Sheinbaum’s stance
President Claudia Sheinbaum insisted that the country’s teachers must decide their evaluation process through direct consultations in each school, without the CNTE imposing a single position.
“What do the teachers want? That with (section) 22 we decide how teachers throughout the country are going to be evaluated. Well no, who has to give an opinion? The teachers throughout the country, the teachers, then, that is why it is school by school, and they have to participate, not just the CNTE, all the teachers in the country have to participate,” he said.
He added that decisions must be made with the proposals collected in each school and by secret vote.
“For example, there are some sections of the CNTE that propose to return to the mixed commissions, and that there the promotion of teachers be decided, no longer with an exam, no longer without the union, but rather an exclusively labor issue. The discussion of how teachers should be evaluated belongs to the teachers and is a decision of the teachers,” he commented.
Sheinbaum pointed out that the CNTE has union representation only in Oaxaca, Chiapas and Zacatecas, and that there are other teachers in the rest of the country with diverse positions.
He denied that a space was opened in his morning conference for the CNTE to present its requests.
“Here, I gave them a two-day appointment and they did not arrive. There can be a public debate, but the morning is something else, in another space or in the afternoon, but not here, this is the space of the Presidency of the Republic and here a public debate is discussed. Elsewhere, with pleasure,” he expressed.
