The Ministry of Public Education (SEP) definitively eliminated full-time schools from its operating rules, despite an injunction that ordered to guarantee resources for the program.
On February 28, the agency led by Delfina Gómez published the rules of operation of the School is Our program for this year, where full-time schools were eliminated, through which students received food on their campuses and had educational or sports activities in extended hours.
The organization Mexicanos Primero condemned the decision and argued that it violates the human rights of 3.6 million students who are left without extra hours of learning and without food.
The @SEP_mx eliminates the #EscuelasTiempoCompleto of “The School is Ours” and thus violates the human rights of 3.6 million students who are left without extra hours of learning and without food.
Let us prevent such deplorable and unjustified action. #LEEN #AprenderEsUnDerecho pic.twitter.com/e35hIxzaBp
— Mexicans First (@Mexicanos1o) February 28, 2022
“We will exhaust all instances to prevent this deplorable and unjustified act that affects the children and adolescents who need it most,” the civil organization warned in a position.
In September 2021, the Eighth District Judge in Administrative Matters of Mexico City granted an amparo in which he ordered the president, legislators and the SEP to guarantee the necessary resources for the schools benefiting from the La Escuela es Nuestra (LEEN) program to meet the objectives of the defunct Full-Time Schools Program (PETC).
The decision stemmed from an injunction that the organization Aprender Primero (legal arm of Mexicanos Primero) filed in March 2021 against the Federation’s Expenditure Budget for 2021 (PEF 2021), as well as the LEEN guidelines.
In such a lawsuit it was argued that the elimination of the Full-Time Schools Program and the transfer of its objectives to the LEEN violates the right to learn of 3.6 million children benefiting from the program.
He was also accused of being violating the principle of progressivity, which implies that, once a certain level in the enjoyment and exercise of some human right has been reached, the authorities can no longer make arbitrary decisions that push it back.
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