The fight over abandoned schools in Puerto Rico
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- Опубліковано 31 сер 2020
- The Puerto Rican government has closed down hundreds of schools in the last few years. Many are still abandoned but companies, nonprofits and community groups have become interested in the buildings. Who should own them?
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It pains me to see abandoned properties in PR. It especially pains me when those properties were schools.
Yes me too and the government doesn't care about the education of Puerto Ricans they only cared about their greed.
Puerto Rico need more people like you 🙌 God bless you keep up the good work
I know I'm late, but one of the school I use to study in closed. In the town I lived in it was one of the oldest schools and one of the few elementary schools. Those kids (that were like a thousand) were moved to schools mixed with highschoolers. This caused problems between the ages and it's still happens, from I've been told the bullying to the elementary schoolers is more common now than before. This project only caused damage and made more corrupt politicians.
This is just heartbreaking. Where have the students relocated for learning? How far is the longest distance a student travels for education?
Thank you for all that you do. Please never stop. We support you. 🇵🇷❤️
Really great production quality. Would love to see stories about farms and organizations that are working to encourage Puerto Ricans to grow and eat more locally produced food.
Yes! this one is a very good one...
Great idea Steve, agree 👍.
You should then check out " compostapr" UA-cam channel.
Puertoricans like their Ancentors have been and still are engineers of cultivation. They Never needed a 'Hand' from someone else.
I would love to see people getting into more farming.
How painful to see my island schools, the ones that educated me and gave me a great life, fall apart! Sad!
Thank you so much for this video high lighting this sad issue! As a PuertoRican I really appreciate this video! We were just in Puerto Rico visiting our family in Lares and had no idea about those folks living in the school. 😞
Prima I am so proud of you. Follow up with this. It's soo frustrating seeing how some want to help and the govt doesn't support the community in my land.
Thank you so much for watching primo! I'll keep reporting on it.
You deserve an accommodation your self for stepping up and publishing topics that we can consider of high importance. Your a great reporter and no one can take that away from you. The areas that you speak of are critical and relevant to the Puerto Rican culture. I'm a combat veteran from the Afghanistan campaign and I admire your work ethic. Thank you for using common sense to get your point across. I was born there but grew up here always always having the notion of going back now that I'm retired. I would like to hear more of our heritage and the Taino way of life. At 59 years old and, still trying to figure out who I really am. As with most of our soldiers coming out of the Afghanistan war that is a heavy burden to place on anyone with PTSD. I will be sharing your videos with everyone on my face book app. I wish you all the best in the near future, God Bless!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS: I would like to hear your opinion on what I have submitted.
Sincerely, Jose Serrano
Bianca, thank you for this video! I appreciate you covering these stories 😔😔💜💙
Thank you for watching it! I'll keep doing it
This is sad seeing my country tearing itself apart. And seeing my countryman and women defenseless sitting on the sidelines without hope. God bless us all.
This makes me cry 😢how selfish it was to take so much from your own people .The only people that are trying to enrich the neighborhood is your neighbors not the government and yet they are been denied left and right .Just so sad 😞
Thank you so much for this video Bianca!! Nadie habla de la triste realidad de la Isla, solamente conocen “Maria” y no saben que la Lucha ha side MUCHO MAS QUE ESO!! I love this so much!! Thank you for sharing our truths 💕
Thank you for sharing this video with me and all others who have watched it! 👍 It's exactly what puertorriqueños like me need to know after living away from the island of enchantment for a long time. 🇵🇷
Te envíe un abrazo lleno de luz y de bendiciones. Muchas gracias por tan buen labor anunciando los abusos de estos políticos criminales, ya que robarle a la educación a nuestros niños es un CRIMEN.
Thanks for the work into this story! You did great👏🏼
Thank you all your help! 😭♥️
It's enlightening that as a great journalist you bring awareness /light to this drastic situation, but (as Puertoriquenos) if we're not part of the solution, then we're like part of the problem. What can we do as a people change this? How can we make it better? And so I will continue praying, believing that the good Lord will restore faith, good fortune, unity/ cultural pride to the Puerto Rican Community.....
" if we're not part of the solution, then we're like part of the problem." So right! Raise the hue and cry to this and help make it happen.
