Armored Car or School Bus?

School, under attack and no longer considered a safe haven.  Its seems like things from which we get the biggest resistance, are those which we should pursue.  An education provides you with something no one can take from you, a shield against ignorance and a means to spread the word.  And yet, here we are, in a time and place where kids are shooting or stabbing other kids in school and in Nigeria, more than 200 girls are forcefully removed from a school by a terrorist group called Boko Haram.  A war has been declared on education.

To learn, to achieve an education and to make ignorance a dying breed are the ambitions of a scholastic frontier.  How do you encourage your students to go into uncharted territory when it is not even safe in the four walls of a school?  How do you encourage families to drop their children off at school?  Are armed guards necessary?  Do we need a type of arsenal that includes armored trucks replacing school buses and armed security replacing hall monitors?  Yes.  We need anything and everything possible to ensure both boys and girls, men and woman, receive an education.

An education, training or simply a way you find to expand your horizons are a means for the human race to continue to evolve.  Where would we be without the wheel?  Without penicillin?  Without the telephone?  When education is under siege, there isn’t any corners of the world unaffected. 

I’m not sure what the answer is, but I believe as long as people are talking there’s room to determine our next step and the interest in following through.  Let’s not look at these horrific stories on TV or the internet and become desensitized, even for one millisecond believing these are other people’s problems or, even worse, this is part of attaining an education.  EVERYONE, both genders, all races, those of every religious standing deserve and are entitled to an education.  Say it loud and say it proud

EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO AN EDUCATION.