Reflection About American Education

This article is a reflection/opinion based article. The author is reflecting on her year teaching in a private bilingual school in a Honduran city, her experiences from around the country and also the problems she saw in Honduran education. She also shared her opinion on what she believed needed to be done in education in general for a child to learn. The author provided basic information about what a student in Honduras might experience and also how different these schools are to the schools in the United States. Some issues that she saw was the lack of knowledge students learn in a rural village school. The oldest students in a classroom are 11. In some schools she found that most didn’t know their ABC’s and struggled to count. The author blames this partially on the teachers who are never in the classroom but always striking for better wages and resources. When a teacher goes on strike the kids can’t go to …show more content…
The country is rigged with corruption and this country struggles to bring control to the people. This article uses data not just opinions to talk about the struggles of education and to support the problems that people see. In this article, the author conducted interviews with officials, representatives and teachers to understand the problems. The author points out that the views reflected in the piece are those of the interviewed and not reflected by the rest of the country. The author examines what the government is trying to do to fix the problems the system is facing and and if these solutions are going to work. Though the article focuses mostly on the negative at the end of the article the author does take the time to write about what the government is doing that can eventually become a positive for the country. This article allows the reader to look at the politics of Honduras education system and to understand the problems in the