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| 27th August 2008 jacqaher | education - From: Five weeks in Todos Santos I completely agree with you on the education issue. Education is the key to success. When you´re in the situation itself however it is easy to be pulled into their way of thinking. A lot of families struggle to put food on the table and their missing a pair of hands when children go to school makes for a difficult situation. It´s just necessary to look at the bigger picture and I believe they are taking steps towards that. The situation here in Xela is totally different. For the children here, there's no question of whether they go to school or not, just like Ireland. It's amazing the differences in culture, thinking and practices in different regions of this country. |
| 27th August 2008 jacqaher | BAMP - From: Five weeks in Todos Santos escucho bien y observo mucho mi amiga:) Me gustaria oir tus opinions sobre tu experiencia por que ahora tu estás fuera de la situación. Yo te llamare pronto mi amor:) |
| 24th August 2008 danial gallagher | hi jackie - From: Five weeks in Todos Santos Hey Jackie, Thanks for the email.Glad to hear you're well m'dear, and having fun, the hiking sounds fantastic and the pictures are great. Your blog is brilliant, I read it just now. It was refreshing after reading journal articles and regulations for the last three hours:)... On the education issue, there is no reason why it should not be offered to all children and there can be no negative effects of the child accumulating knowledge.In the long term, it will give them a broader perspective on life,improve their personal development, and perhaps there will come a time when the tide changes and children start to realise that there are more options open to them than working on a farm. At the end of the day,if one child fully realises their potential it is worth the hassle.However, in saying that, I think you have a very valid point that the curriculum should be altered to take account of the lifestyle of the children and their future prospects. If on the other hand, the children never have the option of entering an educational system, will there ever be any societal progress realised in these territories.After reading your blog, I think there is a lot of fundamental social problems: backward social attitude in certain respects, (i.e the attitude of men to women), freely available drugs etc...education is a major tool in efforts to enable social change;It's a slow process but you have to walk before you can run. My position is based on my own views and may be criticised as having a utopian spin.Trying to enable children to reach their full potential should be the objective, no matter how long it may take to achieve.Moral of the story-School is good:).. Feel free to holler back on this, Daniel. |
| 22nd August 2008 Linci Antonio | BAMF! - From: Five weeks in Todos Santos Tu eres marvellosa! Que tu escribiste es verdad y interesante. Yo no supe tu supiste todos cosas sobre nuestra familia. No puedo esparar hablar contigo otra ves! |
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