Once an old man said ‘when a child goes to school for the first time. She becomes so excited she cannot wait to wear his new uniform, new shoes and meet new friends.Now,she is no longer staying at home accompany others when they go to school or come from school .Arguably, Not many children feel that way when it’s the first time to school especially children in rural areas. I was once one of those children. When I was in grade eight I have to go to another school, high school. We have to walk long distances from our homes to school.
There is nothing exciting starting at school where you have to walk long distance to go to every day. We have to walk about an hour to school. Our journey usually start at 6:30 if you didn’t make it at that time then rather not go because you were already missed the first period. I call it a journey because we used to walk across the N2 road. It was hard because we knew that wasn’t supposed to be happening to us. In South Africa every child has the right to education, safety and protected when going to school. We were not safe and were not protected. We felt that the government doesn’t care about us. As children coming from disadvantage homes and we have dreams to fulfill we become used to it. But only one thing that was even harder was the N2road we have to cross every morning without any traffic trying to stop the cars or robots indicating directions.
They say education is the key to succeed but is that what an individual have to go through to reach that point?
This is a thought provoking post considering the upcoming local elections in our country.It has been more than 14 years we have celebrated our liberation from the struggle of apartheid and still many areas in our country are disadvantaged and we are yet to meet the constitutional needs of our people.What is the point in voting where there is no change? What is the point in saying we have the right to education when we are not provided with the necessary funding,assistance and support to succeed in obtaining education.We still have a long way to go in our country, we are truly in "Journey".We must never give up in this journey , where there is a will there is a way.Let us persevere, work hard and endure the hardship of life.
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