Tijuana, August 12.- During a press conference to announce their support for Claudia Sheinbaum to coordinate the 4T defense committees, academics and scientists from Baja California considered that the criticisms the new textbooks receive are the same they have received since 1959, when the National Commission for Free Textbooks was founded.
This Saturday, a group of scientists from various academic institutions in the state met in Tijuana to announce their support for Dr. Sheinbaum to lead the efforts ahead of the 2024 electoral process.
«What is happening is not new (…) In each reissue that is made, since it is made every 6 years, those who attack free textbooks come out, today they come out again and it has always been the same argument, it has always been that the books are communist, that they want to indoctrinate children, that they want to change the country's economic system, there is a great lack of knowledge of what the New Mexican School is proposing" said Javier González Monroy, academic at the National Pedagogical University.
The academic believes that the current resistance to textbooks stems from "a politically and ideologically motivated campaign by certain media outlets and individuals who feel displaced from power, find no way, and take advantage of every opportunity—in this case, free textbooks—to wage a campaign against the López Obrador government and everything it represents."
He also explained that "I am a professor at the National Pedagogical University. I have been working there for 42 years, training teachers, and for a long time we have been waiting for a reform like this. For a long time we have been proposing that there was a need to work on an educational reform that would put the child at the center, but also the community where the child and the young person develop."
