Attacks on Education
In the last decade, attacks on education have been on the rise. Attacks on education occur on a larger scale in countries undergoing conflict or being governed by regimes with a poor record on human rights and democracy. However, all nations are vulnerable to attacks on education. They occur on all continents in varying forms and with varying degrees of disturbance and violence aimed towards teachers and children.
ACEI is a global community of educators and advocates guided by its vision that every child in every nation will have access to a quality education and the principle that education is a human right.
Therefore, committed to safeguarding the rights of children and promoting the conditions for optimal growth, development, and well-being, ACEI calls on all educators and advocates to:
- Condemn all attacks on education as a direct violation of a child’s fundamental human right to education.
- Acknowledge that the effects of attacks on education transcend physical harm to the long-term, psychological and ideological detriment of a child’s dignity and freedom.
- Campaign for the protection of schools and recognition of learning spaces as protective spaces which provide children safety, security, and stability.
- Protect the provision of skills, knowledge and values needed for all children to break cycles of violence and exclusion and build a better and more peaceful future.
- Support the development of a comprehensive monitoring and research mechanism (MRM) to document attacks on education more broadly.
- Speak out against attacks on education through knowledge, information, and a deep understanding of the scale and impact attacks on education have on national and international communities.
- Demand that perpetrators of attacks on education are held accountable to codes of international human rights.
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education is important and it is up to all of us to keep it safe with out it the world is going no where THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!!
We all should be advocates for such a cause; and we cannot overstate the importance of parents' voices in this effort.
I think all education is important, especially early childhood education and I am so tired of people calling us babysitters. We are educators who teach children the fundamentals and should be treated as so. I have been in early childhood for over ten years and have an A.S degree in early childhood education. What we do is way beyond babysitting. So many children lack the skills needed for kindergarten nowadays. We have to get them school ready--get their skills to developmental levels--to keep them on track and have them ready for kindergarten by having them learn letter recognition, counting, cognitive skills, etc because kindergarten isn't what it used to be. Now they are reading in kindergarten. Preschool teachers have a tough job on their hands because we must set them up to succeed in school, and every child deserves that, especially migrant and seasonal farm workers. Children should be educated. I work a a Head Start where we give the children from birth to 5 the skills necessary to have them learning and growing. If we don't educate them them, they will be more behind then ever so we all need to take a stand and get the focus on early childhood education because that's when children learn the skills that they will take with them all through their school years and beyond.
Everyday we hear about more and more violence in schools coming from people who decide that a school setting is a place to take out their anger and frustration. Children become targets for rage of all kinds. Schools are the very places where children should feel safe. As teachers, we all need to be speaking up on this issue. Attacks on schools break the code of trust we have we have with our children. I would like to see ACEI speak about this issue some more. I think it is one the needs more attention. Schools should be protected in every nation.
What can we do to make a difference? Does anyone have any ideas? What are you doing in your communities?
I just had the opportunity to read the press release that shared that ACEI welcomed delegates from more than 70 countries to its first Global Summit on Childhood and I was very impressed. We are all in this together and when we come together with others across the nation to share in discussions and topic affecting children, it is hopeful that we can and will make a difference. Lets stick together.
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We must protect our children. Attacks on education are a horrific thing. It is especially awful when attacks are made on groups of children when they are in schools and in other community places like libraries. Thanks ACEI for highlighting this issue and providing guidance on what we can do to stop this!