Teacher shortage in Communist Cuba

Alberto de la Cruz reports at Babalu,

Despite the propaganda so dutifully and happily disseminated by the media and socialists like Bernie Sanders, Cuba’s education system — like its healthcare — is abysmal. Children are not educated but instead indoctrinated.

And from the looks of it, the dismal educational system in Cuba is only getting worse.

Mario Penton in The Miami Herald:

Some 40,000 Cuban teachers have left the profession during 10 years of Raúl Castro government

The red and white uniform has been washed and ironed, and a blue bandana waits nearby. Eight-year-old Eddy Alberto is about to start second grade at the Heroes of Yaguajay school in the central Cuba’s province of Sancti Spiritus.

Eddy wants to be a teacher when he grows up, and for a week he’s been asking his mother when school will start this year.

“The tragedy starts again on Monday,” his mother, Yanelis, said in a phone interview. “Last year there was no teacher for three months, and a school aide told me they don’t have steady person this year either.

“They are going to ask the librarian to teach,” she added, clearly annoyed.

On Monday, more than 1.7 million Cuban students will start the new school year at 10,698 educational centers. But they will again face the serious problems that have been lashing the system for years, like a shortage of teachers.

The National Statistics and Information Office has reported that in the 2016-2017 school year there were 248,438 teachers, about 21,600 less than in 2008, when Cuban ruler Raúl Castro officially succeeded brother Fidel Castro. But a previous NSIO report showed that the loss totaled more than 40,000 teachers in the last decade.

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