Reflection Task 2a
                       TURKISH EDUCATION SYSTEM
        Hello all!I want to talk about Turkish education system which always undergoes lots of changes.I chose this topic to tell you because it has both personal and societal significance to me.I think as a teacher candidate I must be critical about education system.When we ask people whether they are content with the education in Turkey,the majority says that they aren't.In my opinion,one of he biggest problems of Turkish education system is inequality unfortunately.I can explain that inequality in this way:In Turkey, there are differences in educational opportunities from East to West.For example,in Western Anatolia there are more schools and teachers when compared to Eastern Anatolia.In addition,we see the rich people's children in best schools.They can enable their children to attend private tutoring while for the poor it is not the case exactly.On the other hand,looking at public expenditure on education,Turkey seems to be efficient,but adding private expenditures raises questions about the overall efficiency of Turkey's educational expenditures.For example,Turkey and Hungary devote similar total expenditures on education per student for secondary education -roughly 4000 dollars and yet 15-years-olds are nearly 2 school years behind their Hungarian counterparts in math skills.I think altough Turkey has improved itself significantly in the last few years,there are still much more to do especially in quality and equity.Our education system must be discussed frequently and all the inequalities must be eliminated.Higher levels of input to improve the quality of the education is necessary and opportunities must be available to every school,district and student.Then,our educational system will be more efficient.