Blog 6: Education and public schools

Public education is one of the biggest social problems today. The unequal distribution of public funds prevents the provision of free and quality education for people from lower social strata, even when it is considered as a right. This results in a series of secondary problems that greatly affect the lives of students who attend this type of education, with no other alternative: Insufficient academic results and below the average, increases the socioeconomic segregation that already exists, lack of comprehensive training of students, etc.

In addition, not only students are involved in this social problem, teachers also suffer the consequences, such as the devaluation of the profession, the very low salaries and added to the precariousness of working conditions that discourage professional development in public schools.

One of the consequences of this problem is that social mobility is severely limited, because education is one, if not the only, way that low-income people must scale their socioeconomic status, choosing to study a career. With a poor public education that does not motivate students to continue their education and provides opportunities, it is almost impossible for this to happen.

There is still much to do to achieve a quality public education in our country. The lack of policies and the centralization of the vision of education as a consumer good have caused this problem to increase more and more, and it is far from having an immediate solution.

An attempt has been made to visualize these deficiencies through various protests, in which students of different levels, teachers and parents participate.