With the number of youths roaming the streets uneducated today, one would think that it has become a right to actually not be educated, a 'right' in my opinion, that is being over-embraced.With no education or basic skills, the only option left is to starve to death or become a commercial sex worker or full time thief. Some teenagers and underage children are being sexually exploited to put food on the table. What happens when we do not speak openly about sexual exploitation in the community? Every year, more than two million children all over the world are sexually abused for profit, but these are not reliable figures as exploitation is often hidden.
It has become common practice for teenagers to walk up and down the avenues
in the still of the night, behaving as if they are in their own personal dressing rooms. However, I am yet to meet someone who became a sex worker by choice. Some of these children are told by their guardians or parents to join this growing sex industry in order to make a living. Is this the only solution left for our youth today?
As the future of tomorrow, we want to educate the next generation about their options. As a community, let us take the opportunity to teach both the young men and women of this generation skills such as knitting, cooking, gardening and basic skills that some of us literally yawned about when our mothers taught us.
Even if the right to education is violated, the right to life should not be. Societies should begin talking about the sexual exploitations that takes place right beneath our nose. Let us make a priority of it to protect our child rights. What role are you
playing as an individual, or as a society, to make alternatives for those who have been deprived of their right of education?
The ‘right’ to be uneducated is not part of any Bill Of Rights, so help prove it!
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Education is a relative term. In the past centuries, many people were educated according to the community they lived in or their parent’s vocation. When population levels were lower in comparison to resource, farming jobs, the “uneducated” would often find their niche as a productive member of society. A good education in some villages in many countries would be the ability to do basic welding and repairs or grow a crop successfully. They could be relatively uneducated by western terms but be successful, whereas a highly educated person might have difficulty finding a job in correspondence with his/her education and struggle to attain the necessities of life. Mike Rowe from “Dirty Jobs” articulates the point very well. Here is a link to an article I read a few years ago that helps bring the case to point. http://schoolingtheworld.org/blog/occupy/