Educational Inequality in Chile

We all know that in Chile there are divisions according to social classes and this is reflected in our ways of life, in our health system and also in our education system.

The education which is given to children and teenagers depends of the parents’ economic status: if the parents have a good economic situation the child will be send to a good school, therefore the child receives a really good education and also has more opportunities to succeed in his life. Moreover, if the child’s family doesn’t have a good economic situation, the child will be send to a school not so good and also he will have an education from the government’s hands.

How is the quality of the schools directed by the government?

The SIMCE test results are always divided according to the economic status of each school and the private schools in which students from families with higher incomes assist always have higher results than the municipal school.

If the education “is the same”, what is happening then? 

The Chile’s government is responsible of give a standard education to the municipal schools and also of supervise the private schools. Maybe this education system isn’t bad, but the way in which the education is given has problems: the teachers who are hired by the government are not of the highest quality and also they don’t have the motivation which is needed for this work, therefore they don’t motivate their students. Moreover private schools have their own educative system and their own way to educate and also they have teachers who motivate their students to emerge.

The fact that we don’t have the same educational system is a discrimination against the students and their families. It is a way to stop them and take their chances to emerge.

The government discriminates giving different educational system depending of the economic status of the students. So, if the students are discriminated they will continue discriminating, and in this way the discrimination won’t disappear and this cycle won’t stop.

So, how we want to stop the discrimination in Chile and in all over the world if our own government discriminate us?