Education in Chile: My views on the students´strike

In 2006, the student movement started in Chile. That movement was called “revolución pingüina”. In this year I was in 4^th of elementary school and I did not participate in this movement this year, because I was a little boy and my school was elementary school.

In the coming years always was a strike…

In 2009, I went to secondary school and in all of the year in school always was a strike. For this situation, my opinion about the students ‘strike has changed over time. In the start there was enthusiasm, but in the end was disappointment.

Between 2009 and 2011, the strikes had clear ideas and organization, but in the end the 2011’s strike, it is a joke. In the preparatory school, the strikes happened because the students wanted lose class. Even in 2014, the strike was because the students wanted to see relaxed Chilean team in the World Cup.

In 2015, I entered to the university and in May started a strike that finished in July. I was agree about this strike, because it had specific requirements, however it could have ended before.

Ultimately. The 2016´s strike was a joke, because students did not know the reason for the strike, misinformation and ratings were approved with less than 300 people.

I have lived 8 strikes and only 4 of them were movement that functioned and regrettably, only 2 achieved target.

Finally in my personal opinion, only when the potential participants are informed, the requirements are specific and that they are as far as possible and with the necessary enthusiasm a student mobilization can work. It is useless express only the discomfort, without giving a constructive criticism (as long as you can). We must not only be part of the problem but also be part of the solution.