25/10/2025
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The boat is sinking โ and sadly, this is not about a game. Todayโs state of education feels like a boat in an ocean, trapped in the middle of a storm, struggling to stay afloat while its passengers โ students, teachers, and families wrestle with uncertainty. Everyoneโs trying so hard to survive, yet the waves of inequality, poverty, and neglect keep crashing, tenfold and unforgiving. Teachers row with whatever strength they have, students bail out water with nothing but their bare hands, and parents cling to the hope that someday, somehow, this boat will reach safe shores.
We declare education as the โ๐ค๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌโ, yet the hand that holds the key has doors rusted and shut by circumstances beyond their control. The reality is that, educational crisis doesnโt start in classrooms; it is compounded by homes of hungry students, families whose battles are ignored by policymakers, forcing them to make a hard choice between survival and schooling, teachers enduring meager salaries, and a society that expects schools to fix the issues that it has willfully turned a blind eye to.
Outside the classroom walls, students face battles immeasurable by any test. Some walk several kilometres to school under the scorching sun. Many attend classes on an empty stomach and carry the weight of scarcity that bestowed upon them, while others sit in dimly lit homes just to study. They say, ๐๐๐ช๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ ๐๐จ ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐ค๐ฃ๐โ๐จ ๐ง๐๐๐๐ฉ, ๐๐ช๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐๐ฎ ๐๐จ ๐๐ฉ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ข๐๐ฃ๐ฎ? A right that has become a privilege to others. The boat that promised them to a dream shore is now slowly getting filled by water, and the cracks became more evident an evidence of a system long neglected.
Teachers, the unsung heroes, became the front liners in fighting tides that keep rising. They are no longer just educators but motivators, a mentor, a secondary parent. They comfort the hungry, listen to the broken, encourage the lost, filling in for the parents โ all while enduring heavy workloads, yet with meager salary. They desperately row with all their might to keep the system afloat, but even the strongest rowers canโt save a sinking ship alone.
The cracks in the boat are not just about lack of books or out-dated facilities. It is deeply rooted to a society that expects schools to fix the issues that it has wilfully turned a blind eye to: corruption and poverty. When a student fails to come to school or dropped out, they call it tardiness: when teachers resigned or burned out, they label them as passionless. Yet, rarely do we ask: what kind of support is this society giving them?
Education is a boat where everyone is aboard. This means, this boat can only stay afloat if everyone share the load. Policymakers steer the course, teachers row, and students as the heart of the voyage. We need helping hands โ rightful leaders who know what to do, a community that cares, and families that nurtures learning beyond school walls. Education is not a job linear to teachers, rather, it is a collective responsibility, and after all, it truly takes a village to raise a child.
The boat is sinking, yes, but despair is a luxury we cannot afford. It is not too late to take action. If every hand reaches out, we can rebuild this boat into a stronger vessel that will guide everyone to calmer waters and to the shore that everyone dreamed. Because education should not be a sinking boat, it should be an instrument that carries every learner to the shores of opportunity.
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