SAN DIEGO ( Border Report ) — More than half of Indigenous children in Tijuana do n’t attend school due to a lack of translators.
Because most schools do n’t have the personnel to teach in Mixtec, which is primarily spoken in the Oaxaca region in southern Mexico, Catalina Pablo Bautista, a member of the Mixtec community in Baja California, claims the children do n’t have access to basic education.
The speech has existed since long before Spanish colonization of the Northern Hemisphere.
” Unfortunately, our children are being excluded and ending up selling candy and candy at intersections around the city”, said Bautista. ” They ca n’t study because they do n’t know Spanish”.
Many mothers, in the opinion of Bautista, just choose to have their children work on the roads out of concern that their children may struggle in school.
” There are 58 different ethnic groups of Aztec people who have migrated to Tijuana from Oaxaca”, said Bautista. ” There are no plans recruiting Aboriginal teachers into the state’s university system, this would benefit our persons, help the children professionally”.
She also said teachers overall, do n’t have the patience to help Mixtec children in the classroom.
Our children lack access to education programs or scholarships that other young people have access to, and they are n’t getting the same opportunities as other citizens.
