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Santo Domingo.- At the start of the school year, some 270,000 of primary school students (10%) have no classrooms to go to due to deficiencies in the education system.

In addition, no facilities have been provided for 64% of children who should be starting pre-school. Alianza Por la Democracia (APD) presidential candidate Max Puig highlighted these problems during meetings with municipal leaders in the Los Alcarrizos municipality.

Puig added that 50% of middle school students will remain outside the education system due to lack of infrastructure, and criticized the lack of premises for high schools all over the country.

In Los Alcarrizos, community leaders told the former Labor Minister that there are only three public high schools for a population of almost 300,000.

According to local community leaders Evelyn Lara and Abraham Vargas, Los Alcarrizos is one of the areas where most students have been granted Ministry of Education scholarships for private schools.

They said this was because of lack of space in local schools, where teaching has to take place at night. Vargas added that many parents were afraid to send their children to night sessions because of the risk of crime.

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Written by: JimHarrington This user is banned, 22 Aug 2011 8:00 AM
From: United States
Look who wants to run for office. The AH's come out of the woodwork about a year before an election.
Written by: sweetbabyj, 22 Aug 2011 11:56 AM
From: United States
If this is true every member of the education department should be sacked. Schools are cheap to build there and no excuse no to have adequate space. They need to contact Apple and other computer manufactures for donations so the children are on par with other nations. The US discards millions of used computers every year that granted may be old but the old adage something is better than nothing. My daughter is very bright and does well in teh classroom but other than the laptop at home has no exposure to them.
Written by: juanb, 22 Aug 2011 2:15 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Where is little ricky to put his positive spin on this article?

I'll do it for him. It would read something like this:

"The lack of classrooms leads to more children staying home which will certainly strengthen the family bond."

Written by: JimHarrington This user is banned, 22 Aug 2011 2:33 PM
From: United States
juanb,
I am sure ricardolito could not have written it better.
Written by: troy310879, 22 Aug 2011 3:38 PM
From: Turks and Caicos Islands
wow cant imagine this is happening in this so call great country. I am from on of the sand bars in the Caribbean and we have no problems with proper schools or space. I guess the sand bars places more emphasis on education than DR. I can say this because i have been around DR and there are still schools with no doors or windows in these modern times. I am just throwing bombs at bultarsky
Written by: TexasBill, 22 Aug 2011 4:33 PM
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
One must ask onesself if it is more important to have a new school building or to have a QUALIFIED INSTRUCTOR who understands the REAL IMPORTANCE of a well founded education, encompassingthe broad spectrum of knowledge.
I'e been gone from the DR for three years and the same problems facing the nations school system are the same as those which were existant in 2000 when I first arrived. There has been NO CHANGE whatsoever to the system's functionality nor to the lack of a quality education being offered to Students.
The only rhetoric is that which lauds the total lack of forward planning of the incopetents who are,unfortunately, placed in the position of being promoted to a level of maximum incompetance.
Someone down there should do what the Transortation Unions do and form a massive, continuous PROTEST outside the Legislative Offices until there is positive action on the problem.
After all, it's YOUR children and grandchildren who are suffering.
Texas Bill
Written by: dominicanbob, 23 Aug 2011 4:37 PM
From: Canada
Hey, TexasBill how are the children( your sons) doing in the Texas school system? I've been in every public school in the Jarabacoa and the only one with a library was built by the Marines. This was the good thing about Balaguer- he built for the future. Most of the schools built in the last 15 years have not been built to put a second floor on. There has been a number of new schools built in the past 8 years, just not nearly enough. There are plenty of out of work school teachers also.
Written by: TexasBill, 24 Aug 2011 9:19 PM
From: United States, Killeen, TX - Home of the 1st Cavalry
dominicanbob;
I'm in the process of getting a bunch of medical tests done. When they're all completed, I'll give you a full report of the happenings up here.

TexasBill
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