And the minister? The National Autonomous University of Mexico has fired Martha Rodriguez Ortizwho was the thesis adviser of Yasmin Esquivel Mossa. The academic insists that it was she who shared the then student’s work with other students. She clings, then, to the narrative that she tries to position dodge as the victim and not as the plagiarist, despite the fact that the latter was determined by the university authorities.
Of course, what would have to happen, and it is already late, is the separation of Esquivel Mossa from his position on the Supreme Court. Why keep there someone who, with their mere presence, violates the prestige of an institution of such a high rank? The UNAM will now have to take charge of cleaning up the reputation of its titling processes. And this, without a doubt, contributes to the vulnerability of a highly questioned educational system, even more so since this administration has turned the civil service into an ideologized sphere.
Precisely in the field of education, isn’t the SEP today in the hands of those who don’t know about learning processes, but do know a lot about political work and union leadership? What future awaits education in Mexico with someone like Leticia Ramirez in charge of Public Education? The missing secretary, who has not returned to the public eye since she did not know what to answer to the questions of Danielle Dithurbide in interview for Televisa Newscasts, has not needed to understand pedagogical processes to stay in the position. The President himself expressed the “added value” that led her to be Secretary of State: “leti Her profession is being a teacher, she taught for 12 years. She was a classroom teacher for a long time. Besides that we have known each other for 28 years…”. the same minister yasmin esquivelis not a figure close to Lopez Obrador? Yesterday, omar mejia he took protest as deputy governor of the Bank of Mexico, although he has no experience in positions of that level, his new position implies a jump of three hierarchical seats, he has the President’s endorsement.
Ideology before experience and suitability to reach some positions, has become an increasingly visible axis in this administration. There are the diplomatic posts that some ex-governors, not emanating from the Morenista ranks, have received as soon as they leave their States after an election.
Is this the future we want? It is not an exclusive issue of the civil service, in Spain, for example, there is a debate precisely on the educational field that, finally, is a field that looks to the future. This is how the writer explains it Alfonso Ruiz de Aguirre: “They want our children to remain in the classroom for many years to exclusively teach them knowledge that pedagogists have called competencies, that is, those that are useful to everyone in their jobs (…) They want to condemn our children to the ignorance. They want to condemn our children to irrelevance…”.
In Mexico, the President has insistently stressed that basic level textbooks be vehicles for learning civics, history and ethics, he has even pointed out that the “neoliberal” content has been removed, because not even in this does he release the propaganda discourse , but it has not taken steps that lead our country to improve its place in the OECD ranking in education. A few months ago, the study Education Outlook 2022 He pointed out that Mexico invests almost four times less resources per student than the rest of the countries that belong to the organization.
A deficient education that is added to an ideologized public function, does not contribute at all to a promising future: because while the current decision makers only execute policies designed by someone else, the decision makers of the future will not be prepared for the challenges that they come And what an example, moreover, has been given by the minister who plagiarized her bachelor’s thesis. Irrelevance is the least of it.
