Paraguay, educational year began with complaints about the lack of school supplies in the country

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*Lack of infrastructure is solved with self-management *The students demand that the government stop trampling on their rights *In the country seven out of ten students do not understand what they read *Country rated as having one of the worst education systems in the world

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00:00In Paraguay, nearly 1.5 million students have returned to the classroom.

00:05Student organizations are demanding supplies and social support mechanisms, while experts

00:09warn about the low quality of the educational system.

00:12More in the following report with Osvaldo Sallas.

00:17The educational year began in Paraguay with complaints about the lack of school supplies

00:22in public schools and colleges, according to high school students who are members of

00:25the National Union of Student Centers.

00:30The school kits are something we have been demanding for years, and they have not been

00:33delivered.

00:34This year was the one in which we had the worst complaints because it is the first day

00:37of school and the school kits were not delivered in any institution.

00:41The institutions in which they were delivered are in the interior of the country, and they

00:45denounced that not all of them arrived.

00:48Most of the kits that arrived did not have all the materials we need.

00:56Lack of infrastructure for schools and colleges is solved with self-management by parents

01:00and teachers, as in the case of the Historic College Republica Argentina, located in the

01:05center of Asuncion.

01:07Well, in general we receive things according to the classrooms and the furniture we have.

01:14But we always need some adjustments, of course, the electrical part, the plumbing part, which

01:20we will be adjusting according to our needs, and with the help of parents and teachers

01:24as well.

01:31After years of struggle, the student movement won the student ticket through a law in 2006.

01:36This law has not been enforced for three years, and the students demand that the government

01:41stop trampling on their rights.

01:46This is the third year that we will be without a student ticket.

01:49Since 2022, the Ministry of Education and Science has been avoiding the responsibility

01:53of providing the student ticket, thanks to the change in the payment system, which is

01:57now with a card, before it was in cash.

01:59In any case, there is a law, there is a half-fair law, and the Ministry of Education has to

02:04guarantee that.

02:10The report of the Program for International Student Assessment states that in Paraguay,

02:15seven out of ten students do not understand what they read.

02:18Education specialist Ramon Corvalent explained the historical problems of the Ministry of

02:23Education.

02:29We have always been affected by two issues.

02:32One is political partisan interference, particularly from the Colorado party.

02:36The other is the conservative religious interference.

02:40The intersection of these two has not been able to be untangled in history.

02:44This has continued in today what we see as a ministry captured by these two logics.

02:54The Program for International Student Assessment report places Paraguay as one of the countries

02:58with the worst education systems in the world, where nine out of ten students are not able

03:03to solve basic math problems, a reality that is an obstacle for development, according

03:08to students and teachers.

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