Students from rural teachers colleges demanded a meeting with the Secretary of the Interior to address violence against them, but rejected the Gen Z march in Mexico City on November 15th as a plot deriving from right wing hatred.
Over the course of a century, a vision of education as a means of containing Mexico’s progress through the Porfirian, conservative ideal of social order has prevailed.
If the use of public resources allocated to academia were subject to a democratic verdict, the ruling would be relentless: too much money spent, too many privileges accumulated, and too few results for society.
Educational coaching has a motivation rhetoric that only offers superficial solutions, ignoring structural problems such as administrative overload, lack of resources, and precarious working conditions.
The teachers say bureaucratic procedures have delayed funding as well as computers and projectors for schools, which have been needed since AMLO’s term.
While AMLO repealed some of the worst elements of neoliberal teaching reform, underlying demands have not been fully addressed & worse, certain sectors close to Morena have replicated the narrative of the past, presenting the CNTE as an irrational and intransigent pressure group.
It is in times of uncertainty that we most urgently need education that effectively trains citizens capable of transforming their context.
Avila Camacho’s government created it to control teachers, who were heavily influenced by the Communist Party, highlights expert.
Mexico’s new National Higher Education Program establishes a commitment to higher education for all.