57 Millions kids out-of-school who should be attending Primary school

[Gharib Aadmi]

A significant number of girls in my village are refused education and some are undereducated i.e. only have completed four to five grades. If your family members are educated, it means you are privileged because in Pakistan, education is a privilege and not a human right. Also, your argument is very poor - it is akin to saying "I have not been murdered, it means this country is safe".

Yes, every woman settles down with her in-laws but in Pakistan, the only focus of a girl's life is marriage. Majority of families save up for marriage and dowry rather than education. You said economic reason was the cause of low literacy, if so, it would affect both genders more or less equally but it does not. Female literacy is 44.5% while male literacy is 72%. There is more to it such as misogyny, patriarchy and low status of women in Pakistan.

Your pind is not reflective of the entire country.

 

[Gharib Aadmi]

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.XPD.TOTL.GD.ZS

It has,

Pakistan spent 2.9% of its GDP on education in 2017.
BD spent 1.3% of GDP on education in 2019.

This 2.9% figure does not count what Pakistanis spend on private schools. Per the Nadia Naviwala when private schools spending is added, it goes over 4% of GDP. Also most private schools and NGO schools cost less per student than government schools, yet they provide a better education.

 

[Gharib Aadmi]

I am not sure why there is no improvement despite doubling the budget. Quality of education is totally different thing, here we are talking about kids simply being enrolled in school. With an increased budget, I would think it should be possible to provide incentives for kids to be in school.

Public and private school argument is well known and applicable in pretty much all parts of the world. That hardly means that 70% of kids are out of school. Something else is drastically wrong here.

For various reasons:

1 - The money is mostly spent on teachers salaries. Most of these teachers in government schools are incompetent, many are not qualified to clean toilets let alone teach children. In places like interior Sindh they dont even bother showing up. In Sindh many are political workers who are hired by PPP, so impossible to fire them.

2 - Ghost schools and corruption in the building of schools.

3 - Having English medium schools where even the teachers cant speak English. Children should be taught in a language they can understand.

 

[saeedhk]

Your pind is not reflective of the entire country.

Exactly. That is why we have a female literacy of 44.5%! Try living in Pakistan and see how people view female education.

 

[saeedhk]

Their is a high demand for female education. Per a Pew research survey from 2014 Pakistanis expressed the following views on female education:

86% of Pakistanis view education for girls as equally important as education for boys.
5% of Pakistanis view girls education more important than education for boys.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-ta...istanis-agree-with-malala-on-educating-girls/

That is mere lip service! If that was the case, there would not be such a big gulf between the literacy rates of the genders. We rank number one in education inequality if I remember correctly.

 

[Buffet]

For various reasons:

1 - The money is mostly spent on teachers salaries. Most of these teachers in government schools are incompetent, many are not qualified to clean toilets let alone teach children. In places like interior Sindh they dont even bother showing up. In Sindh many are political workers who are hired by PPP, so impossible to fire them.

2 - Ghost schools and corruption in the building of schools.

3 - Having English medium schools where even the teachers cant speak English. Children should be taught in a language they can understand.

Perhaps, spending a portion of the budget to provide incentives for kids to attend schools will help here.

I am sure there is plenty of corruption and all that, but all those factors can't be unique to Pakistan and absent in all other countries.

 

[Gharib Aadmi]

Perhaps, spending a portion of the budget to provide incentives for kids to attend schools will help here.

I am sure there is plenty of corruption and all that, but all those factors can't be unique to Pakistan and absent in all other countries.

This is a good idea and it is already being done in parts of Pakistan. Probably should be done across the country

The Balochistan government has decided to give stipends to female students of grades 6-12, Secretary Finance Balochistan Noor-ul-Haq Baloch said Tuesday.

Baloch said that 110,000 girls are studying in classes 6-12 in the province.

The finance secretary said that female students of class 6th to class 8th will get Rs500 per month, while students of the 10th grade will receive Rs800 and intermediate students will be given Rs1,000 per month.

https://www.geo.tv/latest/313118-ba...ecretary said that,be spent on these stipends.

However this is not the biggest issue. Most parents are willing to send their daughters to school provided they are learning, the schools are taught by female teachers and within a close distance to their homes.

Students who are attending NGO schools like the Citizens Foundation, learn much more than children in government school, even though the budget is much larger for government schools.

Too many Government schools are simply staffed with incompetent teachers who cant be held accountable.

 

[UP]

I was in Pakistan this summer and it hurts to see kids collecting garbage/begging in streets. They have no future. I have said it again and again, Khan has not worked on this profile to get kids back in school and he will be a failure in my eyes if he fails to do so. He may have changed the curriculum but that's not enough. What's the point of that curriculum if millions of kids are not in school? A national educational reforms emergency is needed asap. Small kids are used as maids and whatnot. Child labour is a major porblem which hinders the progress overall. Its a vicious circle.

 

[saeedhk]

I was in Pakistan this summer and it hurts to see kids collecting garbage/begging in streets. They have no future. I have said it again and again, Khan has not worked on this profile to get kids back in school and he will be a failure in my eyes if he fails to do so. He may have changed the curriculum but that's not enough. What's the point of that curriculum if millions of kids are not in school? A national educational reforms emergency is needed asap. Small kids are used as maids and whatnot. Child labour is a major porblem which hinders the progress overall. Its a vicious circle.

Exactly. I feel most who are posting here have never lived or been to Pakistan. It is awfully heartbreaking to see such a vast number of children begging on the streets, working as domestic helpers and burning away their health and future at brick factories.

Imran Khan has done nothing to put 25 million back in school. He has been an utter failure! As of the foreign influencers said "I have been to many countries but I have not really seen this many children on the streets. They are just everywhere.'' Our population has shown no sign of slowing down which exacerbates all social, economic problems.

 

[mustang]

Exactly. I feel most who are posting here have never lived or been to Pakistan. It is awfully heartbreaking to see such a vast number of children begging on the streets, working as domestic helpers and burning away their health and future at brick factories.

Imran Khan has done nothing to put 25 million back in school. He has been an utter failure! As of the foreign influencers said "I have been to many countries but I have not really seen this many children on the streets. They are just everywhere.'' Our population has shown no sign of slowing down which exacerbates all social, economic problems.

I found this image in reddit and it seems apt for this context ...

 

[Buffet]

I was in Pakistan this summer and it hurts to see kids collecting garbage/begging in streets. They have no future. I have said it again and again, Khan has not worked on this profile to get kids back in school and he will be a failure in my eyes if he fails to do so. He may have changed the curriculum but that's not enough. What's the point of that curriculum if millions of kids are not in school? A national educational reforms emergency is needed asap. Small kids are used as maids and whatnot. Child labour is a major porblem which hinders the progress overall. Its a vicious circle.

Child poverty is a major factor in kids not attending schools everywhere. Free meals and some financial incentives to families may go a long way in ensuring that kids are in school.

 

[mustang]

Could lack of education (and thus lack of developing reasoning abilities) be one of the main reasons for Pakistan's social fabric to be so corrupted that people are driven to lynching foreigners based on rumors?

 

[saeedhk]

Could lack of education (and thus lack of developing reasoning abilities) be one of the main reasons for Pakistan's social fabric to be so corrupted that people are driven to lynching foreigners based on rumors?

That is one of the reasons apart from abundance of hate preachers, zero law and order and general apathy towards each other.