SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION IN ARGENTINA

What does education mean? When we talk about this in our country, what can we see? Is it good or bad? Is it better or worse than in other places? When somebody talks about schools and education in Argentina there are two positions that are maintained.
On the one hand we can say that in Argentina most of the people can appeal to education. Most of children can go to school to learn, they have possibilities and elderly people that haven't finished school can too. And not all are public schools, but we have some that are really very good.
On the other hand we have that in schools we can find problems like: They are not equipped with all necessary materials so people can't learn correctly, or problems with the government so teachers decide to go on strikes and because of that students can't keep up with the salaries, and it isn't good for anybody because students are the country's future.
I'm convinced that schools and education in Argentina aren't bad, but there are some troubles that we have to fix and we can't do it alone, we need to have help from everybody, especially the government.

Agustina Mazza – 6th year

Sent by Prof. Sabrina Sittner