It's Your Right: Aaron (10) on the Right to Education

Aaron, (10) from St Francis of Assisi Primary School in Belmayne, Dublin, talks about some of the children's rights that are the most important to him and shares his view on the right to education for all children.

Watch the video of the 4th class students of St. Francis of Assisi Belmayne visiting the Ombudman for Children's Office on our It's Your Right Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/91527878

Here is the text transcript of what Aaron has to say

Aaron: I’m Aaron. I’m ten years old and I go to St. Francis of Assisi, Belmayne.

I think the rights that are important to me that you have friends and like, that you’re safe, you have clothes.

You need to have proper clothes, like, if you’re, you only have shorts and it’s in the middle of winter like you’d be freezing.

Question: What do you think about the right to education?

Aaron: I think you need to know education because like you wouldn’t really know much things if, like, you were going out to buy a bar of chocolate or something you wouldn’t know the number or the price and people would have to tell you the number, like, two euros. You wouldn’t really know the number if you didn’t go to school.

Question: And what do you think would happen if you didn’t have any rights?

Aaron: I’d feel sad, I would. I’d feel sad if I didn’t have them rights.