This Sunday the Salvados program achieved an audience record, being seen by 4,307,000 spectators. Many of them later commented on the sensations of what they saw on social networks, and one of them was Ana Rosa Quintana, who offered her opinion generating a wave of subsequent criticism.
The well-known presenter said the following:
Great education in Finland, and the cold, suicides and not being able to sit on a terrace to have some Cañas and some tapas?
As he has said later, in order to calm down, just I tried to be ironic with the situation, because he agrees that education in our country has much to improve. However, as happens to all of us who care about the education of our children, parents who have been thinking for years which school is best for our children (or which is the least bad), what type of adaptation period will they do, how much they will respect their ways of being, their unique “yos”, the creativity they have, how much they will take advantage of their desire to learn and, at the same time, how much they will spoil, how much spontaneity they will lose and how aggressive they will become, this phrase by Ana Rosa Quintana seems out of place.
As I said yesterday, the differences between the two educational systems, Spanish and Finnish, are more than evident. Differences that go beyond, because they surpass what happens in schools, that go beyond because they reach the way of proceeding of parents and society and that go beyond because they reach the government. There they take into account the opinion of teachers to make educational reforms. Here they give a damn what they think, because reforms are only made to impose the thinking of the party that is ruling at that time.
That in times of cuts, with parents struggling to get their children to have a better public education, with parents who doubt whether the best thing for their children is to school them or teach them at home, seen what is seen, and with angry teachers because they see that they have less and less means, come a well-known and public person, like Mrs. Quintana, whose children are sure that they are not going to a public school (and that consequently they are not in equal conditions), and tell us that it is very cold there, that there are many suicides there and that you can't drink some reeds and tapas, well annoying.
Annoying because, as I say, in Spain there are schools that give real pain, with amazing inequalities (my children could have quietly entered more than one school whose classes are made up of 98% of children from other countries), schools that she and Your children will never see. Annoying because if you have money and resources you can enter schools where education can be better, or more individualized, or more respectful, but if you do not have it you will not have the same opportunities and the differences will exist since 3 years, when in theory all children deserve to be taught the same. Annoying because I care very little to stop sitting on a terrace to have some tapas and some reeds if I get my children to have teachers involved and a more respectful education system (in fact, I don't even sit on a terrace now, I don't there is the thing to spend spending).
And it bothers, in addition, because Spain is the third country in Europe in number of suicides of adolescents, behind Finland and Belgium, and that taking into account that in Finland they have very well counted and registered, because it is a problem they are looking for solution but what in Spain the registration does not seem so correct, by hiding or not counting many suicides (you know, it is a mortal sin and what will they say).
In short, that I exchanged for a Finnish. I give you the terraces, the reeds, the tapas, the heat and even the beaches if in return my children can grow up with their parents until they are three years old without having to juggle to make ends meet and if so they can receive a education so respectful from that age, light years from ours.
