ACCESS TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

For many years the United States’ educational system has been criticized due to its failures in public education. Where, many of the citizens are affected. WAITING FOR SUPERMAN by Davis Guggenheim (2009) is a documentary that shows the public school situation and the learning and teaching problems in this country; one of them perhaps the most important, is the access to education . This leads to believe that this problem is not far from us. We can see it around the world. For that reason, this text seeks to enable a critical reflection about it. I can argue that the government’s role is to watch over education for all people; in other they can have access to public schools.

Economic and political conditions always are one of major reasons to attend to public schools. Poor people do not have enough resources to pay for private education. So, the access to education cannot be seeing as a lottery play, in which only few are favored. For example, the children’s case in the film, who were not selected. This leads to ask “what will happen with this people? What people should do about it? This is an evidence that shows how the right to equality is violated and they do not do anything to change this situation.

As student, citizen and teacher, I can’t keep out of everything. I have the responsibility of changing that for better. First of all, I think that it is very important to take account that education is a formative process that gives the knowledge of the world developing skills and values. It also makes capable of interpreting. In the same way, the government has to promote politics solutions because education is a fundamental human right.

And, it is also important that all people defend this right, making march, promoting political changes, demanding more public schools and opportunities to get a job with a good salary. If government give them these possibilities the access to education will be better.

In conclusion, this is a harsh reality which is fraught with serious difficulties like “IGNORANCE” if people do not have chance to study, they will have any knowledge. There are many people who are deprived of education. Nowadays, it is difficult for them to have access to it, because of poverty, or for some people who wants to achieve their personal purpose. All people have the right to free education, regardless of their social class, ethnicity, background, etc.