We are not 'Attention-Seekers', We are Fighting: PV Teachers Against the Education Reform
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Teachers belonging to the North Coast Magisterial Movement led a march on Wednesday on Avenida Francisco Medina Ascencio, going up to the main square of Puerto Vallarta, to fix their stance against the recently passed Education Reform.
The contingent began with around 2 thousand people who were mainly teachers affiliated to the CNTE and SNTE and who also make up the mentioned movement, plus some parents and students, carrying banners and placards. As they advanced this number increased, according to participants to more than 3 thousand.
Originally it was convened at 8:30 am in the parking lot of the airport, but then they decided to start at 9:15 in Plaza Marina, to not give a bad impression to the tourists.
The participants walked almost four hours to reach the main square, where an assembly was held and their positions were clarified. Some teachers and parents took the floor and presented their arguments to participate in this movement that was convoked in all the municipalities of the state of Jalisco.
"We are in favor of an educational reform which contemplates 8 percent of the GDP for education and not 4 percent, we need more investment in education, we are in favor of an education reform which contemplates a maximum of 35 students per group, to be able to have a quality education near the children (...) sadly only 10 percent of the schools in Puerto Vallarta are half acceptable, sadly 90 percent have a deficiency of some sort, that is why we ask and we require from all levels of government that we fight in favor of education", explained professor Pablo Ruperto Gómez, of the high school Foránea Federal number 29.
While this was happening, a committee of 12 teachers requested an audience with the mayor of Puerto Vallarta, Ramón Guerrero Martínez, but he was not in the presidential compound and they were attended by the Councillor María Guadalupe Anaya, who heads the Education Committee within the city government.
Outside this group no other professor was allowed to enter into the City Hall building.
The purpose of this meeting was to ask the mayor to be the spokesman of rejection to the approval of the Education Reform of the State Government. They agreed to a meeting on Monday September 30th at 11 am, as announced by the spokesman of the committee, Lorena Jiménez Andrade, director of the school Niños Héroes de Ixtapa.
The professor stressed that there is a commitment on the part of teachers who left their classrooms this Wednesday, to make up the day depending on the dynamics of each institution, so that students are not affected by the lack of service.
Finally, the group disbanded and minutes after 1 pm the demonstration was over.
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