Post #3: Don't expect what you don't give

     I blame violence on education. So apparently violence is “in” on my sweet little island of Puerto Rico. For example, a few months ago a young woman was talking to a friend in her phone and her boyfriend over heard the conversation and became very jealous. One day he was driving and saw her talking on the phone, his jealousy took over and he ran her over with his car. The man had not graduated high school and was lying about being employed. He had been denied the access to the preparatory high school due to his lifestyle. But cutting to the chase as an English writer names G.K. Chesterton once said “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another”.

The Puerto Rican government should stop worrying about what type of representation they are illustrating to the U.S./World and start working on the existing problems such as unemployment, violence, teen pregnancies… ect. Problems that might seem like minor problems but sadly are all based on the biggest problem of them all in this small island; poor education. Education should be a priority and a right. But instead education is being treated as if it is in pristine conditions and is being implied it is a privilege. In 2010 the percentage of students graduating from college was 3 to 10. This is considered one of the lowest in standard history of the U.S. yet Puerto Rico is slightly smaller than Rhode Island, one of the smallest states of the U.S. How can you expect criminality to decrease when the society is not being educated? How can one expect the best if what we are receiving is the least (to not say worst)?

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