Citizen criticism of processes: school and university admissions 2023 in Chile
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Loading... - Emma Alvarez
- 04 Apr 2023
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With regard to the results of the PAES (university admission) and the chaotic admission process for the different establishments throughout the country, we must focus on this reality from the perspective of the right to education, foreseeing a chronic neglect in the education of our children and adolescents.
During the last 50 years, the dictatorship and subsequent governments have governed, deepening a progressive deterioration of public education, with insufficient injection of resources, both for infrastructure and for tools and decent conditions for the educational community, which has triggered an exodus to private and subsidised education (the latter is a business of the political class); such emptying, has led to the closure of more than 800 establishments in the last 20 years alone, while 2. 942 private subsidised schools were set up between 1992 and 2012, deepening the mercantile model that today governs our country.
Those who are affected are the most impoverished sectors, who, not having the resources to opt for a school with better conditions, must settle for a precarious school as a consolation prize, and accepting the mercantilist logic, in which depending on what you have in your pocket, will also define what your education will be like. And in fact, to assume that this is the supposedly inalienable right to education in Chile.
The projects of the right wing, to promote education centres that establish entry filters, which allow having the best students together, excluding those who are in situations of need for various basic reasons, clearly expresses the mental line of this elite. Congressman Marcos Ilabaca was emphatic at the time: “When you establish education of excellence for children of excellence you are not having any merit, it is different when you have children of all performance levels and you take them all together to excellence, that is the merit. That’s why the focus needs to be on improving the quality of education for all equally.” Read More..
