The sex education It is essential, said the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) At his morning press conference this Thursday, when questioned about the contents of the new educational reform.
“Regarding sex education, I believe it's necessary, it's indispensable, it shouldn't be omitted, and we should provide information to adolescents and, if necessary, to children. We need scientific training in this regard.”
He pointed out that the sex education It must be rational and attached to knowledge and science, not mixed with matters of faith or dogma.
“That's my point of view, and it's up to the experts, the educators.”
Asked whether teachers could be trained to provide sex education, the president López Obrador He said that it is already included in the curricula of the Teacher Training Schools and that it would only need to be reinforced or the teacher training plans revised.
Among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, Mexico ranks first in teenage pregnancy, and young people may also be at greater risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections.
As a result of the educational reform approved during Enrique Peña Nieto's six-year term, free textbooks were published that teach the definitions of homosexuality (attraction to people of the same gender), bisexuality (attraction to people of both genders), and how gender is socially constructed and how it is not necessarily the way people identify.
Regarding what the contents derived from the new will be educational reformAMLO said that educators, not pseudo-experts, will determine what children will be taught in schools. He said there are very good educators in Mexico who will freely develop these programs, and they will be invited to participate for that purpose.
“We must strive to strengthen civics, ethics, history, everything that was set aside during the neoliberal period. It must be a humanistic education, with that common core. And of course, advanced in science, in the natural sciences, in mathematics, but with a foundation in humanism, not neglecting that.”
He reiterated that during the neoliberal period, there was an attempt to erase history, and that's a contradiction, because if you don't know where you come from, you don't know where you're going.
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