SchoolsEstela RomeroDecember 07, 2019

"El Rosario"

SchoolsEstela RomeroDecember 07, 2019

SCHOOL VISIT-

Dear friends,

We are today closing a first segment of our visits of the season having covered the whole middle and elementary schools surrounding “El Rosario” Sanctuary, tha largest in terms of population of Monarchs registered every season up to now. “El Rosario” middle school, is located right at the center of the community itself, and is only some hundreds of meters away from the main entrance to the Monarchs’ colony and has got around 350 students!. What about technologies used at schools in our communities surrounding the Sanctuaries?. The block of subjects students attend at middle school level, include English at a very basic focus managing that students build simple sentences and vocabulary once they end up and get ready to go to high school. Unfortunately, on the other side, and speaking about technologies, our public both elementary and middle schools have up to now, not been equipped with computers rooms and trained teachers in the subject, the same as for English as a subject. A few intents have failed the moment the state has tried to train teachers teaching a certain grade, to teach English and computers as well, besides all of the other subjectst. The result has been incipient up today, in spite of English and computers having been declared as mandatory among subjects in our public system. Other times, the state declares itself with no funds enought to grant such a demand. High populated locations like “El Rosario”, have got a small internet public service, and many children simply go there and pay half a dollar for one hour to sit and learn by themselves how to navigate in the net; some of them (a minority) have got a cell phone (forbidden at schools), and access facebook if a cel phone at home is available. Accesing internet, printing a color or black-white image or learning how to use an office program is not yet a consistent part of our public education in very small locaton like ours. This is just getting started in a few public schools in larger towns and in most public schools in bigger cities. A computer at home in families in this small surroundings would be very rare to be seen. Internet connection might be not affordable and worthwhile for most families, besides. These students will have the chance to sit at a computer at school until they reach high school level where English and Computers have been implemented with much more success. Our internet service is provided mainly by one private company and the lowest rate to pay for the signal reception is 20 dollars a month. There is, indeed, an old debt on education by our state in these far away locations at the Monarch Sanctuaries. Our topic on protection and conservation through the “Web of Life” game, our reference poster on endangered polinators, books and illustrations on our endangered species in the region, continues to be a hit at schools which end full of enthusiasm at noticing that we are still on time to rescue and to protect our natural local species!.

SYMBOLIC MONARCHS RECEIVED HERE.

Travis Elementary, Houston, Texas

The Guilford Center for Children, Guilford, Connecticut

Union Cross, Kernersville, North Carolina

CMS Elementary School, Budd Lake, New Jersey

Birchwood School of Hawken, Cleveland, Ohio

Oriole Beach Elementary, Gulf Breeze, Florida

Ikard Elementary, Weatherford, Texas

Galindo Elementary, Austin, Texas

Chatsworth Avenue School, Larchmont, New York

West Chester Friends School, West Chester, Pennsylvania

Union Cross, Kernersville, North Carolina

Adventures in Education, West Chester, Pennsylvania

Chatsworth Avenue School, Larchmont, New York

Bixby School, Boulder, Colorado

Moss Street Partnership School, Reidsville, North Carolina

Solar Preparatory School for Girls, Dallas, Texas

Thomas E Bowe School, Glassboro, New Jersey

Union Cross, Kernersville, North Carolina

Summit School, Winston Salem, North Carolina

Wolcott Elementary School, Wolcott, Vermont

Saint Stephens Episcopal School, Bradenton, Florida

Meridian Elementary, Sanford, Michigan

Washington Grove Elementary School, Gaithersburg, Maryland

Albany JCC Kindergarten, Albany, New York

West Cape May Elementary School, West Cape May, New Jersey

Saint John Paul II Catholic School, Houston, Texas

Garden Oaks Montessori, Houston, Texas

Oriole Beach Elementary, Gulf Breeze, Florida

Andrew Peabody School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Oriole Beach Elementary, Gulf Breeze, Florida

Saint John Paul II Catholic School, Houston, Texas

Colonial Elementary, Blue Ridge, Virginia

Garden Oaks Montessori, Houston, Texas

Spruce Glen Public School, Huntsville, Ontario

Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, Tennessee

Winchester Thurston North Campus, Allison Park, Pennsylvania

Casa Esperanza Montessori Charter School, Raleigh, North Carolina

Highland Ranch Elementary, San Diego, California

Root Elementary, Raleigh, North Carolina

Casa Esperanza Montessori Charter School, Raleigh, North Carolina

Helendale Road Primary School, Rochester , New York

Blue Earth Area Elementary, Blue Earth, Minnesota

Ann Arbor Open School, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, Tennessee

Pin Oak MS, Houston ISD, Bellaire, Texas

De Zavaa Elementary, Houston, Texas

Old Mill School, Mill Valley, California

Eagle Rock Elementary, Eagle Rock, Virginia

Morse Elementary School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Winnona Park Elementary School, Decatur, Georgia

Oriole Beach Elementary, Gulf Breeze, Florida

HW Schulze Elementary, San Antonio, Texas

Garden Oaks Montessori, Houston, Texas

The Tatnall School, Wilmington, Delaware

Waples Mill Elementary School, Oakton, Virginia

Redgranite Elementary School, Redgranite, Wisconsin

Park Middle School, Beckley, West Virginia

Amos A Lawrence School, Brookline, Massachusetts

Casa Esperanza Montessori Charter School, Raleigh, North Carolina

Fuente Nueva Charter School, Arcata, California

Solar Preparatory School for Girls, Dallas, Texas

Elisha M Pease Elementary, Dallas, Texas

Casa Esperanza Montessori Charter School, Raleigh, North Carolina

Buckingham Browne and Nichols Lower School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Union School, Unionville, Connecticut

Estela Romero