In this area of the world, young children, mostly girls, are not given chance to get school education. There are traditions in the area that stipulate that boys perform better than girls in school, and that when girl gets married, she leaves a gap in her parents' family but will go to work for the family of her husband. This makes many parents not send girls to school bearing in mind that they cannot spend on someone who will leave them soon. Moreover, other parents pretend they are so poor that they cannot afford school fees, yet they spend their time and money seeping on alcohol in the village. This issue is being addressed at local level, though it is appalling. Both parents and children need to be educated on the role of educating children. I think there is need for educating children, for such education is a long term and sustainable investment that will certainly benefit the individual, their community and the nation.
Khushboo Shah
Jul 21, 2018
Discussion
Greetings, fellow Ambassadors, As we know, the July 2018 topic for the Roundtable Discussion is Education Funding. I recently came across this extremely informative resource about education funding. The resource explores how funding has changed over time, and provides statistical data in understanding the changes made over the local, state, and federal level in the USA. Article: http://apps.urban.org/features/education-funding-trends/ As mentioned on their website, the data they they collected "measured the progressivity of school funding as the ratio of two weighted averages of each district’s per-student revenue: (1) weights are the number of poor students; and (2) weights are the number of nonpoor students. For example, an estimate of 1.1 would imply that, on average, poor students attend districts that receive 10 percent more in per-student funding than the districts nonpoor students attend. " (source: http://apps.urban.org/features/education-funding-trends/) What do you all feel about this article and the information put forward by them? Ambassadors belonging to other nationalities, how does education funding work in your country? Could you please share your insights, or any other resources or articles you find valuable? Thank you so much for all your inputs!
Yes, yes, yes. Education empowers people to pursue their interests and passions in the world - without it, people are dependent upon their families and communities, unable to move forward in life. While literacy rates have improved across the world during the past few decades, there is still a great disparity between the education of women and men, especially in secondary schooling. Furthermore, many women do not have/are not seeking jobs because of the community's interpretation of a woman's "proper role".
Thank you for your comment, Rachna Sha. We have to make education our first priority in all aspects of life. Without education, the day will never be light, nights will be darker and darker. In order to fully develop morally, intellectually and even physically, education needs to be the center of our dreams, the pivot of everything we are aiming at in life. In some communities, there are traditions; some are good others are bad. These traditions (good or bad) have power on people's minds thanks to education (no matter how it is done). No community has ever fully emancipated while its women and girls are uneducated. So let us all go education in our goals. With education, we can value women and girls, can shun discrimination, can understand what we have to do for development.