"There is an attempt at suffocating the whole education under a single behavioral educational system," said Monday Octavio De Lamo, the chair of the Venezuelan Chamber of Private Education.

De Lamo made reference to President Hugo Chávez remarks Monday on private education. Chávez said that if private schools did not abide by the Bolivarian educational system, they would be shut down, intervened, nationalized, and the government would take up responsibility for children.

According to De Lamo, to date, the Bolivarian educational outline had not been submitted to them. As far as they know, Bolivarian schools "have failed to have the requisite results."

"And they must be not so good, because the children of government persons attend private schools. I wonder why, if Boliviarian education is so good, all of the government senior officials send their children to our schools? This is the primary question the President should ask to himself," added De Lamo.

"Rather than threatening," said the representative, what he should do is to work on high-quality public education and find viable solutions in this regard.