Mr. Nals and Snyder.
Let's not look at things in absolute terms. There are, and always will be, exceptions to every scenario/situation/rule imaginable. I can not speak and have no statistics/documentations to back up any of my postings nor do I care to.
I speak only from personal experience.
I did have my breakfast in elementary school. Whether every kid in every school did, I have no idea. Schools were clean and teachers taught me well. Can't complain.
School was compulsory, but as it happens in every country, even the US, these (schools), were not absolutely everywhere and not everyone took advantage of them, even when available.
Regardless of all your statistical 'evidence', when I travel there and everywhere in DR, many cities lack electricidad constante and I can still see with my own eyes poverty, malnutrition, children idle during school hours and people hanging around, unemployed.
I know people in la capital who have children that attend public school and they are NOT given a school breakfast.
You can argue and point out all the papers you want "proving" the great societal progress you speak of. Also electricity companies promising this and improving that, but the fact is, nothing has changed for the better as far as these two issues are concerned. We're still illiterate and still suffer long-term blackouts the same way as it has been for decades.
I don't need read any of the hogwash the gov. puts out. I have eyes and seen otherwise.
I'm not here to tell you how great things were in Trujillo's era, and nostalgia has nothing to do with my argument. What I'm saying is that, as bad as life was then, it was certainly not as complicated and dangerous as it is today.
Understand one thing, DR has made progress in many other aspects, but the most basic to prosperity are the ones that have not been enphasized.
If we had a nationwide school breakfast/lunch program, children would come to school, if nothing else to eat food.
If we had the electricity problem solved, national and foreign industry would set up shop in droves. These two issues must be addressed or nothing will ever change for the better.
I thrust we understand each other now.
Let's not look at things in absolute terms. There are, and always will be, exceptions to every scenario/situation/rule imaginable. I can not speak and have no statistics/documentations to back up any of my postings nor do I care to.
I speak only from personal experience.
I did have my breakfast in elementary school. Whether every kid in every school did, I have no idea. Schools were clean and teachers taught me well. Can't complain.
School was compulsory, but as it happens in every country, even the US, these (schools), were not absolutely everywhere and not everyone took advantage of them, even when available.
Regardless of all your statistical 'evidence', when I travel there and everywhere in DR, many cities lack electricidad constante and I can still see with my own eyes poverty, malnutrition, children idle during school hours and people hanging around, unemployed.
I know people in la capital who have children that attend public school and they are NOT given a school breakfast.
You can argue and point out all the papers you want "proving" the great societal progress you speak of. Also electricity companies promising this and improving that, but the fact is, nothing has changed for the better as far as these two issues are concerned. We're still illiterate and still suffer long-term blackouts the same way as it has been for decades.
I don't need read any of the hogwash the gov. puts out. I have eyes and seen otherwise.
I'm not here to tell you how great things were in Trujillo's era, and nostalgia has nothing to do with my argument. What I'm saying is that, as bad as life was then, it was certainly not as complicated and dangerous as it is today.
Understand one thing, DR has made progress in many other aspects, but the most basic to prosperity are the ones that have not been enphasized.
If we had a nationwide school breakfast/lunch program, children would come to school, if nothing else to eat food.
If we had the electricity problem solved, national and foreign industry would set up shop in droves. These two issues must be addressed or nothing will ever change for the better.
I thrust we understand each other now.