translated from Spanish: Culiacán elementary school students start unfurnished classes

Sinaloa.- Students started classes in the 2019-2020 school year without enough furniture for Eduardo Caldera Elementary School, in the Villa del Real colony. Mirna Maribel Cota Martínez, director of the evening shift José Mariano Carlos León, explained that the number of students they have is excessive for the seats, so much so that children must take classes on the floor.

The school teacher said she has four years of battle to get more furniture delivered to them, because it doesn’t seem fair for children to be taking classes on the floor: “We’re a school in high demand. I’m four years old here, and it’s always the same with lack of furniture and lack of teachers.” One of the most crowded classrooms is the first-grade, which is supposed to be only 35 children, but in the face of the demand presented by the school 48 students, of which more than half are without a chair. Another problem they need to solve is the lack of teachers. The principals of both groups have to teach in one of the groups because there are no teachers for fifth grade. Problem
For her part, the president of the Association of Parents, Claudia González Hurtado, commented that as a representative of the parents of the students can not allow their children to not have quality attention when taking classes: “It is not fair for me to come and see how my son doesn’t have a bench to take classes.” He mentioned that on several occasions parents have cooperated to make a roof and to buy furniture, but that on this occasion they need the authorities to support them. 

They therefore urge the State Government and the Ministry of Public Education and Culture to attend to the call and children to take their classes in furniture, like all children.

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