Our+way+of+life.+Ethiopia+child's+way+of+life.

=__Rich life compared to Poor life.__= Literacy means the ability to read and write which is what basic education is. Most children don't get the privilege to have a basic education and pay for that later on in life when they are working okay jobs. How different is our schooling than an Ethiopian's schooling?

Children who get to school are extremely lucky. Even though the education they are getting right now isn't the best, it will get them one step closer to their goal in life. Gebre-Selassie is one lucky boy, who gets to go to school. He is a 13 year old and he only gets to go to school 2-3 days a week, the rest of the time he is either studying or helping out his family. This child along with many others hopes to grow up to be doctor or teacher.His daily routine is; he wakes up at 4:30 am to help his mom get water. He practically walks for two hours, because his source of water is really far away plus he doesn't have time to eat. Then he has to walk back to his house and get his books before he walks another 6 miles to get to his school only having some flat injera bread for breakfast on the way. He starts school at noon so he has a far distance to cover. Many children just like him, probably go through the same routine. Normal education, in Ethiopia, is made of: six years of elementary school, two years of junior elementary, and four years of senior secondary, most children start school at age five and an average class size is 65 students per teacher,with few school supplies available to each student.

Now children who live in rich countries like the U.S. or Europe, their lives are better off. They get a full education because their parents work really well paying jobs. When the school year starts, Americans wake up from 6-7 am to catch a school bus, if they live more than a mile from their school or they take some kind of transportation to get to the school. Most Americans, when they get up, have a nice satisfying breakfast before they leave the house. An average classroom size is from 18-22 students per teacher. They have a teach in most required fields: math, science, english, history, p.e., health etc.... Americans have the most up to date technology, they have a library, sanitary bathrooms and fresh water. To sum things up, Americans have it better off in anyway. They have a 100% chance of getting a well paying job and they don't have to support their family. They will become successful in anything they do because will have had a full education and all.

All in all Ethiopia is at a very big disadvantage at opening the door to the future. Its first step to becoming a better place to live is to recognize that to progress in life, Ethiopia's children must have a full education. If Ethiopia can act with the past in mind to help improve their present situation now then the future will be a better place to live in. "You mus//t be the change you wish to see in the world//"~ Mahatma Gandhi

http://www.aglimmerofhope.org/why_ethiopia/education.html?
 * My sources

[|http://www.tulane.edu/~rouxbee/kids98/ethiopia2.html]

-surveys taken around the school and on msn -https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/et.html

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