Many children experience a broken journey through school, interrupted by irregular attendance, absent teachers, teenage pregnancy and school-related abuse and violence.
Girls, especially as they reach puberty, may also be limited by other factors such as the safety of the journey to school or the lack of adequate water and sanitation facilities at schools.
For many children, the journey to school is often filled with hazards.
Every child has the basic right to a safe walking or cycling journey to school.
"I'm always tired," Mr. Marroquin said this morning on his long journey to school.
She describes her daily journey to school, street by street, not once but twice.
Fahed's difficult journey to school was the flip side of Ms. Ben-Ami's safety fears.
They make the daily journey to school a high-speed life or death lottery for millions of children.
Nigel said: "In the morning the children would be knackered and I'd have to wake them up extra early to make the hour-long journey to school.
I regularly speak to girls in their early teens who are simply used to being called "slut" or "slag", and describe being groped or harassed in the playground or on their journey to school as "normal".
Whereas an adult might have focused on the physical spaces, the children wanted to talk about circle time, the journey to school and their memories of St John's".
