The Catholic Church criticizes “biased reading of the community” in the new SEP plan

Cesar Arellano Garcia

Newspaper La Jornada
Monday, May 16, 2022, p. 4

The Catholic Church criticized the new educational plan of the Ministry of Public Education (SEP), which, it said, ignore already built.

In the editorial of the weekly from faith pointed out that he is optimistic that the new curricular framework and study plan 2022 of Mexican basic education assumes the community perspective of education, seeking that students develop their abilities and the values ​​that have been instilled in them from their family and their communities.

However, he added, he is concerned that this prospect has a biased reading of the community, since, in an idealistic reading of it, it excludes the religious experience, ignores the productive need of the human being and denies the violent part that organized crime has imposed on hundreds of Mexican communities.

In the context of Teacher’s Day, he recognized the outstanding work of those who, he pointed out, carry out the noble task of building, with generosity and patience, the Mexican society of the future.

He stated that in the current educational plan it is requested that the State guarantee access to school for all children and young people, regardless of their socioeconomic background, ethnic origin or gender; and that they are offered meaningful, relevant and useful learning and knowledge for life.

On the other hand, in the proposed plan for the coming years what is already built is ignored; the center is placed on the community at the expense of the individual, by making their performance, development or effort neither measurable nor transcendent. The important thing is that it is integrated into its community and that it renounces any pretense of development that distinguishes it or allows it to transcend.

In addition, curricular requirements are eliminated, leaving them to the discretion of the teacher, and national or international evaluations are annulled, which it will result in the educational system not promoting the effort of virtue, but promoting the law of least effort. This principle should be of great concern not only to parents, but to the entire society that will be left without young people willing to grow and prosper.

He added that teachers will have a difficult task to assume this proposal riddled with prejudice against our past and full of uncertainties about our future. Our hope is in the vocation of each teacher and teacher. They have always known how to cope with political vicissitudes and train great Mexicans.