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    "id": 816689,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/816689/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "Even in the community at large, as parents, we have abdicated our duty of parenting and left it to the schools. Sometimes when there are attempts to discipline our children in schools, we, as parents, react very negatively. Teachers are taken to court and attacked. All these things bring massive indiscipline in schools. Even if we install the CCTV cameras, we will treat the symptoms but not the cause. We need to look at the whole education system and policies. We have had fantastic reforms. Some of them are very good. If you look at the results that we get, these well-meaning policies and reforms need to be scrutinised in detail and particularly in areas of implementation. Look at the issue of cheating in exams. It is a fantastic thing which worked. If you go into details to discuss with teachers, one of the issues is the change in the structrure of exams. Our students are used to memory exams. This was changed to application exams. We have kids who are not prepared to do that and yet that is what the country needs. In this day of technology, you do not have to remember everything. It is how you use that. So, that is an important area which we need to look at."
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