Documentary Lambasts Mexico’s Failing School System (VIDEO)
Mexican filmmaker, Juan Carlos Rulfo, and journalist, Carlos Loret de Mola, have joined forces to show México, as well as the world, the current state of their school system. ‘¡De Panzazo!’ the Spanish equivalent to the English saying, ‘barely passing,’ offers a glimpse into the failing Mexican education system. It’s a system in which 8 out of 10 students in secondary school enter without the ability to multiply and only 60% of students will graduate.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the movie earned an impressive $870,000 on its opening weekend in Mexico City beating out Oscar winner ‘The Artist.
Ranked among the 30 OECD, or Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, countries at a dismal #30, Mexican students spend on average only 4.5 hours per day in the classroom. The documentary, very critical of the teachers unions, especially its leader since 1989, Elba Esther Gordillo, discusses the lack of
