Equality Equals Power

Nowadays, it is pretty normal for girls to attend school, for them to be able to have the same education as boys. The real thing is that right now girls are being taught to be stronger than boys to prove they are worthy of the same rights but the same responsibilities as well. Women are no longer only the ones in charge of cleaning and feeding everyone in the house, but they are also responsible for rising above and become successful at something else than being stay-at-home-moms. Today girls all around the world are being taught to be better and to overcome the difficulties to be able to succeed. We think at The Columbus School, girls are taught at a young age how to be more than what the world expects; we are taught in the same classrooms as boys and we are given the same opportunities. With this equality we grow up to be successful women that represent girls all around the world. We believe that the girls in the TCS community have to realize how lucky they are to be treated with equality and have the same opportunities as the boys. 

All around the world it is easy to spot that women are still not equal to men, that girls are not equal to boys. One example is Malala’s story, she has fought for the right to  be treated equally, for the right to have the same education. When she was little her school banned girls as soon as the Taliban got into her town. She started to vlogging to BBC with a secret name because she was also denied freedom of expression. We think women all around the world deserve the same education, they deserve what we all have here at TCS. We take for granted what the school is giving us while there are thousands of girls out there fighting for it. In our houses we are educated to thrive and so we are given the best education possible and so we end up here in a mixed school where we are equal to boys. Men around the world know the power could have women with the same education. “The power of education frightens them. They are afraid of women. The power of the voice of women frightens them.” Here I am able to express myself and with that we can be so powerful and we are so lucky for that, because here the TCS community is not afraid to educate but instead they are educating strong and powerful women.

Salome Beyer, one of the TCS community, is part of the girl up organization. This organization works towards the single goal to provide education for underprivileged  girls all over the world. We  are not able to realize that he have at our hands the knowledge of our rights and that it is been taught to us since we are very little but the girls Salome works with do not have this knowledge and so they are unable to fight for them. “In Colombia we have established a really good program to teach girls both in private and public schools about human rights and what truly is feminism and what is not,” said Beyer. We become powerful women by having the same education as men that we are able to move the world and teach other girls what has always been taught to us.

The world is afraid of what women can be become, because we are so powerful that with the same education we are capable of anything. Here at TCS we are able to create a world of opportunities because we are treated equally and we are raised with boys. We do not resent boys for having a better education but instead we learn more with them because we are with them all the steps of the way and we learn that working equally is not having a better education but instead having the same one and working alongside with them to be able to accomplish everyone’s goal of a better future and a better world.  

Yousafzai, Malala. “’Let Us Pick up Our Books and Our Pens, They Are the Most Powerful Weapons’ | Malala Yousafzai.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 12 July 2013, www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/12/malala-yousafzai-united-nations-education-speech-text.

Fund, The Malala. Malala’s Story | Malala Fund, www.malala.org/malalas-story.