The
REAP Report: Our Educational Environment
Cook
Islands young people care and are very much aware about their
educational environment, be it available resources, asbestos
at Nikao Maori School, flooding at Avarua School, or well trained
teachers and the effect the possible closure of the Teacher
Training College will have on their future.
Recently
students from Araura College in Aitutaki wrote an article about
"Education" at their school as part of the Small Islands Voice
Youth Internet Forum. They highlighted a lack of modern resources
such as computers, the long delay it often takes for needed
school supplies and resources to reach them and how many of
the trees that supply needed shade during the lot of school
days are being needlessly cut down.
It
is interesting to note the response from other Cook Island students
to this article:
If
it is true that the road to a better future passes through the
classroom door then perhaps we should heed the pleas of our
own small island voices. Our children.
To
read more about what students have to say about education visit
the website on www.sivyouth.org
(username: view and password: only).
REAP
and UNESCO have donated new computer systems to several Cook
Island schools including Araura College in Aitutaki.
Cook
Islands News 26th May 2003
