Chesco teachers visit Mexico to bridge cultural divide. Philadelphia area, Pennsylvania. Now that is dedication

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Posted on: July 31st, 2006
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“Two years ago when Salomon Diaz came from Mexico to live in Kennett Square in Chester County, he knew life would be different.

New home, new language, new school.

There were other changes as well - challenges that most of the teachers in Salomon’s new school were not tuned in to.

In his home town of Moroleon, in central Mexico’s Guanajuato state, Diaz walked to school and his mother made the trek at midday to bring him a hot meal.”

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