Residents of the town of San José Manialtepec, in the Coastal region of Oaxaca, discriminated against and violated a high school student for wearing a “boys’ and not girls'” uniform. The event was captured on video and spread on social networks along with a letter that the minor wrote denouncing that she even wants to display it in a community assembly.
What happened?
The events occurred on March 10 at the “José Vasconcelos” telesecundaria in the Villa de Tututepec municipality of Melchor Ocampo, where a group of people made up of fathers and mothers of families came to claim from the educational authorities the appearance of the student identified as Paola who wears the school uniform for boys.
The rowdy parents argued that the management together with the Parents’ Committee called a meeting to discuss the issue. Through a video broadcast on social networks, it can be seen how the high school principal categorically denies having made that call and completely disavows herself since she withdraws from the entrance and allows the parents to violate the minor.
Then Paola tried to enter the school to which several parents, especially a man in a gray shirt, blocked her way with his body and while the mother of the youngest told her daughter to come in, the rest of the dissatisfied shouted and even They pull the student to prevent her from entering the campus. When she passes by they begin to shout that they are going to close the school to enforce the regulations.
According to various reports, from that moment on the San José Manialtepec secondary school has remained closed and they even called a community assembly where the people will decide the way in which Paola has to dress in a clear violation of her human rights.
⚠️ Urgent intervention by authorities of the @IEEPOGobOax y @DDHPO to stop the violations of their human rights suffered by a minor in the telesecundaria in San José Manialtepec, Tututepec, Oaxaca, where parents prohibited him from entering the school because of his appearance pic.twitter.com/oDYWVGZjiF
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“I don’t want those people to decide how I should dress”
Faced with this situation, Paola sent a letter addressed to the deputy Dennis García Gutiérrez and to the Congress of Oaxaca requesting urgent help since even since January 23 they had denied her access to her education, a situation that even reached a judge.
“There was the director of the school, the teachers, some municipal authorities, the municipal agent of my community and nobody did anything to protect me, only my mother did it as best she could,” she recounted in the letter about the events broadcast in the video. .
In addition, he points out that a town assembly will decide whether or not they can wear the boys’ uniform or they should wear a skirt to enter the school.
“I ask you to help me because I feel very sad that they are treating me like this just because I don’t want to wear the uniform that girls wear, I feel more comfortable and safer with the uniform that boys wear, and I don’t like it. that they have told all the parents of my school my intimate things. I do not want them to hold a town meeting so that everyone finds out about my situation and that these people decide how I should dress,” the letter says.
It should be noted that according to article 146 of the General Education Law in any public or private school the entrance can be conditioned by the uniform or by wearing pants.
