Back to school, early in the morning, so check your daughter or son’s backpack carefully, they are sure to forget something: notebook, diary, pencil case, breakfast…, everything is there. Until, on the way to class, you realize that you have forgotten something fundamental and, hitting your forehead, you exclaim like the boy in the Donuts advert from our childhood: “Come on, pranks!”
In the week of the start of the school year, there will be no shortage of educational hoaxes, erroneous beliefs, myths and lies that we have been hearing and repeating for years, and this week there will be no shortage of them in the backpacks of families, journalists and talk shows, and in that of more than one Minister of Education or regional president, all repeating the same mantras: the education system is getting worse and worse! Before we know more! We are terrible at PISA! Immigrants are lowering the bar! Let’s copy the Finnish system! In subsidized centers, they come out better prepared! The arranged one is cheaper! Meritocracy! Freedom of choice for families!
