The New Mexican School and the free textbooks for the 2023-2024 school year, designed by the Ministry of Public Education (SEP), integrate innovative knowledge from the perspective of gender equity, interculturality, healthcare, and an approach to linguistic diversity. However, there are also "deficiencies, gaps, and even contradictions" in the pedagogical and methodological proposals that must be corrected, specialists, principals, and teachers stated in front of the group.
They emphasized that any new material "may include errors and shortcomings in both content and spelling, but the underlying theme is different. The fierce criticism of the LTG does not stem from educational interests, but rather from political, economic, and electoral ones, which complicates a debate that does nothing to help teachers and does nothing to benefit schools or education."
Juan Manuel Rendón , professor-researcher and former director of the Meritorious National School of Teachers, emphasized that in light of the controversy generated by the new texts, "we must distinguish between two very distinct areas: the political, economic, and electoral, and the pedagogical and ideological. We cannot ignore the fact that there are very powerful interests behind these attacks, which ultimately seek to undermine public education and the LTG."
He noted that in a collective analysis of the new qualifications with secondary school teachers, grouped in the Coordination Assembly of Section 10 of the National Union of Education Workers, not only are advances claimed, such as "including complex thinking without fracturing it into subjects ," but there are also errors, such as reproducing concepts too closely tied to individualism, including resilience.
