Reynaldo Cosano Alén
HAVANA, January 25 - To the concerns of the government and the Communist Party regarding the ideological deviation of the school children evidenced by their wearing clothing with American motifs, the scant participation of students and teachers in political and extracurricular activities, the
students' lack of interest in school work, the worsening condition of the schools and the migration of tens of thousands of teachers to more lucrative occupations, the minister of education, Luis Ignacio Gómez, seems to have found the lifesaver of those inefficiencies, in what Gómez
calls "the uninterrupted interval of seven years of political and ideological preparation that now results in the participation of students and teachers" compelled to attend and to make statements in street rallies, organized by the government throughout the country asking for the return
to Cuba of the rafter boy who is now in Miami, Elián González.
At the same time, Engineer Gómez explained that even though teaching graduates are not enough, their quality is better. To demonstrate, he pointed to Elián's teacher, who, in a telephone conversation managed to hold the child's attention by reminding him of songs and some of the
lessons which she taught him in only three months.
Elián's teacher is part of a contingent of 150 teachers that, due to the exodus of teachers to other professions, have to work in shelter conditions in Cárdenas, the city where Elián González was born.
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