Attacks on schools

[Walsingham]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8500404.stm

 

Warning of a rise in attacks in the past three years, the report highlights teachers being murdered in Thailand, the destruction of schools in Afghanistan, sexual attacks on schoolgirls in the Democratic Republic of Congo and "narco-guerrillas" trying to control schools in Brazil.

 

 

TYPES OF SCHOOL ATTACK

School damaged by bomb

Kidnapping and torture

Gun and rocket attacks

Explosions

Mass poisoning

Sexual violence

Burning buildings

Forced recruitment of child soldiers

Source: Unesco

 

It identifies new trends, including "the direct killing and mass poisoning of schools students in Afghanistan and the mass abduction of pupils for recruitment as suicide bombers in Pakistan".

 

 

Not sure what my point is. I'm just appalled.

[213374U]

Not sure what my point is.

Perhaps that we are critically short of Sir Charles Napiers?

 

Sometimes I wonder...

[Walsingham]

Maybe it's just a sort of "I'm mad as hell and I'mnot going to take this any more"

[Hurlshort]

Geez, I better get some body armor!

 

Did you know teachers in certain Los Angeles schools get an extra stipend that is referred to as hazard pay?

[Morgoth]

Third world countries... Why the big surprise?

[Walsingham]

Third world countries... Why the big surprise?

 

Sure. They're just savages, right? I thought I was the one wearing the pith helmet.

[theslug]

Man how awesome would that be. Your just in school mackin on some 15 year old when all the sudden a rocket propelled grenade blows up next to you. Instinctively you jump and shield her young supple body with yours. Shrapnel tears into your skin, riddling your body. Then you get rushed to the hospital and she visits you and gives you oral for a couple months while you recover. Sounds nearly worth it to me.

Edited February 10, 2010 by theslug

[Gorgon]

It migth be fruitful to learn the difference between the contraction 'you're' and the posessive pronoun 'your', untill you do you will constantly piss people off without even knowing why.

[theslug]

It migth be fruitful to learn the difference between the contraction 'you're' and the posessive pronoun 'your', untill you do you will constantly piss people off without even knowing why.

accounting major, dont care, doin it for the lulz, etc

[Walsingham]

Back off my padawan, man.

[Orogun01]

Good to see that the world is still the same.

[SteveThaiBinh]

This is just speculation and I have no evidence that it's true for any of the schools mentioned, but it does occur to me that there are more schools than there used to be - universal primary and secondary education are major development goals and have been a high priority of the World Bank and other agencies in the last few years. This might have led to opening schools in more unstable areas, perhaps? If so, it raises even more questions about seeing development sectors in isolation and the very targets-driven approach of the Millennium Development Goals.

[Gorth]

Maybe somebody out there realised that an educated population is the greatest threat to their power.

[Walsingham]

This is just speculation and I have no evidence that it's true for any of the schools mentioned, but it does occur to me that there are more schools than there used to be - universal primary and secondary education are major development goals and have been a high priority of the World Bank and other agencies in the last few years. This might have led to opening schools in more unstable areas, perhaps? If so, it raises even more questions about seeing development sectors in isolation and the very targets-driven approach of the Millennium Development Goals.

 

You make a good point, Steve. I'd be surprised if that wasn't an influencing factor. But I'm not sure that entirely accounts for culpability. Sounds rather like the 'she was asking for it' defence.