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Chilean striking teachers take to the streets; million students with no classes
Thousands of striking teachers have taken to the streets in the Chilean capital Santiago to protest against education reform plans. The peaceful rally held on Wednesday turned violent when clashes erupted between riot police and a group of protesters, which led to the arrest of a number of people. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesOur president is sincerely trying to make needed reforms in our educational program, but extreme left anarchists are bent on destroying the peace.
Jun 18th, 2015 - 07:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0I personally believe our country can do more and we have a socialist president, but the left pushes for violence.
Chile has a higher level of public education than many of our neighbors and most of us support improvements, but not the violence.
I HATE Communists...
I agree that we need some reforms to our eductional system, but in othe other side, because the state run schools have failed and the present municipal run school even being a better solution isn´t the best.....Probably the best solution is a large number of private schools with total state subvention and a lower number of half state subvention and half paid fee to ensure that the quality can be improved, no long teacher's union strikes, no political interferences, and highest results requirements for teachers and pupils, when the school supporters need to show why parents must choose their schools over the others based on results, not only in math or language but in social values as persons.
Jun 18th, 2015 - 03:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unfortunately, our teacher´s unions have been managed by the extreme left wing (communist party) so there is nothing to do with it to improve the quality because they only ask for equality no matter if it means go down about quality.....
We need to improve the requirements to the people traying to become teachers asking them to be the highest of their school promotion and with vocational skills that ensure the highest commitment with the pupils, must be very well paidbased in their own CV, where post grade studies makes a plus, not just the years into the system, also it´s necessary to improve the schools curricular net giving preference to technical scools over the scientific-humanistic schools as at the present is to obtain more and better trainned school graduates able to get a good job easily and better paid when they finish studies.......About universities, it´s necessary to redesign the curricular nets to get shorter grades without superfluous matters so the cost get cheaperand quality higher, with a the ceapest cretid system so any student that meets the high requirements to be accepted into a certified university o technical institute can afford it a pay back when working after garduation or quitting.
Why is Bachelet sincerely trying for anything while she openly supports the type of socialism in Argentina and Brazil designed to create hunger and chaos?
Jun 18th, 2015 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You hate communists? Chile's business class tries to drink china kool aid to believe that Bachelet can not piss away the country's future on her Argentina modeled lies. And Piñera lit candles for nelson Mandela. A communist and a killer. In Chile there is no right.
@2 Well written! My great fortune was coming from a family where I and my father were gifted with an education at the Grange, and my grandfather was educated at the Mackay school. If we had attended public schools, I doubt we would have been in a far less existence.
Jun 18th, 2015 - 09:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So far Bachelet has been far less damaging to Chile's success, but I do not trust a woman who lived and was educated for a part of her life in East Germany. Nelson Mandella was a great communist beliver, but he also was a great pragmatist and brought peace to SA.
Chile in my humble opinion is only the best country in Latin America only because Argentines have squandered their great wealth.
Education is one of the greatest gifts a nation can bestow upon its people.
Saying that, Chile has the 2nd or 3rd best education for the first 12 years and currently we have the top university in Latin America. (4 in the top 20)
@4. Was necklacing by the ANC pragmatic? When they burned blacks alive? South Africa Peaceful? A lot more rape, murder, and lynchings than 30 years ago. It's peace for the one left wing party in control...Like Chile that starts with a pragmatic left in 1990 and then kleptocratic socialism at this point.
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