Socialist Cuba’s marvelous education system: Not even the Castro dictatorship’s teachers can spell

Socialists and American leftists are always touting how wonderful the education is in socialist Cuba and how the Castro dictatorship has achieved amazing literacy rates on the island. Well, according to the photo above, not even the teachers in socialist Cuba can spell.

To make matters more embarrassing, the photo, which was tweeted by a Cuban dictatorship social media apparatchik, was retweeted by socialist Cuba’s Ministry of Education, which indicates they can’t spell either. (the original tweet and retweet seem to have been deleted off Twitter, but there are always screenshots and as they say, the internet is forever)

The photo shows a message written by a teacher on a chalkboard welcoming students to the new school year. The Spanish word for welcome is bienvenido, but the teacher spelled it bienbenido, substituting the all-important “v” with a “b.”

For those who don’t speak Spanish, you may think this is just a simple mistake, a typographical error. But this is not a “potato” versus “potatoe” issue.

In the Spanish language, substituting a “b” for “v” is a clear sign there is a lack of the most basic language skills. It is actually a very common mistake among lesser educated Spanish speakers, most through no fault of their own. They have never been taught properly and that’s how they hear it among those around them.

But for actual Spanish teachers and those who have been properly educated, errors like these are not only unacceptable, they are also extremely embarrassing. For instance, if my mom ever saw me do this, I would have paid a dear price.

But this is socialist Cuba. This is the model of education we are told the world should be emulating. Turns out not even the socialist dictatorship’s teachers or its Ministry of Education know how to spell.

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  1. Never mind the misspelling of a basic word. Just look at the creature. Yikes. I can assure you that in pre-Castro Cuba, even a teacher at a rural school for poor children would never look like that—and I know, because there were such teachers in my family. Talk about degeneracy.

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