The first thing they should teach is respect; For self; For their fellowman; and responsibility for their actions. And we can't forget love and charity for his country. Then, we can teach them a "business" mind-set. In that order. Not business being the top of the list. Children should first be taught social skills, responsibility, then reading, writing and arithmetic. This is what causes the dis-connect; Accentuating the minors, while neglecting the impotant things. Children are not robots. If what you want are bodies to perform tasks, then do away with formal trainning and just teach trades. But, there is more to life than just work. People work to suppot themselves, not just to have something to do. Now, run and tell that!

Baby first learns to stand, then walk, before he learns to run. My only question is if Sanchez's Children go to a private or Public School that's all, and what ever happened to the basic 3 R's.

Education at Dominican schools questioned ......they should question more often and apply more resources to this subject

They must be talking about the public school system .. those supported by the government .. the private schools are doing well .. send your kids to Dominican private schools .. if you don't have the money borrow from relatives .. public schools are not good .. no matter where you are ..

Sanchez needs to understand the pedagogy of education. Children should be taught to read while integrating social skills and placing an emphasis on the need to succeed in the 21st century. What are the resources that the children in public schools have? How are the students connected with the rest of the world through the use of technology? How much money do you invest on THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY (the Children in public schools)? Or do we just expect to get the work force out public education and the professionals from the private sector? The Government needs to invest more money in education and develop more suitable environment for public learning to take place. Since WE have access to the entire world through technology, look up an interesting video entitled DID YOU KNOW 2.0? If that is not a wake up call for the need to INVEST MORE MONEY TO OUR education, I don't know what is! Have some of the educational leaders "GOOGLE IT" :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U

By the way GhoulishColon, did you know that the Government in DR is mandating Private Schools not to increase tuition for a couple of years! How does the Government do that to a private entity. Is the Government also going to ask that from the gas stations (not to raise gas), or supermarket (not to raise food)? Please remember, that there are a lot more KIDS, we are talking about KIDS, in public schools than in private schools. Some will never have the opportunities for an education. The statement that PUBLIC SCHOOLS are bad everywhere, is asinine.

Seeing first hand on a weekly (or more) basis, the real root of the issue of eduction has to do with what they have to work with. When you have no paper and pencils....a chalkboard so old that the chalk won't write on it....that is...if you have chalk to write with....I could go on....when you have little to nothing to teach with, it is difficult to keep the children's interest...thus schools end up more like a "drop in" center.

It seems the only supplies many of the schools have are what tourists donate to the likes of myself and others who share a similar goal of promoting a learning environment for students of all ages.

It also seems in this country, in order to take a university course...you simply need the money...not a formal education and grade score leading up to that level of education, thus many graduate (purchase) a diploma without truly understanding the subject they have enrolled in.

Thanks to tourists.....students in the east have something to learn with.

iImust educate myself in the spelling of education!!!! LOL!!!!

And I must learn how to type!!!

Education at Dominican schools questioned ... i question a budget in education of 1.75% of the gnp and even that is not theirs if the military wants something or some other gov't agency

Dominican private schools have always been heavily regulated by the government .. so the freeze order on school fees is not particularly shocking .. regulating gas and food prices is a little more tricky .. because the consquence of a failed gas and food price regulation policy would be far reaching and immediately felt ..

This a huge problem and in theory the answers are logical. The DR has it's problems and only God knows how many "ninö's"are brought into this world without the slightest bit of consideration. There is no Family Planning" ? So how does a a government cope with this?

They surely could do a better job and the corruption,stealing and what not could surely help this situation but this is not only a problem here but worldwide as we are seeing in the news everyday.

Continued,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World


Brave New World is a 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley. Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, biological engineering, and sleep-learning that combine to change society. Huxley answers this book with a reassessment in an essay, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with his final work, a novel titled Island (1962), both summarized below.

Since this is the Dominican Republic .. and not China .. "family planning" remains a very personal decision .. it is left to the two ( or three, or four ?? ) most closely involved in determining family size .. educational campaigns can help .. raising income levels can make a big difference because it is often the poorest families that have the most children .. but the implementation of "family planning" measures is still a very personal matter .. unless you happen to live in China .. where the government can penalize you for exceeding your "targets" ..

VERY WELL SAID.......TO ALL WHO GAVE OUTSTANDING INPUT ON SUCH A VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC / ISSUE. thank you for all for information on a issue I knew very little about. .

This my understanding of Family Planning nothing to do with the price of rice in China.

Family planning is frequently used to mean that people plan when to have children,[1] using birth control[2][3] and other techniques to implement that plan. Other techniques commonly used include sexuality education[4][3], prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections[3], preconceptional counseling[3] and management, and infertility management[2].

Family planning is sometimes used as a synonym for the use of birth control, though it often includes more.

It is most usually applied to the circumstance of a monogamous female-male couple who wish to limit the number of children they have and/or to control the timing of pregnancy (also known as spacing children).

