The right to education must and is enshrined in the constitutions of the countries, each government must guarantee this right to its citizens at any level of education in each country, in many parts education has been privatized and I do not want to abort the issue of the quality of education, depending on whether it is free public or private.
A friend once told me that everything has a cost in this life, that what does not come out of our pocket must come out of someone else's, that is to say, if I am not paying for some service, someone else is paying for it.
When I think of education, I believe that if free public education is offered to a certain population, it should be the state that assumes the cost of it, this is what I think is practiced in most of our Latin American countries.
Now, observing the struggle of the last weeks of teachers in Venezuela for a "living wage" that allows them a better quality of life, I dare to say that the pocket that is paying for education in Venezuela is that of its teachers, this taking into account that there is no official pronouncement about their demands.
The main demand of the teachers' union in Venezuela is the signing of the collective bargaining agreement that has been expired for several years, but it seems that this struggle that began in January does not seem to be bearing fruit and the teachers will have to return to the classrooms carrying on their shoulders the weight of the education of an entire country.
This will continue to have them as "heroes" or perhaps "martyrs" of a system that apparently turns a deaf ear to the clamor of this union for a salary improvement.
Gentlemen, education is a right, a right that the state must guarantee to its population, this includes an optimal educational system in infrastructure and well-paid teachers.
Let me know what you think!
Teachers are not encouraged to teach with such miserable salaries, the truth is a via crucis for them to survive on a salary of a few dollars.