Laura Poy and Alexia Villaseñor
La Jornada newspaper
Friday, April 18, 2025, p. 12
Almost two years after its implementation, the new Mexican school (NEM) still faces multiple challenges. Guerrero’s high mountain professors sued the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) that Not only give instructions to work for projects, the secretary Mario Delgado comes to visit the Guerrero schools and verify if we even have a computer or internet in schools
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In an interview with The dayProfessor Alejandra Gatica, from the community of Hueycantenango, Guerrero, said that although curricular autonomy It has given us some freedom to choose the contents that best adapt to our needs and the community, the lack of equipment affects us
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He explained that with more than 27 years of service in a multigrade primary, We have faced many difficulties. We do not have classrooms, there is no assigned director and there is also no mayor. The same teachers do all work. I am the mayor, the teacher and the director
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The lack of educational infrastructure, equipment and teaching materials, as well as basic services, including Internet access, says, charge an invoice.
“We want to tell our students, now that they work for projects, ‘they are going to investigate, here are the means so they can do it,” but that, in our communities, is not yet a reality, “he says.
Rosenda Martínez, preschool teacher also on the high mountain, says that Every warrior faces hard conditions. Many times you feel that you have to divide in parts to serve your students and the administrative burden. In addition, if a father requires your support for a procedure, how to register his newborn son or ask for a scholarship or whatever needs, we support them, because they trust us as teachers
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María Guadalupe, Primary Professor in a town near Ayahualtempa, Guerrero, where Nahuatl is spoken, points out that All the work of adapting the contents of the NEM to our communities do it, the teachers
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With a new curricular proposal, he affirms, We feel that we are a little more free to work, you are a little more at ease, because I know that I can select my contents and not suffer an imposition, as before
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However, he warns, There are still many shortcomings in our communities. The Internet is a luxury, and our patron, which is the SEP, does not consider that if we want us to attend all that administrative burden, we need to have a computer and the Internet in each school. Now we are the teachers who of our pocket pay how we can the service to connect and even have a computer used to address the administrative load
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