Yesterday, the government agreed a 8% salary increase for all the teachers of the public school system. That’s more or less a real increase (after inflation) of 4%. Although the wages of teachers are low, there are certainly not working very hard… Besides their official holidays, they also “take” additional holidays: for example, today it was “Teachers day”, a good reason according the teachers to take a day off. But in order to have a nice long weekend, they also took vacations yesterday! And we could also add all the days teachers go on strike (with pay): last year in Oaxaca they’ve been on strike more or less 6 months! As you see, productivity is not a concern of the teachers here…
I really wonder WHAT teachers are doing in Mexico. Mexican students rank far below average in comparison with students of other parts of the world. Does that mean that Mexican kids are stupid? Of course not, but if the teachers are worthless…
When will Mexico understand that education is the ONLY WAY out of poverty? With this increase of wages without asking quality in return, the Mexican government once again delays the country’s progress…
Interesting detail: The sub-secretary of education Mr. Fernando González Sánchez is the son in law of Mrs. Elba Esther Gordillo. And that woman is the president of the Union who “negociated” the increase in wages! Give me a break!
This said, I not telling you that all the teachers are bad…
Saludos,
Peter. Study Spanish in Mexico at Anders Languages México: http://www.andersmexico.com !
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