Monday, March 30, 2009
Brookfields School
After reading Sharkey’s research on girl’s education I was appalled to find out how much violence girls in Sierra Leone suffer. As a child I never feared for my life while walking down the street. I was also never told that I did not deserve to be educated. Learning that this is a fear for girls in a different country really upsets me. What shocked me the most is that the Brookfields School says that they care for their female students but then they belittle them and beat them when they do not act according to how the teacher sees fit. It confuses me that this problem exists within this school, and I do not understand why parents have not done anything to correct this. It is positive that these girls are resilient due to their peer groups but how long will they be resilient if they keep living through this daily abuse.
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I think that part of the reason parents have not stepped forward and done anything about this is because violence is so prevalent in Sierra Leone that it is not seen as abnormal. It's a cultural thing that needs to change, not only something that needs to be modified about schooling. It's hard to see this because of the way that the article is written - it ignores the bigger picture.
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