The protest of teachers

Hello!

A piece of news I have recently heard of, read in the paper, or watched on TV is "The protest of teachers"

A long time ago, more specifically since the military government , the social condition of the teachers is deficient highly in our city . The military governement introduced a new form to administer the resources in the education, which it will be in hands of the municipalities... In relation whit this, one of the great problems is that the municipalities spended the money of the teachers!!.... and... ey!, the municipalities never gave back the money at the teachers.

Moreover, in the time of the dictadure, the salary of the teachers was considerably reduced, which has brougth several consecuences; as far as the deterioration of the teaching practice... the teachers are not valued as a true "professional".

For those reasons, those last weeks, the teacher has stoped their work -against- to demand their rigths!... because the government must take responsibility of the "historic debt".

This situation affect at the teachers... pricipaly, who work (or they worked) at state schools... But I think, that this situation is a problem of all our society.

I think that my faculty has some problems of resources; our library has few books and the infrastructure is insufficient. Many times, we have to go to the other faculties to find the books that we need!.. or to make the class that we need!.

On the other hand, in the great majority of the career in my facuculty have problems with curricular. It is a great problem, specially to psychology because it was the first career in to change the curriculum; reducing a complete year of studies, "to facilitate a continuous syllabus". In this new implementation, the first years we had very problems, because we had superimpose subjects.

My faculty need more resources and organization. A form to resolve this situation is that
government give most money to the universities..

Election Day

On December of this year, we-"the chileans"- will have to choose a new president; and new deputies and senators!. For me, it will be awful. Today, I don`t know that to do!.

I am registered to vote since four years age. In the time that I decided to vote, I thought that this would have some significance. I was mistaken. Now, I am regretful!... A long time age the democracy does not exist in our country!. More specifically, since political constitution of 1980, because it imposed a system not representative!... and, hey! NO representative in the political, social, economic and even, in the electoral system!!!.... It is not really democratic!!!. The saddest is that it condition keeps till nowadays!!, because the recient gobernment has done nothing for it!!!.

It is awful!!!... I think that my vote is a vote lost!. My possible presidential candidate is very little known =( ... and for me, the other persons running are "interested in travel or robber!" XD. Well, I really hope that the people vote for the goverment plan of every candidate!!!... that they don`t vote for their faces!!!.... The faces lie!!!!

mmm... I have never considered to become a politician. A good political practically give his life for the people, a commitment that I don`t think to be ready to give.

I think that the qualities that a person running must have for president are: a real social commitments; to be a good listener; to know what he/she talking about; to like that the people really participate!, listening really their demands!!

In this aspect... some problems in my country, that I think, require an inmediate solution are: the poverty and inequality!; the political constitution (I think that we must change it!); the inequality in education (I think that we must change the LGE and the evaluation systems); the employment; the environmental contamination; the health systhem...

Religion and learning; what we know

I selected the article "Religion and learning; what we know" wrote by Nick Spencer, because I considerer very interesting that we ask about this relation.

In this article, Spencer reviewed a study of the demographics of belief, with particular reference to the UK; to detailed picture of the class composition of atheism and theism in this place. Here, they relationed two variables a/theism whit socio economic grade.




http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/oct/05/atheist-religion-education-demographics-class




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