Beep. Beep. Beep. With the last milliliters of oxygen left in the current Ecuadorian government, the Minister of Education is promoting education reform that returns to the country in time as a formula to solve the problem. Beep. Beep. Beep. Years have not passed in vain and something should have been learned from the emergence of Michael Jackson, but the ministry prefers to revive the dead.

On the one hand, I imagine that in order to correct the perversion of pulling back deficiencies that should be addressed earlier in the school year, we revert to using quarters. Until now, since the last complete reform, we have to wait until the end of the five-month period for summative tests that show what students have learned in that period. The change goes hand in hand with the abolition of remedial and mock tests, which meant only discharge from the hospital without a doctor’s discharge, with the student begging for luck without having gathered the necessary knowledge to pass the diploma.

Is social academic?

On the other hand, in order to feed a comatose patient with an intravenous solution, these days it resorts to calls for consultations to create “competency-based curricula”, a phrase that evokes the old educational discourse in Ecuador and only prolongs the slow agony of its educational ineffectiveness.

Beep. Beep. Beep. They measure the patient’s blood pressure, they can’t anymore because the hospital barely does laboratory diagnostic tests and they don’t know what he has. They prescribe paracetamol as a palliative agent because there is no other drug available to fight the disease.

Students of the Sierra and Amazon regimes will have one month less vacation

More than 100 schools use the sponsorship project promoted by the Ministry of Education

Although updating the content of the curriculum might be necessary, there is daily evidence that no reform in this sense, even with high state allocations, is the solution to our problems. In addition, each consultant responsible for the development of a new curriculum for the subject, with strategies for the transition to the new curriculum and pedagogical directions for 13 grades (primary to high school), offers $2,282 with delivery in three months.

In the case of sports and healthy living, given the lack of grounds and supplies, and the employed educated professionals, paying any amount is a waste of money. But this is a country where the Minister of Sports, Sebastián Palacios, has supported the publication of the coloring book as a tool to promote sports, and the President, Guillermo Lasso, has reduced taxes on cigarettes and junk food in defiance of the recommendations of the World Parliament. Health organization.

I welcome the fact that financial education is finally coming, but the requirements for consultants are a minimum of two years of experience and 40 hours of training. The most they will get is a basic accountant who will mostly know statements for the IRS or a curriculum vitae who doesn’t even manage their finances if they have to accept such a pitiful salary.

Let’s cure our woes with Olympic soft and see if it will ease them. (OR)