Afghanistan- Equal Education is the Right of Every Afghan Child

(MENAFN- Daily Outlook Afghanistan) There are dozens ofAfghan families who have lost their family man during the civil war and do nothave any one to financially support their families. In order to overcome thismatter, these families prefer their school age children to work rather than attendingschool. Orphan school age children and unsheltered ladies cleaning the cars oncrossroads in Kabul city is one of the most visible and clear example of thepoverty rate in the country. There are number of children around seven year oldcleaning and washing cars while tolerating the virus polluted air, till lateevening across the roads in the cities. There are families whose children aresleeping hungry during the night. The civil war era demolished theinfrastructures of the country which has resulted the nation to fight forsurvival and run after a loaf of bread instead struggling for better change intheir life style.
The lack of school andquality materials has extensively affected the standard and quality ofeducation in the country. Since the transitionalgovernment was established in 2002, many international and nation organizationshave rushed in Afghanistan. They have been working to reconstruct the war-torninfrastructures of the country. But unfortunately; there are still schools thatare housed in tents instead of building. Schools that are housed in tents canbe easily targeted by the extremist militants than the ones housed inbuildings. Schools without building are more vulnerable and the parents do notdare to allow their children attend the schools housed in tents. The offensiveconditions of schools and the low quality study materials are demoralizing thechildren to attend schools. In addition, the curriculums being applied inschools and universities of Afghanistan are out of date and none-standard. Thisis the age of technology and civilization, but poor Afghan children do not haveaccess to a world class educational curriculum yet. Low quality study materialsand limited numbers of schools with very limited facilities are the other factorsthat have contributed to the declining graph of educational standards.
In contrast to othercountries, the dullest students are being filtered and placed in education andtraining faculties of the government universities in Afghanistan. This policyof the government itself is a huge risk for the quality of education anddegrades the educational standard. In addition, in comparison to othersocieties; the teachers are not being considered as the vital human resourcesthe of the government civil service structure. This is the basic issue thatneither the government nor the nation is concentrating on. The wage for aprimary grade teacher is not more than 8500 AFN in a month which is even lessthan a simple clerk's salary working in a ministry. This situation andinjustice with the teachers have caused the intelligent students to ignore thisfield and the government has got no option other than placing students with thelowest score in these faculties. We initially need to have and train qualifiedteachers in order to have qualified ruling leaders. The primary solutions tothe current issues are educating the new generations of the country andcritically thinking of developing useful peace strategies.

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