2023-04-27 02:19:00
“If you want to study, you will have a voucher and you will be able to study”affirmed this week the presidential candidate for La Libertad Avanza, Javier Miley. His educational program in case of being elected generated controversy, since he indicated that he would eliminate the compulsory and free nature of the current educational system. Instead, he proposed using “vouchers”, a measure that is being used by some countries, such as Chile.
“The obligation system does not work. If you want to study, you will have a voucher and you will be able to study. The theme of the obligation is wanting to control human beings and impose your moral pattern. Whoever wants to study, studies, but I don’t like forcing,” the libertarian had expressed.
Milei anticipated that in his administration “education will cease to be free” and ignited a new controversy
And he added: “Does the system as it is now work well? 60% of 10-year-old boys do not read or understand a text and in Mathematics we are worse off. In the PISA tests we are terrible and they kicked us out for setting the sample. It still sucked.”
For the deputy, the way to solve the educational problem is through a system of vouchers. This proposal is regarding implement a market logic in the education systemfrom which education is seen as a good and seeks to finance the demand (students) instead of the supply (schools).
Under this premise, it is the students who receive the money destined for education and collected by the State through taxes. The total budget is divided among the school-age children, thus determining the value of each school check. Families receive these vouchers in order to decide which is the best institution to send the minors.
Through this market logic, schools will have to compete with each other to “attract” as many students as possible. Following that line of thought, it is believed that schools will strive to stand out from the “competition.”
“Education is a disaster and the country is a bloodbath. There is a failed state that does everything wrong. Institutions have to compete and be good. You will have public education and private education. The difference is that you are not going to be held hostage to the indoctrination of the State,” the libertarian candidate said in this regard.
“In the ideal world, you can have a voucher system, you study and I give you the vouchers“, said Milei. And he added:” I fill you a card so that you pay for the institution you want to go to. You can go to a state or private management. You choose the one you like“.
The origin of “educational vouchers” and their impact in countries that adopted them
This educational system It was proposed during the 1960s by the economist Milton Friedman. as a liberal alternative from which the choice of each parent on the education of their children would be favored. Over time, different countries implemented this measure with mixed results. Some of them are Chile, New Zealand, Denmark and Sweden.
In the case of south american country, the results in international tests position it as a leader in the region, although this is not an indicator that the improvement in education is the result of the school voucher system. As to Sweden, an example that Milei used in the past to ensure that “this works”, between 2003 and 2012 he was obtaining worse results as the years passed. However, in the last edition of the PISA it was among the ten best-situated States and in the top five in Europe.
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This is not the first time that the libertarian official has proposed a voucher system instead of the current educational model. In this sense, in 2021 he had already criticized the situation in Argentina in terms of education, given what highlighted the alternative of school checks.
“All (the schools) are going to be paid, but you can use the voucher to go to the one you want, state or private. And in the process, all the institutions are going to have to compete and that generates a better service,” mentioned on that occasion. Furthermore, he explained that “society decides that there is a State, then the money is collected to finance the education of all, and there each one receives a voucher, and with that voucher they decide freely in which institution to study”.
MB / ED
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