The economic crisis originated from the rich and now we have to solve the poor, at the cost of our money and our well-being. This is the quick summary that follows from the amount of cuts that are being carried out by state and regional governments, which are putting our health and public education in check (which in itself was not very fine with rates of school failure quite high).
The latest news regarding the education of our children is that the government is planning to expand the number of children per class to get closer to the ratios that adults today had when we were little.
The number of students per classroom is currently set at 25 children in Primary, which is the number of children per class also in preschool, and in 30 children per classroom in secondary. Well, the government wants to increase the ratios by 10%.
They could be about 30 children per classroom
As far as preschool children are concerned, this would mean that instead of having 25 children, there will be 27 or 28 in each classroom. If we take into account that in some schools where many children are enrolled, up to 26 children are already enrolled for class to accommodate a few more, the figure can get close to 30.
If we talk about education, less is more
The ANPE, UGT and CC.OO. They have stated that the appropriate levels are already good and that increasing them would make us return to the massification of decades ago, when there were too many children per class. I, as a father, obviously agree with the unions because in education, the fewer children in a classroom, the better.
Fewer children means greater individualization, it means that teachers can devote more time to each student and can treat them in a less standard way and more in line with the possibilities and concerns of each child.
More children will mean that it is more difficult to treat them as unique people and that it is more comfortable (and even logical) to end up treating all students in the same way, being harmed both those who are more backward and those who are more advanced and have more concerns.
The students of now are not the students of before
Surely more than one will be thinking that once we were many in class. It's true, I remember that in E.G.B. We were 40 in total, a real mockery if we compare it to 25-30 now. Despite this, we learned and we got ahead.
This argument, however, is not valid for a simple reason: the population has changed a lot, the children too and the way of educating, well, luckily. In my time we behaved more or less well because many feared our teachers. I remember a teacher who was pulling your ears, a teacher who was throwing the eraser if I saw that you were talking, and another one who commented that, between walk and walk through the halls of the class, I used to drop my arm if I didn't you were behaving Similarly, if they were not aggressive or there was no legend about them, you knew that if something went wrong they contacted your parents, and that was not a dish of good taste.
Now many parents discredit school and teachers and do not see a problem that their children have bad behavior. Now teachers try to gain respect and authority without the use of punishment and without absurd threats, with the intention that children learn to be responsible for themselves and now the groups are much more heterogeneous, with students from other countries that need more time to understand speech and integrate into each group. It is clear that, as things stand today, thin favor is done to education if this measure is implemented.
I'm sorry but no, I don't think the government is too interested in the public education it offers to the citizens of its country.
