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Originally Posted by Frank the Tank
I would think that the big problem is the atttitude of the dominican people to education. It seems to me to be indifferent at best. You can go ahead and build fancy new schools, buy new text books, etc, but what good is that doing if no one actually goes to school? Or if the parents don't care or insure the children actually study and do homework? The same problems are here in the inner city schools in the US. Oh kids aren't learning? Spend gobs and gobs of money. well it's all wasted if no one shows up or studies or does homework and attempts to actually learn. The importance of education must be learned and ingrained into the culture, then things will get better. Mi dos centavos.
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I Agree frank...but you see that is where sports and other leisure activities come into play, the short term goal is to have a diversity of different activities, drama clubs, school bands, choirs, dance teams, Athlete's coaches etc... the long term is to seek international and national help for scholarships...you know the more things you can offer a major university the better....I have befriended alot of U.S. college coaches who say that if D.R.'s school system implemented a more serious bilingual system, and the schools had and organized athletic program and issued standardized testing...they would issue baseball scholarships to Dominican young men all over the island, these college coaches have told me with all honesty, everyone knows Dominicans have great talent, and the one's that speak a little english, just enough to get by here in the U.S. have somewhat benefited, Perez, to Castillo, lopez to Garcia.
I don't know about other countries, but the only way in my honest opinion of getting D.R. to take advantage of recieveing American University scholarships
is to, make all public schools bilingual, build up and create massive athletic, and social programs, from the traditional to the none traditional, this will develop interest in the recruitment process for major American and Canadian Universities, the plan would be not to be imperial or anything, but to give kids and young adult's better chances of survival, the more survival tools you give an indivigual the better there chances....Universities need and want talented indiviguals, they need them because they recieve publicity, and of course plenty of revenue from television contracts, boosters and the N.C.A.A....Dominican's in the majority are not taking full advantage of this situation neither in the States nor in the island, maybe right now building new facilities may be overly expensive, but build then on what you have expand or renovate, rebuild or reconstruct, but brainstorm and create survival tools for the future of children, the obvious solution is what can a community due to make it, and to make themselves more marketable.