PLN 6: No One Left Behind

In The Nata Village blog, under the post called No One Left Behind, what matters to the writer is her students, and being sure that everyone who wants an education can get one. In the blog, though rather short, there were vivid moments of when I could tell that the writer was going to be sure that there would be enough room in the schools, whether indoor or outdoor, for children to learn.
With the growing population in Nata, that means that more and more young children will be enrolling into Nata Primary School, more space will be needed, so more schools will have to be built. This could help increase the population of Nata even more, and eventually turn it into a well-known country.
The children say that education is important to every child in Nata. When I read this it made me stop and think for a minute. In America, children don’t always enjoy going to school, and take the fact that we have many different schools to go to for granted. In Nata, going to school is a privilege, and those who have it are very grateful. In America, education is how we get along in life, and without it, it is very difficult to find a well paying job. Those that have taken education for granted, now live off of a poor paying job in an apartment on the opposite side of town. That isn’t meant to be prejudice about those who can’t afford things such as cars and new technology, it just goes to show the cause and effect of those who cared about their education versus those who didn’t. This doesn’t appear to be the case in Nata. It seems to me that every child would love to have an education, and those who do get it take advantage of the fact that they are being handed knowledge.
If we weren’t given a free education five days a week, would we want one? Would we be like the Nata people, and view education as an opportunity to succeed in life? Would pour education matter more to us if we had to work for it? These were all key questions that came into my head, and I wonder sometimes, what would it be like to work all day instead of go to school? Some people would be thrilled at the idea of not having to study for tests, or not having to do homework for long hours every night. But if we really think about it, at school, we get to see our friends, occasionally we get to play a game in class, we don’t ALWAYS have homework, and we get our fair share of breaks throughout the course of the year. If we were forced to work instead of going to school, we would only see our friends after all of our daily work was done, we would never get to play any games throughout the day, we would get no vacations, no days off, no breaks, because the daily chores need to be done every day. If we had to work all day, we would be begging at the chance to go to school and learn for eight hours rather than work for up to 12 hours.
To the Nata people, education really matters, and everyone would give their 100% best effort at everything they did, just so they could keep learning, rather than having to go to work every day. Next time that you think about complaining about going to school, think about all those in the world who don’t get a chance to go to school. And then think about those people who wasted their education because they slacked off in school, or simply because they didn’t care. Look at where those people’s lives are now. Do you want to live that way for the rest of your life? Instead of taking our education for granted, let’s take advantage of the opportunity to learn.