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Prof.Gringo · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:26 pm Post subject: What do Mexican Teachers Learn?

http://news.yahoo.com/2-students-die-clash-mexican-police-001016716.html

"About 300 students from the Ayotzinapa teachers college staged the protest seeking to persuade the state government "to meet their educational demands," but did not specify what those were."

"Protesting students had hijacked buses and set fire to a gasoline station before federal police fired tear gas at the protesters."

"Mexico's public rural teachers colleges, some founded in the 1930s with a socialist philosophy, have long been a hot bed of radical activism."

Sadly this is nothing new in Mexico where teachers often go on strike and leave students from the poorest and most needy segment of Mexican society to lose days, weeks, even months of their education so that so-called teachers can stage violent and disruptive protests.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/collection/mexican-teachers-protest-turns-violent/?page=2

http://labornotes.org/2011/05/mexican-teachers-strike-protest-over-test-driven-education

geaaronson · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 948 Location: Mexico City

MotherF · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:59 pm Post subject:

Prof.Gringo · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:14 pm Post subject:

geaaronson · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 948 Location: Mexico City

My point is if the schools have no computers, the education deprived arises from governmental inaction.

Regardless, I have the feeling that there is more to this than has been reported by the press. You may or may not know that for years, the press in MX had been compromised as the papers were contracted by the government for official notices. Adverse news coverage and you just stopped receiving those lucrative government accounts. When you add to this the fact that politicians paid reporters for favorable reportage to supplement their meager earnings, you get skewed news.

Having been a reporter on a conservative/reactionary newspaper 38 years ago in the States and seen how it works even in a non-corrupt environment, how those who own the news determnine the news, I am very much aware of how the media is forced into a conservative stance.