(The following post is written in English to make it accessible to my Mexican and German readers. With you I am referring to the Mexican readers.)
Amazing! While in the year 2000, just 33% of Mexican teenagers reached secondary school, just 11 years later it was 49%. Felicidades, Congratulations!
Almost. Although those numbers are impressive, the quality of this education has to be questioned. Because taking a deeper look, students just spent 4.5 hours a day on average in school. Of those 4.5 hours, according to the World Bank, just 2 hours are really used for education. And this lack of time leads to a superficial and poor quality education. But because politicians had decided after the embarrassing results in the year 2000 to “achieve” more primary and secondary certificates without changing hardly anything, it is not surprising that more than 79% of Mexican students have A0 level in English as a foreign language (7 out of 10 were not able to respond “Who is Kathy Smith?” having the following choices: a.) Yes, she is; b.)She´s fine; c.) The director) and nevertheless got the grade 9 (10 is the best one in the Mexican scholar system).
And as most problems existing in Mexican society, the main problem when it comes to education is as well corruption. To substantiate the aforementioned, I will provide data from the educational organization “Mexicanos Primeros”: According to this NGO, there are 298174 irregularly paid people taking advantage of the Mexican school systems, from teachers who never been present at school to teachers who have been reported dead. Those irregular payments lead to an annual damage of 35000 million Pesos (almost 2 billion Euros) a year.
With help of this post, you managed step one of three to make a change (according to the NGO Mexicanos Primeros): You realised how bad the current scholar system in Mexico is. And inevitably, this leads to step two: You feel something. I myself felt anger, shame and sadness when those statistics were presented to me in an impacting speech I listened to in the Mexican senate. I assume that the article has triggered some feeling in you as well. You can use the energy of those feelings to do something, step three. There are several options of collaborating with NGO´s like the abovementioned “Mexicanos Primeros” (actively in form of several types of voluntary works or passively), TECHO, my favourite NGO or as well in the foundation “Sabias que”, were I work four days a week (just contact me via mail: [email protected]) or any other way to do a change.
Amazing! While in the year 2000, just 33% of Mexican teenagers reached secondary school, just 11 years later it was 49%. Felicidades, Congratulations!
Almost. Although those numbers are impressive, the quality of this education has to be questioned. Because taking a deeper look, students just spent 4.5 hours a day on average in school. Of those 4.5 hours, according to the World Bank, just 2 hours are really used for education. And this lack of time leads to a superficial and poor quality education. But because politicians had decided after the embarrassing results in the year 2000 to “achieve” more primary and secondary certificates without changing hardly anything, it is not surprising that more than 79% of Mexican students have A0 level in English as a foreign language (7 out of 10 were not able to respond “Who is Kathy Smith?” having the following choices: a.) Yes, she is; b.)She´s fine; c.) The director) and nevertheless got the grade 9 (10 is the best one in the Mexican scholar system).
And as most problems existing in Mexican society, the main problem when it comes to education is as well corruption. To substantiate the aforementioned, I will provide data from the educational organization “Mexicanos Primeros”: According to this NGO, there are 298174 irregularly paid people taking advantage of the Mexican school systems, from teachers who never been present at school to teachers who have been reported dead. Those irregular payments lead to an annual damage of 35000 million Pesos (almost 2 billion Euros) a year.
With help of this post, you managed step one of three to make a change (according to the NGO Mexicanos Primeros): You realised how bad the current scholar system in Mexico is. And inevitably, this leads to step two: You feel something. I myself felt anger, shame and sadness when those statistics were presented to me in an impacting speech I listened to in the Mexican senate. I assume that the article has triggered some feeling in you as well. You can use the energy of those feelings to do something, step three. There are several options of collaborating with NGO´s like the abovementioned “Mexicanos Primeros” (actively in form of several types of voluntary works or passively), TECHO, my favourite NGO or as well in the foundation “Sabias que”, were I work four days a week (just contact me via mail: [email protected]) or any other way to do a change.