Editorial Insurrection Magazine No. 953
Central Command (COCE)

Street democracy embraces education

Editorial Insurrection Magazine No. 953
Central Command (COCE)

Teachers, students and thousands of Colombians are mobilized to force the collapse of an openly neoliberal statutory bill, while demanding a statutory law that materializes this fundamental right.

The project filed by the Government sought to declare education at all levels as a fundamental right and greater state financing of public education; However, during its passage through the Senate, the far-right opposition introduced numerous modifications to the articles, with the aim of further facilitating the commercialization and privatization of…

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The first project filed by the Government sought to declare education at all levels as a fundamental right and greater state financing of public education; However, during its passage through the Senate, the far-right opposition introduced numerous modifications to the articles, with the aim of further facilitating the commercialization and privatization of education.

The Colombian Federation of Educators (Fecode), led the opposition to such a poisonous statutory project, basing its protest on the following

aspects: a. The articles did not declare education as a fundamental right,

b. The creation of vouchers (school vouchers) gives rise to the commercialization of education,

c. the creation of the Superintendence of Education knowing that this type of entities regulate commercial activities,

d. creation of mixed educational entities,

and. base teaching evaluation on state tests,

F. elimination of the mandatory nature of the transition grades, garden and pre-kindergarten,

g. puts academic freedom at risk, among others.

The modifications of the right transformed a project with social genes into an eminently neoliberal and regressive treaty, which attacks the philosophy that education and essential services must be conceived as fundamental rights inherent to the social condition of the State.

What happened with the Statutory Education Law is the same as what has happened with the other reforms proposed by the Government (health, pension and labor), which clash with the position of the old regime that considers that these are a business and as such they should be in the hands of private entrepreneurs and large economic emporiums.

The different mobilizations throughout the country led Congress to overturn the Statutory Education Bill. This makes it clear to us that in the face of opposition to the changes made by the old regime, the most effective option is the unity of the popular class and that the Nobody take ownership of the fight for transformations and the defense of our rights, only in this way is it possible to build a society with justice and social equity.