UNIT 7 - CLASSIFICATION ESSAY

Types of schools in Peru

 

Education in Peru evolved in the past years and now you can find a big list of schools where your kids can study. However, to choose the correct school you first have to evaluate if your kid should study in a private school or a public one. In this text I will share some informaction about school's in Peru. So, if you want to figurate out which kind of school is a viable option, you need to consider: the price, the infraestructure and kinds of text books.

One common type of school in Peru is Public schools. In this kind of schools the price is really low, and in some cases (for example if your kid get a scholarship) you don't need to pay anything. However, the kind of infraestructure isn't the aproppiate. Public schools sometimes don't receive all the help that they deserved, since the goverment (specially the Education Minister) is the principal responsable of provides all the materials and technology that kids need. For this reason, the quality of text books in some public schools is really low. Fortunately, not all public schools have this difficult situation. There are some of them that have a very good infraestructure and provides excelent education to kids. But these only are avaliable to families in difficult monetary situations.

The other type of school in Peru is Private schools. The prices in this kind of school are really high, sometimes the pay reaches the amount of 1000 soles. This depends on the location of the school, if it's in a normal distric the prices are over 500 soles; on the contrary, prices increases dramatically in expensive districs like La Molina or Surco. The infraestructure is the correct in many of them and also povides access to advance tecnology and materials. About text books, parents are the responsable to buy them. Private schools usually work together with Editorials to find the best books that kids need. 

Finally, both types of school has their pros and cons. A public school coul be an option if you don't have enought money to pay the expensive amounts of a private one. Nevertheless, you need to investigate first the quality of infraestructure and text books because sometimes those are not the propiate material that your kid needs. A Private school is the best choise in Peru if you think that infraestructure and text books are the principal facts in a good school. However, I strongly recomend that you should investigate the quality of education because sometimes the high prices don't prove that the school is the best one. At last, it's in your hands wich kind of school is the best for your kids.