David Kibet Koech

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Parental guidance also plays a crucial role. Some parents have left their children to the teachers. Some children are taken to boarding schools even at the Early Childhood Development (ECD) level which is a very tender age. Some parents have also over-provided their students with excess pocket money while some students are also exposed to domestic violence at homes. The Committee calls upon the parents to take up their responsibilities in guiding and counselling their children during childhood. The schools also should regulate students pocket monies which must be deposited with the school administration. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on boarding primary schools, we as a Committee recommend that we need to discourage the boarding primary schools for children below 11 years of age. That, therefore, means that we propose that in our country we only allow boarding schools starting from age 11 or at Standard Five so that at the tender age, our children are with their parents. That will mould the child to develop very important skills in their lives. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: In our country today, under-staffing continues to persist in schools with serious implications on the implementation of the curriculum. Students are not adequately prepared and this triggers unrest especially when such teachers are transferred without replacements. Most of the schools strike because a teacher is transferred and the students do not anticipate a replacement which is a serious issue. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Government should move fast to provide adequate budgetary allocation for the TSC and the Ministry, to recruit and deploy more teachers if we want to really see lasting peace in our institutions. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Teachers' morale was found to be very low. They are still poorly paid compared to other civil servants and that is already in the public domain. I want to thank the Minister and the entire Ministry for embracing dialogue so that an amicable solution is found. We want, as a Committee, to encourage this dialogue and discussions that they become fruitful so that we have a motivated teacher working with our students. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, some teachers do not conform to the professional ethics and norms. This has left students with no option but to reject them through strikes. This could be avoided if the code of regulations governing the conduct of teachers is strictly adhered to in ensuring that teachers conform to the professional ethics. There appears to be a widely held view that non-performing teachers who have overstayed in schools incite students against new administrations to ensure "business as usual". The Committee recommends to the TSC to adopt a system of reshuffling teachers every five years, particularly if ... view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on curriculum, we found that the curriculums do not give room to students for remedial work. It is important that the Ministry ensures that we have a curriculum which can be fully accommodated and allow for some remedial work. Some part of the curriculum has been condensed so much so that you think it is a small area, but it is a very big area. An example is Kiswahili and English where English and English Literature have been lumped together to be called one subject. Kiswahili and Fasihi are one subject. It is high time ... view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Committee further calls for the introduction of Continuous Assessment Tests (CATs) to form a percentage, preferably 30 per cent in the national exam. We need national examinations at the end of Form Two formally referred to as Kenya Junior Secondary Education (KJSE) to be reintroduced. It is not fair that our students are in schools for four years and they are tested on everything within one month and that determines their future. It is December 11, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 4091 important that we give them some stop-gap so that at least they do not ... view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it was also further observed that some books recommended by the Kenya Institute of Education (KIE) for use in schools have also incited the students, and I quote: Mayai Waziri wa Maradhi na Hadithi Zingine . This book has a section which shows students burning schools and this is a book that is being taught in our schools. Our Committee therefore recommends that all school books be fully screened against undesirable learning materials. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, mobile phones were quoted and, to a large extent, they were used by students to report to each other on what they were doing in their respective schools. Some of the messages were inciting students of other schools to go on strike. Those messages were from students who had not even gone on strike. So, mobile phones played a role in passing messages which were not very good. The Ministry of Education policies require some change. For example, the policy of 85 per cent intake. It is high time that we integrated Kenyans. That system ... view