In a Socialist state? Bah! Humbug!
I used to get angry at certain whitewashers – Cubans living here in the states that are always saying things weren’t so bad in Cuba – when they mentioned the free education and how great the learning environment was in Cuba, but I dont anymore. I just feel sorry for them. Why? Because a little indoctrination goes a long way.
Venezuela’s Chavez May Take Over Schools
By IAN JAMES
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened on Monday to close or take over any private school that refuses to submit to the oversight of his socialist government as it develops a new curriculum and textbooks.
“Society cannot allow the private sector to do whatever it wants,” said Chavez, speaking on the first day of classes.
All schools, public and private, must admit state inspectors and submit to the government’s new educational system, or be closed and nationalized, with the state taking responsibility for the education of their children, Chavez said.
A new curriculum will be ready by the end of this school year, and new textbooks are being developed to help educate “the new citizen,” said Chavez’s brother and education minister Adan Chavez, who joined him a televised ceremony at the opening of a public school in the eastern town of El Tigre.
The president’s opponents accuse him of aiming to indoctrinate young Venezuelans with socialist ideology. But the education minister said the aim is to develop “critical thinking,” not to impose a single way of thought.
“Society cannot allow the private sector to do whatever it wants.” Got it. Thanks Hugo.
“Society cannot allow the private sector to do whatever it wants.”
Oh man . . . run for the hills. Seriously, get the fu&* out of Venezuela while you still can.
If I hadn’t read who said it, it would have sounded like any of our democratic presidential candidates might have said it.
Any moment el burro will make Swedish the official language and will issue his latest decree that all children who are all under 15 shall now be 15 and will be forced to change their underwear each day.
Watch the beauty pageants go into extinction as soon as el indio seboruco gets his Napoleonic credentials for life and given his affinity for all things Iranian, it wouldn’t surprise me if the next generation would walk around in burqhas. Think I’m kidding?
A Venezuelan friend of mine in town, in the US for 16 years, has 3 small boys, all born here. When we met back in 2005, I chatted with her about the perils of Chavez; she didn’t want to hear about it, she thought it was benign — besides, she didn’t care about politics. Over the past 14 months, she has been saving $$$ to move back to Venezuela, because she misses her family. I’ve sat with her a few times trying to open her eyes; I love those 3 boys, and warned her what would happen to them if she were back there and stuck.
In her mind, she’s OK because the children, all US citizens, would have no problem “choosing what country they want when they grow up.” She doesn’t watch news, doesn’t keep up with things… she believes it’s better to “pasar trabajos con la familia” than remain here. I’ve begged her to think of the boys, ’cause once she’s gone, it’s over. When el indo closes the exit door, as he is bound to do soon, she’ll have to walk thru the jungle with the kids.
I have not heard from this woman since February. She was scheduled to leave and move back in June. I keep hoping and praying that she’s still around. But I think this is so typical of the mindset of people who have been here too long and who look at the debacle from a distance and they think there’s nothing to it, it couldn’t be that bad. Kid you not. I shudder for the boys — two years ago I told her they’d be indoctrinated and sent away from family, and she didn’t believe it. I wish she’d contact me + see where’s she’s at on this.
Once the private schools are gone, apaga y vete.
Gigi, there are just some folks who insist there is nothing dangerous about jumping in the bathtub with a running blow dryer, and there is no convincing them until the sparks are flying out of their smoking eye sockets.
You did the best you could. They’re in God’s hands only now.