There are many examples in Latin America for 🇩🇴 republic to follow if they want to improve their public school system.
The educational system needs to be radically redesigned.
You don't need twelve years of instruction to learn the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic.
Furthermore the basic concepts need to be applied to real life.
Compound interest is math.
Balancing a check book is math
Setting up a budget is math
Reading a ballot or law is reading (and Spanish)
Writing a letter is writing in Spanish (principles of writing a letter are the same even if you use email. It is about communication).
Someone up in here took a shot at me because I admitted, that even through I was taught the boiling point of water at some point in my young life, I had forgotten what it was.
This was after I admitted I forgot that information.
So, why did they take that shot?
Is it because they feel those who do not know that basic fact of (chemistry, physics) are uneducated.
If that is case that I am proud to be considered uneducated.
But what education I did develop allowed to me to live on the same country as anyone who thinks I am uneducated.
Which goes to my point...
Why does someone think it is important to know that information (boiling point of water) in this day and age when you can just "google it" and almost everyone has access to the internet?
If I need to do math, I grab a calculator, my smart phone or set up spreadsheet.
If I need to write I use a word processor that corrects my spelling and points out grammatical mistakes.
Or I can dictate what I need to write to my various devices.
My iPad can even read to me if I want it to.
What knowledge is the most important and basic that you need to function and thrive in day to day real life in the 🇩🇴 ?
That is what should be taught.
And then they need to teach why and how this knowledge is important to the lives of the children they are teaching.
The teachers should be able to do what they are teaching.
If they are teach English should be able to speak English fluently.
If they are teaching Spanish they should be able to speak Spanish fluently at a level professionals use the language.
If they are teaching math they should be able to do the math problems they are teaching and at a higher level.
And if they are teaching reading they should be able to read themselves at a university level.
No can someone tell me:
Why exactly are individuals comparing the school systems of the 🇩🇴 to the school systems of their country of origins?
Different language, different country, different opportunities.
Finally, read this post and you can tell me that you may not agree with my idea.
But I know how to write and communicate.
So, people in general should be careful about the sweeping generalizations they make about people of all type based on where they happen to be born or live currently.