Whats in a Name?

http://www.unesco.org/iiep/eng/newsletter/2001/jane01.pdf

What is in a name? We know what private means; it is not public or in the open space. When we privatize education it is no longer out there for all to see or to benefit from. Take Cameroon for example. When it comes to privatized education there it makes up more than a quater of primary and secondary schools. Although there are public schools these private schools so create a stratification of classes. While children of better off families are able to pay for these private schools. Although Cameroon has taken an economic hit and along with that their private schools are no longer getting the income to sustain their schools. This just seems to be that the second-class public schools that are sub-par are going to take another hit. While privatized education can be a good thing it seems to be a mistake. There seems to be more monetary focus on the privatized schools while even these schools ar enot able to support themselves.  With this example it just goes to prove that the inequalities of privatized education create larger gaps between the rich and the poor. With the poor growing larger in number and the rich growing richer and smaller in number. The schools in Cameroon will not be able to sustain all of the students that are trying to go into their school system. What will be the cause of this? Will all of Cameroon’s schools become privatized and just susbsized by the government?

BBC – Do People in Africa Perfer Private Schools

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5368590.stm

When it comes to private school and government school in Africa there seems to be a consensus that the government school is not good compared to private school. In the last few years the quality of government schools are differnet than they used to be and while some places in Africa no longer have government school. These schools are different and the teachers are also teaching in the private schools so while they do not teach in the publicly funded schools they have them go to the paid tutoring lessons or the private school with the same teachers. Why is this so? Yet if the majority of the parents are able to or willing to pay for private school why should the government pay for the school. Also there is a larger problem with the World Bank and IMF and their regulations with public government services. While these regulations last the educational standards will go down and the popularity of private schools will gain more popularity.

           Privatized education can be difficult to understand here in the United States. Many people think that it is about private schools and do not realize that privatization is the privatization of public schools. This means many things to many people. There is the idea that the market become more competitive when there is a privatized educational system. Although it also makes it to where the average family cannot support their childrens education or only one of the many may do to school. When it comes to developing or Third World nations this is the case for many. Also it becomes a gender issue. Boys are able to go to school. Girls are put to work when they are old enough setting them back. This is because in many nations it is much easier to oppress young women. Privatized has many more problems than benefits. In nations that are having issues with social programs and are unable to finance public education tend to have higher levels of poverty and lower literacy rates. When comparing life styles a nation that privatizes is unable to education or train their citizens in a trade so they are therefore unable to go into a trade. These people may work in factories or in skill-less labor based jobs. The result is that there is not middle class. The classes are more stratified and the larger class of poor gets larger while the rich get richer and smaller in number.