▲ Since the murder, demands for greater security have marked the agenda.Photo Jair Cabrera
Lilian Hernandez Osorio
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, October 27, 2025, p. 14
More than 30 days have passed since the homicide at the South College of Sciences and Humanities (CCH) and its 11,380 students have half-taken online classes.
On average, two out of every 10 teachers refused to teach the subjects, only 45 percent of the students have a computer for personal use and more than half do not have Internet access at home, according to figures from the general directorate of the CCH and testimonies from the young people themselves.
“Of the six subjects I have, only four teachers teach me; the other two have not communicated with the group in all this time that passed after the tragedy we experienced,” said Isabella, in the third semester.
Like her, three other students told The Day that at least two teachers do not teach classes and there are others who only give them homework and projects, in addition to being warned that when they return to face-to-face classes, they will take an exam.
“The French teacher doesn’t teach us, but he told us that he will give us an exam when we return to campus,” said a student who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals.
Of the 663 teachers at CCH Sur, which has the largest teaching staff of the five campuses, around 135 have not taught any classes between September 23 and October 26 because they refused to teach subjects remotely, as was done during the pandemic.
Of those teachers who are not fulfilling their teaching duties, about 50 are full-time teachers, who have earned an average of 40 thousand pesos during this month without having worked, since the general management of the CCH has indicated that it cannot force them to teach online classes.
According to the authorities of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the return to in-person classes could be on November 18, although there are parents, students and workers who doubt the return on that date and fear that it could be prolonged longer; If they managed to return that day, they would only have five weeks of in-person academic activities, two in November, two in December and one week in January, since the semester ends on the 9th of that month in 2026.
Parents oppose the return without security measures
Parents who have attended the dialogue tables with the authorities indicated that as long as the turnstiles are not installed, the additional video surveillance cameras to the existing ones, as well as the panic buttons that they requested, they will not allow in-person classes to resume.
As a result of this position, a mother caused outrage among students and parents by posting a comment in the CCH Sur Facebook group, in which she indicated that it is “urge” for the students to return to classes and live with each other, so that they “learn to turn the page.”
Mrs. Ximena Garmendia reproached them for wasting time and resorting to “a three-peso blackmail speech,” because all the security they are asking to install “is not going to prevent any other event from happening again.”
These comments generated anger among the parents who have attended the dialogue tables and the students themselves, because they consider that although all the security elements do not guarantee 100 percent of their integrity, they can prevent dangerous situations.
The one with the lowest level of graduation
Data from UNAM itself indicate that in the last three years, this campus has been the worst of the five CCHs in the graduation level of the same generation, since only 69 percent complete high school in the three years established by the study plan.
