CIPO- RFM, work group

As in years 1950 to 75 the teachers were strict with the students, because the blows recibian. Ademas the students did not speak espanol to understand what the teacher explained. Ademas the family parents prohibian that the women went to the school, because the education for them was not important, who segun the men valian but.
stories on the education translated and written by Beatriz Garcia Sarabia, 13 years
Poniria: I have 47 years. I finish my sixth year, but the schools were not fences. First teniamos that to study the second year and happen to the third year in Santiago Nuyoo. It loaded of sweet potatoes but of platanares and it does not last all the week, but it arrives day Thursday and my tortilla is finished and when it finishes like salt and when it is time of handle like with quelite. And when it finishes to my study work in cleaning milpa and gained 5 pesos, 2 Pesos and were pleasant to me when it gained 5 Pesos because for my it was much. No longer segui studying because the school was very far. I if to be written although he is poquito.

Epifania: I have..., whichever years I do not have myself because I do not have my birth certificate. I calculate that I have 50 years. Study the first year. They removed to me from the school. So that? My parents decian that they do not tenian to anybody so that the animals took care of that teniamos we. Not like writing my name. I go it to do although she is crooked that they write it. My company/signature is the unico which I have in my mind, my company/signature.

Epifania: I have 63 years. I did not go to the school. So that? So that my Popes did not let to me go. Not to be written. Although my wise Pope to speak in Castilian I do not embosom myself and for that reason I speak my language that is Mixteco.

Rosalino: I have 55 years. Arrive at the degree of fourth year from primary. I study in Santiago Nuyoo. No longer segui studying because no longer I wanted. Ademas because llovia and teniamos that to walk all the days
and ademas the closing towards in month of. November of date 20 or 25. To be written although it is my name.

Eulalia: I have 35 years. I was in the school, but not for a long time. Nothing but gets to study the second year in Santiago Nuyoo. No longer it studies because my Popes let maintain to me. No longer they bought all the thing that needed and for that reason me sali of the school. To be written although he is despacito.

... and today

Then in the community of Union there is simply the primary school. I study in the prescholastic school and first until sixth.
I was myself for Santiago Nuyoo to study secondary the 3 years. I again walk daily one hour and average from the house to the school and of the school towards my house one hour and average. I already am finishing my third year, but when between the first secondary year of I queria to be all along studying, because I liked as they gave to some teachers his classes. The matters that to my I like and call to me but the attention is espanol, physical, artistica, quimica education, optional subjet, computation and factory. Ingles I do not like because the teacher in all the class speaks to us in ingles and when we say to him that she explains in espanol us to us regana.
Then, when I study in the primary one stuck if nonhaciamos the task to us. They remove its belt or with a twig they beat to us. Now in the secondary one no longer they beat to us like in the primary one. In primary and secondary the classes us they give them in espanol. I speak but in espanol that Mixteco plaster that is the maternal language. My parents speak in Mixteco and I in espanol. They embosom to speak Mixteco to me and I embosom espanol to them.

Beatriz Garcia Sarabia, 13 years