Venezuela's Chavez Warns Private Schools

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From the AP: CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened on Monday to close or take over any private school that refuses to submit to the oversight of his socialist government as it develops a new curriculum and textbooks.

“Society cannot allow the private sector to do whatever it wants,” said Chavez, speaking on the first day of classes.

All schools, public and private, must admit state inspectors and submit to the government’s new educational system, or be closed and nationalized, with the state taking responsibility for the education of their children, Chavez said.
 
Could you distinguish this from the system that exists in most Western nations?

CDL
 
GregoryPalamas said:
Could you distinguish this from the system that exists in most Western nations?

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Since no info is available regarding his new curriculum, I guess we are only left to surmise that a strong socialist curriculum will be put into place.

At the pace he is going, he will quickly dismantle that country. With all that he has done so far in pillaging from the PdVSA (state run oil agency), and securing the national bank, communications, and electric agencies into his grasp…add that to his Aug 15th decree ending term limits in office - that new educational system will be socialist.
 
Is this not a required step in the creation of a cult of personality? Wasn’t there a European leader who did this and similar a few decades back shortly after he was appointed Chancellor of his country?
 
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Is this not a required step in the creation of a cult of personality? Wasn’t there a European leader who did this and similar a few decades back shortly after he was appointed Chancellor of his country?
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Yep and they are still using the laws today to persecute home schoolers there.

Chavez is the same as any other Marxist leader.
 
This is very interesting (and I don’t mean in a good way). Venezuela has a very strong Department of Education. When we were there, all of the schools had to adhere pretty strictly to a set curriculum that was laid out by the DOE. The only thing I really noticed about it was that there study of “social studies” was almost all Venezuelan history. There was some of this in science (only animals native to Venezuela were studied) and geography (South American only) too. BUT all of the books, even in the public schools had a strong religious content. You could be looking at a handwriting book and there would be passages about Church and Jesus; the history books included the religious origens of lot of the festivals, etc. With Chavez’ socialist bent, I wonder if all of that will be taken out. Over 90% of the population in Venezuela is Catholic and the schools and Church work together closely.

The other interesting point is that most of the private schools are Catholic. In the city where I lived the only non-Catholic private school was the international school for expats. With Chavez’ antagonistic posture toward the Church and the Bisops in particular, there could be a confrontation.
 
But he can’t be all bad. I mean if Danny Glover and company like him and he opposes President Bush, then he can’t be all that bad. :rolleyes:

Sarcastic mode off.
 
Chavez’s desired reforms seem entirely fair. After all, it takes a village to raise a child.

– Mark L. Chance.
 
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