Teachers-in-training try to fill education gap in Cuba

[Say_What]

Teachers trying to keep class size below 20 students.

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GUIRA DE MELENA, Cuba - (KRT) - If the fresh-faced, young teachers at Victoria del Uvero High School look as though they could be wearing the school's blue uniform rather than leading a class, it's because only a few years ago they, too, were students there.

Under the watchful gaze of a Che Guevara mural painted on her classroom wall, Disleydis Gonzalez, 19, teaches her 10th-grade history students about Russia's "great socialist revolution." Down the hall, Yunielis Hernandez, 20, conjugates verbs at the blackboard in front of her restless English class.

Gonzalez and Hernandez are part of an army of teachers-in-training who have been assigned to elementary, middle and high schools across Cuba as part of the government's effort to keep class sizes down despite an exodus of seasoned educators who left in search of better paying jobs.

Gonzalez confesses she felt nervous facing her first class last fall, only months after graduating from Victoria del Uvero on the outskirts of Havana.

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/world/7131021.htm

[Mika]

1. Its a test program. Its not yet fully implemented

About 5,000 teachers-in-training are working in middle schools and a pilot program is being tested in Havana province high schools with about 600 trainees.

Meanwhile in Jeb's Florida the school system is..

[madrchsod]

2. let me see......

have 18-21 yr olds teaching school or going to war?