This guy( Sanchez) is out of touch with the conditions and tribulation of most Dominican children who go to public school. How can you learn when your basic needs as a human being are being denied by a society that basically ignores you? What is the moral basis by which these children should make ( or their parents) the decision to go to school to learn basic skills? They see everyday that the way to be successful in the Dominican Republic is to get involved in politics, work for a politician, ( the more corrupt the better), get a diploma by any means, so that you can pretend to be an intellectual, be the front man for someone who is doing something illegal, and so forth. What sort of moral standards have these businessmen in our country shown to the poor population that going to school is a worth endeavor? Nothing !!! Nothing!! That could be extended to the other political and social authorities of our country such as the church and the government as well. They have don nothing!!!

Who was talking about the "price of rice in China"? And what's family planning got to do with STDs? Are you trying to say that if you have fewer children you cannot get a sexually transmitted disease? HIV AIDS and HEPATITIS C can also be transmitted through infected needles .. how can family planning stop you from sharing infected needles? so don't make a fool of yourself .. OK? .. JERK ..

This sounds like its coming from the ever popular concept of... "money"! Teach them business.
Business, business, business. What about the basics for life (not just to become a mechanistic money-maker). Well, I guess I see where he's coming from because the country wants to have an even stronger economic status (can't blame any country for that). I second Mr.Lembert's comment.

The school should teach at least the basic of economic, business administration, accounting, and computer science. The world is moving fast and those that do not make a greater effort to help themselves; they will be left out the market. I visited the DR last November and I asked many people around what they studied or what they are studying. Incredibly, most of them answered Psicologia Industrial. Most of them are unemployed. Why not study something that will be easy to find a job and not study a career just because my best is studying the same thing. We must teach our youngster to research carefully before picking a career that will leave them unemployed. I invite all Dominicans to study Medicine to be a general surgeon or nurse; Computer Science to become tech support, website developer in PHP, CGI, MySQL, AJAX, Flash, etc. Software engineer; Finance to become a financial advisor, financial manager, financial analyst, controller, CFO, etc.; Accounting to become CPA, controller,etc.

i wounder how a Commie Gov like Cuba has better schools then the great capitalist DR

have to agree with you on that one chill

You can have better of anything with just increasing funding. Any country can have better military forces by spending more money. The different between a communist country and capitalist country is that in the capitalist you have choices while the communist government control everything. One bad thing about capitalism is that corruption absorb most of the resources. Israel is a tiny country with many enemies and conflicts, but the country is very powerful because they are well educated. The most powerful countries in the world are capitalist and they spread democracy. Do not include Russia because Russia is in the G8 because of its nuclear weapons and the amount of resources it has, but Russia is a poor country after all.

-Can anyone tell me what the hours for school are like? In a lot of Latin cultures the kids go in the morning turn or the afternoon turn.

If the system is close to the ones in Venezuela and Peru, lack of supplies notwithstanding, how can you send children to school half a day until they are 14 or 15 and have them graduate as a lic. in accounting or whatever. Hell when I was 14 you thought you knew things but in reality you dont. The other issue is the teach to what the field of work will be and as a result the education is not very well rounded i.e. (lack of world history, economics, social studies etc.)

well, PuntaCana Mike, i guess that schools will never have supplies as long as the secretary of Education steals all the money to build a 60 million peso mansion. not to mention her family's role in the milk scandal: you know, the one in which the milk for the kids was tested and found to be colored water. strange how her relatives were involved in the distribution process. as to hours spent per day in school, it works out at roughly 2.5 per kid. the latest figures that i saw stated 1.2 % of GDP spent on education, not 1.75% of GNP. will Blanco please tell me where he saw that figure. 1.2 of GDP, or 1.5% of GNP is not going to make it. the conclusion is that education has no immediate future in this country, because it cannot be easily politicised. it is not like the Metro, wherein someone can take all the credit. it is an ongoing process, and, as we all know, Dominicans generally have a disdain for long term issues. it is all about today.

Education what ? we don’t need any stinking education. Imagine DR with educated people. That would mean less whores for sex tourism. Less Dominican that would want to leave the country for BS jobs in foreign countries, no more cheap labor for Spain and U.S.

Education what about shoe shine boys and teenage prostitution, that’s a must for the tourist. If we had education we would not be allowing the Spaniards to own every single hotel in DR. education forget about it, A vote for education is a vote for prosperity, and we don’t need some Dominicans with education. I rather have a nice shiny train , doesn’t that sound a lot better.

If we had education then we would not be trying to train our children as baseball players, and if they don’t make it in the majors they become bums. Because all they know is baseball.


Look at Leo He studied out of the country, and he is very good at his profession. Which is thievery!

Chill you are the Poster child for this concept

Written by: gouletcolonial, 7 Sep 2008 3:09 AM
From: Canada
Chill you are the Poster child for this concept


You’re the type of person that would like to leave the situation the way it is, making jokes while someone else would like to make solutions.