Gov’t gives computers to students

 Thursday, 31 October 2013 00:10 ‘Education will keep being free’
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President Enrique Peña Nieto said on Wednesday that the education reform is surrounded by myths and disinformation and repeated that Mexico’s public education system “has always been and will continue to be free.”

Peña Nieto’s comments came during the inauguration of the “My Computer MX” program, which will provide 240,000 laptops to children in the fifth and sixth grades, which he said fulfills his campaign promise to ensure that each student will have access to a computer at home by the end of elementary school.

In the first phase of the program, laptop computers are being provided to students at the public elementary schools in the states of Colima, Sonora and Tabasco, which were selected as being representative of the country’s political, economic, geographic and cultural plurality.

During his speech at elementary schools in Tabasco Peña Nieto said that his administration is also creating programs to provide additional funds for those schools that fall behind the most and that suffer from insufficient or aging infrastructure.

Peña Nieto went on to thank Mexico’s teachers for their commitment to supporting the process of modernizing Mexico’s school system and ensuring access to quality education for all of the country’s children. It’s the obligation of the Mexican government, he said, to ensure free education and training for the younger generation.

“Many myths and disinformation have arisen and we have to spend time, as a government, to make the scope and the benefits of the education reform clear,” Peña Nieto said.