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Amaka for Kids
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Educating the Girl Child: Best Foot Forward?
February 21, 2007 - 10:06 AM
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What does it take to get girls in school and keep them there?
This is a key question, as the United Nations and its partners move towards ensuring the right of every child to a basic education.
Yet, fully two thirds of the out-of-school children are girls, many of them out of school by virtue of discrimination on the basis of gender alone.
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Re: Educating the Girl Child: Best Foot Forward?
February 21, 2007 - 02:57 PM
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Obiamaka wrote:
What does it take to get girls in school and keep them there?
This is a key question, as the United Nations and its partners move towards ensuring the right of every child to a basic education.
Yet, fully two thirds of the out-of-school children are girls, many of them out of school by virtue of discrimination on the basis of gender alone.
When a girl start heading class five of pramary school, we must know that she start going on TOP of want, like money to get new under wears and many other things which boy careless about and some parent see it as an extra burden, i sugest that ladies should be given more pocket money than guyz or what do you think?
My point is this, Parents taking very good care of their daugther's needs will help to divert their attention from looking for boyfriend whom they always asumed will provide some of her needs and somehow this has prevented ealier pregnancy in teenagers
This post was edited on: 2007-02-21 at 03:06 PM by: plato123
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Re: Educating the Girl Child: Best Foot Forward?
February 23, 2007 - 11:18 PM
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I agree that educating young girls is an important step, as its one of the best ways to promote equality and help eliminate poverty. Studies have shown that educated women have less children and lower child mortality rates, they can provide better nutrition, health care and education for their families, and make more money than women with less schooling.
Your question is a really good one -- how to get young girls to stay in school? I guess the next question is why are the girls leaving.
Is it an issue of money where families are forced to choose between the males and females? I think then the only solution is for school to be completely free -- including books, uniforms, etc.
And if education is such an important factor in eliminating poverty and promoting equality, then the international community should assist with funds for free education and regard the payments as a form of investment rather than aid.
Are there other reasons that girls don't remain in school?
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Re: Educating the Girl Child: Best Foot Forward?
February 26, 2007 - 10:14 AM
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Some of these statistics are intense: roughly 115 million children have no access to education. What are the reasons for this? You've given some very relevant reasons in these postings. I'd also include families caught up in the conflicts of war as another reason girl children fail to get an education. Many of these kids are disabled, orphaned and/or traumatized by the events taking place in their countries. The major part of the world's 25 million displaced people (as a result of war-conflict) are women and children. I can completely understand how for these people schooling would seem like an unrealistic and even unnecessary pursuit when basic survival is an ever-present question mark.
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