A SOCIETY WAITING TO SUPERMAN
If you analize your life with reference to the society where you live in, you must recognize the world economic system has played a big role influencing the main aspects of your life: what you may eat, what kind of costumes you get, the quality of health services you receive, many things that are part of your identity. However, there is an aspect very important nowdays that has been dominated by economics... Access to Education. In this text, I try to discuss about different situations of our society in wich education right is violated. If you are a student, a teacher, a father or mother, or somebody interesed in our future as society, after to read this text and to watch the film "WAITING TO SUPERMAN"(Gugenheim 2009) , you will reflect about your politics and moral role in these times full of inequallities.
Education has become a bussiness. In the USA, Colombia or Chile for example, students are protesting recently because education lost its character of right; it is not free and there isn't equal access to the opportunities of a better future. Why is this?Government doesn't need students or professionals; it needs only workers who can move its industry. For example, in this moment, Colombian government tries to reform the General Education Law to replace professional programmes with technique programmes. That means, students have less time to learn and to develop a critic conscience and more time to work and to produce in factories.Because of this, professional programs in Colombia are recently offered by private institutions, forcing students to get into debts to study, whitout knowing if they will be able to pay it someday.
Education has become a bussiness. In the USA, Colombia or Chile for example, students are protesting recently because education lost its character of right; it is not free and there isn't equal access to the opportunities of a better future. Why is this?Government doesn't need students or professionals; it needs only workers who can move its industry. For example, in this moment, Colombian government tries to reform the General Education Law to replace professional programmes with technique programmes. That means, students have less time to learn and to develop a critic conscience and more time to work and to produce in factories.Because of this, professional programs in Colombia are recently offered by private institutions, forcing students to get into debts to study, whitout knowing if they will be able to pay it someday.
On the other hand, students also have problem with access and to stay in the schools. If they have access to free and public institutions, it is by luck, by a lotto game or by a parents' friend who can help them, such as the Guggenheim's film show us in United States case. But the problems don't finish there. If they have the opportunity to attend free and public institutions, their social and economic conditions become obstacles for them to continue and to finish their studies.
To finish, my conclusion is that inequality and indifference by States to people needs is growing up more and more. Children are on the streets, working or waiting...waiting for a change in their lifes... waiting for superman. IIt is time to be join and protesting. Are you as a student, as a father or as teacher willing to wait for superman?
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