Mexico is also facing it's issues with education

[nadinbrzezinski]

But the editorial I read in Excelsior raised a little issue that nobody likes to talk about in OUR current matters with education.

I wish I kept that editorial. In the discussion on why Mexican Education is in the dumps... usual matters came up...

Bad teachers.
Unions.
Large class sizes.
Anti school attitudes among parents, who really do not value school.

But my favorite since it applies here too...but we never see it here...

Politicians enamored with short term talking points that sound good, not realizing education is a long term investment that will take 25-30 years for the first results to truly show up... not the short term 2-6 years of a politicians term. (The Federal House has a term of two years, cannot run again immediately, term limits, and the Senate has a six year term, cannot run again either)

I did a double take. This was a discussion on how to improve education and the fact that Mexico needed to fully change it's view of it into long term evaluations... I have yet to see anything like this in any local or national media.

OH and for the record, yes there are bad teachers, who are the products of a substandard educational system.

The Unions can be a problem only when you fight them instead of work with them. Err... just like here...

Large class sizes, you betcha... 60 kids in a class is all but doable... and we cry with thirty...

And yes, there is an attitude, like here, that education and school is a thing them elitists do...

But this little thing about investment long term... I have yet to see that in OUR high valued and vaunted media... And that is something that they are starting to discuss. We need to improve the whole system as a LONG TERM national investment... and we first need to change ATTITUDES.

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. Y con su punctuación, también.... Here 'its' is what you want. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Well I'll take the bashing for the grammar

ESL... so there.

:-)

unlike most americans...

Habla Espanol?

Medaber Ibrit?

:hi:

[Davis_X_Machina]

3. Sólo un poco.

Viví varios años como estudiante con algunos cubanos de Miami.
La lengua latina y griego antiguo son mis idiomas remunerados.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Muy bien

la excepción también, ya veo