a look at the curriculum May 7, 2010

I have been reading the curriculum of education of Honduras this past couple of days, and as I read, my disappointment grows.

Every statistic is outdated. Every single one. 

The last statistic, in terms of population and poverty lines is from the late 90s. It has been almost ten years, and the country can not update this. This shows how much little value the Honduran government puts into education.

  There is some decent information in there, but most of it is not put into use.

  What saddens me the most if that in the 1990s, under President Rafael Callejas, the government tried to implement a program to improve education and modify the curriculum, and from what I have read, this was the last time the country tried to do this, and the program wasn’t fully implemented.

  Honduran leaders know that the education system in the country is below par, it is considered one of the worst in the Western Hemisphere, yet they have not do anything to change this.

  According to the plan suggested under Callejas government, Honduran education would have improved by 2005… it didn’t. It got worst.

 Children in public schools received only 100 days of classes, each of the past three years. most of this was because teachers went out and protested  or political reasons. this is less than half of what the kids should have received. But yet kids moved on to the next grade.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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