Claudia Sheinbaum: the politician or the scientist

No one has questioned Claudia Sheinbaum’s academic credentials. Perhaps many have openly questioned his political affiliationhis membership in a motion who has promoted authoritarianism and his loyalty to a leader who has spread panic among supporters of liberal democracy. However, his professional training is outstanding.

On the occasion of the publication of the PISA results, AMLO and theirs have sought to disqualify the test as “neoliberal” trying, in the process, to get rid of the responsibility that the education in Mexico faces one of the worst crises in its history. The reality is one: the future of Mexico is mortgaged to the union interests represented by a clique of union leaders.

As you have pointed out Eduardo Backhoff Escudero, former president of the Governing Board of the extinct INEE, and specialist in educational matters, the results obtained by PISA are alarming, and he recalled that the test is expensive, and that it was AMLO’s own government that decided to participate in it. Therefore, he is obliged to recognize your results and act accordingly.

For its part, Claudia Sheinbaum She is emerging as the next president of Mexico. As I have noted, the former head of government has been recognized by a outstanding academic track record. One could sense that the candidate knows well the importance of education and scientific investigationand therefore, he would lead efforts from the presidency to ensure that Mexican children and young people who attend public education have the means provided by the State for their development.

The candidate is therefore faced with a disturbing dilemma: will she continue the AMLO policies aimed at destroying public education with their perverse alliance with the union to the detriment of students? Will you be willing to ratify a member of the SNTE as Secretary of Public Education? Will he follow the line dictated by AMLO of reducing budgets for research centers?

Will it continue to affect CONACYT and researchers with cutouts to its financing and with its public discredit promoted by the presidency of the Republic? Or, on the contrary, will you choose, according to your own academic experience, to promote the quality of education as a pillar of development? Will Claudia give way to politics before Claudia the scientist who we all hope will become a promoter of the quality of teaching, the enrichment of research work and a defender of critical thinking? We will see.