2023-04-21 21:38:09
Tijuana, BC.- In the 2020-2021 school year, 12% of students did not pass high school, the highest figure recorded in the state in the last 4 years, according to data from the SEE.
Baja California high school students achieved the highest failure rate in the last four school years, according to the State Secretary of Education (SE).
The report of Education Sector Program 2022-2027 reveals that in the 2020-2021 school year the level of low school performance was 12.2% when in the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 school years they were 10.6 and 10.9, respectively.
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It is worth mentioning that in the 2019-2020 period it was reduced to 5.1% because at the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic lto Secretary of Public Education prohibited teachers from failing students who at that time took classes online.
The report also informs that in 2021, 20,808 high school youth were evaluated throughout the State, who resulted in a poor school performance in reading and math in it return to face-to-face classes.
The causes
Carlos Huerta, professor at the Telesecundaria Number 28, located in the Camino Verde neighborhood of Tijuana, revealed that students have an academic lag generated by the virtual classes that were implemented in 2020 by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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He explained that although his students are in the second year of secondary school, they must return to the topics of the first year of secondary school or those of the sixth year of primary school so that they understand the reading comprehension and math exercisesmainly.
This situation is due to the fact that young people are more concerned about recovering the coexistence they lost due to Internet classes or confinement, he indicated, in addition, their parents are not involved enough to motivate them to improve your grades.
You feel an environment in which there is no compromise. As a teacher, I perceive that in many of the cases the students believe that we are going to spend them without doing anything like in the pandemic, in other cases there are young people who do want to ”, he pointed out.
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encourage participation
Faced with this problem, he said that as a teacher he must teach his classes with games to encourage student participationThey even have to do extracurricular activities so that while they socialize they are motivated to improve their performance.
However, the teacher indicated that in order to bring down the low academic performance It is necessary that young people and parents are willing to learn.
“The parents who support us at home and the young people who go with the attitude of learning, because they go to school in a certain way for recess. We don’t see the parents’ commitment, they just send them to school, but if they fail, well they failed, they don’t care about what we can do together to improve”, reiterated Carlos Huerta.
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To know
According to a diagnostic evaluation carried out in 2021 on 20,808 high school youth, in the reading subject the percentage of correct answers was 43.1%. In the subject of mathematics, the percentage of correct answers was 41.7%.
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