Governor Eugenia Campos Galván Calls for Donation of Books for Schools

Governor Eugenia Campos Galván will begin collecting books from August 21 at schools and collection centers.

Mexico City, August 16 (However).– After the Governor of Chihuahua, Maria Eugenia Campos Galvanrequests this Wednesday to the citizens the donation of free text books that can be used next cycle school, before his refusal to use the newthe head of the Ministry of Public Education (SEP), Leticia Ramírez responded that the federal government had fulfilled its responsibility and that the PAN member’s proposal “is not going to be attached to the pedagogical proposal” of the administration.

“The SEP is responsible for getting educational materials, free textbooks, to all girls and boys in the country. We are doing our job, with our responsibility. The primary books are already in the warehouses of the state of the Republic, they would have to work with these materials”, Ramírez indicated at the evening press conference to publicize the contents of the Free Textbooks (LTG).

“The other thing,” he added, referring to Chihuahua, “corresponds to a situation that is not attached to the pedagogical proposal of transformation. The main difference is the memory, individual part. Let’s build knowledge from a point of view of reality, let’s start from our individual and social context in which we are living in order to build knowledge ”, she completed.

“We fulfill the responsibility, the books are already in the states. We do not want to distribute them yet, because we do not have a guarantee that they will be taken care of, it is raining in some areas for example”, concluded the Secretary of Public Education.

MARU CAMPOS ASKS FOR DONATIONS OF TEXTBOOKS

By announcing that the entity is going to develop its own educational material, the state president invited Chihuahuans to participate on August 21 in the collection of basic education books, corresponding to previous years.

“Search in your house, in your family’s, with your friends, preschool, primary and secondary textbooks from previous years, books that you no longer use and share them,” he said in a video on social networks.

Campos Galván explained that the books could be taken to educational establishments and various collection points that were published on the official pages of the State Government.

In addition, the president stressed that the textbooks have received various criticisms from parents, teachers and specialists, because they lack basic and necessary content.

“That is why in Chihuahua we proposed not to deliver them, we listened to the parents and that is why we filed a constitutional controversy before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, which determined for now not to deliver the books while it studies and resolves the merits of the matter,” held.

After the Governor of Chihuahua filed a constitutional controversy before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) and the delivery in the entity was suspended, she affirmed that she will respect what the law and the Constitution say.

“In Chihuahua we have always respected our laws and of course the Constitution, so we will be pending the decision of the Court and we will abide by what it decides. I say to parents: I am not going to allow our girls and boys to stop learning and stop having the tools to fulfill their dreams and desires. Classes begin in a few days and together we are going to help them so that they do have the materials they need to grow with high skills, knowledge and abilities, ”she declared.

“I ask all of us to unite, to work together as we know how to do it, in two specific actions: the first, we need your urgent help, search your house, your family, with your friends, look for textbooks on preschool, primary and secondary school from previous years, books that you no longer use, share them and take them to your children’s schools starting Monday, August 21,” he said.

In addition, he announced that the Ministry of Education and Sports (SEyD) is preparing its own quality materials together with a team of teachers, parent associations and education specialists, as well as representatives of the indigenous peoples and communities of the region.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of Mexico, assured on Monday morning that the decision of Luis María Aguilar Morales, Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), who granted a suspension to the Legal Department of Chihuahua to that the Free Textbooks are not distributed in the schools of that entity for the 2023-2024 school year.

López Obrador considered that the federal government is facing a special case, made up of “a very reactionary, conservative, irresponsible and politically-oriented Governor, who presents a controversy so that the books are not delivered to the children, to the students in Chihuahua”; as well as by “a dishonest Minister” who “orders that the books not be distributed, seeking to leave the children and students of Chihuahua without Textbooks.”