2023-04-27 18:38:36
According to an analysis carried out by the organization Mexicanos Primero, during the pandemic (between the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years) some 1.3 million students dropped out of basic level schools, as detailed by the researcher Katia Carranza, which affects the educational backwardness of the population of the country.
What is clear is that this educational backwardness is one of the greatest areas of lag and social gaps. This can be defined as the delay that a population has with respect to the educational level that is assumed to be basic within the established age limits. Thus, in Mexico, a person will be behind in education when, being over 15 years of age, they have not completed basic education.
The age limit to determine it should be 17 years
From this, the first thing that must be considered is that the age limit to determine the level of backwardness in the country should be 17 years, since compulsory education, in accordance with the constitutional text, must include up to the baccalaureate, the conclusion of which is established at the designated age.
Even with the threshold of 15 years, the available data show that in the three years from 2019 to 2021, progress is practically nil in reducing the delay, which constitutes a resounding failure both in CONAFE as in the INEA, institutions that have gone from being irrelevant during the peñato, to being practically null in the present administration.
It is estimated that it would take Mexico 99 years to eradicate educational backwardness
The estimates of educational backwardness published annually by INEA, updated with respect to the results of the 2020 Census, show an unacceptable stagnation. Indeed, in the indicator related to the percentage of illiterate people (those who, being over 15 years old, cannot read or write a message), it is shown that in 2019 there were 4.8 percent of the total in the indicated eritary segment; that is, 4.45 million people.
For the year 2020, the percentage was 4.6 percent of those over 15 years of age illiterate, that is, 4.4 million people in the indicated condition; while for the year 2021, the data was located at 4.5%; that is to say, 4.31 million people in condition of illiteracy.
In the percentage, as can be seen, there is a reduction of three tenths of a percentage point; while, in absolute numbers, the change was only 140 thousand people. This is why it could be estimated that, at the end of the six-year term, there would be a sum of just around 300,000 less illiterate people compared to the beginning of the administration. At this rate, in a linear projection, it would take Mexico 99 years to reach zero illiterate people over the age of 15, which would eradicate the latent educational backwardness now.
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