Mexico kids learning with flawed textbooks

MEXICAN children are trooping back into their classrooms on Monday, and they're going to have a quick lesson: Not just school kids make mistakes.

Their brand new textbooks have the kinds of errors that they are supposed to be learning not to make: words written with a "c" instead of an "s", too many commas, not enough accents and at least one city located in the wrong state.

The foul-up is becoming a national embarrassment in the midst of a planned government overhaul of Mexico's much criticised school system.

Teachers are being given a list of the errors so they can try to manually correct at least 117 mistakes that the Education Department has acknowledged it found only after 235 million primary textbooks had been being printed.

"It's unfortunate these things happen with the children's textbooks," said Consuelo Mendoza, president of the national parent teachers association. "We are talking about the education of millions of children."

Education Secretary Emilio Chuayffet has called the errors "unforgivable", but he blames Mexico's previous administration for the stumble.

He says he was faced with the predicament of choosing between stopping the printing of flawed textbooks so they could be corrected and making sure the country's 26 million school children had textbooks at the start of classes.

The news blog Animal Politico did an independent review and found that words are misspelled in the Spanish textbook and accents forgotten or misplaced.

A geography text wrongly puts the Caribbean resort city of Tulum in the state of Yucatan instead of Quintana Roo, it said.

Freelance editors who get paid less than $US250 a month missed the errors in the new texts, commission head Joaquin Diez-Canedo said.

"The telephone rings, you have to go to the bathroom. You get distracted. You miss a word," he told the newspaper Milenio.

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