The Right for Child Education

For unit 1 I learned about Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and the eight MDG goals. For this project I wrote a persuasive essay on one of three topic choices. I talked about the right for child education. I talked about ways we can help children who aren't being given an education. I learned so much from this course, I learned about different ways the world is dealing with child education. Also I learned about how many kids don't get an education. The most challenging part of this essay was researching, and learning how many kids don't go to school.

PVU, Child Education, (2015)

The Right of a Free Education
All kids should get a right of free education. If they get free education they will be able to make a difference in the world. How many kids in the world don’t attend school? The Guardian news article says, “the world has 70 billion people, and 3% of kids in the world don’t go to school.” This means 3% of our future is not getting an education, because they can’t afford school. Kids often have the issue of having to work instead of getting an education, because if they don’t, their family will go hungry. The sad part of this is that since they aren’t able to get a good education, they might not have a good future. Could the 3% of kids who don’t go to school include the next Einstein or Steve Jobs? Should all schools be a right for child education? Or should all schools not be a right for child education?

To begin with, kids who don’t get an education most likely won’t end up getting a high-paying job, which would result in them not being able to support their families or themselves. This falls within Safety because if you have an education, then you can get a good job, pay for food and support your family. This can also falls within Esteem because if you can’t get a good education you can’t look forward to a job, paying for food, or anything you are trying to do without feeling good. Child education in some areas is so bad that whole villages full of kids are not getting an education. Three percent of kids are not getting an education right now; instead they’re working to pay for food for their families. The kids who are working are probably not being treated the way a child should be treated at such a young age. If the right for child education is fulfilled, then kids can get a good education, pay bills, put food on the table, live happily, and maybe make a difference in the world. World Food Programme calculates “US$3.2 billion is needed per year to reach all 66 million hungry school-age children.” In the United States 16.4 million children (22 percent of all children) lived in poverty in 2010. The amount of children that go hungry is heart breaking. In the school the government would open up all kids would be supplied a free and nutritional lunch as part of child rights for education. If half of these kids that go to school were fed properly, the children that aren’t fed would become a better student.

If the government could help us open up schools we would have more success in the child right for education. For instance, if the government would help lower income families are able to buy food, and send their kids to school. The government of every country would use taxpayers’ money to fund lower income families. By using the government’s taxpayers the government could buy food and transportation for lower income families. This would result in taxpayers paying for those important needs instead of unnecessary projects. This would allow parents to send their kids to school. Parents won’t be worrying about if they have enough money for food everyday. The money that’s left over from funding families could be used to open up new schools closer to villages. For the countries that can’t afford to raise taxes, the other wealthier countries would help out.

The right to education is a critical factor in a person’s life, and to not have access to an education is like losing the right to improve your future. People with little to no education usually cannot qualify for well paying jobs. Being able to get a well paying job is important to eat, pay bills, and live a comfortable life. If the government helped more with education the world would not be where we are right now. Governments can do so much more to help this situation but choose not to because they want to focus on other things that are less important. All kids should get a right of education. If they get free education, they may be able to make a difference in the world. 


 Sources

"70 Million Children Get No Education." 70 Million Children Get No Education. The Guardian, n.d. Web.

"The 70-year Wait for Primary School - BBC News." BBC News. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Sept. 2015.
"Children's Education in Central Africa Republic Devastated by Conflict, UN Says." UN News Center. UN, 23 Apr. 2013. Web. 17 Sept. 2015.

"Institute for Research on Poverty. "How Many Children Are Poor? Institute for Research on Poverty, n.d. Web. 17 Sept. 2015.

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