Our Martyred Brothers: What 43 Missing Mexican Student Teachers Share with US Educators Fighting Factory School Reform
by VanessaVaile
Death is the ultimate exclamation point.
We walk through life blissfully unaware until someone dies.
Such is the case for 43 someones in Mexico. These rural first-year teaching students were kidnapped on Sept. 26 by police and allegedly handed over to a drug cartel who tortured and killed them.
Why such violence against a group of young men from one of the poorest states in the country who had dedicated their lives to care for the needs of Mexican children?
They opposed the country’s education reform policy.
That’s right. They were just like us.
Just like the 53,000 members of the Badass Teachers Association or the 99,000 people who follow Diane Ravich on Twitter or all the parents who stand in the back of a school board meeting holding a sign against toxic testing.
They had come from rural Ayotzinapa to the city of Iguala to peacefully protest but were…
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