Reaction to New Education Reforms

 Teachers and students on the march again
         Reforms, new education model among pet peeves in three states
 Mexico News Daily | Saturday, March 18, 2017

Teachers affiliated with the dissident CNTE union as well as aspiring teachers have been on the march again, in part because they were given new fodder to protest with the introduction this week of a new education model.

In Chiapas, professors in Section 40 were joined by students, parents, members of non-governmental organizations, unionized health workers and civil organizations in a march yesterday through the streets of the state capital, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, that concluded in the zócalo.

The main reason for the march was to protest the sweeping structural reforms introduced early in the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto. Among them were education reforms that “threaten the rights of education workers, of public schools and of the children and youths of the country,” protesters said.
One product of the reforms is the new education model, which was also a target of the protest...

We have visited several schools, public and private, and found the principals and teachers to be gracious, classrooms filled with adorable kids - and the teaching environment very different than our US schools. 

In the public schools we visited, classrooms are small, computers are few. Teachers are eager to chat and share experiences.

What IS common between our countries is the student. We meet young people eager to connect, friendly and joyful. At one school, our "students", educators from various school districts in Arizona, we saw and were impressed with several strategies we could apply at home.