Educational lag and its solutions
Because in our nation different problems are conglomerate, we consider that the following factors directly affect the student’s performance:
- Early pregnancy;It is considered that in Mexico it presents a greater index in the birth rate in minors of all the countries belonging to the OECD. In Mexico it is considered that 62 pregnancies of every thousand are from girls and adolescents, this problem occurs in the communities with the highest poverty rate, however there are also cases in segments of the population with high purchasing power. Early pregnancy is the main cause of mortality in adolescents.
- Delinquency;In different regions of the country, organizations, organized crime, recruit children and adolescents in poverty, which are far from schools.
- Poverty;It is a factor related mainly to educational lag, because children belonging to vulnerable families seen from the economy, are prone to not integrate to a school or to leave their studies unfinished. Meanwhile, Mexico is a nation with a high poverty rate, as reflected by statistics from the National Council for Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval).
- Family disintegration;When a child or adolescent is part of family disintegration, they become triggers of educational lag, according to psychology and.com, family disintegration causes people to lose roles.
- Rurality in precarious conditions;Rural populations are highly prone to educational lag, since their access to training centers is usually more complex. In less urbanized areas there is a lower educational offer. Even some remote locations do not have schools. In addition, rural populations are more impacted by extreme poverty than urban and many of their children and adolescents abandon schooling due to agricultural work, fishing and, in general, labor.
- Child labor;The EL ECONOMISTA newspaper notes that almost 2 work in Mexico.5 million children and adolescents between 5 and 17 years old. Many of them perform dangerous or not recommended work and activities for their age. Of that total, almost 1 million does not attend school to be able to comply with labor allocations and functions. 39 % of that population of minors do not receive any type of remuneration for their work and many of them work in a forced way.
According to Muñoz (2009), a potential source of educational lag is that the formal education to which students have access to social strata of few social resources, including the resources assigned to these sectors of the population is of minorquality compared to those of high socioeconomic groups. From the beginning it was believed that the lag was attributed to various factors completely outside the school system in which students and institutions are immersed (Muñoz, 2009);However, (Bachhoff, 2007) manages to identify through a study that this is not entirely true, since there are some internal factors of schools that propitiate and intervene in a quite significant way in the academic results that are obtained and influencedirectly in the non -existent school use and that in turn ends up increasing the educational lag, either by dropout due to that or repetition in some other less extreme cases.
The lagg. Based on this, it can be said that education is not acquired solely at school, but is present at each moment, in the family, in the mentality and each student, in society, on television, etc., Where many times these factors are considered as a negative part for children, because they become addicts, such addiction is provided by parents, since they determine that it is the only way to keep them still and at home, butWhat parents currently fail to understand that having them in front of prolonged period television affects their view, mind and therefore students do not perform their school tasks.
It was also analyzed that another factor of educational lag is the family context, that is, they come from low economic resources and schooling by parents, because of this parents cannot guide their children with their school tasks,since they do not know how to read or write correctly.
Consequences of educational lag
The consequences are very similar to their causes: poverty, crime and rurality, for example. Thus, the educational lag leads to some segments of society remain in an unfavorable cycle that does not allow them to improve their quality of life. This represents great problems for the nation and its possibilities for growth and development. Educational deficiency generates a deficit of professionals, lower innovation and multiple structural difficulties in the economy. On the other hand, a high educational level is one of the engines of the prosperity of a country.
How to reduce educational lag
To carry out the action to reduce the educational lag it is extremely important. It is about making effective the right to education for all Mexicans, and seeking that educational political figures consider it within their priorities, with the intention of becoming a specific program and effective lines of action. Special programs in relation to educational lag are of national scope, refer to the properties of the country’s integral development, have transverse approaches and seek to ensure the cultural feasibility of national public policies.
To strengthen the education systems for youth and open and distance adults, higher education institutions (IES), agreements are established with the SEP dependencies in charge of this educational type. Open Teaching Subprograms (Semipresencial) for students over 15 who have difficulties regularly advance in their educational life, that is, young people with incomplete studies. The ages between 15 and 19 are crucial so that those who are registered do not abandon their studies.
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