Global Courant 2023-05-03 12:43:17
San Pedro Sula
They know they have rights and used their voices to claim it. The 40 children from the José Trinidad Reyes school in the village of San Cristóbal de the Merendon they raised their voices to ask for teachers and classes and thus replenish the three months they live wanting to start.
Incredible as it may seem, this educational center has not had a single educational daydespite the fact that the calendar has already advanced 91 days since February 1, when the school year 2023.
In the village of San Cristóbal, one of the 26 communities in El Merendón that belong to San Pedro Sula, these 40 children have their uniforms and backpacks ready, waiting for a teacher who arrives every day and introduces them to the world of knowledge.
Located on top of a hill in the community that is closer to Cuyamel, Omoa, than to San Pedro Sula, the José Trinidad Reyes school, one of the 16 that are unidocente in the mountain; that is, a single teacher, he has historically attended all six grades.
In previous years, an interim teacher arrived with a budget structure lent to teach classes, but this year the competition for places left these 40 children and at least 100 more children in educational limbo, from two neighboring communities, since the teacher was located in another center closer to your home.
Apart from the 40 children, in San Cristóbal there are 11 children in pre-school who are cared for by a teacher who lives in the community and has a place.
Lesly Johana Nunez She is the teacher, a high school graduate who is studying at a distance. She says that she feels powerless at not being able to do anything for the other children, who see from the windows how the smallest of the community do manage to receive their classes in a corner of the room that has been designated for them.
“With this change that has occurred as a result of the teaching contest, the teacher who came to the community had the opportunity to go to teach at another school and we were left without a teacher,” he said.
“ They only lead us with lies and they don’t send us teachers. We need a place at the school. “
Pablo Hernández, patronage of Guanales
The day the team THE PREMIUM PRESS Arrived at the remote village with a cool climate, which does not have electricity and whose access is rugged with long slopes and a stony path, those 40 children were finally able to wear their uniform for the first time.
Sitting at the only 29 battered desks that the educational center has, they viewed the journalistic work we were doing with nobility and patience. When we asked them what they would most like to have, they shouted in unison: “Teachers, we want to have teachers.”
In addition to lacking a teacher, at school he lacks desks and educational materials; However, they believe that with the little they have, the only thing is for the teacher to arrive and settle in and the community could welcome him, give him shelter and food as long as their children receive classes.
There are more affected
What happens in the village of San Cristóbal extends throughout the entire “San Pedro Sula over there.”
other communities of the Merendon They don’t have teachers either. In the schools of the Guanales and Santa Margarita de Guanales villages they have better luck than in San Cristóbal. There a teacher arrives two days a week, but since he joined in March, he has barely taught about 10 days of classes to the little ones in the six grades in both schools that are called Alfonso Salvador Melgar. The same happens in the Miramar village, which is closed due to the lack of teachers.
“ We occupy a position and a teacher who is from here, not one who comes once a week. “
José Leandro Vásquez, Santa Margarita Board of Trustees
Jose Leandro Vasquez, President of the Board of Santa Margarita, points out that until this year they are without a teacher, because for more than 12 years they have had “borrowed” or interim, since since that time they have lost their budgetary structures.
She says that the school had to be split in two, since the children from Santa Margarita had to cross the river and walk a long way to get to Guanales, about 45 minutes on foot up hills and across a river and two streams.
The educational center is new, has Internet and a solar plant to feed the batteries that allow it to have electricity, but it happens more closed than open, since the teacher arrives once a week from Tegucigalpita, Omoa, where he lives.
Sepal
> The same teacher attends two schools, gives three classes in one community and two in the other. There are barely eight days of school.
“When the teacher comes, he stays to sleep on a cot in the classroom because it takes more than three hours to arrive and when he comes it’s already late. He is already exhausted because he has to leave the bike on the other side of the river and go up a long hill. It is not easy, we know that he is exhausted, ”says Don José.
The cry is repeated in the Guanales school. There, Pablo Hernandezwho also directs the board of trustees, has fed up how terrible it is to see the 26 children of the village wanting to study.
“We have gone to the District, they told us that they were going to send a teacher, and they did; but he comes one day a week. Children do not receive classes as it is, we want solutions, because already a lot of ‘jackets’, they only tell us lies. We want structure for this school, that there is a permanent teacher every day, because as we go with this little game, what are the children going to learn? ”, he lamented.
