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CBC News Indepth: Afghanistan - 1 views

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BSGE Afghanistan cbc

shared by GIULIANA V on 07 Nov 09 - Cached
  • When 1.5 million children went back in school in Afghanistan in the spring of 2002, a tough lesson was waiting for them. While the country welcomed some semblance of peace for the first time in years, war remained very much a part of its classrooms. Afghanistan's teachers tried to erase war images from the textbooks, images that got there in the first place due in large part to Cold War policies in the United States.
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      GIULIANA V on 07 Nov 09
       
      This is very important because it shows that the war that is going is affecting both countries. When we think of the war we think of only who it affects us but it affects our troops and the troops' family but not most of our schooling systems. This should make us think and do somthing to help them,
  • Some children bring their own chairs to school, if they have them. The school was almost destroyed by war.
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      GIULIANA V on 07 Nov 09
       
      this just shows how this war is highly affecting them more then this war has been affecting us.
  • A student learns to add and subtract bullets Math teachers use bullets as props to
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      GIULIANA V on 07 Nov 09
       
      this shows that these kids willl grow up with the idea of war stuck in their back of thier heads this will affect them and their lives in the long run
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  • m has been the best place to indoctrinate young people with their duty to fight. Government-sponsored textbooks in Afghanistan are filled with violence. For years, war was the
  • teach lessons in subtraction. This isn't their idea. During decades of war, the classroo
  • only lesson that counted.
  • So, at that time, there was a lot of militaristic thinking."
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      GIULIANA V on 07 Nov 09
       
      this will eventually affect the childrens minds
  • Rashid loves school but he says he and the other boys don't understand why their books are filled with war.
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      GIULIANA V on 07 Nov 09
       
      these kids just want to learn things that other children around the world are learniong without the idea of war in their heads
  • The pleasures of childhood are so simple. A kite to fly, a friend to share your dreams with, maybe a good storybook. In Afghanistan, a child's pleasure is simply an end to 23 years of war.
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      GIULIANA V on 07 Nov 09
       
      its really sad how these kids cannot dream like other kids they have to worry about a huge war.
  • GIULIANA V on 07 Nov 09
     
    "INDEPTH: AFGHANISTAN Back to school in Afghanistan CBC News Online | January 27, 2004 The National | Airdate: May 6, 2002 Reporter: Carol Off | Producer: Heather Abbott | Editor: Catherine McIsaac When 1.5 million children went back in school in Afghanistan in the spring of 2002, a tough lesson was waiting for them. While the country welcomed some semblance of peace for the first time in years, war remained very much a part of its classrooms. Afghanistan's teachers tried to erase war images from the textbooks, images that got there in the first place due in large part to Cold War policies in the United States. Textbooks are full of guns, swords and other images of war At a public school in Kabul, students and teachers are anxious for some kind of normal routine. Some children bring their own chairs to school, if they have them. The school was almost destroyed by war. There's no electricity. It's colder inside than out. The cement floor is freezing. But the students don't mind. The young women and girls at this school are back in the classroom after five years of banishment by the Taliban. Women in their 20s have returned to Grade 11. But they're not bitter, they're happy. Getting children back to school is a number one priority in Afghanistan's post war government. But the big question is: what will they learn? A student learns to add and subtract bullets Math teachers use bullets as props to teach lessons in subtraction. This isn't their idea. During decades of war, the classroom has been the best place to indoctrinate young people with their duty to fight. Government-sponsored textbooks in Afghanistan are filled with violence. For years, war was the only lesson that counted. The Mujahideen, Afghanistan's freedom fighters, used the classroom to prepare children to fight the Soviet empire. The Russians are long gone but the textbooks are not. The Mujahideen had wanted to prepare the next generation of Afghans to fight the enemy, so pupils learned the prop
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Nov 09
     
    Please tag this schools. Also, can you highlight passages that help you create an image of what schools look like?
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