EDUCATION: In Developing Nations

A lack of appropriate education is another obstacle to economic development in third-world countries.  Many developing countries do not have a highly literate population nor do they have the high level of technical skills needed to build an industrial society.  In addition, most do not have money to train engineers and scientists.  Many developing nations cannot afford to provide free public education for school-age children.  In those that can, not everyone is able to take advantage of it because children must work to help their families. 

- David & Jose, and Alvaro too, I suppose...

EDUCATION: In Los Angeles

IMPACT OF EDUCATION IN LOS ANGELES

Written by I, Juan Cerros

 

THE LOVE SONG OF J. MANUEL CRUFROCK

 

I THE SCHOOL YARD

 

Thrown into a school yard, a system of schooling

I didn’t have a voice

I didn’t even know I had a voice and anyways

My lungs wouldn’t be able to project a cry loud enough for anyone to hear if I had to let one out For whatever reason

But I didn’t need too

I was relaxed

            Living

                        I was a kid

I wasn’t a wilde childe, I can tell you that for sure

Never a bad mark to be put on any sort of “permanent” file

Everyday was the same

            Language and its arts started the day

                        Numbers and pie charts that made me think of McDonald’s apple pies, only because of the word “pie”

                                    And then the arts, it was always last and it was always most entertaining

But the same every day

Everyday it was the same

I’ll tell you what I did yesterday by telling you what I’ll do tomorrow

Although I will say that the only thing that changed was that slit on my forehead

It grew larger and more open pretty soon it was a large open whole

As far as my pre-pubescent body was concerned, all I was told was true and straight forward.

What good does it do me reminiscing about it now

 

II A ROLLING STONE

“when you ain’t got nothing, you ain’t got nothing to lose”

Bob Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone”

 

Took everything out of context in middle school

Everything

            Middle School

Problems came

            Teenage rage without a cage

I wasn’t looked after

            I was torn apart

They noticed me about as much as a turd notices exactly what anus it comes out of

            ALIENATED!

                        Complete and utter alienation

They weren’t paying attention

They were looking at the television instead of watching it

Listening to music before hearing it

Hearing music before they were listening to it

Shit

To them

I wasn’t even a bit of shit

Let me tell you now listener

            I was ISOLATED!

All of us from one another

I

Second to the left of each other

And everyday

Some shiny tool pricked and pricked away at my brain

            New perverse thoughts

            Homework set aside for later

            My grades slipped, wonder why

But they tried to catch me

Extended a basketball hoop to me     

            Maybe they do care

But they didn’t catch me

            I could of sworn they caught me…

Holy shit of Mother Mary jr. high was fucken awful

 

III The Lobotomy

 

I was a freshman nobody

            A sophomore somebody

                        A junior anybody

                                    A senior realized lobotomized

Politics

Philosophy

Literature

Science

Faith

Spirituality

Emotionful

Selfless

Faithful

Faithless

I was a naked lunch

            I was aware

OVERWHELMED

EYES WIDE OPEN

But education and structure and establishment society and morals, as Chief calls it, are all the Big Nurse

            Isn’t this ironic

Get this straight okay

For years I was taught to write a certain way then taught it’s okay to not write that way I was taught

            I would be shitted on years ago if I would have thought of a concept radical as thought

I was fed an “education” forcefully for years

It was all force fed now only to be left to rot

“Don’t swear”

            Cock shit to that

“Respect your elders”

            The ones that beat me, respect those

The ones that beat me…

The only elders I respect are the wise ones

The ones that’ll be gone next year

The ones that were fucked in the ass by a system of they once believed in and trusted

FUCKED for good

The Big Nurse did me good

It fucked me over without literally laying a finger on me but she literarily laid a good assfuck on me

            What could I do

I’m a senior

On my way out for good

I’m falling from the sky

            My wax wings  no longer wings or wax

It’s too late to do shit 

Now my scar has healed over and my brain has regained its frontal lobe

            But it’s all a little too late now

                        LAUSD

                        Neglected me

                        Censored me

                        Fucked me

                        Drove me insane… insane as all those other crazy assholes on the streets

They gave me a lobotomy

And I didn’t even see it coming.

 

 

 

EDUCATION: In Britain

British children are required by law to have an education until they are 16 years old.

Education is compulsory, but school is not,children are not required to attend school. They could be educated at home.

1996 Education Act of the UK

Section 7 of the 1996 Education Act states:

"The parent of every child of compulsory school age shall cause him to receive efficient full-time education suitable-

(a) to his age, ability and aptitude, and 
(b) to any special educational needs he may have,

either by regular attendance at school or otherwise."

Education is free for all children from 5 to 16.

Full-time education is compulsory for all children aged between 5 and 16 (inclusive) across England. This can be provided by state schools, independent schools, or homeschooling.

About 94 per cent of pupils in England, and the rest of the UK, receive free education from public funds, while 6 per cent attend independent fee paying schools or homeschooling.

Curriculum

All government-run schools, state schools, follow the same National Curriculum.

The School Year

The school year runs from September to July and is 39 weeks long.

For many areas the year is divided into six terms:

• September to October
• October to December
• January to February
• February to March
• April to May
• June to July

(Some counties in England still follow the traditional three terms a year.)

The dates for school terms and holidays are decided by the local authority or the governing body of a school, or by the school itself for independent schools.

School holidays

The main school holidays are:

·         Christmas- 2 weeks

·         Spring - 2 weeks

·         Summer - 6 weeks

There are also one week holidays:

• end of October
• mid February
• end of May

When do kids start school?

Children normally start primary school at the age of four or five, but many schools now have a reception year for four year olds.

Children normally leave at the age of 11, moving on to secondary school (High school).

Please note aslo:
Every three and four year old in England is entitled to 12.5 hours of free early learning per week, in nurseries, playgroups, pre-schools or at their childminders for 38 weeks of the year.

When do kids leave school?

British children are required to attend school until they are 16 years old. In England, compulsory schooling currently ends on the last Friday in June during the academic year in which a pupil attains the age of 16. Current government proposals are to raise the age until which students must continue to receive some form of education or training to 18. This is expected to be phased in by 2015.

At the age of 16, students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland take an examination called the GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education). Study of GSCE subjects begins at the start of Year 10 (age 14-15), and final examinations are then taken at the end of Year 11 (age 15-16).

In state schools English, Mathematics, Science, Religious Education and Physical Education are studied during Key Stage 4 (the GCSE years of school); in England, some form of ICT and citizenship must be studied and, in Wales, Welsh must be studied. Other subjects, chosen by the individual pupil, are also studied.

In Scotland, the equivalent of the GCSE is the Standard Grade.

After completing the GCSE, some students leave school, others go onto technical college, whilst others continue at high school for two more years and take a further set of standardized exams, known as A levels, in three or four subjects. These exams determine whether a student is eligible for university.

Education stages:

Nursery Schools	3-4 years old
Primary Schools	5-11 years old
	Foundation Stage - Nursery, Reception, (Infants) Key Stage 1 - Years 1 and 2 (Infants)
	Key Stage 2 -Years 3 - 6 (Juniors)
Secondary Schools	12-18 years old
	Years 7-13 (Key Stage 3, 4 & 5)