One of the challenges my discipline is facing

To post number 11 (the penultimate! the last one is evaluated OMG!) I have to write something about the important challenges my discipline is currently facing.
Well, I want to talk about the education in Chile, I think is strongly connected with my discipline, and I’m very interested about this because (how I said it before in other post) my mother is a teacher and my brother is studying to become one…
There has been a lot of sociological studies about the education in Chile, both qualitative and quantitative (in the PNUD by his abbreviation in Spanish, the Program of United Nations for the Development, made in Chile the annual survey, and it had a particular study about education, using not only opinion poll but interviews too). Some studies describe and analyze the functioning of the Chilean school system; others study the opinions of the civil society about education. Even when it seems there is a wide agreement about the bad points of the educational system, I think there isn’t a political will to introduce improvements or simply change the entire educational structure. That’s why sociology has an important role to make known the reality of education (and that’s doing right know) and denounce the lack of interest of the authorities to improve this subject, authorities who says the way to overcome the poverty IS education; well, that’s what they say…
I think everyone agreed the bad points of education start with the education itself, and the fact that isn’t in hands of the Education’s Ministry; the career of teacher isn’t good viewed because the low salary, the vision of the schools as daycares, the lack of interest of the students in a lot of schools (and that’s a very important point because implies a deeper problem hidden in the root of society) etc, etc.
About the solutions, ufff!! It’s hard to say something, is a problem that needs strong politics to change, how I said before, the roots of society, but is really difficult to take it to reality. I hope the future government (whatever is the political party), do this at least something about this important subject. See ya!!