Our breaking latest news is the answer to a contextualized question that we all ask ourselves regardless of the role we play, be it teachers, parents, students and the community in general:Why is the level of education in La Guajira below that of other departments?
I think I have part of those answers: how many teachers over 70 or 75 years old are still in schools supported by teacher directors? How many teachers over the age of forced retirement with false sickness certificates are still in schools? How many teachers remain active without teaching a single hour of class supported by teaching managers and yet receive the active salary and two pensions?
How many teachers are there in schools who do not know how to turn on a computer or send a message on WhatsApp to their students? How many teachers, even receiving their pension allowance and active salary, send another person who often does not even have a teaching degree to replace them and take care of their students and pay them with the support of the rectors?
How many teachers are there in our department who are dedicated to other economic activities, travel outside the country and their students are assisted by an assistant without any preparation because the owner or owner of the area or course pays him to carry out his work?
What is the responsibility of the so-called core directors? Figure that replaced the supervisors and the medicine turned out to be worse than the disease because at least the supervisors visited the institutions even once a year and evaluated the school processes.
Although the Government eliminated school directors some time ago, many continue to earn double salaries, without knowing the schools or the teachers under their responsibility.
The situation is worse in rural schools. They don’t even know what location conditions they are in. But where they do go is to the farm they own, to check how the livestock is doing because there is time for that.
“BELOW THE CHOCÓ”
On the other hand, what happened to post-literacy literacy programs? Where are the resources allocated by the national government for this program going?
The national government intervened in the educational resources of the department of La Guajira, preventing the assigned coordinators and teachers from training parents because a father or mother who does not know how to read or write can hardly guide the children’s tasks in the home.
What does exist today is free internet, which in some rural areas works thanks to the national government. The problem is that many times they use it for negative things.
Here are some answers to the question about why the level of education in the department of La Guajira is below even below the department of Chocówithout the intention of hurting the sensitivities of the teaching directors.
Or the principals who only go to school one day a week or once a month to collect from teachers, like any usurer, the interest on the money they lent for their children’s studies, sometimes 10%.
As a complement to the evils, we have active teachers with symptoms of Alzheimer’s or who do not hear or see perfectly, but since they do not have political enemies they do not retire; On the contrary, others are persecuted by politicians until they are forced to resign when they are barely 50 or 55 years old.
They do not care that they are leading processes to raise educational quality, but if they did not vote for their candidate, they must be removed, their wings clipped.
To end: Who controls and supervises the maintenance, provision of educational infrastructure, and the food supplied by the State for the nutrition of children? He left them there.
By Ana Cecilia Fuentes