Every day, hundreds of kids in Mexico wake up extra early to cross the border and attend school in the U.S.
It’s an unusual commute with border traffic, security checks, and metal detectors all before your first class, but parents jump at the opportunity to have their kids educated in the United States. And for the most part, the schools are happy to have them.
It’s no secret that many of these kids face serious disadvantages in school. There are language barriers and discrimination to deal with on top of the fact that many of the children come from impoverished communities.
Additionally, the proposed border wall between the United States and Mexico threatens to tear some of these communities in half and leave kids further behind.
El Paso, Texas, is a city that shares a deep relationship with its twin city — Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
The teachers in El Paso welcome Mexican students as their own and recognize that giving them the best education possible isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s essential to building a better world.
