Education

Education in El Salvador is one of the most mediocre education one can get. GOOD education in El Salvador is basically a privilege that only the minority can have. The public school system, which is were most of the population can send their kids to, is broken and falling behind. Public schools in my country are lacking most of the basic facilities schools should have, making a good education hard to happen. The environment is not right in any way for students to focus on academics and learn.

Many schools, usually in the poorest parts of the country, don't even have enough teachers and tables for the students. Others don't even have a whole roof over the institutions to protect them form bad weather. This conditions are present in many of the biggest public schools in the country because in the the most populated areas sometimes concede with being the poorest parts as well.

The mentality of these children's parents, most of the time uneducated as well, can be one of the following: "Why send my kids to school if the education is so bad? They won't learn anything anyways." Or, "I want my kids to go to school to get the education I did not get."

Many parents want to provide education for their children, but unfortunately it's not the type that they imagined for them. This lack of education for children is what many people consider the cause of such a violent and in some way unmoral country. Since the majority of the children are the ones who have to receive this low education live in some degree of poverty, there are the kids that the gang target to recruit. If they have nothing else to look forward to than working the fields or with their parents, why not take the 'easy' way out?