In class today, we watched two videos about human rights: one about the history of human rights and another one which was just a short about the right to have access to education. From watching these videos in class, I’ve gathered that some basic human rights are the rights to follow any religion you believe in, the right to no longer be a slave or held in slavery, the right to equality, and the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty just to name a few. Among those 30 rights, the right to have access to education is definitely one of them. I believe that since education IS a basic human right, everyone deserves to have access to quality education. However, that doesn’t mean that it happens, but it should be. Education is a basic human right, however, that doesn’t mean that everyone has access to quality education. In certain places in the world, including places like the US, having access to education can be difficult for some kids, whether it be that they live in an area where education is overlooked by the government and kids are either forced to marry young or stay at home to help the family around the house or due to where a person lives, the quality or access to education may not be that high or the best and so on and so forth. I wish it didn’t have to be this way, but the sad truth is that many times, this is the case for many children around the world. In the short about the right to education, we see two girls in a car with the one girl’s mom overthinking and trying to explain to her daughter about their exchange student and how it’s her first day of school. The daughter assures her mother that everything is going to be ok but when she gets to the school, she begins complaining about the place and when she asks if the exchange student has schools where she’s from, the girl replies with no. I think that the intended message of the video was to explain to kids not to take having access to education for granted because not many kids are given that opportunity.

It’s hard to think that there are kids who aren’t really able to receive that access to education and are either forced to work or stay at home to help with family and house issues or just aren’t able to receive that education. I wish that there were more opportunities to show these kids that they’re capable of achieving good education and that they can do it and I wish there were more ways to encourage students to not take their access to education for granted and find ways to become more engaged in the learning atmosphere.