Don’t take education for granted
Imagine. You’re asleep in your warm cosy bed, comfortably wrapped in your soft silky duvet cover and you’re dreaming about Christiano Ronaldo, until a loud piercing sound awakes you from your comfort. Its 6:30 in the morning and your alarm is blaring in your face forcing you to get ready for school. How many of us feel like this every single morning? Every day we have to go through 7 long periods of lessons, annoying teachers that get on your nerves and endless amounts of homework. This is school, isn’t it? We all find that in our daily lives, school is a burden. But have any of us actually thought that school may not be a bad thing, that it may not be a burden?
You, me, all of us here, even Miss Mitchell have no choice. We’re all part of a system. A system we can’t get out of, a system we have to go through, but ironically it’s a system we all take for granted. What system am I talking about? I’m talking about the education system. Now, many of us here probably hate being part of this system. One of the main reasons for this is that it’s hard. We as students get loaded with tons of homework, set for short deadlines, but is this really hard work? You think that your science lessons are stressful, well put yourself in the shoes of Carla who has to wake up at 4 am just to get a few glasses of water, who sleeps on the cold floor, with nothing but a few rags as her shelter. Who whilst, we are at school, dosing off in our English lessons, is busy searching for food to escape death. Who yearns for an education but will never move one from selling rubbish on streets. That is hard work.