Love this article. 🙌👍The school they closed down in calle Loiza has been turned into a community center with multiple activities for the neighborhood. Also a school in La Cantera in Ponce was acquired by the municipality of Ponce and was given to a church that has different programs for the community. But most of the schools remain abandoned. Also after the earthquakes in Guanica there are no schools because they were all damaged but there is one school that was closed back then now abandoned that the structure didnt suffer damage that could be used for the students if they fix it.
Es muy triste y desgarrador escuchar estas noticias 😥, en mi comunidad , El Barrio Quemados de San Lorenzo, cerraron la única escuela elemental que había.
La Junta was based in part by the "success" of Detroit's bankruptcy. So much of what Puerto Rico is experiencing we went through too, especially our schools. Thanks for your reporting! I hope one day you're able to dig into the fight for who gets to run PREPA.
Great to know more videos are coming. I love your professionalism. I left PR 10 years ago and now I live in Texas. I have become an ambassador to my country. I have motivated coworkers to visit and I always make 2 or 3 trips a year. Gracias porque con tus videos eres embajadora tambien.
Ay muchas gracias. Me encanta que la diáspora vea mis videos. I lived in the U.S. for 10 years so I know what it feels like to be far from la isla.
Wow. Thank you for being amazing, and helping PR move forward towards the future. Best wishes
❤ We need this awareness 🙏 for Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 ❤
Insightful commentary. I would like to know more about Puerto Rico Act 20 and 22 and what Boricua's think about these financial incentives.
That's a good one. They're quite controversial here.
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Because they favor foreign investors while literally strangling domestic entrepreneurship. As a libertarian and free market advocate I find them abhorrent. The state is picking winners and losers.
This is sad that after the government closed this school and really has no plan for it, the community are trying to get it back for something good, and the government are giving them to much trouble and protocol, is completely shame. We are hurting ourselves like always.
Great video Bianca.
It’s called corruption and it’s a shame that the people of Puerto Rico have to stand by and put up with it.
Saludos Bianca! This was so well made! I'm also a boricua UA-camr and it's great you're using your voice for this! Cheers!
Josh Is On A Mission I’m so glad you liked it! Thank you fellow youtuber boricua 🙂
All the schools that I previously went to are now abandoned except for my high school. It's heartbreaking to know I spent half my childhood there and now they're just gone.
me too
Get over it. LOL. If my school from my childhood burned down I would laugh and move on with my life
@@roninjolin7687 maybe it should burn down, their education clearly failed you lol
So sad,but thank you for the information.
Bianca, if you open a Patreon, I'm the first to sign up. I'd be proud to support your independent journalism. Secondly, I think you should look into municipal legislatures. Think about this:
Puerto Rico has over 1,100 municipal legislators (about 15 per municipality). Almost all of them are party (pnp,ppd,pip) loyalists. Most people don't even know they exist.
If municipal legislatures were actual democratic institutions, Puerto Ricans could have more agency over many of the issues you bring up in your videos because they'd be able to engage with politics at an accessible lower level of government, but this institution as it stands achieves next to nothing in most municipalities.
I'm currently working on my own project to shed light into how our municipal governments run and would happily help you develop a script for such a video.
J.I. Thank you! I’m starting a patreon and I’ll link it in my next video.
And that’s a good point. I don’t think we look into municipal government enough. DM me.
@@BiancaGraulau I have a good few memoirs of been raise in San Sebastián de Las Vegas del Pepino around the “burguesía”. My barber was a future Mayor. My father help change the pert in power with a few others that never accepted a political job. And my “abuelos” we’re part of the campaign of the actual Mayor.
@@Utoepya420 Hi, my dad is native from San Sebastian, I used to visit my grandparents spending time with them very often. Jose are you talking about Yeyo the barber who became the mayor, my dad is also a barber. There's something magical about el Pepino. My uncle worked with the power company for many years.
I applaud your desire and your efforts but until people are shown who their enemy in common is they will continue to support that enemy and have their trust betrayed.
Behind every politician is a banker ( or series of ) and international businesses.
You use the term Democratic. This is the wrong term. Democratic government is a Socialist government.
If the PR people want real choice and real involvement they should form a Republic government whereby legislators are accountable to the people .
