Education By Amna Al-Khodr Analysis

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According to LiveScience, 2 out of 3 students are bored in school everyday. However, as I learned from Amna al-Khodr’s story, some teens would kill to have the opportunity to attend school. Students take school for granted, not realizing that some people may never get an education.

Amna lives in Syria and as a result of the Civil War, violence has forced her and her family out of their home and into refugee camp. Her normal life was turned upside down. She may never get to go to school again. But she is doing all she can to at least try. She started taking English classes three times a week so that she will be able to go to school if she is given the opportunity. I wish all students, whether in school or out, had the passion that Amna has. I wish I heard more “God I love school” rather than “God I can’t wait to get out”. But we don’t appreciate it. And sometimes I question whether that is the school system, or if it is us as students. …show more content…

In it, I discussed how the school system is creating students who don’t treat their education as a privilege. I researched statistics about how many people in other countries are deprived of an education. Hearing the statistics of how many people don’t go to school in other countries doesn’t relate to students. When I read that only 21.19% of children in Niger enroll in primary school I didn’t get it. When I read that 121 million children in the world are out of education I still didn’t get it. These were just numbers. After a certain point, numbers all sound the same and it’s hard to differentiate in your mind between one million and 50,000. Numbers aren’t people. But when I read about Amna’s story; that was

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