Global Campaign for Education -The World's Biggest Lesson

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It is so easy for us in the "developed world" to sit at our computers and grumble about filtering policies in our education authorities and how we can't access such and such a site which would be so useful for our kids.

Unfortunately there are 72 million boys and girls in this world of ours who are missing out on an education because of poverty, the majority (57%) being girls.

According to the Millenium Development Goals every single one of these 72 million children will have access to QUALITY PRIMARY education by 2015...time is running out.


In 2006 the UK government promised £8.5 billion to help achieve the goal of universal primary education by 2015. In the following financial year £365 million was given out. This means that the government now needs to commit £1 billion every year from 2010 to keep its promise.

It is my firm belief that every school in the UK should help the UK government to remember its commitment by taking part in the Global Campaign for Education's Action Day on April 23.

There are different ways of taking part but the easiest and possibly most exciting is The World's Biggest Lesson. At 9am or 4pm on April 23 schools in over 120 countries will take part in a record breaking attempt to deliver the World's Biggest Lesson.

All the lessons plans and necessary material are provided on the sendmyfriend08 website. Its easy.

Get your students involved. Get the media involved. Get your elected representatives involved.



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[Adam Sutcliffe]

Nick
Thanks for your thought provoking comment.
I can see your point especially that of "liberalised stupidity". However I firmly believe that the more the youth in our part of the world can do to attempt to pressurise our leaders by understanding the plight of their peers in the developing world the more the leaders ought to do.
Unfortunately each and every one of those 72 million kids has no choice in their situation, and without an education none of them will ever be able to attempt to effect a change in their own countries.
I do not believe that we should be "funding" change in these countries, as real change will only ever come when it is finally desired by the populace. Unfortunately Africa is bedevilled by its history at every turn, slavery having been endemic since before colonisation; colonisation which created false countries with no regard for the existing situations; post-colonialisation dominated by fierce tribal politics which rather than favouring those who cna favours those of the same group.
Activities such as the worlds biggest lesson are a way of getting kids to think out of their immediate situation and to consider the world at large, and yes a commitment to core political education would be fantastic...as would an end to inclusion in its current form.
Thanka

[Nick Hood]

Adam,

I find this stuff difficult. Yes, it's a tragedy that so many in the world miss out but I kinda choke when told that it's my responsibility to do something about it - specifically, to tug at the heartstrings of our impressionable youth without at the same time giving them the full spec on how such conditions came about.

Walking the streets of Salisbury, Rhodesia, one afternoon in 1979, having spent the morning in the terrorist camps, a woman fell to her knees at my feet begging me not to allow the change that eventually came: the destruction of a prosperous economy where education was available for all people. This was not an uncommon plea. This experience and others, in China, Africa and elsewhere, brings one to the realisation that to present the disadvantages of HIV, starvation, famine, education failure, and war without also presenting the avoidable causes - not least the liberalised stupidity that brings us the inclusion we are familiar with - as well as "democracy", government hypocrisy, failure to recognise primitive tribal imperatives and deal firmly with them and dogmatic idealism - is just irresponsible.

I'd rather the billion a year were spent on our own resources: I'd even be happy if half of it were spent on a framework for proper political studies as a core feature of the curriculum from P6 to S6.