Together with the teachers, to occupy schools and roads there are also the parents of the students,

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Ni a paso atrás. Despite Ingrid sk and Manuel, the two storms that devastated a large part of Mexican República, did not retreat an inch the protest of the masters of the Coordinadora sk Nacional de Trabajadores Educación (CNTE) against the Ley General del Servicio Profesional sk Teacher. About two months ago teachers, students, parents with school-age children occupy squares and streets to protest against the neoliberal reform of public education and teachers' work disguised as education reform, to which is added the protest against the privatization of one of the few strategic assets remained in the country: the oil industry Pemex.
The "malariforma" While the youth of the three major parties - the Partido Revolucionario Institucional today to the government, the Partido de la Revolución Democrática and the Partido de Acción Nacional - calling for the renewal of the ruling class, their leaders unite in the "Pact for the Mexico, "wished for a new" democratic transition "in the country. A fundamental part of this alliance transpartite, education reform has been basted since disputed arrival of Enrique Peña Nieto to the government in December, with the modification of the constitutional articles on education (3 and 73) already completed before Christmas .
In practice, the reform sees the teachers sk become "administrative entities" subject to an assessment that, if they were negative for three times, he would see to be redeployed to other non-teaching function. In this process, however, have not been provided spaces for the participation of trade unions and associations of teachers or for adversarial in case of reassignment. In addition disappears the right to dismissal for those who decide to carry out an activity which prevents him from teaching, including union activity. For the evaluation was then designed a special institution, the 'National Institute for the Evaluation of Education (INEE, in its Spanish initials) with which the decisions about promotions, stay in the workplace and issues related to income of teachers go to the Federal Ministry of Education, bypassing the de facto autonomy of the federal states.
Together with the teachers, to occupy schools and roads there are also the parents of the students, they are also subject to the reform, which will force them to "pay part of the costs and all the costs of the services' schools, including electricity, water, taxes of ownership, teaching materials. This constitutes a heavy burden on the pockets of families, as for the parents of pupils Secundaria número 31 "Independencia", who would have been delivered, among others, a bi-monthly bill of 500 euro for the light, a 2,200-euro for the water to a total of about 6700 euro.
In October, many teachers have abandoned picketing to return in the regions to which they belong, leading to 26 (of 32) Member States where there are protests and taking to the streets even those teachers who were initially remained on the sidelines. Many of them would prefer to stay in the classroom "rather than camping out under the Monumento a la Revolución" of Ciudad de México, sk told a teacher of the state of Veracruz sk - one of the poorest sk states where the strongest are the protests - interviewed by Desinformémonos.org " but this fight is for the benefit of all and we will win. " This struggle is not only against the reforms planned by the government, but against a system that the writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II (in recent weeks the Zocalo, the main square of Ciudad de México, to give them