Keisha McNeil
September 17, 2010
3:28pm
In Pakistan there are more than six million children not attending school. For the children who are not in school about a third of them drop out at the age of five or six. One might ask the question why, for the majority of children that are not in school will probably become a child labourers. Some of the children who drop out do not have a choice. They might have to drop out to support the family in order for the family to survive. A very small amount of them will be forced into some type of weapons program to learn how to fight or in some cases become suicide bombers. In the school system the teachers are paid a very poor salary and in some cases many of the teachers are unqualified to teach. In some of the schools the environment has been declared dangerous. Many of them do not have electricity and sereval of them have no toilets making it very unsanitary. Many if these children who attend schools do not have a school building to go to. They will just have school on carpets under a shaded tree.
In Pakistan's war on education has become a bigger problem than the war on terror for this country. The education issues has not been totally ignored. The Madrassas which is an organization that provides education where the state does. There primarily mission is to teach the children from their modern syllabus and they are free to teach from their own curriculum to insure that a proper education is begin taught. Also the World Bank has given millions of dollars to the education efforts to make sure that children do have the opportunity for an education.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/6991435.stm
3 comments:
This is a “sad” issue. Seeing that some students have to drop out to work to support the family while others have to take a weapon program to learn how to fight or even become suicide bombers, makes me realize that I take for granted the education and the world that I live in. Most students, me being one of them, take advantage that I am able to go to school for as long as I can, or as long as it takes to graduate. Reading this article shows that all students around the world aren’t able to do that.
Wow, this is crazy. I never knew what a big problem this was in Pakistan!
It is unfortunate that so many children, six million, do not go to school. It can create many social problems. United nation with the help of the Pakistan government should help financially so these children go back to school. There is strong relation between the level of education and crime, any crime.
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