Some insights from Colombia

When a father in Colombia is looking for a school for his son or daughter, he has to consider the scenario of his economic and social resources, think about whether they allow him to enroll the young man in a public or private school.

In fact, one of the main factors between public education and private education in Colombia is the inequality gap that exists between one and the other, considering the costs of private education and the pensions that support it, private education conceives the education as a private company that, in the name of education, boasts its resources from the investments that the majority of the parents make, so it tends to be considered that the public school does not provide a good education and that its quality is deficient, considering that private education provides more opportunities and prestige, as well as a greater number of tools for the full development of students.

However, the lack of financial resources should not represent an impossibility of the right to education. That said, as stated in an article in Semana magazine, entitled: in Colombia public education is not focused on quality, of the year ...... ... the quality of education, the text argues, is decided in schools, in school environments and in the conditions in which students and teachers develop the educational process, drawing attention to the educational process and the different factors that influence its dynamics, beyond the economic resources and the existing economic system.

An example of educational systems that have found the balance and provide quality education to the entire population without social or economic distinction is China or Cuba, since they provide free quality education to all inhabitants and in general terms, the educational systems of the countries that have Welfare States, where education is a right, but not a privilege, as in the case of Colombia, in which education continues to generate inequity, in addition, it continues to generate economic gaps between sectors of the population, dividing the people according to the economic class to which they belong.

Another of the visible circumstances in education in Colombia in terms of public education and private education, is the conception of the private from the status and privilege, which is why it is still considered that those parents or guardians who can pay the costs of private schools, have greater social possibilities, unlike those who resort to public education, in which the daily imagination establishes the public as what the State gives away, reflecting with this, the ignorance of our rights, not only the the right to education, but also the right to educate ourselves as first-class citizens and, in turn, reflecting the lack of knowledge towards the conceptions that constitute us as a nation, increasingly pauperizing the most vulnerable sectors of society.