One consequence of Haiti's poverty trap is that 84% of Haitians with more than asecondaryeducation lived abroad in 2000, according to a study cited by the World Bank.
When we look beyond the issue of accessibility to the quality of education our children receive -- after all it should be fit for purpose -- the region has among the lowest education requirements for teachers, with 50% of countries requiring lower secondary school teachers to have completed no higher than asecondaryeducation (so teachers have barely more education that their students).