Students, parents and teachers from all levels of the Spanish public education system are on strike today to protest against the massive cuts and the education reform passed by the government.
Last May we lived another strike like this. The video below is about the situation then (the education reform had not been passed yet). Watch it and pay attention to the vocabulary about education you can hear or read there; you know the topic so it shouldn´t be difficult to follow. If you read the captions, try to follow the general idea but remember they are not man-made so you will see quite a few mistakes there.Make sure you know what the following words and expressions mean before watching the video:
- pre-school
- participation rate
- austerity measures
- budget cuts
- reduce spending on education
- tuition
- non-obligatory secondary education
- labour unions
- protester
- to demonstrate
- the public sector
- student-teacher ratio
- charter schools
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