteria of what a school should look like. I like Clause 17, which is very clear except when it goes to Clause 20 and it limits the size of a school and ties it down to the acreage of land. That is unfair and untenable. In a place like Kibra, I have 13 villages where to get land even the size of a postage stamp to set up a school will be very hard. When you think of young entrepreneurs who cannot afford much land, but have the idea to set up a small school that will be of high quality, we will be locking them out of this game. So, we need to review that. The size of a school is not determined by how much land they own especially in some urban areas like Mombasa and Kisumu."
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