The closed rural school is a birth ward from 18 years ago

Puerto Rico's school closures trace the birth curve and the exodus, and the only real fix is more children, not more outrage.

Valeria Soto Marrero

Columnist, La Isla Que Viene

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Another school year opens, and again the story is a closed door. My case is the one I have carried all week: the empty desks were counted long before, in the birth ward and at the airport. This is not a plot. It is arithmetic.