Class Dissmissed

Malala Yousufzai is a 14 year old girl from Pakistan. She began speaking out against the Taliban when she was 11 years old. On Wednesday, she was coming home from her school in a van and the Taliban came stopped the car and shot her to have her executed for speaking out and going to school. Malala lives in the Swat Valley which was once a beautiful tourist spot until the Taliban took it over. The Taliban announced on FM Radio over night that after January 15th, girls must not go to school. In Swat the girls are not allowed to go to school because if they where caught they would be killed. They have to pay their tuition to go to school, people have stopped paying and schools will not be able to keep going on. Teachers are losing their jobs because the girls school are being shut down or blown up by the Taliban. Malala's dream changed, now she wants to become a Politician now and not a Doctor because she believes that she can make a change for her country. The soldiers that took refuge in the school are blaming Malala's dad and people like him for the war on girls education. Malala and her father were filled with sadness because Swat used to be a Paradise and now its a messed up bad land but they were filled with joy knowing their house and school survived the attack. The items Malala was most excited to see where her books and school work, these items were the most valuable to her because its her diary entries and all the things she learned in school.