Abstract

This chapter reviews how private schools of the social elite in Chile have isolated from the state policies that for decades tried to democratize education. In recent years, Chilean society has experienced a growing questioning about the segregation of its school system, for which educational policies have been generated. However, they only incorporated low and middle sectors leaving elite schools out and segregated from the Chilean education system. The chapter also looks at how students’ experience at these schools develops in the context of an increasingly and intense debate about democratization and the diminishing of privileges in society.