There was a time when everyone wanted to go to the United States to seek a better “quality of life” understood as: the opportunity to get job and being good paid, to access an educational system of one of the countries considered a world power, to be in a country where the health care system probably would be better…. “because they have money, they have the power”, in other words, people wanted to be part of that “American Dream”. According to James Adams, that dream stated: "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement, regardless of social class or circumstances of birth”. On the other hand, the United States itself proclaimed as well that "all men are created equal" and that they are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights" including "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." In other words, the American Dream was a promise of prosperity and success. Those ideas caught the people’s mind and they left their own country.
Unfortunately, after seeing the movie “waiting for superman” and witness, through the news, the situation that exists in United States, I must say that is not far from the reality of Colombia. Here, in Colombia the main problem is the low level of coverage, efficiency and quality in education. Public schools do not have the resources to provide a good education, access is limited, and teachers are not paid on time so that they cease their activities in teaching, low income children cannot study because their parents have no money, so, they must work on traffic lights. it not the same in the United States? There, children are "Separate but equal", main stream culture can access easer to public schools, the others are out, if you do not paid tuition there is no flexibility at all, you are out, statistics shows that they do not have a level of competence as expected and they and I hope the government gives priority to educational systems, among other things, and invest more money in it.
It will be necessary to think about the Colombian case, if the process of decentralization in education produces as presents in the United States: public rich schools and public poor schools and how the activation of the rights through the demands of tutelage can be a solution to this dilemma. Anyway, time is running out and every time I see an education thought in the government interests, towards privatization: education for the wealthy, as seen in others part of the world, not only in United States but in Chile.
The final question is: what country to go now? some time ago, I have seen that Spain is now the place to go, a friend of mine is there and she says that the same lived here, she is living there… in a strange land. My resolution is, instead of seeking refuge and opportunities elsewhere it is necessary not only to help improve education but health in Colombia.
Unfortunately, after seeing the movie “waiting for superman” and witness, through the news, the situation that exists in United States, I must say that is not far from the reality of Colombia. Here, in Colombia the main problem is the low level of coverage, efficiency and quality in education. Public schools do not have the resources to provide a good education, access is limited, and teachers are not paid on time so that they cease their activities in teaching, low income children cannot study because their parents have no money, so, they must work on traffic lights. it not the same in the United States? There, children are "Separate but equal", main stream culture can access easer to public schools, the others are out, if you do not paid tuition there is no flexibility at all, you are out, statistics shows that they do not have a level of competence as expected and they and I hope the government gives priority to educational systems, among other things, and invest more money in it.
It will be necessary to think about the Colombian case, if the process of decentralization in education produces as presents in the United States: public rich schools and public poor schools and how the activation of the rights through the demands of tutelage can be a solution to this dilemma. Anyway, time is running out and every time I see an education thought in the government interests, towards privatization: education for the wealthy, as seen in others part of the world, not only in United States but in Chile.
The final question is: what country to go now? some time ago, I have seen that Spain is now the place to go, a friend of mine is there and she says that the same lived here, she is living there… in a strange land. My resolution is, instead of seeking refuge and opportunities elsewhere it is necessary not only to help improve education but health in Colombia.
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