These Afghan teachers are risking their lives, crossing a dangerous river on inflated inner tubes, to get to their pupils.
— BBC World Service (@bbcworldservice) April 24, 2023
More extraordinary teachers 🎧 https://t.co/Gbxrb9zA2v pic.twitter.com/wTmxWXuMER
April 25, 2023
Teaching in Afghanistan.
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Those "teachers" most likely teach nothing more than the rote memorization of the Koran and refuse to teach girls and women.
Students who are, no doubt, hungry to learn. If these teachers were facing the public-school students I read about this morning, whose contempt for learning is evident in their behavior toward other students and teachers, they wouldn't bother making the trip.
Those "teachers" most likely teach nothing more than the rote memorization of the Koran and refuse to teach girls and women.
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Wondering if they are members of a union.
I doubt that they think twice about crossing the river in this way, or think of it as heroic. We never had boats when I was a kid, and used either inner tubes or logs to navigate crossing the river when we wanted to fish or explore on the other side. This is just a Western point of view, that the natural world cannot be navigated without expensive Western technology like Zodiac boats or Jeeps with snorkels and that not having these things is "extreme poverty."
What we are seeing here is more like a modern version of the final chapter of Siddhartha with the wise old boatmen.
It feels like yesterday when I was a young lad staying late after goat husbandry 101 for my IED AP course. I was an eager pupil, and I received top marks in my explosively formed penetrator class. It was well known around Kandahar as a 'weed out' course, but I excelled where others flatlined. I don't care what anyone says, I'll never not feel nostalgia for my time at Western Afghanistan Science & Chemistry University (We Bomb U for short). Go Wifebeaters!
No 'state run media' tag anymore- that was quick...
What's a gold check mark? Waaaaay better than blue, I know, but is it free?
This really needs the side-by-side treatment showing what our teachers were doing during COVID.
They paddle across the river on the inflated bodies of little girls.
In another 500 years they will have discovered ,"boats". Also made from from their least valuable resource, women.
In another 1000 years, having mastered their preferred building material, they will begin construction of a bridge.
I know we're supposed to think "More Hero Teachers" but a lot folks will think, "They're so backwards they can't build boats or bridges?"
I wonder what they'd do if they discovered you in the 'harmless act" of letting the air out of their tyres?
"Those 'teachers' most likely teach nothing more than the rote memorization of the Koran and refuse to teach girls and women."
Doesn't sound too different from the "educational system" Gubna Ronboy De Santos is attempting to implement in Florida (with different "holy" and "unholy" books, of course).
Thank God we gave them billions in weapons and cash so they can nurture the women in their country.
Heartwarming...
Whoever thinks that is a dangerous river has never seen a dangerous river.
this video link shows
The problem is that most people did not deploy their BBC-to-normal-English translator.
"Dangerous river" means placid flowing water.
No surprise though, the BBC is equally accurate in their word choices for all of the OTHER articles for which they have a false narrative they wish to portray.
Many of our teachers would cross a river on an inner tube to teach little boys to wear dresses and cut off their junk, that should count for something, right?
I’m hearing the training camps are back.
Where are their masks? Think about the children!
This really needs the side-by-side treatment showing what our teachers were doing during COVID.
I was sitting at my dining room table in a school t-shirt and sweatpants begging my students to turn their cameras on and do their work.
They don’t appear to be wearing masks. Our teachers wear them on zoom calls.
I was sitting at my dining room table in a school t-shirt and sweatpants begging my students to turn their cameras on and do their work.
I appreciate that. What I had in mind were the ones demanding hazard pay while refusing to return to class, the districts that took millions to upgrade air quality but didn't spend it getting pupils back in their classrooms, and the insane transactivists of TikTok. Not the guys like gahrie who did their best in this crazy state of California.
Could someone give those guys two posts and a length of rope so they can just pull themselves across the river?
Afghan Spring
The video is inspiring and heartbreaking, all at once.
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