I believe that ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all is one of the more important goals out of all the sustainable development goals. Since Covid-19 has tremendously affected the education system and has wiped out 20 years of educational gains, this goal is more important now than ever. Many other countries don’t even have clean drinking water, electricity, or hand washing facilities in their schools which are all necessities. In the United States, we are blessed enough to have these resources and the basic necessities in our schools, but other countries do not have the same opportunities. Looking at the article, https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal4, the reports show that the completion rate in schools is gonna get worse and more students are going to drop out. Overall, I think that the world should be focusing extra on the education systems right now because there are rising drop out rates which could be stopped.

Julie Barron