Father Gustavo Carles Lazo, the director of the Los Peralejos parochial school, criticized the fact that more money is being invested in the Armed Forces than in education, and the country is not at war, reports Hoy newspaper. “It is sad that in this country so many millions are invested in the Armed Forces and not in education, when there is no one to fight and the nation will not be called on to participate in a world war,” said the cleric. He also criticized the politicization of Dominican education, commenting that public schools are sometimes paralyzed so that political gatherings may be held and that some school directors are appointed through political ties when they know nothing about teaching and do not even hold a university degree. The director of the Colegio Parroquial Nuestra Senora de Lourdes of Los Peralejos said that those who direct educational institutions do not have the vocation to teach and that teaching has become just another job. He said that what we have now are instructors of learning, not educators: “The big problem in this country is that education is politicized. Politicians are put in the posts, not people who know about education.”