The Dangers Afghan Girls Face Going to School

[Nebor]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/02/world/meast/cnnheroes-jan-afghan-school/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

What they don't mention in the article is that frequently the people trying to shut down or damage the schools, and intimidate the girls and teachers into leaving are government officials and members of security forces. That's why they have to employ private security guards to guard the schools. Just in my area in the past few months, we've had an Afghan Army base purposely divert their black water run off so that it flowed down through a school, and Afghan police knock all the windows out of a girls school.

Once coalition forces leave, things will get much worse. Once the outside world stops the enormous amount of foreign aid flowing into the country, things will go to absolute hell, worse than they were before we got here.

 

[SandEagle]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/the_bad_book_VjXZO3829ob3GPQ5bUOnzK

must suck that these girls are being denied basic rights because of religious nutjobs

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/the_bad_book_VjXZO3829ob3GPQ5bUOnzK

must suck that these girls are being denied basic rights because of religious nutjobs

Yes because being told to get off facebook is just as bad as being beaten or killed for going to school.


Ahh- no.

 

[ch33zw1z]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/the_bad_book_VjXZO3829ob3GPQ5bUOnzK

must suck that these girls are being denied basic rights because of religious nutjobs

I 100% agree with the school.

And likening this to what the Afghani girls are going through is just sad. Not even close...

 

[SandEagle]

Yes because being told to get off facebook is just as bad as being beaten or killed for going to school.


Ahh- no.

why worry about what's going on in Afghan schools when my link shows this crap happening to schools here in the USA. freedom baby, fvck yeah!

 

[Londo_Jowo]

why worry about what's going on in Afghan schools when my link shows this crap happening to schools here in the USA. freedom baby, fvck yeah!

I didn't see in your link that these girls who were told to get off facebook or leave school (private school no less) had to also worry about acid attacks, poisoning, or worse.

 

[Charles Kozierok]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/the_bad_book_VjXZO3829ob3GPQ5bUOnzK

must suck that these girls are being denied basic rights because of religious nutjobs

Comparing acid attacks and poison to being told to stop using Facebook is the very height of intellectual dishonesty.

ETA: Even worse, you have tons of options for schools in Brooklyn. These girls don't.

 

[Baptismbyfire]

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/26/world/asia/cnnheroes-afghan-schoolgirls/index.html

One of the nominee for CNN's Hero of the Year - last year I think.

I think she mentions how someone threw a grenade into a school, and killed girls who just want to learn.

*** Edit: It's one of the video links to the left of the main article.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

why worry about what's going on in Afghan schools when my link shows this crap happening to schools here in the USA. freedom baby, fvck yeah!

Then you have no objections to an Israeli first strike. It's not here after all, and we have pressing facebook issues.

 

[Smoblikat]

why worry about what's going on in Afghan schools when my link shows this crap happening to schools here in the USA. freedom baby, fvck yeah!

Are you out of your mind? Noone gives a shit about facebook compared to whats happening in afghan.

 

[Svnla]

And here in the US, students are bitching about the foods are not as fattty/too much veggies while the standardize scores are getting lower and lower.

 

[ch33zw1z]

And here in the US, students are bitching about the foods are not as fattty/too much veggies while the standardize scores are getting lower and lower.

Or is the bar being set higher and higher?

I ask simply because my 6 yr old son is in 1st grade. Everything he learns is what we learned in 2nd grade. Things have change greatly in 25 years. In kindergarten, the kid was bringing home homework. So school = pound out worksheets in kindergarten until your hand hurts too much...real nice. You know what I did? rode a fucking big wheel.

 

[SandEagle]

Are you out of your mind? Noone gives a shit about facebook compared to whats happening in afghan.

please dont act like youre Mother Teresa all of a sudden. you dont give a shit about afghans or those afghan schoolgirls. the whole lot of u want to dehumanize the aghans and have american soldiers kill off as many as possible. sick nerds.

 

[JEDIYoda]

please dont act like youre Mother Teresa all of a sudden. you dont give a shit about afghans or those afghan schoolgirls. the whole lot of u want to dehumanize the aghans and have american soldiers kill off as many as possible. sick nerds.

wow who crapped in your Wheaties......

 

[ch33zw1z]

please dont act like youre Mother Teresa all of a sudden. you dont give a shit about afghans or those afghan schoolgirls. the whole lot of u want to dehumanize the aghans and have american soldiers kill off as many as possible. sick nerds.

lol, I for one, would rather our military presence vanish from Afghanistan. Let them go back to growing poppy and just deal with it.

 

[iGas]

IMHO, people should stay out of each other affairs unless they are ask for help by that community. And, I believe that every society and religions have it pro and con.

I do not condone the Afghanistan extremist action vs their own, however inequality happens in every corner of the planet.

Below is the Kiddush Hashem example of what women have to face.

Ultra Orthodox Jews walking in Ramat Beit Shemesh neighborhood in Beit Shemesh. December 28, 2011. Photo by Uri Lenz/FLASH90

 

[Smoblikat]

please dont act like youre Mother Teresa all of a sudden. you dont give a shit about afghans or those afghan schoolgirls. the whole lot of u want to dehumanize the aghans and have american soldiers kill off as many as possible. sick nerds.

