A reflection about education

    The educational issue has become in a discussion really important nowadays, so much so that everyone has something to say about it; especially those related to it, such as teachers, high school students, university students and so on, who have been on strike in these previous months.

    The fight was considered at the first moment like something fair, because as everyone claimed the education is a right, must have a good quality for everybody and also, nobody should obtain profits with it. The impressions the movement left, were that the students were organized and knew exactly what to do; the leaders were motivators to the others educational actors, they had the correct words to say and the people who heard them, found that they were right; in contrast with the speech of the authorities who argued that the students’ requirements were utopian and they were impossible to carry out at that moment. Government’s explanation were considered as lies because almost everybody agrees or maybe feels that the economic situation of the country is very good and it is not impossible to have an education without cost, but  quality.

    Nevertheless, the strike has not been a good tool to pressure; in these four or five months of mobilization the students and the politicians have been unable to reach an agreement. This has terrible consequences for all the people involved, for instance to the students who had the courage to confront the authorities and still get nothing to satisfy their requirements, getting even, some that are going to lose the academic year; and the government has seen as an organization which cannot hand over solution to the  problems of population.

    It is hoped that the problematic can be solved in a short period of time, which the involved can take up again the dialog and in this way to not continue damaging the Chilean education.