Honduras has the most backward educational system in Central
America (Date of Publication: 6/20/04) The educational system in
Honduras is the most backward in all of Central America; hardly
32 of every 100 students finish primary school without repeating
grades, indicate statistics from the United Nations. Data from
the Program for the Development of the Organization of the
United Nations (PNUD) reveal today, moreover, that 51% of the
matriculates finish primary school, in an average of 9.4 years,
and that the number of dropouts increases each year. The acutest
problem is that the basic educational system only covers 86.5%
of school-age children, while the remaining 13.5% cannot get
access to an education. Although the Honduran Constitution
formally stipulates that minors have to have their educations
taken care of, many arrive at adulthood without learning to read
or write, while the state tries to justify this by the
insufficiency of resources at its command. Illiteracy
encompasses more than half a million