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A: What’s up with you?
B: I don’t feel like going to school today.
A: You don’t know how lucky you are. Some kids wantto go to school and can’t. Many kids don’t get much of an education at all and some don’t evenhave the chance to learn to read or write!
B: You’re exaggerating!
A: No. Really! A lot of countries don’t have enoughschools or teachers. In fact, over 15 million teachers are needed all over the world.
B: Wow! That’s terrible.
A: I know! In many under-developed countries all thechildren in a village go to the same school and shareone teacher. There can be anything from 30 to 60students in one class and different age groups, too! That means a 6-year-old could be sharing the same classroom and teacher with a 12-year-old.
B: How do they do that? It sounds practicallyimpossible to me.
A: Well, some people have no choice. At least they learnsomething and make some friends and have access to a teacher who can teach them how to learn and help them as much as they can in the circumstances. It’s better than nothing! Only larger towns and cities have better schools and not many families can afford to send their children there. There are many children around the world that don’t go to school at all.
B: So what do they do when it comes to getting a job?
A: They end up working in a family business or doinga manual job or working in the fields.
B: That’s terrible! These children aren’t given anyopportunities. And how do they make friends? My friends are all from my school.
A: They have their siblings and other family members,I suppose. And maybe they know children in their neighbourhood.
B: Isn’t anyone going to try and change all this?
A: Only the government can really make a difference. Each country’s Ministry of Education needs to take responsibility and try and change this situation by creating more state schools with enough teachers and supplies to cater for all the children in every area.
B: But we need to raise awareness too, because a lotof people don’t know that many children are deprived of an education just because of where they live. I didn’t.
A: That’s right. If the media got involved then morepeople would take interest and maybe start to raise money to help or set up a charity or something. Why don’t we start by writing a letter to our Minister of Education explaining our concerns? Hopefully, they’ll be able to do something to help children who are less fortunate than us.
B: That’s a great idea! I’ll get a pen and paper.