The kindergarten classroom also is the teacher's living quarters, with a cot and small television tucked in one corner. Kindergarten students are taught by a teacher doing social service in lieu of military service.
Teachers have little formal training before entering the classroom.
The school is what many children from rural Mexico experience. No more than half will continue at a secondary school in a nearby town. There're some who can't afford it. Or they'll have to go to work. Children from Mexican villages often arrive at Kansas schools with little or no formal education.