Mango 🥭| Reformar la Educación Pública de Puerto Rico

Some thoughts 🤔💭

I want to apologize for being inactive this summer. After getting rejected from my phd program I was so heartbroken I needed some space to be present with myself, family and friends. I'm doing much better and im feeling inspired to start using my knowledge and platform to help my island and people!

I hate ai head shots. there is said it

6/ A quienes están en esta misma búsqueda: los veo.
Y aunque el camino se vea cuesta arriba, tengo fe en que no estamos solos.
Algún día, tal vez pronto, construiremos algo distinto. Más justo. Más humano.

Gracias por leer. 💔🇵🇷✨

5/ No escribo esto para rendirme. Escribo esto porque sé que no soy la única.
Muchos estamos soñando, luchando, buscando cómo volver sin perdernos en el intento.

4/ Amo la isla. Amo su gente. Y quiero devolverle lo que me ha dado.
Pero a veces me pregunto si el sacrificio es sostenible.
¿Se puede vivir del amor a la patria cuando el sistema no permite respirar?

3/ Con el costo de vida subiendo por los cielos—rentas infladas por los alquileres a corto plazo, compras carísimas por la Ley Jones, y cuentas acumulándose (préstamos estudiantiles incluidos)...

¿cómo sobrevive uno? ¿cómo lucha sin agotarse?

2/ Mi sueño es contribuir a la transformación del sistema de educación pública en la isla. Lo llevo en el alma.
Pero, ¿cómo se empieza ese camino cuando el salario promedio de un maestro es $2,600 al mes?

🧵1/ He estado buscando trabajo en el campo de la educación en Puerto Rico con la esperanza de mudarme para estar más cerca de mi familia y amistades en la isla.

Pero seré honesta... el proceso me ha roto un poco el corazón.

10.
Let’s reflect.
Let’s get loud.
Let’s build something better.

Because our kids deserve more than survival—they deserve to thrive.
#PublicEducation #SchoolReform #EquityInEducation #EndTheSchoolToPrisonPipeline

9.
We deserve a system where:
✅ Parents aren’t punished for spending time with their kids
✅ Kids aren’t criminalized for being poor or neurodivergent
✅ Teachers are respected, paid, and supported
✅ Schools are hubs of joy, healing, and creativity—not pipelines to prison

8.
It's time to sit with the discomfort and ask the hard questions.
Why do we allow this?
Who benefits from the chaos?
What would it mean to build systems that center children, families, and communities—not capitalism?

7.
This isn’t just about education.
It’s about values.
We need to ask:
What kind of society are we building when we normalize this level of neglect and call it "normal"?

6.
We are watching the most vulnerable population in our society—children—bear the burden of systemic greed, disinvestment, and generational poverty.
Why?
So a few people at the top can keep hoarding wealth while the rest of us barely scrape by.

5.
Meanwhile, educators know the ugly truth:
💔 If a child can’t read by 3rd grade, the system has already mapped out a prison bed for them.
Yes, prison beds are projected based on reading levels.
That should disturb every single one of us.

4.
We make massive budget cuts to the very things that keep students engaged—arts, music, sports.
We replace joy with constant testing.
And we pour billions into assessments that don’t improve outcomes—just stress and burnout.

3.
The truth? Most families don't get the time to truly live together.
When you're in survival mode 24/7, there's no room for quality time, healing, or joy.
And yet—we expect kids to show up every day ready to succeed in a system that is actively failing them.

2.
Children spend 40+ hours a week in school, and we expect them to learn, behave, and thrive—even when they're painfully aware that everyone around them is struggling.
Their parents are exhausted. Their teachers are underpaid. Their communities are underfunded. Children are so aware and smart.

1.
We need to have an honest conversation about how public education in America has become a glorified day care system—not by design, but by necessity.
Because when families are forced to work endlessly just to survive, schools become the only consistent structure kids have.

🧵👇

Wizard meme pink font ready for war (socialising)

It’s me

The people I know who are most engaged in creating a more just world are consistently worried that they aren't doing enough. Then there are those doing nothing who seem completely unperturbed. It's actually incredible.

Of course I have generational trauma.... my people were colonized and enslaved 🙄

Applied to UPR let's see if I get in

10/
Let this be a call to action.
Not just for more counselors.
But for systems that feed, house, and nurture kids without question.

Because prevention can’t just be individual.
It has to be structural.

🖤 Rest in peace to the student we lost.
We will keep fighting for the ones still here.

9/
If you're in education and you’re feeling this too:
You're not alone.
Your heartbreak is real.
Your exhaustion is valid.
And your care is revolutionary.

8/
We, as educators, social workers, counselors, and staff—are holding it all.
And we’re tired. We’re grieving.
We’re angry.

And we’re still showing up.
Because our students deserve better than this world has given them.

7/
We ask why young people are struggling—but rarely interrogate the systems we’ve built:

A society that demands performance but denies support.
That glamorizes grind culture while shaming rest.
That treats therapy like a luxury instead of a right.

6/
The mental health crisis we’re in didn’t come from nowhere.

It’s the result of policy. Of capitalism. Of survival mode being the default for too many families for too many generations.

5/
We tell kids to "work hard and you’ll make it."
But what does “make it” mean in a country where generational wealth is the real key to success?

Where the bootstraps were always a myth?

4/
The truth is, many of our students are suffering—silently and deeply.

🍽️ Lack of food
🏚️ Unstable housing
💸 No financial safety net
📚 The crushing pressure to succeed in a system designed for their failure