Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Rights, respect and responsibility

'UNICEF

'UNICEF'

Bringing children’s rights to life in UK schools

LONDON, United Kingdom, 20 August 2009 – Every child has the right to an education which should develop his or her personality and talents to the full. Every child has the right to have his or her voice heard. These are just two of the 42 articles which make up the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.


I spent the night tonight seeking for an article that would blow my mind so I could also let it blow others by sharing. I was not carrying much of luck until I stumbled upon this article. In particular, this has enlivened me by the fact the school acts veritably on its own title, it goes Rights Respecting School Award. This award programme is empowering the rights to children. The purposes of this program are enriching and have continuously changed children lives. Teaching children that with rights comes with responsibility and reminding them about the rights of other children is the solution to many broken rights for children. All the children who are under RRSA come from diverse backgrounds, so the fact that they are learning with other cultures and about other cultures, will make them more inter-culturally competent. It is impressive that the children who attend RRSA speak over forty languages between them, and speak English fluently as secondary language. Reading this article has brought me to the sense of comprehending the best way to make the rights respected are to have them be endorsed. I am more than confident after this article that it is not authority that is guaranteed to protect the children, there are many countries that is corrupted so authority is not to be trusted. Now, it is children that could protect themselves the best with the knowledge of their own rights. I am appalled there is such school like this, and it is pretty unfortunate that I live far away from UK. I must give this program a big kudos to change the new cycle. Now I, personally, am curious how children in UK would affect Europe, then the world.

2 comments:

  1. I believe the children are important to be educated by their family's cultures and others' cultures. Learning both cultures would be awesome for the children to know and understand what kind of cultures and what they look like that people usually have their traditions. It is good to support and respect the children's rights for education. Also, the children have a good opportunity to change something better for their life in the future after they learn an education, what they want for their goals, etc. I will be more than happy to see if Europe would be successful with what UK affects it including the rights of children, education, etc.

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  2. That’s definitely awesome. I went to London last summer, and I wish I knew about this school because I would love to check it out. This is definitely a good exposure to young children and their rights. Although they might not understand it completely but it is a good foundation for them to protect themselves and it is up to us to make sure they have a good education and living their life to the fullest. With different backgrounds really will enlighten up the children and they will be sensitive to other cultures and try to understand where each other is coming from. I wonder what are their criteria for allowing students to enroll the school? I hope they are not strict and very open to different possibility of successful children.

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