One of those measures, which Milei seeks to carry out if he becomes president of Argentina, is to install a voucher system in the school environment, which when applied to countries as unequal as ours, is truly catastrophic in terms of school segregation. as has been seen in the case of Chile, a country tremendously admired by the libertarian fascist.
Hence, if one reviews the Chilean experience regarding vouchers in recent decades, one clearly sees a process aimed at the destruction of public education, which places us in Latin America as the country with the lowest enrollment rate in state schools. at a global level, only surpassed by Haiti (1), which should make us very ashamed and as an example of what not to do at the political level.
However, Milei continues to sell the idea that Chile is an educational model to follow, ignoring the enormous demonstrations that have been taking place against this profit and exclusionary model since the 2000s onwards, which denounced a negligent State, which delegated complete his responsibility to the country.
From the outside world, it can be said that the privatization of education in Chile has allowed us to increase school coverage and improve the scores of some standardized tests (PISA), but it has also meant a deepening of segregation to very dangerous levels, generating a system of school apartheid and true castes, which has only contributed to a greater concentration of wealth and greater social disintegration (2).
It is true, in Chile what was proposed by Milton Friedman, who proposed giving money directly to families (as Milei proposes), was not strictly applied, but it was done through schools, through a school subsidy per student, making That the financing of the establishments depends on the number of students who attend each day, and those who do not meet a certain number may even close.
Consequently, the so-called school subsidy in Chile has been a true catastrophe for many students, who have been victims of a school selection system, which for years has violated the right to education of a good part of them, since A group of fanatics thought that the best way to give quality to education was through competition between establishments, without caring in the least about the dignity of people.
It could be said that since 2014, in Chile there has been a school inclusion law, which prevents students from subsidized private establishments from being selected for economic and academic reasons, but without maintaining the financing system, perverse logic continues to be reproduced to attract students, widening inequality, making the poorest go to establishments with fewer resources.
In fact, if one reviews other experiences of vouchers in education, such as Sweden for example, a country that is immensely more socially egalitarian than ours, it has also resulted in greater segregation, which only ends up generating differences between students and the denial of collaborative logic and plural encounter in establishments (3).
Having said the above, Javier Milei, if he becomes president, will try to destroy the Argentine educational system, of which there is a transversal defense of the public, including the right-wing candidate Patricia Bullrich (4), leaving the libertarian fascist as a enemy of a key area for social integration and citizen education.
In short, trying to promote vouchers in the school system is an insult not only for Argentines but for those of us who have trained and gone to study in the neighboring country, which is accompanied by other delusional measures, such as the closure of CONICET, the closure of the Ministry of Education and the end of the ESI (Comprehensive Sexual Education).
However, if he tried to do what Milei promises, he will have teachers, students, families and an entire Argentine society mobilized and full of conviction, which will not allow itself to be trampled by a lunatic in power, who believes he can put an end to public education. of a country, as happened in Chile, applying totally failed ideas and without any type of evidence to support it.
