With those of House. “A lost generation”, they analyze the impact of the pandemic on education

Columnists of this publishing house moderated by the Editorial Director of THE UNIVERSAL, David Aponte, spoke on this occasion in “With those at home”On the impact of pandemic on the school dropout.

Maite Azuela, Héctor de Mauleón, Valeria Moy and Juan Pablo Becerra-Acosta also discussed the public policies implemented by the current government regarding the health emergency.

Maite Azuela expressed that Mexico does not have the conditions to return to face-to-face classes risk free.

He stressed that planning a distance education model It was an expedited decision, since the issue of poor quality on the internet was not taken into account.

Also read: 5.2 million students are out of the 2020-21 school year due to pandemic or poverty: Inegi

He also pointed out that the pandemic has prevented us from seeing problems that we have dragged, as an example, he said, there is the recruitment of minors by the organized crime that benefits from dropping out of school.

He also said that not only the pandemic impacted on school dropouts, but it was also the lack of resources.

“First come the poor and we are seeing that these poor people are now poorer and cannot go to school ”.

For its part, Valeria moy He commented that the distance education model that the federal government took was a reaction without thinking, since it could have taken advantage of a different school year, with different contents than those of a face-to-face educational system.

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“You cannot keep the curriculum as it is established in a face-to-face school and keep it online, when we have the deficiencies of online systems, but we also forget the fundamental work that teachers have, a mentoring and guiding role, and we also forget and the fundamental role that schools and schools have in the socialization in children ”.

“Once they enter productive activity, either earning very low income, going back to school is an even bigger obstacle.”

Also read: 9 million students drop out of school due to Covid and poverty

In your participation Juan Pablo Becerra-Acosta said that the most serious thing is that it does not exist or has not been announced by the educational authorities a plan to make up for what was lost this school year.

“The federal government has to understand that it must change some things in order to face this crisis.”

While, Hector de Mauleón He stated that “the seed of a future disaster was sown, something is brewing that we have not made visible.”

He noted that the data published by the Inegi they are a red flag.

“It is the seed of a generation, which will probably be the lost generation of Mexico.”

We invite you to see the complete interventions by one of the columnists in “Con los de Casa”.

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