TIJUANA Migrant children staying at a shelter in the Mexican border city of Tijuana celebrated the holidays with a traditional posada on Thursday, using a…
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At first glance, the Canyon Nest looks like the kind of private school where wealthy parents in the United States fight over waitlist positions.
The school, tucked into a hillside next to a bumpy dirt road in a Tijuana canyon, serves children from a nearby migrant shelter children whose lives outside of the school contrast sharply with the experience of being inside it.
Set up last year by education equity nonprofit PILAglobal, the school aims to give these children whose lives are in upheaval a sense of community and a sense of agency.
Inside the classroom, the materials are carefully laid out so that students can explore, problem-solve and create.