It is About Time that the people stand up against all the injustices in the world! It is an incredible moment to be alive, and to witness the voices of the people. It is so difficult to continue daily with positivity and hope, with all the inequality and abuse surrounding.
I have been opened to the public education system here in Egypt. I cannot explain how horrific it is! Just as in the US, it's all about the dollar, and in this case, the pound.
Just to educate you...there are three tiers of schools here; private, national, and public. In the private sector, children pay 24,000 pounds (the one i visited) a year. Think of it like 24,000 dollars a year, which is what parents pay for private schools in the US, at least in San Francisco they do. A teacher salary is 3000 pounds a month. These classrooms consist of 20 students, and can have as many as 2 assistant teachers. They also have a music, PE, and art teacher.
Then you move to the National Schools. Within these schools, students are paying 7000 pounds a year. Teachers make 400 pounds a month (to give you perspective - i pay 1250 pounds a month in rent for my half of a 2 bedroom apartment/10eggs, 10 slices of cheese, 9 pack of yoghurt, 10 pieces of bread, few cans of tuna, couple of cans of fool, some veggies = 100 pounds, which my sister and i finish in a a weeks time - no fat jokes please; always gotta have a sense of humor:)). Teachers actually bribe parents for proper grades, and tutor students after school, in order to make enough money for survival. Their classrooms consist of 45 to 60 students, with one teacher. There is no music, art, or PE teacher. The teachers walk around with rulers, hit the children, and are maintaining "crowd control." There have been many cases of child abuse in classrooms, as well as actual killings of children due to teacher violence.
And the public school, which I have little information about, and cannot seem to get into. I am still working on that. I can only imagine what goes on behind those closed doors, as this is a FREE institution provided for our PUBLIC!
Talk about social injustice. This is absolutely unacceptable!!! Our priorities are absolutely skewed and utterly awful. Why do we pay an actor millions of dollars, fund soldiers to die, and continue wars of corruption? At what point do people stop thinking about themselves and realize that everyone around them is human, has a heart, has a pulse, has emotion, exists?
I know that there are so many incredible people out there. Honest, giving, hard working, dedicated to make change! I choose to see those people, and to surround myself with those people, and to continue having hope for our present, and for our future. Keep spreading the word, plugging away, and holding your head up!: What you do is appreciated:)
I have been opened to the public education system here in Egypt. I cannot explain how horrific it is! Just as in the US, it's all about the dollar, and in this case, the pound.
Just to educate you...there are three tiers of schools here; private, national, and public. In the private sector, children pay 24,000 pounds (the one i visited) a year. Think of it like 24,000 dollars a year, which is what parents pay for private schools in the US, at least in San Francisco they do. A teacher salary is 3000 pounds a month. These classrooms consist of 20 students, and can have as many as 2 assistant teachers. They also have a music, PE, and art teacher.
Then you move to the National Schools. Within these schools, students are paying 7000 pounds a year. Teachers make 400 pounds a month (to give you perspective - i pay 1250 pounds a month in rent for my half of a 2 bedroom apartment/10eggs, 10 slices of cheese, 9 pack of yoghurt, 10 pieces of bread, few cans of tuna, couple of cans of fool, some veggies = 100 pounds, which my sister and i finish in a a weeks time - no fat jokes please; always gotta have a sense of humor:)). Teachers actually bribe parents for proper grades, and tutor students after school, in order to make enough money for survival. Their classrooms consist of 45 to 60 students, with one teacher. There is no music, art, or PE teacher. The teachers walk around with rulers, hit the children, and are maintaining "crowd control." There have been many cases of child abuse in classrooms, as well as actual killings of children due to teacher violence.
And the public school, which I have little information about, and cannot seem to get into. I am still working on that. I can only imagine what goes on behind those closed doors, as this is a FREE institution provided for our PUBLIC!
Talk about social injustice. This is absolutely unacceptable!!! Our priorities are absolutely skewed and utterly awful. Why do we pay an actor millions of dollars, fund soldiers to die, and continue wars of corruption? At what point do people stop thinking about themselves and realize that everyone around them is human, has a heart, has a pulse, has emotion, exists?
I know that there are so many incredible people out there. Honest, giving, hard working, dedicated to make change! I choose to see those people, and to surround myself with those people, and to continue having hope for our present, and for our future. Keep spreading the word, plugging away, and holding your head up!: What you do is appreciated:)
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