Teachers in Mexico Add School Textbook Errors to Their List of Complaints Adriana Gomez Licon - Associated Press
go to original August 21, 2013

As children return to school in Mexico this week, their classrooms will be full of school books which contain mistakes. Emily Thomas reports. (BBC/worldlivenews52)

MEXICO CITY - As Mexican children trooped back to school this week, they had already learned one lesson: You can't believe everything you read in your textbook.

Their new government-provided books are riddled with the sort of errors that students are supposed to be learning to avoid: misspellings, errors of grammar and punctuation, and at least one city located in the wrong state.

The foul-up is an embarrassment for a government that is trying to overhaul Mexico's much-criticized school system. Officials promised to give teachers a list of the errors so they can try to manually correct at least 117 mistakes. The Education Department acknowledged it found them only after 235 million elementary textbooks were being printed.

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