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What if we didn’t have an education system? | Jennifer Johnson | TEDxYouth@Columbus


what if there were no school some of you

are probably thinking that would be

great no reading no homework no math no

complicated problems no school stress it

might sound like a good idea but it is

not over 70 million children in the

world do not have access to school 70

million is like all of the people who

live in Indiana Ohio Kentucky Michigan

Pennsylvania Wisconsin Tennessee West

Virginia and Virginia now that is a lot

of children who don’t have access to

school according to the their world

website there are ten key reasons why so

many children are not in school one

because they are girls too because they

live in war zones like Syria three

because they have disabilities and

couldn’t walk to school for because

their countries are poor five because of

child marriage sick because of too few

teachers 76 because of natural disasters

send them because of too few teachers

eight because of child labor and 99

because of poor sanitation in 10 because

there is no school to go to most girls

aren’t even allowed to go to school

instead they have to stay home help take

care of brothers and sisters cut food

and water or simply just have to go to

work to support the family sometimes

girls can’t go to school because they’ve

already been married off to an older man

the older man has to give the family a

price of many cows so he can marry the

girl this worked out for the family but

not so much for the girl according to

the w/e charity’s website when children

are educated they’re armed with courage

and self confidence to better themselves

the families the communities and

ultimately the next generation when

children are educated they learn how to

prevent illness and improve their health

they learn how to manage relationship at

home and at work they understand their

basic rights their spec bites of all and

they have career goals learning these

skills can help end the cycle of poverty

for families and communities one person

who worked for the rights to education

was 15 year old maalaala you stuffs day

she was on a bus one day with her

friends on her way home from school when

a gunman entered the bus and asked who

Malala was since everyone looked at her

the gunmen knew who she was walked up to

her and shot in the head three times

miraculously Malala lived and she still

lives today she’s made education

education her cause she has spoken the

world leaders and told them they should

spend less money on war and more more on

schools she found that if the whole

world stopped spending money on the

military for one week they would have

enough money to fund preschool for 12

years for every child on the earth so

what can we do we can have fun way we

can have fundraisers to provide money

for schools in need we can sell our you

stuff to get money for schools in need

we can sell our you school books and

supplies to get money for schools in

need or we can vote for candidates who

support school for all children thank you

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