SEP textbooks maintain controversial topics, but correct errors

SEP corrects errors in the books

Most of the books that will be used in the next school year are a reissue of the family of books from the New Mexican School that were presented and used in the last school year, controversial for containing typographical and conceptual errors and inaccurate historical dates.

Several of these errors have already been corrected or changed. Such is the case of an infographic of the solar system that was in the fifth grade textbook, titled “Our Knowledge,” which had typographical errors, as well as confusing information about the composition and characteristics of each planet, which were also ordered incorrectly.

Now in the new book, the solar system infographic—which was an additional graphic to illustrate the topic of infographics—has been changed, now to an infographic but with information about climate change.

Another correction that was carried out was in the third grade book, “Nuestros Saberes”, where in an example of a text in chronological order a timeline of the life of Benito Juárez was printed and where the date of birth of the former president of Mexico was incorrect, since it appeared that said historical figure had been born on March 18, 1806 and not March 21, 1806.

So now in the new book, Juarez’s date of birth has been corrected.

Likewise, some typographical errors, such as sentences that were written without spaces or prepositions, have already been corrected in the new books.

Such is the case of page 206 of the book “Languages” for the first year of secondary school, where this type of errors appeared.

Textbooks still touch on controversial topics

Despite these adjustments, controversial issues that have been questioned by some parents’ associations such as sexual education, gender equality, family diversity and inclusive language still persist.