South Africa: who cares about it?

We all know the World Cup is taking place in South Africa. But what is shown on T.V. about the present of that country? Has discrimination truly disappeared? Are all South Africans free from starvation nowadays? I guess no channel has said anything about all that. At least I haven´t heard anything, have you? Shouldn´t we be more critical and demand all this information from the media? Maybe we are too busy to stop watching a match to think or to talk about this. We talk about the “vuvuzelas” instead.

As a future teacher and as a trainee teacher I cannot understand why schools haven´t taken advantage of this whole month to teach something new and interesting. Why letting the students go back home after each match if each teacher, in each subject, could have taken the opportunity to teach something? Students would be highly motivated to investigate about the African continent and about South Africa. Why can´t the Geography teacher ask about that country´s climate for instance? Or why not asking students to compare the climates of Argentina and Nigeria or Greece, with whom we were opponents? Why can´t the language teacher ask students to write a piece of news about each match or to create a story of what could happen in the opponent´s changing room after losing? Various examples like these ones cross my mind now. It´s not worth mentioning them. What I want to make clear now is that I´m not against enjoying football matches for a month, but surely there are other things happening around the world which are worse than Italy of France being out of the tournament in their third match. And as for schools, authorities should have implemented ways of keeping students engaged to study.

We still have two weeks to entertain ourselves with matches. And teachers and authorities still have two weeks to do something with the World Cup, don´t you think so?