About 1.5 billion young learners – 90 per cent of the world’s schoolchildren – are or have been locked out of school. About 810 million are in low and middle-income countries, where even before COVID-19, there were significant barriers to learning, especially for the poorest and most marginalised children.
Julia Gillard with Hugh Evans, CEO of youth charity Global Citizen, and pop star Rihanna, an ambassador for The Global Partnership For Education, in Malawi.As tough as it is, we are in a much more fortunate position than many around the world. Imagine going through all this without a decent, universal healthcare system. Or without adequate food. Or knowing that even when schools reopen, the pandemic has ended your children’s chance for an education.
Past experience tells us the problems are greater for girls. After the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone closed schools for eight months, thousands of adolescent girls were unable to resume their education because they were married as child brides, got pregnant or had to work to feed their families. Without dramatic action, COVID-19 may well result in as many as 20 million girls not returning when schools reopen.For girls and boys alike, the consequences go far beyond lost learning.
In the coming months and years, countries will face difficult choices. GDPs will decline, shrinking their tax bases and restricting their capacity to mobilise resources. Learning cannot be seen as a luxury or an optional extra. Investing in education should be the bedrock of our plans to build strong and fair societies that can enhance economic growth, limit global warming and harness the unrivalled technological opportunities of the 21st century.
Unsettling, I don't think parents are capable of educating their children properly no matter how well meaning they are.
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