Mexico’s Ministry of Public Education (SEP) has announced “adjustments” to this year’s school calendar for elementary and high schools across the country, both public and private, due to the World Cup. Although in its official statement the ministry specified that its decision is also due to “the high temperatures” and “extraordinary heat waves,” there is no record of this happening before, regardless of the heat waves recorded in other years during Mexico’s summer months. Just a few minutes after the Secretary of Public Education Mario Delgado’s announcement, teachers took to social networks to complain that they had not been taken into account and to warn that it will now be practically impossible to teach the complete curriculum to the more than 29 million students in the country.

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