On our weekend with our guide, we visited a village school. I taught in a village school in Botswana while in the Peace Corps. School buildings were concrete with no windows for ventilation; desks were metal, like those in 
American schools in the 1940’s, and kids often had to share them because there were not enough. Class size was usually around 40, and it
was brutally hot in the summer. We had blackboards that spanned the length of the classroom, and kids had books and notebooks. During a particularly severe rainstorm, the metal roofs blew off most of the classroom building. Yet, by Bangladesh standards, Botswana schools were well-appointed.
The village school we visited was also concrete with a metal room that looked like it had seen better days. The school was built by aid workers and consisted of one room with windows for ventilation, but no glass. For the environment, the open windows and door made perfect sense. Desks were wooden benches with a wooden teacher’s desk at the front. There was a small blackboard sitting on a chair. I don’t know who the teacher was or how many kids attended school. Nobody was around when we were there.
Education is mandatory for kids aged 6 to 10, but many villages face challenges in enforcing this due to extreme poverty in the villages. Kids need to help their parents work and start working at a very young age. Also, many 
villages have no school, or if they do, they lack adequate facilities or even a teacher.
According to Wikipedia, “The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) finds that Bangladesh is fulfilling only 67.4% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to education based on the country’s level of income. Yet, given its income level, the nation is achieving 99.2% of what should be possible based on its resources for primary education, but only 63.7% for secondary education. Simply put, there isn’t enough money allocated for education. However, Bangladesh has made significant progress both in the enrollment of primary students and females.
By the time we climbed the short path up to the school, we were drenched, even though it wasn’t monsoon season.
