Who controls the abuses of prices and quantities of supplies, materials, uniforms, products, etc. that educational centers ask for from their students? (OR)

Some parents say that educational centers do not have any controls or sanctions due to the high prices and quantity of materials, uniforms, products, etc. that they demand from their students.

Paquita Lizano

In schools, not only books are sold, but also uniforms, under pretexts. They say that the uniforms are special, the fabrics and seals are not damaged in the wash; when there are seamstress mothers who could make their children shirts, skirts, pants, or send cheap sewing elsewhere or buy uniforms—and school supplies—in markets from merchants like the one in Guayaquil Bay.

They force students to bring flannel, towels, detergents, disinfectants, toilet soap, paints, toilet paper, alcohol, pills, toothpaste… And for parties, containers of food (dry food, rice with chicken…); empanadas, balloons, colas, juices, water, sandwiches, cheeses, sausages, fruit jars, cakes, ice creams, glasses, plates, spoons, costumes or costumes… Stop it! (OR)

Maylin de Acevedo

Who listens to the family’s complaints? Will they control that they do not take revenge on the boys? Will they return the money spent on numerous school supplies that the students hardly use?

Those who agree in the study centers are not punished by the Ministry of Education, police departments, etc. They require students to buy books, notebooks, paper and technological material, etc. inside their premises or they are not allowed to attend classes, they lower their points…; corruption! Authorities must fall suddenly in schools, colleges; they may leave when complaints appear in the media about parents having to follow the procedures and reveal their identity at the risk of revenge from the teacher, director or rector against the student, the son of the parent who condemned them. (OR)

Jose Jaime Chiluisa

Control, penalties?, no. Institutions do not allow copying of a book lent to a classmate or taking a used book that belonged to an older sibling; You have to buy it new in the institution’s bookstore. Dads earn a basic salary, have two or four children, do a good job photocopying books, it’s cheaper; study with photocopied texts should not be prevented.

‘Teachers’, ‘teachers’, even in universities, authors of books that no one bought for them; in order to get rid of the said ‘bones’, they are forced to trade them expensively to students or there could be a ‘surprise’ of negative grades. (OR)

Jose Ortoneda Sanchez

Apparently, no one controls these abuses of education centers in the country; control that should be carried out by the Ministry of Education through precisely defined rules, so that the pockets of parents who make sacrifices to enable their children to develop fully are not affected.

The excess materials, books, etc. that students have to carry to their schools every day can affect their health when they carry that weight of their school backpacks and expose themselves to criminals who enjoy carte blanche to commit any crime and immediately go free, for so much existing corruption . Likewise, in fiscal educational centers, values ​​are not controlled (by the way, it is forbidden to collect them), they ask students under the pretext of a festival, Christmas, etc. to buy benches, supervision. cameras, colors for the school, plants, some improvements for the classroom… and if the student does not give these ‘voluntary cooperations’ they stand out and it will be reflected in the grades he gets. (OR)