almost exactly a year ago we were in a similar situation: Chile was going through an economic crisis, growing unemployment, there was talk of hard times and many students saw their economic situation weakened. Leaders of the date of the time we said that the best mechanism to address the situation was to divide the applications in a "short agenda" and a "long agenda" with "structural" problems. What was done? TABLE rose a CONFECH-MINEDUC.
What was the first item on that table? Free in obtaining the NER, the pass lasts 365 days a year and the fee representing 25% of adult fare (not the 33% today). What happened? The pass up to $ 130, the table broke after negotiations fruitless, unable to touch even the so-called "structural" problems and the student movements were contained while it lasted the table, so to break it we were all engaged in end of the semester.
Both last year and today, the leaders in the date are practically the same (Young Communist League, Independent Left, New Left, etc.). and apparently FECH capacity to take care of the problems of university and higher education are still few, but void. This has nothing to do with a lack of will on behalf of its members to "do the right thing", but with an inability to get ahead of a government whose political line is easy to assume: it may be that the table until April Federation meets with the Ministry someone (even with the Minister). can not be that the priorities of the dates are agreements with Un Techo Para Chile (entering the race for the reconstruction ") rather than knowledge and questioning of the agenda that the ministry will drop student movement over the coming months.
The transport fare increase, means that families in Chile will spend more than 20% of the minimum wage to afford the daily passenger who must go to school and work. This affects high school, university, parents and brothers all have to pay the costs of a poorly designed system and are affected by the criminalization of the media that blames the rise to evasion of users. This is just a sample of new government policies, which are to reaffirm an economic model that increasingly undermines the living conditions of the majority of the country and will not openly even more precarious conditions of education in Chile.
Let us remember, the only way it has failed to curb abuses and improve conditions for the study has been the mobilization. Let us not put up a table CONFECH-MINEDUC, we do not sell the discourse that separates the immediate problems of the substantive issues, and especially political organizations to take over the spaces they occupy, because the election period and promises is over.
We are all invited to reflect, discuss with our colleagues, think of the education we want and leave to the street to get the minimum that allows us to build it.
What was the first item on that table? Free in obtaining the NER, the pass lasts 365 days a year and the fee representing 25% of adult fare (not the 33% today). What happened? The pass up to $ 130, the table broke after negotiations fruitless, unable to touch even the so-called "structural" problems and the student movements were contained while it lasted the table, so to break it we were all engaged in end of the semester.
Both last year and today, the leaders in the date are practically the same (Young Communist League, Independent Left, New Left, etc.). and apparently FECH capacity to take care of the problems of university and higher education are still few, but void. This has nothing to do with a lack of will on behalf of its members to "do the right thing", but with an inability to get ahead of a government whose political line is easy to assume: it may be that the table until April Federation meets with the Ministry someone (even with the Minister). can not be that the priorities of the dates are agreements with Un Techo Para Chile (entering the race for the reconstruction ") rather than knowledge and questioning of the agenda that the ministry will drop student movement over the coming months.
The transport fare increase, means that families in Chile will spend more than 20% of the minimum wage to afford the daily passenger who must go to school and work. This affects high school, university, parents and brothers all have to pay the costs of a poorly designed system and are affected by the criminalization of the media that blames the rise to evasion of users. This is just a sample of new government policies, which are to reaffirm an economic model that increasingly undermines the living conditions of the majority of the country and will not openly even more precarious conditions of education in Chile.
Let us remember, the only way it has failed to curb abuses and improve conditions for the study has been the mobilization. Let us not put up a table CONFECH-MINEDUC, we do not sell the discourse that separates the immediate problems of the substantive issues, and especially political organizations to take over the spaces they occupy, because the election period and promises is over.
We are all invited to reflect, discuss with our colleagues, think of the education we want and leave to the street to get the minimum that allows us to build it.
