Schoolboys play "cocaine" with a sweet powder

Parents of the family of Primary Justo Sierra in the district of San Sebastián Chimalpa, in La Paz les Rois, State of Mexico, denounced the fact that teachers at this school allow fourth-grade children play for "get cocaine lines" with a sweet powder, which in his opinion is not acceptable to occur in a teaching institution.

The parents demonstrated Wednesday in front of the school for ask for the departure of a teacher that they identified as "Bertha", in charge of one of the groups in which they detected that minors follow this behavior.

The sweet that children Inhalan is the popular Burbusoda, an effervescent orange flavored powder that is a mixture of sugar and spices.

"They empty candies in white sheets, they cover their noses on one side, they suck it by claiming that they are drugged, this was announced to the director, they say that they Had warned and that she had not done anything, "recounted one of the parents' interview with a newspaper L & # 39; universal, from Mexico.

According to the testimonies, the students told their parents that the teacher Bertha, who replaced her in December, had witnessed this match. The arrival of the teacher, they said, coincided with a lack of progress in the education of their children.

In addition to the call "Burbusoda game"parents ensure that within the group there is a tolerance before the use of two-way or inappropriate words for minors. 20 days ago, they went in front of the school authorities to ask the relay of the teacherbut so far they have no answer, so they decided to protest when they entered school to ask for solidarity of other parents.

"Several children made the comment that they could not read, they got stuck a lot, they changed from one word to the next, they qualified to qualify, practically everyone in at 10 ", said another father about the teacher.

The persons concerned prevented the teacher from entering and asked the school authorities to replace her as soon as possible. suspend the dangerous game of children.

In 2014, school authorities in the state of Coahuila received reports that teenagers from different high schools they inhaled chili powder to simulate that it was cocaine, so they began with a series of persuasion to prevent young people from experimenting with this method as a way to simulate the use of drugs.