translated from Spanish: Michoacán Indigenous Supreme Council

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Morelia, Michoacán.- Pavel Uliánov Guzmán Macario, Coordinator of the Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán, recognized that the new school modality implemented arising from the health contingency caused by SARS-CoV-2, excludes, discriminates and violents the rights of small people originating in indigenous communities. Co
“People have the right to public consultations, especially in the area of education, there are no conditions for receiving education through television or connectivity, they are discriminating against them, too, they are excluding them why they live in a situation of poverty,” he said in an interview with media.
In this sense, he classified as ineffective the use of teaching technologies in the 5 indigenous peoples of the state, as well as in the 500 indigenous communities, because many of the inhabitants do not even have television.
Guzmán Macario, emphasized that the regions most affected are the Cañada de los Once Pueblos, the lake of Pátzcuaro, the Ciénega and the purépecha plateau.
Because of this situation, and in order to avoid educational lag, they have had to implement other teaching mechanisms designed between teachers, parents and community authorities, which generates an additional cost to the work of teachers who operate in these sites, in addition to putting the health of both parties at risk.
“It is the initiative of the teachers themselves, they are the ones who are giving their fair dimension to education, they are taking into account the context of the students,” he concluded.

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