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Building Schools in Afghanistan: Not as Simple as ABC -- Politics Daily - 1 views

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  • It's part of an intricate theory of counterinsurgency warfare that involves big money and grinding hard work for a long shot, distant payoff: that kids will grow up in a stable, moderate society not wrenched by extremist violence.That's our exit strategy from the Afghan war.
    • LINA R
      LINA R on 08 Nov 09
       
      This shows that everyone is realizing what a big affect that the war has had on the community of Afghanistan, and how it is affecting the children and thier future of living in Afghanistan.
  • And, according to U.S. strategists, this school and others like it will help keep boys from drifting away to extremist madrassas in Pakistan and falling into the clutches of the Taliban
    • LINA R
      LINA R on 08 Nov 09
       
      In the effort to build schools it is their attempt to make a brighter future for these kids who as of right now have no where to go, they just hang out on the streets which everyone knows leads to trouble.
  • Afghans have been building this way for hundreds, if not thousands, of years: rock foundations without mortar. The contractors and workers, some with long white beards, watch Rafaele carefully, waiting perhaps for him to explain this interesting new idea.
    • LINA R
      LINA R on 08 Nov 09
       
      The people in Afghanistan are doing what they have been doing for thousands of years and this is part of the reason that they are trapped in the cycle of war and violence, they have to try new things for the future of schools, but at the same time keep thier culture strong.
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  • "It's hard to get them to change their ways,'' he tells me later. The problem is "their stuff is over-built. We can show them how to build more efficiently, quicker and easier,'' he says.Construction is not the only problem with schools.
    • LINA R
      LINA R on 08 Nov 09
       
      This relate to the point I made before.
  • Once a school is built and filled with kids and teachers, there is a continuing need for paper, pencils, textbooks, desks, chairs -- and no obvious source of supply. As it is, U.S. troops on patrol are routinely asked for school supplies, requests that are often forwarded home to military families and charities in the States to handle.
    • LINA R
      LINA R on 08 Nov 09
       
      That is another big problem, once a school is biult and they do fins students, it brings more problems like supplies and lessons. I know from personal experience that teachers there don't come to school with a set lesson. I f the teacher doesn't show up they students just go back home. Even if they are schools people iN Afghanistan have to put it to good use.
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