Nominated MP David Ole Sankok has said that it is high time leaders took their children to public schools.
In an interview with K24 on Tuesday, Sankok said that most leaders have shown that they do not trust public schools.
Sankok said Kenya's public school will be transformed if leaders agree to take their children there because they will ensure the infrastructure is good.
"We should make all leaders take their children to public schools and with that they will see the need to improve these schools," he said.
He also encouraged candidates who performed below their expectation in this year's Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) not to despair.
"The most successful people in the world are not the ones who got A's in school," he said.
The lawmaker noted that there is no need to rank the performance of schools because of the different conditions in which each of them operates in.
He said schools in arid areas would not compete favourably when ranking is undertaken.
"If we have to rank students then we have to factor so many things like there are children with disabilities, in remote areas and so many things," he said.