translated from Spanish: El Chinal’s teacher refuses to be replaced

Mocorito, Sinaloa.- After so many years working as a teacher at the Teófilo Noris primary, from the El Chinal community in Mocorito, and just four years after her retirement, the Ministry of Public Education and Culture (Sepyc) is considering changing the only teacher than there works. This may be possible for Carmen Ochoa Romo to report to the media the working conditions she and her students were in.

Carmen Ochoa Romo, a primary school teacher, said she has not been notified of her possible change of school. “I haven’t been notified at any time, but I’ve already heard from other colleagues who are going to take them out of their work center to move others, that’s not fair to me,” Ochoa Romo said.
He stated that the information he had released to the media has been true, where he mentions that the Sepyc never helped, as did the head of Regional Services, Lizandro Sillas López, and similarly the municipal president Guillermo Galindo Castro.” I had to do something myself to be able to get that school fixed, if it was going to keep working, and if not, they would do another one elsewhere,” he said. She said she doesn’t know what’s going to happen to her in case she gets the notification, but she’s not willing to turn over the school. “I’ve already done everything I could to get it fixed, plus a very good financial support came, you were invied with good building materials, and now, as the saying goes, no one knows who you work for,” he said. He pointed out that he would look for a way to speak with Supervisor Gladys López González, because he finds this unfair.
Honestly, I’m going to fight, I’ve only got four years left,” he said.

She emphasized that despite all the difficulties in teaching, she fulfilled her work responsibility. “How is it possible that an entire school year I took it outside the school dealing with animals like mosquitoes, snakes, flies, not to mention the heat that was not endured at the end of the day, in the mornings the cold, that put the health of my students at risk , so now they say they’re going to take me away and they’re going to put another one,” Carmen Ochoa Romo said.This situation has doubts to the teacher, because many students switched to different schools in the headroom, and if they don’t come back, the school can move on to Conafe , for having only seven students.” That’s how I would accept a change, because there’s no point in staying there, but if it’s just for another teacher from the same area to be sent, it’s not fair,” concluded Carmen Ochoa Romo, teacher of the El Chinal community.

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