*Lack of infrastructure is solved with self-management
*The students demand that the government stop trampling on their rights
*In the country seven out of ten students do not understand what they read
*Country rated as having one of the worst education systems in the world
*The students demand that the government stop trampling on their rights
*In the country seven out of ten students do not understand what they read
*Country rated as having one of the worst education systems in the world
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00:00In Paraguay, nearly 1.5 million students have returned to the classroom.
00:05Student organizations are demanding supplies and social support mechanisms, while experts
00:09warn about the low quality of the educational system.
00:12More in the following report with Osvaldo Sallas.
00:17The educational year began in Paraguay with complaints about the lack of school supplies
00:22in public schools and colleges, according to high school students who are members of
00:25the National Union of Student Centers.
00:30The school kits are something we have been demanding for years, and they have not been
00:33delivered.
00:34This year was the one in which we had the worst complaints because it is the first day
00:37of school and the school kits were not delivered in any institution.
00:41The institutions in which they were delivered are in the interior of the country, and they
00:45denounced that not all of them arrived.
00:48Most of the kits that arrived did not have all the materials we need.
00:56Lack of infrastructure for schools and colleges is solved with self-management by parents
01:00and teachers, as in the case of the Historic College Republica Argentina, located in the
01:05center of Asuncion.
01:07Well, in general we receive things according to the classrooms and the furniture we have.
01:14But we always need some adjustments, of course, the electrical part, the plumbing part, which
01:20we will be adjusting according to our needs, and with the help of parents and teachers
01:24as well.
01:31After years of struggle, the student movement won the student ticket through a law in 2006.
01:36This law has not been enforced for three years, and the students demand that the government
01:41stop trampling on their rights.
01:46This is the third year that we will be without a student ticket.
01:49Since 2022, the Ministry of Education and Science has been avoiding the responsibility
01:53of providing the student ticket, thanks to the change in the payment system, which is
01:57now with a card, before it was in cash.
01:59In any case, there is a law, there is a half-fair law, and the Ministry of Education has to
02:04guarantee that.
02:10The report of the Program for International Student Assessment states that in Paraguay,
02:15seven out of ten students do not understand what they read.
02:18Education specialist Ramon Corvalent explained the historical problems of the Ministry of
02:23Education.
02:29We have always been affected by two issues.
02:32One is political partisan interference, particularly from the Colorado party.
02:36The other is the conservative religious interference.
02:40The intersection of these two has not been able to be untangled in history.
02:44This has continued in today what we see as a ministry captured by these two logics.
02:54The Program for International Student Assessment report places Paraguay as one of the countries
02:58with the worst education systems in the world, where nine out of ten students are not able
03:03to solve basic math problems, a reality that is an obstacle for development, according
03:08to students and teachers.