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Venezuela leader's school warning | |
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened the country's private schools with closure unless they adopt the government's socialist ideology. | Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened the country's private schools with closure unless they adopt the government's socialist ideology. |
Mr Chavez said schools must introduce a new curriculum being introduced this year that he said would help develop values of cooperation and solidarity. | |
Education had been ignored by past governments, Mr Chavez said. | |
But many parents are concerned that the new curriculum will spell indoctrination for their children. | But many parents are concerned that the new curriculum will spell indoctrination for their children. |
Opening a new school on the first day of the academic year, President Chavez spoke of his vision for the future of education. | |
He said it was based around learning to create, to live together, to value and to reflect. | |
He said he would make education his top priority and increase funding. | |
But Mr Chavez said any schools that did not agree to teach what the government wanted would be closed. | |
"The government as well as parents and society can't accept that the private sector does whatever it feels like doing," he said. | |
"How can they say that because it's a private school an education inspector can't come in? Of course it can or we will close down the school." | |
Mr Chavez said previous governments had also promoted their own ideology. | |
"They taught us to admire Christopher Columbus and Superman," he said. | "They taught us to admire Christopher Columbus and Superman," he said. |
"Education based on capitalist ideology destroyed values". |
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