On Friday, May 8th, Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice upheld an agreement by the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) that transforms how students are evaluated in Mexico.
The draft, prepared by Justice Lenia Batres, establishes that education should not be measured solely by numerical grades or attendance records. Therefore, students who do not pass all their subjects will no longer be automatically failed.
This regulation is mandatory in basic education, in both public and private schools throughout the country.
The Court’s decision came after denying an injunction filed by Colegio Roble, which argued that the new model seeks to prevent exclusion and school dropout.
With this ruling, the Court decided to maintain the SEP’s system, stating that traditional evaluation criteria will no longer be the sole factors in determining whether a student passes a grade level.
These measures evidently affect the quality of education and limit the schools’ autonomy to establish their own evaluation criteria.
With information from INFOBAE
