Is there anything we expats could do to influence the powers that be to get the education system better organised. Some examples of the shambles here I've seen are
13 year old girl next door who has never been to school because neither her Mother nor Father ever got round to getting her a birth certificate,
2/3 of 12/13 years youngsters in the village who come round to our house to use our computer to help with their homework. Answering questions about the way an atomic bomb is made and biographies of the scientists concerned; the table of elements with the difference between iron and chlorine; they've never heard of Beethoven not even of Cervantes. (at 12/13 !!!)
Our daughter aged 4 did her first year in class 1 and should now be starting year 2, we have bought all the books but because of class sizes the Directors have decided NOW to make 2 class ones and leave class 2 for another year. She quite enjoyed class 1 did a lot of games, singing and the bare minimum of academic work. We are teaching her to write and do simple arithmetic at home but there is going to be a big row with the Directors next week.
At just about every tienda I go to they have to use a calculator for even the simplest of bills, by the time they still haven't finished entering numbers, then correcting them , I've already got the correct money out of my cartera.
Again at tiendas, if 1 lb costs 80 pesos I usually have to correct them by the time they tell me how much they think I owe for say 3 1/2 lbs.
I know I'm blowing off steam but if anybody has any ideas about something we could do I'll gladly join in.
13 year old girl next door who has never been to school because neither her Mother nor Father ever got round to getting her a birth certificate,
2/3 of 12/13 years youngsters in the village who come round to our house to use our computer to help with their homework. Answering questions about the way an atomic bomb is made and biographies of the scientists concerned; the table of elements with the difference between iron and chlorine; they've never heard of Beethoven not even of Cervantes. (at 12/13 !!!)
Our daughter aged 4 did her first year in class 1 and should now be starting year 2, we have bought all the books but because of class sizes the Directors have decided NOW to make 2 class ones and leave class 2 for another year. She quite enjoyed class 1 did a lot of games, singing and the bare minimum of academic work. We are teaching her to write and do simple arithmetic at home but there is going to be a big row with the Directors next week.
At just about every tienda I go to they have to use a calculator for even the simplest of bills, by the time they still haven't finished entering numbers, then correcting them , I've already got the correct money out of my cartera.
Again at tiendas, if 1 lb costs 80 pesos I usually have to correct them by the time they tell me how much they think I owe for say 3 1/2 lbs.
I know I'm blowing off steam but if anybody has any ideas about something we could do I'll gladly join in.