Everyone is
talking about the students protests because of the problems we have in our
educational system. Since 2006 we have been demanding a reform of the entire
system and finally the government has decided to hear its society, but not all
the people agree with it.
Some think
that the problem lies in people who can profit with the system. Others think
that the problem lies in the quality of the education.
I believe
that one of the problems we have is the social segregation and our educational system
is just a reflection of that. Because we do have good schools and good
teachers, the problem is that they stay in the private sector. This means that
the people who can pay for these schools will have good education and good
education means good jobs.
Obviously
there are some teachers who work in public schools. The problem with those
schools is that they select the students who enter, and they always keep with the
best of them.
In
universities the problem is almost the same. First, as primary and secondary
education, our country has good universities and bad universities and most of the
people who enter a good university come from a private school. But the worst
thing about it is the tuition. Nobody with a salary of two hundred pesos can
pay that which implies that students, and their families, must get into debt
with more than 3 million pesos every year for five/six years. Do the math,
somebody who studies for five years must pay 15 million pesos in tuition! This
explains why the country is claiming for free education in all the educational
system levels, not only for universities. The state grants are not enough
anymore. Education is for everyone not just for a few.