Im glad you can read my mind. Tell me what im doing with two of my fingers? Ill give you a hint:
Theyre in the middle and im thinking of you.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

please dont act like youre Mother Teresa all of a sudden. you dont give a shit about afghans or those afghan schoolgirls. the whole lot of u want to dehumanize the aghans and have american soldiers kill off as many as possible. sick nerds.

Yet when real abuse happens you bring up facebook which trivial compared to what happens in Afghanistan which is weak, really weak. Then you tacitly approve of first strike against Iran since by your criteria we shouldn't care about since we have such horrid problems with internet social networking.

Might be a good time for you to exit this one.

 

[Charles Kozierok]

please dont act like youre Mother Teresa all of a sudden. you dont give a shit about afghans or those afghan schoolgirls. the whole lot of u want to dehumanize the aghans and have american soldiers kill off as many as possible. sick nerds.

Seems to me you exhibit the least concern for these girls of anyone here, because you're the only one making a mockery of the dangers they face trying to get an education.

 

[Svnla]

Or is the bar being set higher and higher?

I ask simply because my 6 yr old son is in 1st grade. Everything he learns is what we learned in 2nd grade. Things have change greatly in 25 years. In kindergarten, the kid was bringing home homework. So school = pound out worksheets in kindergarten until your hand hurts too much...real nice. You know what I did? rode a fucking big wheel.

Higher? I don't think so. This is what I am talking about.

http://www.usnews.com/education/blo...hool-students-not-prepared-for-college-career

Nearly 1.7 million high school graduates took the ACT college entrance exam in 2012, testing their knowledge of four core subjects—English, math, science, and reading. But most of those students are not prepped for success in college or the workforce, according to a report released today by ACT, Inc.

See the bolded/underlined part? Not just college (I realize that not everyone is cut out for college) but real life/work force after high school.

This is why the media need to clarify the term "minority group" because minority groups are not the same, not a long shot = http://abcnews.go.com/US/majority-college-bound-students-qualified/story?id=14325199

In English, 77 percent of white students and 76 percent of Asian-American students met the readiness benchmark compared with 47 percent of Latinos and 35 percent of African-Americans.

In Reading, 62 percent of both white and Asian-American students met the readiness benchmark compared with 35 percent of Latinos and 21 percent of African-Americans.

In Mathematics, 71 percent of Asian-American students met the readiness benchmark compared with 54 percent of white students, 30 percent of Latinos and 14 percent of African-Americans.

In Science, 41 percent of Asian-American students met the readiness benchmark versus 37 percent of whites, 15 percent of Latino students and 6 percent of African-Americans.

Some 41 percent of Asian-Americans met the readiness benchmarks in all four subjects, compared with 31 percent for whites, 11 percent for Latinos and 4 percent for African-Americans.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Comparing acid attacks and poison to being told to stop using Facebook is the very height of intellectual dishonesty.

ETA: Even worse, you have tons of options for schools in Brooklyn. These girls don't.

What do you expect from SE? Superficial without getting to the meat of the issue.

 

[EagleKeeper]

please dont act like youre Mother Teresa all of a sudden. you dont give a shit about afghans or those afghan schoolgirls. the whole lot of u want to dehumanize the aghans and have american soldiers kill off as many as possible. sick nerds.

Must hurt to see a false image of yourself looking back in the mirror.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Higher? I don't think so.

http://www.usnews.com/education/blo...hool-students-not-prepared-for-college-career


See the bolded/underlined part? Not just college (I realize that not everyone is cut out for college) but real life/work force after high school.

This is why the media need to clarify the term "minority group" because minority groups are not the same, not a long shot = http://abcnews.go.com/US/majority-college-bound-students-qualified/story?id=14325199

Did you read what I'm saying? If students choose to lose, that's their own fault. But the fact that my son is doing things a year a head of when I did leads me to believe that there's a breakdown somewhere else.

I never took the ACT, how different is it from the SAT?

edit: ""We need to do more to ensure that our young people improve," Whitmore says. "The advanced global economy requires American students to perform at their highest level to compete in the future job market and maintain the long-term economic security of the U.S."

Ah, yes. The advanced global economy. It's not enough pressure to be compared among your peers, but now the global pressure is on. Don't worry kids, if you're stressed out, big pharma has a couple pills you can swallow.

The long term economic security of the U.S. is a grey area at best. Want to complete? Learn Mandarin and move to China.

 

[nehalem256]

All I see is a lot of people trying to force western culture onto Afghanistan.

What happened to believing in cultural diversity?

 

[Svnla]

Did you read what I'm saying? If students choose to lose, that's their own fault. But the fact that my son is doing things a year a head of when I did leads me to believe that there's a breakdown somewhere else.

I never took the ACT, how different is it from the SAT?

I don't have kids yet so I do not have any deep knowledge about elementary school but from what I saw of my nieces and nephew homeworks, I did not think it was any harder than it was when I was their age. In your case, I think you should contact your local school board admin.

I took both of the ACT and SAT (it had been a while ago) and I do think they both are similar as in they both measured the basic knowledge of the test taker.

My main point is US students are whining about some trivial things while other students in poor nations are dying (literally) just to go to school.