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Bangladesh, being overly surrounded by rivers, is a highly flood-prone country. Geographical location and features make this country prone to Flash Floods in definite areas commonly known as Haor regions. During the monsoon, the community's children find it immensely difficult to go to schools since the water level rises and connecting roads get inundated. During a Flash Flood, they are denied by the disaster to continue their education at schools, resulting in dropouts, loss of academic years, and even social problems like early marriage. Vulnerable conditions rooted in fragile socio-economic condition, seasonal unemployment, economic hardship, along with attitudinal vulnerability, results in disastrous impacts when faced with Flash Floods. Children of the community are the worst sufferers as they are forced to leave schools which then traps them into a never-ending vicious loop of vulnerability and poverty. This paper adopts a method of reviewing relevant secondary documents and the authors' direct observation from their field visits to address the issues and way forward pertinent to continuing education in the Haor regions during disasters. The paper's findings suggest that poverty, marginalization, historical inequality etc., are the root causes of the progression of vulnerability in the areas of study. The paper further describes the impacts of disaster on student and institutional facility,ranging from an individual loss like dropouts to broken water and sanitation facility at schools. This article also points out critical specific options to be undertaken at the local and national for addressing this issue, i.e., creating a standardized manual to be used nationally.