Why Education in Mexico sucks! (written by a Mexican)

[The Duck]

SOME POSITIVE NEWS ON EDUCATION
source: Rueters.com in article entitled: Mexican manufacturing: from sweatshops to high-tech motors

EDUCATION PAYS
In years past, many young people in the region could only
aspire to a minimum wage job earning 60 pesos ($4.87) per day.
Now factories needing skilled workers have spawned
specialized training centers like Queretaro's aerospace
university and Puerto Interior's National Polytechnical
Institute campus.
The polytech helped establish a senior high school to bridge
the gap between local secondary schooling and the rigors of an
engineering degree. Students, 95 percent from nearby towns, then
spend five years at the polytech, where tuition is free.
"Before, most of the local population did not even have a
medium-level education, only primary school, and they worked in
agriculture or migrated to the U.S.," said campus director
Aldelmo Emmanuel Reyes. He says a new engineering graduate can
earn five times the minimum wage, rising to 10 to 20 times more
after five years.
Sergio Hernandez, 20, is about to finish a two-year program
blending senior high school with on-the-job-training at auto
part maker Schaeffler to become a production line supervisor.
Before that, he worked for two years at a machinery workshop
after secondary school. He says his employment chances have
improved "incredibly" since he started the course: "I have work
experience that can be documented, and my high school diploma."