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The Day: The privatization of public schools - Soledad Loaeza

The privatization of public school

Soledad Loaeza distribution propaganda the New Alliance Party (Honeycomb) among students of primary schools in Baja California Sur, reported La Jornada (17 / 01/2011), is one of the most grotesque expressions of the weak government and the arrogance of the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) and its leader. It is also proof that the old regime corporations today are equally or more powerful than the past, and a drag on our fragile democracy. However, the most scandalous thing about this case is that once again the masters of the public system have shown that their interests are above the teachers' responsibility, and the interest of the child or the child. Thus, it is imposing the privatization of public education, and I wonder, what could be the moral authority of a teacher who is motivated primarily by the determination to defend the presence of a party that has no ideology of its own, is a parasite of the SNTE, the resources claimed by the partisan tactics of mobilization and electoral strategies? In Instead of being leaders of their communities for their virtues, are powerful individuals who are imposed by the 'fear-for example, to suspend classes if they are not given positions in government require, as recently occurred in Tamaulipas, or the compromises involved-commissions in exchange for good grades. Just apply a spelling test, math or history of Mexico to a group of teenagers, the very high cost to check the power of the teachers union has meant to our children. Just listen to the interviews spontaneous bystanders, not to mention many of our legislators, whose capacity verbal expression is zero, which transmit radio and television, to ask what did we do in education?
For these and many other reasons, it is outrageous that before the report of the activities of Honeycomb in the schools of Baja California Sur, on the one hand, national and local education authorities react timid and hide behind a "I do not know, I to see, "and on the other, the party of Elba Esther Gordillo hold that it is acting" on behalf of the rights of children. " Really they are laughing at us in our faces. A right to what? To be a vehicle for that party, which has no desire to feed capacity influence of their leader, get information about parents? A right to take as exemplary role model teachers' leaders? A right to civics class that teaches every day a party that thrive only interested in democratic change, and when he does so corroded that these institutions have been allowed to flourish? A right to learn that politics is only abuse?

There was a time when public education was considered a priority for the country prosperous, democratic and optimistic that we wanted to build. Let's recall the resources invested in textbooks, school meals, school construction. Today, however, this fundamental issue for the future has been relegated to second, if not a third term, versus short-term interests of teachers, as evidenced by Gilberto Guevara Niebla analysis and results PISA. The deterioration of public education is closely associated with privatization, ie the fact that the SNTE has appropriated it for transfer to the honeycomb, its electoral arm. And this party uses to negotiate with other parties to support their particular demands. What can you teach children a guild looking factly how his head moves from an alliance with the PAN to another with the PRI, without any explanation?

The willingness of the PAN governments to divest public school SNTE reflects many things, but among others the most perverse is the contempt that the PAN has always inspired public education, which does not believe has ever believed. Naively has clung to the prejudice that private education is better, and think that this is because there are no unions and no rights for teachers. Worst of all, the educational disaster does not stop at the gates of the private school, or even because it is sheltered from the SNTE. But the PAN, and a significant proportion of the middle classes, so they believe, no other basis than its own and pure anti-union. For that reason, what do you care what happens in public schools? "At last they will say the PAN, have always been bad."

Source:
La Jornada - Review