The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, on Thursday called opposition accusations that the new free textbooksthe mandatory material that the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) seeks to “indoctrinate” children with communist ideas.
Imagine the contents of the first grade, second grade, third grade, no way to talk about communism, they are exaggerations,” said the president during his morning press conference.
The Mexican ruler thus referred to the controversy that has arisen after an injunction obtained by the National Union of Family Parents last Mayin which the Third District Court in Administrative Matters ordered the SEP to review the content of the textbooks and submit their redesign to prior consultations.
The conservative organization has questioned whether the new books contain education on sexual diversity, diverse families and teachings on reproductive organs at the elementary level.
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In addition, other politicians and experts have also criticized that the materials include references against “neoliberalism”an ideology that López Obrador attributes to the governments prior to his, in addition to content that is aligned with the ideology of the president.
Despite the court order to stop the delivery of the material, President López Obrador asserted this week that “there is no impediment” for the books to be ready for the return to school on August 28.
They say indoctrination of what? What is the indoctrination, where? ”, She questioned.
The ruler criticized the opposition National Action Party (PAN) for its call on parents to destroy the new books.
It’s that they are going too far with what they say about communism and textbooks. In most cases they have not even read them, it is a rejection by slogan and above all by the ideological charge ”, he explained.
He also said that there is nothing to worry about because the books “are well done” by various experts.
Telling people that there is nothing to worry about, the books are very well done by specialists and educators, but above all teachers and teachers participated, it was a whole process”, he defended.
In addition, he explained that there is a book for teachers that talks about the history and social movements in Mexico, which, he assured, was hidden before.
But now there is talk of the Dirty War, of the repression of 1968, but it is for teachers. Besides, why hide the reality?” he declared.
He assured that the books can be “perfectible” but stressed that they correspond to the new reality.
Its contents are very good and the purpose is for there to be a scientific and at the same time humanistic education, but the controversy will continue and that is good because this will help the debate a lot and we will win,” he emphasized.
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