It forces consideration of how education can be made to suit children as they are now, and to help them move forward. Globally, under all categories, the answer to this is that, most frequently, the excluded children are girls . Gender continues to be the major causal factor in children being left out, and pushed out, of school. The denial of a girl's right to education remains a pernicious and persistent characteristic of many societies on a purposive basis, by reason of culture and family choice-making. Beyond saying that societies are not trying hard enough, the answer is not so simple.
Exclusion is a layered phenomenon.
While there has been progress since Jomtien in extending the quality and scope of education to many children, progress for excluded children would seem only marginal. The questions at least are clearer, and by extending the decade the world has given itself more time to try to answer them. In extending the EFA dead-line another 15 years, Amman gave the world more time. It also acknowledged the world's failure to respect the right of all children to an education. In effect, the new deadline of 2015 legitimises the loss of another generation.