Public Schools, Private Schools

Here is the entrance to a PUBLIC school in Playa del Carmen. This public school is upper elementary, grades 6, 7 and 8. A picture is worth a thousand words. At this school, there are two different times. The first group attends from 7:30AM until 1:30PM. The next group of students arrive from 2PM until 8PM. This school is across the street from a busy bus station and is appropriately four blocks from the apartment.

This is the entrance to a SMALL private school, one block from the apartment. It accomodates students from JK to secondary. It would cost families appropriately $200.00 a month and all their learning materials.

This photo looks inside the gate of the PUBLIC school. Can you see the two classroom entrances? There are three more structures like this. At this school, the soccer field, band practise and meeting areas are being reconstructed.

At Its'atil (this PRIVATE school), you can see two signs. One sign is the mission statement for the school and the other is the vision statement. I have seen Spanish copies of Stephen Covey´s 7 Habits here. In Spanish, Los 7 hábitos de la gente altamente efectiva. The mission and vision statements are posted on all four sides of the school.