It is difficult to think that in the 21st century, where technology is part of everyday life, education has become a banal and empty word. Not only do parents insist on putting barriers to our children in their search for...
It is difficult to think that in the 21st century, where technology is part of everyday life, education has become a banal and empty word. Not only do parents insist on putting barriers to our children in their search for knowledge, blaming their teachers for their academic failures; merits of which, without a doubt, they are not unaware, but now the Ministry of Education itself seems to want to help us build higher walls that separate young people from knowledge and learning.
Obviously, lowering the level of study is no longer enough, we must also limit the number of people in charge of it. If I were a good person, I would think it is for our own good, but I am afraid I see something evil in it, if I may say so. It is not good to put ideas in other people's minds, so we should better limit ourselves to the facts.
In primary and secondary schools, teacher replacements have been reduced year after year, as in the case of the Antonio Zerolo School, to give an example. Here, even with three teachers on sick leave, our dear Ministry of Education has refused to provide substitutes until the parents have complained about this fact. Then, making an enormous effort, they have limited themselves to incorporating one person (for those lacking all evil, note that it is irony).
Ah, that's not all! Given that the country has been in crisis for a few years and our "aldermen" have excessive expenses to attend to, jobs in education must be eliminated, which translated means overcrowding in classrooms or reducing the study options of our children, eliminating subjects, as in the Conservatory of Music, or denying electives during the transition from ESO and Bachiller for the choice of university career or simply in vocational training options.
Probably, we still do not understand what this implies. However, I am beginning to think that our children, in a very subtle way, are beginning to be denied a fundamental right that the Constitution includes, the right to education. It is something as simple as that if there is not enough staff, there are not enough places for students. This implies a number of young people who have their options limited.
How curious! "If I don't have the option to study what I want, why bother." It is a simple phrase that carries a premise that is becoming more and more evident: our children renounce a thirst for knowledge that they have never really felt, well created by us or by the social environment.
So, it seems that the Ministry would be right to reduce the educational offer by reducing the teaching professionals. Without a doubt, it is what would lead us to think, however, I am concerned about an irrefutable fact: knowledge is power.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to think that they are limiting the education of our children to create sheep who do not know how to think for themselves and, therefore, are more manageable as masses for their whims.
Ah, but it is that not only are they limiting our right to an education, they are also increasing the number of unemployed by reducing job positions, when one of the premises to get out of this economic crisis is to promote employment, particularly public employment. Then, if we increase the number of teachers, we promote employment, with it the consumption that in turn will be reflected in small businesses.
By increasing the level of spending, the more real active population, that is, people with consumption capacity, the more the economy is reactivated and with it the small businesses that in turn will be able to reactivate private employment. As we see it is a chain link, which also incorporates a diversification in the offer of options for the student and a better teaching by avoiding overcrowding.
It seems that everything is improvements. So, why does the Ministry of Education do the opposite?, Why are the budgets for education reduced?, How are these budgets distributed?, Shouldn't education and health have priority over everything else? Without a doubt, materials are bought that are later not used, such as computers or electronic whiteboards. Objects that undoubtedly look very good in the photo of the turn, but that are useless without the appropriate staff for the student to truly obtain a performance from it.
I wish we could offer our children a range of possibilities that facilitate their approach to adult life, but in reality we limit their options, and the doubt that gnaws at me is: Why?
