Santiago.- The Catholic Church of this city warned that a town that is denied a quality and affordable education for all has no future.
In its editorial for this Saturday’s edition, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Santiago questions the prevailing deficit of classrooms in the Dominican Republic and what has been done with the 4% money allocated to Ministry of Education.
“For example, it is inconceivable that having this Ministry such a high budget, there are still classroom deficits”
Similarly, the weekly Camino criticizes the fact that rented premises, where hundreds of students who do not find space on school campuses, are not paid in a timely manner.
“It also hurts us to continue listening to fathers and mothers raising a cry to heaven every year, because they do not get a place for their children to start the school year.”
In his Camino editorial he asks “What has been done with so much money? Was the fight for the 4% in vain? Haven’t Education officials found an efficient way to prioritize investments in this core area of every nation?
The newspaper of the Catholic Church affirms that it is time to seek effective solutions in the educational area, specifying that only in this way will the best qualifications be obtained in the evaluations carried out at the Latin American level.
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Regrets that countries with fewer economic resources, to invest in the education sector, outperform present palpable achievements in this sector contrary to what is happening in the Dominican Republic
Camino positively values the meeting held last Monday, August 29, between the Minister of Education, Ángel Hernández, and the president of the Dominican Association of Teachers (ADP), Eduardo Hidalgo.
He stressed that in that meeting some of the weaknesses of the educational system were addressed and he expressed his hope that this meeting will be the first step to establish harmonious and respectful relations between the teachers’ union and the Ministry.
“This will allow us to find the route to follow to improve the teaching-learning process, which is so necessary for our students,” Camino pointed out in the editorial of the edition that the faithful will read this week in the churches of Santiago.
