Issues Regarding Education in Nepal
Only 7% of students in Nepal make it to 10th grade, and the ratio of boys to girls is 2 to 1. This means that 93% of the population contribute to the cycle of generations that don’t value education. Up to this day the majority of girls still don’t receive an education. This results in a vast disproportion in the general community and especially in a work environment. Another large issue is the education of the ex-Maoist army, since many of the former soldiers remain uneducated and jobless due to army enlistment. Nepal is currently in a fragile state, with a limited amount of kids graduating, the absence of education for girls and no stable government to solve these issues.
Nepal is just one of many developing
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The main issue lies in the caste system that has been embedded in the people of Nepal. This system takes away a vast majority of opportunities for receiving an education because they have a lower social status or aren’t as wealthy. Children born to wealthy families go to private schools in the capital, while those that can’t afford them don’t have a place to attend school. Children that suffer from poverty aren’t considered a priority in Nepal, which is an immense issue. Another major issue in Nepal is management of teachers, as the recruitment of them is often political. This means that most teachers aren’t hired because of their teaching skills or experience, but purely on their political views. Teachers being hired based on political views is caused by a lack of a stable government and people working in it. The previous Education minister in Nepal was fired for taking bribes when appointing temporary teachers in public schools. This furthermore proves that the government in Nepal has to take better precautions when it comes to electing people. After the war in Nepal ended in 2006, with the abdication of the king, Nepal was left with a political situation in a state of turmoil. During the elections in 2008, no party won. Following the unsuccessful elections, short-lived governments were elected and later on failed to resolve crucial issues such …show more content…
However, the Maoist army didn’t consist of adults. Young boys were stripped of their basic human rights and were enrolled in the army against their families or personal will. This had a large role in the decline of children that received an education around 2005. Many of these boys from the former army remain unemployed and uneducated, one example is Lenin Bista. He fought for a revolution when he was just 12 years old, and to this day he remains jobless and illiterate, but fighting for the justice of his peers that lost all of their opportunities and basic human rights during the war and enrolment in the army. Many like him have been kidnapped and jailed for speaking out about their time as child soldiers, however, they continue to speak out and raise awareness about the abominable situation they were put
In Girl Rising (2013), reveals how gender discrimination negatively affects the future of many women and continues to be prominent in society through forced marriages, extreme poverty, and/or labor obstacle. Girl Rising (2013) reveals heartrending stories of nine girls from different countries to show how these girls overcome great obstacles to obtain an education and change their fate. Each of these girls was paired with a writer from their own country to help tell Soka story. Young girls that were faced extreme poverty, forced marriage, and forced labor (Robbin, 2013). Each story is written by a writer from the girl’s native country and is narrated by renowned actresses such as Anne Hathaway, Cate Blanchett, Salma Hayek, and Meryl Streep
However when Beah was selected to speak at the United Nations conference held in New York it was an undiscovered dream come to life. Being able to attend the conference gave Beah the chance to meet extraordinary adults and children. Beah’s trip to New York allowed him to share his story in hopes of prevent another child from joining the war. It also gave him the chance to change people’s perception of boy soldiers, “I have been rehabilitated now, so don’t be afraid of me. I am not a soldier anymore; I am a child”
To start off, there was never any justice done for the kids who were child soldiers because people weren’t paid for certain jobs they did because of their age. This idea was supported in the article “Armed & Underaged” by
How would you feel if you lived in a country that made you fight in a war at the age of 12 and you'll either get forgiven or send to jail? You should be sent to jail if you joined for fun and liked killing. But if you joined to protect others and to do it for a good reason then you should be forgiven. I think kids should be forgiven because maybe they were forced to, they did it for protection, and they did it so they won’t hurt them or kill them, and because they needed a shelter, food and because they were poor. One reason I think child soldiers should be forgiven is because maybe they were forced to join and kill.
“Tens of thousands of children are estimated to be recruited and used by armed groups. In 2019 alone, more than 7,740 children, some as young as six, were recruited and used as soldiers around the world, according to the United Nations. Most are recruited by non-state groups.” (Wuilbercq). There are more than seven thousand forty children that were child soldiers in twenty nineteen alone.
