Survey Finds Mexico City Residents Disapprove Of Teacher Protests Against Education Reform David Iaconangelo - Latin Times
go to original August 26, 2013

Public school teachers block the entrance to Senate chambers, in Mexico City, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. (AP/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico City residents are fed up with protestors who have blocked roadways and lawmaking chambers and swamped public squares in an attempt to kill a government plan for education reform, says a survey undertaken by newspaper El Universal.  About half of those surveyed said the rash of marches and sit-ins have affected their normal lives, with a large majority (84 percent) saying they were opposed to a march staged on the main routes to the capital's airport last Friday.  82 percent said they didn't think the protests should be permitted, while 79 percent indicated that they believed protestors should be removed from roadways.    

The protests have been led principally by two national teachers' unions, the National Education Syndicate (SNTE) and the National Educational Workers' Union (CNTE), and have seen thousands of educators from across Mexico arrive in the capital to stage a public rejection of a plan to overhaul the country's education system.  On Friday, some 4,000 of them blocked main roads to the international airport, halting their march to the airport only when lawmakers agreed to sit down with union representatives to discuss a compromise.

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