Teachers will now be able to fail students, after a pandemic

As of next December, only first and second grade students from authorized public and private schools will continue to be exempt from failing (the grading scale will be from 6 to 10); the grade from 5 will apply to students from third to sixth grade and from first to third grade of secondary school.

The learning recovery period, derived from the effects caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, during which the federal educational authority determined not to fail primary and secondary students, will end on November 30.

Interviewed at the end of her appearance before the branch committee of the Chamber of Senators for the analysis of the Fourth Government Report of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Leticia Ramírez Amaya, Secretary of Public Education, explained that the “assessment with accreditation qualification” is It will take place from the second bimester of the 2022-2023 school year.

“An agreement has just been reached that implies that there is an evaluation with accreditation qualification. We ask for sufficient flexibility to understand situations (…) that some students cannot present themselves. But it has been reported. The agreement came out on November 1 and has already been sent to all the states, ”he reported.

Asked if, from next December 1, primary and secondary students, except first and second grade, the corresponding one on a scale of 5 to 10 will already be established on their evaluation report card, she replied:

“Nope. What teachers have to do is support them. We have to give a rating. As you put it, it seems that our objective is that we can no longer accredit them. No. Our objective is that they are in school, that they learn and that they are happy, because that is something that has to do with what the senators raised: emotional health. We want to leave it as an administrative matter, but the most important thing is that children and young people are in schools learning”.

However, the General Directorate of Accreditation, Incorporation and Revalidation (DGAIR) of the SEP specified in an information card, after the statements of the official, the content of the Agreement 06/11/22, issued by the Ministry of Public Education (SEP ), which regulates the specific and extraordinary actions for the conclusion of the 2021-2022 school year and the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year, whose validity applied during the learning recovery period and ends on the 30th.

“In all cases in which a numerical qualification is established in the evaluation report of the students of primary and secondary education, the qualification that must be registered may not be less than 600, quotes the official statement.

In his speech before the senators, Ramírez Amaya reported that between 2021 and 2022 the federal government allocated 28,757 million pesos for actions to improve infrastructure and educational equipment through the La Escuela es Nuestra program.

Senator Verónica Delgadillo (MC) affirmed that said program has been “a simulation” because it does not compensate for everything that was done through the Full Time Schools program, which the Lopez Obrador government disappeared.

Guadalupe Saldaña (PAN) also criticized the La Escuela es Nuestra program and diagnosed that “in education we are doing badly.”

rolando.ramos@eleconomista.mx