Escuela del Lenguage (Language school)
In another program of the Universidad de Santo Tomás, children expelled from school recieve the academic and psychological support necessary to return to school. The program also mediates between the child and his school, opening space for a new and better connection.
According to the professors at the University, schools in Chile are “extraordinarily expulsive” of poor children. Teachers, mostly from poor families themselves, demand the impossible from their students: expensive school supplies, exaggerated politesse, and homework that no one could do in a poor household. (for instance, “cut out ten photos of fruit from ten magazines,” for a family that has no magazines in the house.) For a working child, this situation is almost impossible.
Contact through:
Universidad Santo Tomás
Vergara 317 (esq. Grajales), tercer piso
Centro, Santiago, Chile
Malvina Ponce de León
562 787 1606
