Essay: SENAME children

In this essay, I will talk about the children that are inmates in SENAME. In these days, a lot of kids and girls are trapped in the reformatory centers of SENAME, suffering a lot of violence.

A lot of these children are just coming of a poor family, in which their parents couldn’t pay a babysitter, and neither they can take care of them because they need to work. In most of the cases, is the mother who is blamed to be irresponsible, but that is very unfair because nobody blames the father, who in a lot of cases is not even present to the child. So, the children in the centers of SENAME are been punished for being poor.

The children that had made crimes, doesn’t deserve either to be punished for that as an adult, because if a child do bad things, probably the reason for that is that they didn’t have good life conditions to do something else, like studying.

In the centers of SENAME, the children are exposed to be tortured, beaten, raped, even murdered. Nobody are defending them and the caregivers are using that to mistreat the people that they should be helping. That could be solved by stopping with all the SENAME system, and by creating a totally new penitentiary in which the people could be reintegrated to society and not being even more excluded that before.

In conclusion, is a obligation to a society which want to be developed to take care of the children in reformatory centers, giving them all the tools to help them to be reintegrated to society.

Report: my work experience

 Introduction

The goal of this report is to describe and evaluate my six weeks’ experience at the Ministry of Education and to make recommendations for the future.

About the Ministry

The Ministry of Education is one of the most important department of the government. Its leader is the Minister Raúl Figueroa, who has that position since February of this year. The mission of this Ministry is to create policies to assure that the Chilean society could have a good education level.

My work experience

In my first week the people over there only ask me to do things as make coffee, do copies and run errands. I didn’t feel respected at first.

Then I started to participate in work groups, giving my analysis and researching about the issues that concerns to the Ministry. I enjoyed that labor more than the first things that they make me do, so I put all my effort to do a good job. I was so motivated that I didn’t mind being very tired at the end of the day, because I worked 45 hours a week.

At the fourth week, they ask me to do an evaluation to an improving program for rural schools. I did a very complete research and then I make a very good presentation, but nobody of my colleagues was interested. In the fifth week the same thing happened to me.

Finally, in my last week there, I participated in a commission to help the Minister to create a policy to help the teachers with COVID, but I also consider my help useless, because the Minister only heard the President and a group of businessmen.

General comments

I wanted to work in the Ministry because I believe that education is an important matter to society. Unfortunately, my work partners didn’t think like me. They didn’t care about the students or education at all, they were only preoccupied to make money and be seen for the Minister.

Conclusion

I don’t recommend at all to work in the Ministry of Education as the actual government is still in La Moneda, because they don’t care about helping people, but they only want to help themselves and the millionaires.

The boundaries of technology

 All of us know that in the last years the technology has became an important tool to do a lot of things in our daily life. But we must put boundaries to that, because if people let machines do too much for them, eventually people will no longer be able to do things for themselves.

So, we must understand that technology is only a tool to us, it mustn’t replace the human beings. Is not only dangerous because it will incapacitate the people, but it will destroy a lot of works. If employers begin to use machines instead of human beings, the life of that people would be more deteriorated. But, if we use the technology to help us, the labor of that people could be better, making them better workers.

As can be seen, is very important to put boundaries to the use of technology, using it to help people, but not to replace them.