A week before classes officially began, the staff and teachers at Centro San José undertook many activities. They relocated classrooms, arranged furniture, painted, retouched doors, cleaned the walls and floors and afterward decorated the preschool grounds. All was done with the purpose of offering a warm welcome to the children of Jardines San Juan (in the outskirts of Mexico City) when they arrived for their first day of class. We began the new school year 2015-2016 at the Centro Comunitario de Desarrollo Infantil San José bursting with happiness. For we know that each day we work on building values to form boys and girls to better the prospects of their future.
 

The first day of class in the morning, moms and some dads arrived at the main door to leave their children in the hands of their “second moms,” the teachers. The parents then left to travel to their places of work. Some children arrived with the desire to enter and mingle with their friends and classmates. For others it was difficult to return since they had been getting along well at home with their grandma and siblings. Others arrived afraid because it was their first time at school. The littlest ones would not stop crying when they noticed they were being taken from the arms of their moms and received by “strangers.”