{"id":1906,"date":"2018-09-20T13:34:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T13:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2018-09-20T13:39:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T13:39:48","slug":"a-year-after-a-quake-crumbled-a-mexico-school-grieving-parents-seek-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2018\/09\/20\/a-year-after-a-quake-crumbled-a-mexico-school-grieving-parents-seek-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year After a Quake Crumbled a Mexico School, Grieving Parents Seek Justice: BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MEXICO CITY \u2014 Just five days before a powerful earthquake struck last year, a history teacher at a Mexico City school gave a lecture about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/20\/world\/americas\/mexico-earthquakes-explainer.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the capital\u2019s propensity for this sort of natural disaster<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The talk was part of the school\u2019s commemoration of the anniversary of the 1985 earthquake, which killed about 10,000 people. The teacher, Fernando Flores, 41, wanted to drive home the point that the destruction was caused not only by Mexico\u2019s geology, but also by the human errors \u2014 corruption, the skirting of rules or a flawed bureaucracy \u2014 that can disrupt enforcement of building codes.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From where he gave his lecture, he could see right into the classroom of his oldest son, Santiago, a second grader at the school, the Enrique C. R\u00e9bsamen school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHe kept standing up and waving every chance he got,\u201d Mr. Flores said of Santiago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When a 7.1 earthquake struck early the next week, on Sept. 19 \u2014 exactly 32 years after the 1985 quake \u2014 it took down <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/25\/world\/americas\/mexico-city-earthquake-anxiety.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">thousands of buildings and killed nearly 369 people<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the central region of Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY \u2014 Just five days before a powerful earthquake struck last year, a history teacher at a Mexico City school gave a lecture about the capital\u2019s propensity for this sort of natural disaster. The talk was part of the school\u2019s commemoration of the anniversary of the 1985 earthquake, which killed about 10,000 people. The teacher, Fernando Flores, 41, wanted&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2018\/09\/20\/a-year-after-a-quake-crumbled-a-mexico-school-grieving-parents-seek-justice\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/1920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}