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So this is how @ntvkenya refuses to talk about people let down by the education system.

And I'm offended by the equation of studying music as a last resort after poor grades. Studying music is not an apology for not entering another program.
There are serious cultural and political issues to be tackled through studying music and other arts. If the arts were that useless, #BBIReport wouldn't be proposing that the president dominates them.
Arts are about our ideas and creativity in addressing real issues, not just about jobs for people who fail to get into prestigious programs.
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Artists must start pushing back against this propaganda that arts is for failures. This madharau is responsible for the censorship, exploitation and non-payment of artists, because what they produce is not considered as work that requires skill and resources.
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This is a beautiful thread. Thank you @PeggyMativo for doing the work that the state and the media have refused to do since colonial rule. We have refused to do an analysis and have a public conversation about education for 97%.
Let me remind Kenyans that this education inequality is directly related our bad governance. When you have leaders coming from the same high school and university cohort, it means that they are listening to the same, same people and using the same, same bad ideas to govern.
We cannot get good governance if we do not have education equity that lets EVERYBODY develop their ideas and find a space within our economy. Right now, education is a pipeline to select same-thinking people to head ALL our institutions.
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Akoko Akech points to something interesting about the Bomas launch of #BBIReport. Murkomen being booed was a replay of Moi's conviction during Lancaster negotiations that the Jaramogi-Jomo arrangement of KANU marginalized Kenyans of other ethnic groups. theelephant.info/features/2019/…
Prime-ministership is a return of the pre-KPU KANU arrangement. That arrangement does not challenge the politicization of ethnicity because it is based on the belief that Kikuyus will always be in power, and Luos will always have the biggest negotiating room. #BBIReport
A parliamentary system means that politicians can negotiate power with each other without us having a say. So smaller Kenyan tribes will never sit at the table, and when they slip in, they will do like Moi, play Kikuyus and Luos against each other in order to survive #BBIReport
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This is what the #BBIReport metropolitan proposal means for black Kenyans (because it's for wazungu)

1. Nairobi will be exempt from democratic oversight in both parliament and the Senate. Uthamakistan can do what it wants, and there will have no legal way to sanction him
2. Nairobi can make decisions over other counties using its economic strength and superiority to other counties. And since Nairobi wont be subject to Senate or Parliamentary oversight, governors will be powerless over Nairobi. So #BBIReport is lying about strengthening devolution
3. Uthamakistan will gentrify Nairobi so that it limits the ability of non-Kikuyus people to settle in Nairobi. They'll be told to go vote in their "home counties." That means that control of Kenya through Nairobi will remain Kikuyu-centric. So #BBIReport is lying about inclusion
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The #RightToEducationAct makes it the govt’s responsibility to ensure the primary education of each child,irrespective of caste,class &religion. But in #Maharashtra,children from marginalized communities face increasing hurdles in accessing #education. #MaharashtraElections2019👇
In #Amravati,@Dev_Fadnavis's govt not only refused to recognise a school started by a Phanse Pardhi teacher for kids from his long-stigmatised & impoverished community, but demolished it to build a "prosperity highway", leaving them anxious & uncertain. bit.ly/35HBydX
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The Council for National Policy #CNP, "The Secret Society" web.archive.org/web/2012102019… "the heart of a great conservative movement that helped to make America strong and prosperous in the 20th century – now helping to ensure she remains free and secure in the 21st century,"
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I’m not signing or supporting this petition, nor did I intend to comment on it, but after repeated requests to share it/sign it, I think I need to comment.

Firstly, I am not against Autism training for teachers.

I have helped teach training courses on Autism

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I’m not telling anyone what they should or shouldn’t do. I understand why lots of people support this petition, and I’m certainly not telling anyone to not sign it.
My issue is that this petition does not tackle the fundamental issue at the root of all this;

How Autistic People are treated by the education system, and how our needs are not properly recognised or met.
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Once more onto the breach, dear friends.

Ten minutes to go.
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Biden, Harris, Booker, Yang, Castro, Gabbard, Gillibrand, Inslee, Bennet, and de Blasio.

3x Grammy-winning jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater's on the anthem.
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So, I've waded through the Evangelical Alliance's new pastoral "guidelines" for interacting with trans people (ughh, the things I do to expose #transphobic #ciswits to the world), and let's just say it's time to tear this particular sh*t-bag a new hole.

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Dear UnitedOpposition @RashtraManch
Lets Question the industrial era modern day MILITARIZED EDUCATION Sys producing #FASCISTS

Flexible #Education System
with autonomy4 natural Self Directed Learning in #children
Is the
Perfect answer2 #Fascism

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Finnish Education System: 
Highest Global Ranking

How?

No standardized tests.
No Private schools allowed.
Shortest school hours: 2-3 hrs

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'Play, Self-Directed Learning & pursuing their own interests' ....... is how children grow up as thinking individuals;
'Play, Self-Directed Learning & pursuing their own interests .... it's how their brain reaches maximum potential.

In evolutionary history, that's how children always learned & self educated.

That's how nature intends children to learn; through 'play'.

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