Fernando Camacho Servin
Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, September 11, 2022, p. 9
The opening of larger quotas so that students can study the subjects they need and the improvement of the general working conditions in their schools are two of the common points that most of the petitions of the schools of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) present. ) who have become unemployed in these weeks.
According to a review of this newspaper to the lists of demands of the dissatisfied students, an aspect that appears in practically all of them is the need to open more groups and subjects, since in recent months the student enrollment grew significantly, but not so the number of teachers to serve it.
The foregoing, according to the young people interviewed, prevents many from taking all the subjects they need to advance normally in their careers and finish in the established time, or from having to stay almost all day in their schools to adapt to the schedules. one of the few groups that open per semester.
Another aspect that is listed very frequently in the demands of the assemblies is that of transparency. According to the students, it is necessary for the authorities to account for the budget that each campus receives and the way in which it is used, since the argument for denying many academic services is the lack of money
.
In the same way, a recurrent demand is the real attention to the demands for sexual harassment
in schools –particularly committed by teachers, although there are also accusations against students– and the urgency of rehabilitating classrooms and other spaces, many of which even have structural damage.
Negotiations advance
Yesterday the IPN reported on the negotiation processes or the agreements that the general management has reached with various unemployed schools, including the National School of Biological Sciences, Superior of Chemical Engineering and Extractive Industries, Superior of Textile Engineering and the Interdisciplinary Professional Unit of Energy and Mobility.
According to the official report of the Polytechnic –updated on the night of Friday 9–, 21 of its higher education units maintain substantive academic and administrative activities
and 10 are unemployed.
As for the high school, 19 campuses have classes, two resume them this Monday, and one more is unemployed and will receive a response to their applications tomorrow.
Yesterday the Polytechnic Coordinator in Resistance met, which brings together the student assemblies of all the IPN schools; The results will be known today.
