President Leonel Fernandez Thursday said a serious debate on education must center on three questions: what is taught, how is it taught and why is it taught. “From there we’ll speak about the rest.” – Dominican Today
Can anyone in Santo Domingo answer some of the above questions? When you learn about history do they teach DR history or europeanized DR history? As in avoiding the fact that the spanish destroyed our ancestors way of life and now we have – this. Do students come away with a feeling of pride about DR or feeling like they are below everyone else? Education should empower.
This one post dated in September of 2011 speaks on the educational system in a less than positive light – note that this is just someone’s opinion and one side of the story
When I came here in 1980 there were truant officers that kept the kids in school. Today, most of the boys drop out by 14. One small building in desperate need of repair taught the little ones in the morning, the older kids (needed at home for chores in the a.m.) in the afternoon, and at night people into their 60s walked miles to get adult education — proudly wearing their khaki/blue uniforms though they were very poor. The literacy rate was, I think, in the high 80s %. Calculators were not needed to make change and kids were respectful. Now schools appear to be all social hours and “teachers’ meetings”, and as you say, hanky-panky. Political appointment at every level has destroyed a once admirable, though lacking resources, education system.- Pelaut
What are your thoughts do you know anyone that graduated out of the DR educational system?
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