Venezuela education reforms

[Hyacinth]

New education clash in Venezuela (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8216588.stm)

The government says changes to the law - which among other things, broadens state control over schools and makes the education system secular - were long overdue.


But the Catholic Church and university authorities in Venezuela have opposed the law.
The Catholic Church is opposed to the changes, they must be good.

But, on a more serious note, I'm curious if anyone has any more info on these developments. The BBC article is, predictably, very scant.

[jake williams]

I'd need a lot of detail before I could comment extensively. I'm not an expert on Venezuelan society. Secularization everything else being equal is good. "State control" is ambiguous - one obvious question I'd have is to what extent local councils would be considered "the State" in this context.

[Die Neue Zeit]

This provides more details:

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2210656120090822?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=11613

"News companies complain the law includes an article obliging schools to teach children to criticize the media."

That is the real and most pleasant surprise in all of this!

[ZeroNowhere]

This provides more details:

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2210656120090822?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=11613

"News companies complain the law includes an article obliging schools to teach children to criticize the media."

That is the real and most pleasant surprise in all of this!
Eh, private schools here do that (and a friend of mine who goes to a public school in England (by which I mean a school which is not private in the sense it is used here in Singapore) has also done that kind of thing), and they're still crap. Does it have anything about teaching children to criticize their school?

[R_P_A_S]

so its ok to just teach capitalism models but no other alternatives?
One of the reason I quit college was because I went crazy! I was learning how to become a boss and control workers at the same time I was learning about marxism on my own. I totally lost it! I felt conflicted and just like a piece of shit.

[Wakizashi the Bolshevik]

I have no problems with it at all, on the contrary.