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Want to open a performing arts and science boarding school
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upper class dominican family is not a barrio family. what schools barrio kids go to? kids of parents working minimum salary? of single mothers? of maids? of tarjeta solidaridad recipients? i know plenty of dominican brats going to private schools whose parents are dominican. but they all have money. private schools are for those who can fork out the fee, be is 10k dollars or 1k pesos. those who need to lick plaster off walls for their daily dose of calcium do not go to such schools. geez.
yes, which is exactly what i said before, in regards to unis: smart poor kids may be sponsored, either by private people or companies. someone forks the fee.
yes, which is exactly what i said before, in regards to unis: smart poor kids may be sponsored, either by private people or companies. someone forks the fee.
There are several private schools on the North Coast that charge less than $100 USD a month tuition. Some of these school are no better than public schools. However, the parents can say that they send their child to private school. They pay for the status. On the other hand, some of these schools are really great, almost equal to a couple of schools that charge 5 - 7 times that amount.
The upper crust private schools may offer scholarships, but those kids have troubles keeping up with other, non academic standards within the school. They are not able to bring a laptop to school. They cannot pay to take part in after school classes, such as karate or ballet. Their parents don't have the confidence to participate in the learning community. They cannot compete socially, as they don't have the money to do what other kids do in after school/weekend time. Thus, they are always different.
I believe the most important point is that there is little upward mobility here in the DR, regardless of education.
Lindsey
thanks, lindsay, i think you understand my point. i'm very much in two minds about private education here. a while ago i spoke to a teacher from the most expensive and allegedly the best school in POP. she was a barely literate moron who could not put a coherent sentence together (think kanye west talking). her only qualification was being canadian (naturalized citizen, not even native speaker). on the other hand i also know a director of a public school in POP and he is without a doubt one of the smartest men i ever met here. a private school guarantees nothing yet it can costs a good chunk or family's resources.
fabulously put!! thanks, Lindsey. i am tired of saying this. one of the main reasons why there is so little mobility in the DR is because there is such a disconnect between the wealthy and the poor, that even if the poor go to school with the rich, wealth to them is still an abstraction.
i went to boarding school most of my early life. it was an upper crusty, Methodist school, which boasted quite a few alumni who were knighted by the Queen. the thing is that Jamaica has a very egalitarian education system, so the poorest of the poor could be sitting beside the children of the landed gentry during class, and eating with them at dinnertime. so, a poor kid from the outback learnt early that the son of the Prime Minister was just another guy like him, and he could aspire to be someone, too. when long weekends came around, the rich guys would invite the poor guys to spend a few days at their homes. they got to meet mom and dad, and they now knew that Mr So And So, the neurosurgeon of repute, was just another guy. in the DR, to the barrio dweller, the doctor is a guy you encounter when you have an illness or injury. he is not in your class, and will never be.
To the OP, this talk of sponsorship/scholarships for disadvantaged children reminded me of the after-school music academy in Cap Cana, where they have a number of "ni?os becados" from nearby communities along with their private students from the wealthier areas like Cap Cana, Punta Cana and B?varo.
https://www.facebook.com/academiadearteymusicapc
https://www.facebook.com/academiadearteymusicapc
I did see a kids show here in the states about DR public schools....the no TP and I was pretty sure there was a big hole where the playground was. The crazy thing is we have schools like that in America. As well as some schools in middle class neighborhoods with no books for the kids ...but there are BMW and Mercedes in the parking lots of the board of Education.
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