south of the border

Ed was reading an article in The Economist this morning when he came across this:

He also announced plans to take on the teachers’ union, a fearsome organisation that long enjoyed a cosy relationship with the PRI. Mexico’s schools are the worst in the OECD, a club of mainly rich countries, largely because the union controls teacher recruitment and training. The president says he wants to professionalise training and to ban hereditary teaching jobs...
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The Economist | Dec 8th 2012 | MEXICO CITY

Hereditary teaching jobs.

That's a new one on me.