This Monday they will return to classes 24 million students of basic education throughout the country, in the midst of an educational system marked by the New Mexican School and deficiencies in the school infrastructure.
According to figures from the National Commission for the Continuous Improvement of Education (Mejoredu) 2023-2024 of 238 thousand schools of basic education and high school, 26,463 do not have electricity, 56,109 operate without water, 43,558 do not have sinks and there are 5,950 schools without toilets.
Of the total number of schools, four out of 10 lack all four basic services complete, while in the educational area the organization Mexicans First He warned about the country’s delay in the level of education, since in the last test PISA of 2022, the results decreased and only 34.2% of students achieved basic mastery level in mathematics, 53.1% in reading and 49.2% in science.
Amidst the deficiencies in infrastructure and education, the government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador He promoted a new model, the New Mexican School, which parents have described as deficient.
“¿How is it possible that they have removed mathematics? An essential learning in life, the books now come all mixed up and not to mention their subjects that are not even understood, personally I do not like this new system at all because I feel that my daughter is not having a good academic education,” she assured 24 HOURS Santiago Vasquez, father of a family.
Nevertheless, Alma Hernandez, A primary school teacher for 12 years who has seen the change from inside the classroom, she disagrees with this approach, as she said that this model is much more dynamic and children learn more easily.
“Hearing about the New Mexican School I immediately visualize the words inclusion and empathy. For me, it is a desperate attempt to get the new generations to adapt to all the current lifestyles, which are very varied, and mainly to empathize and understand the serious environmental problems that exist today.”
He explained the difference between the previous educational system and the current one: “It is considerable, since with the previous system was all as very unified at the national level speaking in terms of learning objectives, There is no disappearance of subjects as such because at the end of the day there are topics from all subjects, obviously not like before, but I think they want to pay more attention to environmental issues.”
She explained that despite the “elimination of subjects” such as mathematics or history, which are of concern to parents, it is completely functional: “Something that I have been fighting with since I realized it, (speaking mainly of mathematics) has decreased a lot, but teachers have also been given more openness to decide which subjects are important in the context and reality of the students they have, so it is also a good option to play and introduce the subjects that they consider necessary, so it is functional.”
And he reiterated that despite the position of parents who call the new system insufficient, “children are the most adaptable beings I know, my students have received it with a lot of enthusiasm, They are delighted with the idea of working in a more dynamic way,” he told 24 HOURS
Ana Laura Gallardo, A doctor in Pedagogy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, she supported this position by saying that the New Mexican School is part of diversity and not of a homogeneous vision, as had been proposed at one time, since “for a long time education was seen as a product or service, and not as a right.”
“We have to move away to update Our vision of learning. For a long time, behavioral, industrial psychology was what organized our idea of learning into a fragmented, linear and progressive idea,” he commented.
In an interview with this newspaper, the academic of the highest house of studies also pointed out that the main difference between the New Mexican School and the previous educational model is that it stopped working by subject and now it is by training fields: “not even the sciences are in that fragmentation that we reproduce,” he said.
Regarding the elimination of mathematics in the New Mexican School model, Gallardo rejected this idea and clarified that this field of knowledge will rather be taught in another way, because “we continue to think that teaching mathematics is about learning the tables, and not how to solve a problem using an algorithm,” he stressed.
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2024-08-27 11:29:00