Many young children under aged have been taken in by the government. They are being held captive tell they are drugged enough and brainwashed to go out and kill or to be killed. They are forced to train to kill under the influence of drugs and they are hardly aware of what they or doing. Child soldiers should be given amnesty because of the absents of their minds and them not being able to process what they are doing. These children are often seen as targets because they are under aged and not able to take responsibility for their actions so they are targeted to be able to kill without punishment.
To further explain, in the Girl Rising documentary, viewers are taken through the life of a young girl, Suma, in Nepal. She was only six-years-old when her parents exchanged her obedient working hand for money. She was then sent to a home where she would do chores such as washing the dishes, cut firewood and maintain the farm. At her next working home, Suma’s employer’s forced her to eat their scraps, and called her “unlucky girl”. At this home, she was sexually abused, but she did not let that define her.
There are thousands of child soldiers in the world today. These children are stripped from their homes and sent to fight with people twice their age. Many haven’t even had their 11th birthday yet. Although some people say that child soldiers should not be granted amnesty, evidence shows that these children do deserve amnesty, except in cases when the former soldiers show violent behavior after war because children are forced to commit acts of violence and are force addicted to illegal substances so they won’t want to leave.
In addition to that, there is a problem with the lack of necessary resource in a school. Whether this is seen in only a few schools or a lot, it is unacceptable and must be fixed. How can we expect these students to learn, work, and live on an equal playing field when they don’t even have books, while others have every resource you could ever want in a school? We have this idea of education being the panacea of world struggle, but is it really? When we have all these schools that are not fairly treated.
Have you ever thought about the long-lasting argument over whether child soldiers should be given amnesty? Well there is no definite answer and in many ways is a complicated argument. To begin with, child soldiers are kids that are usually forced to join armed forces and commit violence to people all around them through false promises and poverty. In many cases, once they join, its almost impossible to change their mind and leave because they immediately get brainwashed through drugs and alcohol. From there, the kids learn how to kill and then all of the violence starts to happen to those around them.
More and more of these are armed conflicts, you would think that this would be a reason to have only experienced shooters in these conflicts. Nothing is less true, every day children are used to fight for either the government or the armed forces which are fighting the government. But what actually does make a child a child soldier? , UNICEF defines a child soldier as “any child- boy or girl under the age of 18 which is part of an armed force.”
To a child in a country of war, life can change “rapidly in a matter of seconds and no one [has] any control over anything. [They have] yet to...implement survival tactics, which [is] what it came down to” (Beah 29). Children who become soldiers are given hardly any choice because their families are usually dead, and without the army they have no family or way to survive during the war. The book “A Long Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah tells the story of how Ishmael became a child soldier in Sierra Leone during the war.
Assignment page Video Where many children all over the world merrily and freely live under the protection of the law, for others, this is a distant reality, they live in a world where they’re battling poverty, stripped of their childhood and basic human rights are expunged, they’re the innocent victims of conflict, and war is made to seem their one and only duty, not to mention that these are children no more than 10 years of age. They are put into a situation where it’s to kill or be killed. The United Nations defines a child soldier as, “Any person under 18 years of age who is part of any kind of regular or irregular armed force or armed group in any capacity.” Since the past 15 years, child soldiers are being used in almost every region of the world. Unlike most children, who go to school, they’re abducted from their families and forced into becoming a child soldier, where living conditions are beyond imaginable.
However, what they’ve done doesn 't come with the fact that child soldiers live with rugged conditions, drugs, the influence of others. Even though some people believe that child soldier’s shouldn’t be given amnesty, overall, it becomes clear that these children should be given amnesty because many adults influence their actions, they live in inferior conditions, and children who enlist as child soldiers enlist for multiple reasons other than violence. First, in many areas, it can be clearly seen that child soldiers are influenced by their superiors. No one is ever born dangerous, it’s always their parents and environment that shape a child into who they are.
Racism, being a negative side of Nepal has affected the country in various ways. The lifestyle in Nepal varies from Himalaya and Terai. The people from Terai are often termed as Madhesis and are discriminated on their color. There are also various cases of conflicts between the people from Hills and Terai. The indigenous peoples of Nepal have been politically demoralized, economically exploited, culturally and socially discriminated against.