MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Let's take a look now at how daily life is progressing in Iraq, where educating the country's children is considered an essential part of its future, naturally, but for now, that future remains on hold. Here is Rula Amin in Baghdad.</s>RULA AMIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's time for school, but the road leading to the</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They came to study. Give them the opportunity to study.</s>AMIN: A father and son try to make their case.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm in the last year. I'm in the last year in this high school.</s>AMIN: The soldiers tell them the school is without power. We are here to protect the school, they say. The desperate student doesn't buy it. But there's not much he can do. There are more than four million schoolchildren in Iraq, many of them just roaming the streets. (on camera): Iraqis say they hear of many ambitious plans for the future of their kids. For now, their ambition is to bring life back to the way it was. (voice-over): That is, students back at their desks, but out of the shadow of the old regime. Rula Amin, CNN, Baghdad.
Children's Schooling Suffers in Baghdad