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Holidays
I want to draw attention towards the number of holidays that schools get and the absurd reasons that they close for. There is a match in town and schools close, Pakistan has won a match and schools close. It rained in town and schools close, etc. I want to request the government to close schools only for valid reasons, no cricket match is more important than education.
Anita Lakhani, 15years
It’s a woman’s world too
Women in our country are not given the respect and position that they deserve. They are mostly not educated in the rural areas and in the big cities they usually join fields like teaching and medicine which are said to be safe for girls.
Teaching and medicine are also not safe for girls. In fact, the only thing safe is to sit at home. Women can’t sit at home for the sake of keeping safe. Girls don’t go into fields like business and software engineering because men mostly saturate these areas. If girls won’t enter such fields, men will obviously dominate them.
Many girls study medicine just because their parents want them to. I would like to tell them not to be childish; this is a matter of your life. Think about your interests and what you want to do.
I would also like to ask those people who think that educating women is not important because they have to stay at home and rear children, whether if a woman is not educated how will she properly bring up her children? And don’t forget that these children are the future of the nation. Then there are many people who think that women cannot do business or manage a company. I would like to ask them who manages the house. If a woman can mange a house why can’t she manage a company? Maybe she can manage it better than a man. It’s just a question of opportunities.
It’s high time that we understood that women have a right to be educated and also to go in whichever field they wish to enter. They should be given the highest respect in society. After all it’s a woman’s world too and I am not talking about the home I am talking about the world beyond the home. So, step out and see for yourself where your actual place is. Hafsah Sarfraz
Save lives
It was heart-rending to read that two heart patients expired failing to reach the hospital, due to closure of different roads for safe and smooth VVIP movement.
“Their lives could have been saved if they hadn’t been stranded in traffic,” mentioned a senior NICVD doctor. Each passing day the traffic situation is getting worse, there is an urgent need for alternative routes to reach hospitals, so that precious lives are not lost and people can get medical aid in time. Nasir Bhatti, Karachi
Education as a low priority
There are several reasons for the decline of the standard of education in our country. One is the repeated disruption in school routine, e.g. unscheduled holidays like that on days when one day internationals take place in the city.
Lack of teacher training programmes and an excess of teachers who are not dedicated to their work is another reason. I know many students whose teachers do not even check their homework. Most teachers are interested in private tuitions and consider their responsibility in school as a liability.
There is no set curriculum, policies keep changing. Three language exams for inter science students is extremely unfair as they are already burdened with an extensive course. Besides, languages will not really come in handy for students of science, but even then they are forced to study various languages.
I would like to request the authorities concerned to look into this matter and take measures to improve the quality of education in our country so that every student regardless of their social standing can benefit from it. Bakhtiar Zaman
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