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They warn that the voucher system "generates more inequality"

The leader assured that privatized education, which in Chile was implemented by force, "generates more poverty," after remembering that the system cannot be modified "because it is in the Constitution."

  • 02/10/2023 • 22:56

Alfonso Segundo Godoy Quezada, a teacher and experienced Chilean union leader, warned this Wednesday about the "risks" for education that the use of the voucher system entails, because it is a system that "generates more inequality," and asked Argentines that "they do not replicate it." Godoy Quezada, leader of the Association of Educators of Chile (AGECH) and former president of the Valparaíso Regional Teachers College, explained that the voucher educational system "was applied arbitrarily during the dictatorship in the '80s and the consequences are that the gap to study is increasingly unequal". In statements to FM Digital from the city of Formosa, the Chilean leader warned that this system, proposed by the candidate for president of Libertad Avanza, Javier Milei, will generate "more problems, such as the growth of inequality in access to education and debt of families trying to put their children into university. He asked that Argentina "not replicate the voucher system", maintained that "privatized education generates more poverty and here in Chile it was implemented by force" and pointed out that "we cannot change it because it is in the Constitution." Meanwhile, he insisted that this system brings "deep inequality," as can be seen "in the Chilean educational system." Free education is one of the issues discussed by the presidential candidate of La Libertad Avanza (LLA), Javier Milei, who proposes the application of a voucher system that was implemented in a few countries and with unsatisfactory results in the educational quality, in addition to causing a high level of debt for families