MEXICO, EDUCATION IN CRISIS
Published in El Correo Canadiense By Sergio Granillo We assume that going to school and get a diploma will grant us a better future, as it used to be everywhere… Not in Mexico. Decades of economic crisis and distortion in the Mexican working culture have dismissed education as a means of an upward social mobility; instead, nepotism, friendship and harassment, have become the main path for people to find a job and advance in a career. It is hard to determine what came first; the decadence of the education system or the nullity of education as a basic requirement to find a job. Hence, people who go to college and get a degree don’t have granted access to a position in their particular field of study and neither guarantees a better income. On the contrary, people who don’t “lose” time in the classroom or “waste” their money in books, but instead starts a business of his own or start working earlier in a non graduated position, eventually will be in much better status inside the workforce.