AMLO minimizes the drop in Mexico’s educational results in the PISA report

The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obradorminimized this Wednesday the results of the report of the International Program for Student Monitoring (PISA) published on Tuesday, which revealed a decline in the level of Mexican students in mathematics, reading and science.

“We do not take them into account because all these parameters were created in the era of neoliberalism, the predominance of the neoliberal period where what they wanted was to supposedly promote the quality of teaching, excellence and disappear public education, degrading it”stated the president during his morning press conference.

In this regard, López Obrador insisted that these tests are part of the neoliberal period and ironically said that it is as if “will take into account an opinion of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)” or any of the media or polls critical of your government.

His statements come just one day after the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published the results of the PISA 2022 test, which measures the knowledge acquired and the abilities to apply it in mathematics, reading and science in young people of 15 and 16 years and compares them with the previous report from 2018.

In the test, Mexico turned out to have a much lower performance than the average of the 81 countries where the test was carried out and a special decline was seen in mathematics, a test in which the level fell to the levels of 2002 and ranked 51st. .

The report also highlighted that only seven out of every 1,000 Mexican students managed to reach the highlighted levels of the report’s evaluation (levels 5 and 6), but one in three were in the lowest places (levels 1 and 2).

Mexico scored 395 points in mathematics, and with this it fell 14 points compared to the 409 it had obtained in 2018.

On the other hand, in reading they achieved 415 points, five less than in 2018, and in science 410, nine less than in 2018.