Day 3~ FTGC 🌞

 

JER School Visit #3

JER = Jornada Escolar Regular
Double Shift School
7 hours per day

This school we visited was located in Pachacamac. It was about an 1.5 - 2 hours drive from our hotel. The name of the school is Roxanita Castro Witting. They had a very warm welcome for us, and decorated the school with flags and balloons everywhere! This school has a teacher who is a Fulbright Alumni, and she was super excited to have us visit their school.

Decorations in 1 of their classes!

Students wrote in their agendas that we were visiting!!

I got to visit a 1° grade secondary Social Sciences class with about 28 students.

I also got to see a 2° grade secondary Health Class with about 39 students.

AND I got to visit a 1° grade secondary Math class with about 29 students.

It was great to be able to visit a JER, JEC, and COAR school across the Lima region!!

The classes have a lot of students with minimal space, and usually the teachers are giving direct instruction. I noticed at the COAR the teachers change classrooms, and the students stayed in the room. COAR also followed the Ministry of Educations curriculum more closely than JER or JEC. 

After the school visit we went to the Fulbright Commission building and met with the Executive Director Laura Belbuena.

MORE insightful information!! 🧠

A LOT to still process...

One takeaway:

• She did mention how education is seen as social mobility in Peru. And that the more you can move up and make more money, the more "white" it is viewed as.

I wonder how those who do not see themselves in school or able to obtain degrees from university are impacted by internalized racism or imposter syndrome. And therefore the cycle of being discriminated as Black or Indigenous repeats.