Journal: Wrong activities in wrong places.

I'm studying English in order to become a teacher. This is not my biggest dream, but this is the career that for many reasons I have chosen. But when looking at the actual situation of Eucation in mu country I realize that my career might be probably obstructed in the future.
The socio-economic situation of Argentina had led to a dramatic change in the role of teachers at schools. A teacher is primarly supposed to go to schools to teach; secondly back up to students as regarding external issues that are not related to learning is also understood within the profession. In addition teachers are supposed to follow the assignments chosen for his or her by the institution at which the professional works. And also, a teacher's task includes activities related to the educational field, such us teachers' thecnical perfection. And all this, is my intention for the future.
But nowadays, teachers have ended up performing the role of social assistants. Predominantly, in public schools. The poor economic situation of students is not left outside the classrooms. First of all the kids cannot afford for the clothe and for the material they need for classes, which is a big problem for teachers and schools, that in most of the cases have to pay for those things themselves. An even worse situation, is the fact that children are not fed well because of the pauper reality of their femilies. They faint in class, they cannot keep on with their tasks and homeworks, they fail in paying attention and show an important lack of concentration, and they also have serious problems of behaviour.
As a solution for the under-fed situation at which many students live, our governments have include at schools certain social programms such as the one called "Copa de Leche". Understanding these kind of programms as a way to cope with poverty, they are really correct. Hundred of kids have acces to food at schools, otherwise they have nothing to eat during day.
But when remembering which is the real purpose of schools, this programms highly interrupt the teachers'work. Because appart from teaching, they have to cook and prepare food, serve it to the students, and this is all done at times which are supposed to be spent on teaching and learning.
This unusual situations at schools, that reflect our actual reality, have made teachers to stop teaching in order to provide assistance to the children.