LGE

I wasn't sure to be the most qualified to give an opinion about the LGE, moreover that my parents told me to turn 7 times my tongue in my mouth before speaking or saying stupidities or something which will be like nonsense or absolutely not interesting.

My vision has changed since the conflict about the LGE and the nearly 5 weeks of strike which waste a lot of our time at the end of the semester, only a few weeks before going back to Chile. The major problem to see that isssue is from one's point of view of from everyone's point of view. I mean you can see the situation from your own interest of from the general interest. If I should have answered from my own interest I should have said that the result, as an international student is that I lose 4 weeks and a half of study because I didn't have the right to vote, but as a general point of view, I agree with the mobilisation. What makes to me a problem is finally the reasons why they did the strike. They started the strike in our department only on local issues to make better the school, the place, the financing plan and the quality of education. After two weeks of a really good strike, they signed an agreement with the University authorities. I think we should have came back at that moment, but some people find the opportunity with the national strike to follow the movement, absolutely aware that we should have exams and a hard part at the end of the term.

What I mean is that I would have totally approved the movement if some people hadn't have hidden the real reasons of the strike. I think that many students would have agreed to make a mobilisation against the LGE in itself at the start. I'm deeply convinced that there's no better way to make everybody and to give to everybody the same access to knowledge than free and public education. It's probably part of my own culture. The school is free, mandatory and open in France for every children since the Law Ferry of 1882. It's in the roots and in the fundations of the French Republic to give to everyone's the same conditions of access to education. I think that the LGE or the LOCE are just a system of educational and social's apartheid inside the Chilean society which is absolutely unfair and reinforce inequality, rupture and shame. The greatness of a society is too give and to be confident in the future of its youth, and not to set the roots of competition, unfairness, inequality and to leave behind someone who can't afford to pay an excelent education or to oblige him to have a huge amount of debts as he just starts his life. To my mind these laws are just a condemnation before people could have shown their capacities. We should keep on fighting for a free education.