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Mothers from the Adolfo López Mateos primary school closed the school after episodes of violence that included intimidation with knives and robberies
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CANTON GROUP
On Tuesday, the morning began with closed doors and with a feeling of anguish that could be breathed in every word of the parents gathered in front of the Adolfo López Mateos primary school, located in the municipality of Metepec. What should be a safe space to learn has been transformed, as they say, into a hostile environment in which their children live in constant fear.
Tired of waiting for solutions that never came, they decided to prevent entry as an act of protest and protection.
For months, the school community has raised alerts that, they claim, were ignored by the management and the educational authority. Little by little, the school bullying turned into recurring violence: students stripped of their belongings, children bullied in bathrooms and hallways, girls who have been victims of inappropriate touching, and one especially serious episode involving a sharp object used to threaten.
“This already exceeds any limit. We are not going to hand over our children as if nothing was happening,” said a visibly affected mother.
What angers parents most is the apparent institutional indifference. They say that they have knocked on all the doors and that the only response has been silence or evasion.
“They ask us for patience, that they are checking, that they are going to attend to it… but here the only ones who are attending to anything are us, comforting our children who no longer want to come,” reproached a parent whose son has shown anxiety and fear since the beginning of the school year.
Neighbors and tutors point out a common point: the lack of authority and reaction within the campus. The director, Erika Janet Pérez Sandoval, and the school supervisor, Roberto Romero Medina, are directly accused of minimizing the seriousness of the events and of not activating the established security protocols.
Therefore, the demand is firm: his immediate departure. For the families, any authority that allowed this accumulation of violence has already lost all legitimacy.
“We cannot leave our children’s lives to people who refuse to see what is happening,” said a neighbor.
In addition, they request the immediate intervention of external authorities to guarantee a real diagnosis of what is happening within the campus and to establish a strict protocol for prevention and response to the incident. harassment.