Thousands of things i could say about the education in my country.. why is not Spain one of the top countries in Europe, we have got everything to be a top nation, but we are not. Obviously, politic issues are related with our relegated position en EU, I am talking about Franco and the civil war, our population and money was spent in war, such a vast country only has 45 mil people due to this big backward movement.
But in second instance and this time from the other side of the road, i blame the MEC for develop a horrible politic in education, no doubt, spanish students are one of the 5 worst prepared students in EU, and this is without any doubt a great difficulty that will cause that other countries like Sweden, Greece, Poland....be ahead of Spain, to join another group that started as the main group and head of the EU, yes, we drive in one direction, the one that will put us in the third group wagon
It is embarrassing going to the beach and see a small kid, 5 years old, from Germany, or Poland, England..talking to us in Spanish, assuming he can speak 3 languages, and our kids are not able to say a couple of words in English, even when they have learned it in class for some years already...
What is wrong? the government is wrong, the politics in education is wrong, the system that pick teachers is corrupt, it does not matter how good you speak other languages and how you can teach them, it only matters how many people you know, and how important they are, yes, this is Spain and this is what happen here, and NO, I have not tried yet but come on, it is something we all know.
What should change? so many things, if Spain wants to cross the bridge and join the big nations need people able to communicate in English, for that, we need teachers that give classed entirely in L2, the target languages, and not teachers that barely can speak the language they are learning.
My expectations for this to change are minimum, since I have seen this happening during many years, and it seem to be even worse...but some people keep on trying, some people do great jobs in education and give some light to those that we start to lose all our hopes, for all those, thanks and we will do our best to give example to others.
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