Cantar de la escuela al campo, de Julia Calzadilla
Sobre la escuela al campo, dice la historiadora Lillian Guerra (2010): «By the mid-1960s, combining manual labour with mental work by performing unpaid, often gruelling agricultural tasks under a hot sun while living in military-style barracks for months at a time became the most unifying experience for island youth from early adolescence to their mid-twenties. By 1967, the policy of sending middle school and high school students to study and work in the countryside became permanent: over 150,000 attended escuelas al campo in that year alone. The figure represented 84.68 per cent of the total number enrolled» (p. 274)
Julia era amiga de mi madre, y disfrute mucho en su casa de 6 y 11 en el edificio que aun se mantiene en pie (no se como), una gran persona, tenia dos perras Betty y Viejita, a las que queria con el alma. Un beso para July de Ito.