Thank you Bianca! I look forward to all the videos you post on all of you social media platform especially those of Puerto Rico❤️🇵🇷. Please continue to be the source of accurate information we need about the world!
Thank you so much! I'll keep reporting :)
I love your reporting ans journalism. Thank you for drawing attention to the topics you are covering. This is tragic. Just found you through your video on quitting your job during the pandemic. Wishing you the best for your future endeavors.
Wow. Or Wao as my mom used to type... this story is incredible. So heart breaking to see the schools like this. My education started at schools like this when I lived in PR from 89-96. Thanks for making this and telling these stories! We gotta find ways to get them out for the people!!
Bianca could you make a story about how puerto ricans can help from outside of puerto rico. I am a nurses and am interested in what the health care situation is out there maybe stories on how the hospital in PR are doing. Thank you for your videos.
THIS! Going to the hospital gives me more anxiety than dying in my house. The medical attention here is awful.
Bianca, I just became a subscriber of your channel. I am so proud of what you are showing through your channel. We need more !! Education is Vital to all us. Born is Santurce.
You’re work to make ordinary citizens aware of these travesty’s is priceless. Thank you.
How could there be any thumbs down??? Gurl you are awesome!!! And an inspiration reporting our Puerto Rico. I'm from Moca
Hay veces que tus videos me llenan de ira por exponer la cruda realidad de mi isla. Además me hinchan el pecho de orgullo que gente joven y talentosa tengan la determinación de poner la semilla para crear el cambio. Dijiste que no a grandes corporaciones para comprometerte con tu pueblo. Te admiro!
Thank you so much for this and yes please MORE 🥰
Damaris Tosado thank *you* for watching! And yes, I’ll keep making more 🙂
A spectacular video, the editing is great and the history behind the abandoned places is amazing. I will recommend this video, it is very informative and educational. Pocho
Pocho Pocho thank you so much for watching! I’m glad you liked it
Good job on bringing awareness 👍👍👍
Greetings from Texas. I am from Utuado. I use to work as a security guard in a school in Arecibo, the principal manage to get a grant to fix the school gust to find out it was a historic building and it was near impossible to change anything from the building.
Pronto yo cumpliré 71 años y me alienta saber que hay jóvenes como Bianca Graulau luchando por el futuro de nuestro pueblo.
I really like your videos and k think your so kind. And I don't understand why your videos aren't blowing up. 😔
Thank you so much for the update of P.R. Se le agradece un millôn.
Thank you for watching! More updates are coming.
Que triste en Ponce hay una tambien. Donde yo estudie y cuando volvi y la vi abandonada me dio mucha tristeza. Que pena ver esto.
Thank you for the informative videos about what's really going on in Puerto Rico. The island is being slowly but definitely devoured by the those with capitalist ideals. 🙏Praying for the island and people of Puerto Rico to be successful rising against the steal.❤
Gracias por dar a conocer los diferentes aspectos que no informan los medios de comunicación comerciales y que afectan el desarrollo integral de nuestro pueblo . Dios te de mucha salud y energía para continuar con tu excelente trabajo.
Thank you for your excellent work!
Thank you for watching!
Thank you so much for being this to light. I was unaware!
You are awesome! keep up the great work, muchas gracias!
Awesome video Bianca, I always love to watch your videos . It sure helps Puerto Rico. Thank you.
My wife and I lived in San Juan Condado in 2010/2011. She actually lived and worked there in 1999/2000 for a state side Insurance Company. I now live in Florida and my wife also. If I had the millions that are needed we would come to PR and buy these vacant buildings and donate them to the local communities to fix up and use. I want you to know there are many PR’s folks in Florida and I send your documentaries to them so they can share with other Puerto Ricans. Perhaps in the future some folks from PR will get together and donate funds to your people. I will bet a GOFUNDME FOR PR would raise a lot of funds especially in the Orlando area. Good luck and keep fighting the good fight.
This is an amazingly put video. It touches deep in my heart because that school in Hatillo is my Elementary School, also next to it was my old Middle School which has also been abandoned. I just discovered your channel and I’m delighted to see that you quit what you were doing on TV to follow your passion in PR. Thank you so much for doing the people’s work. We need more educated and kind journalists telling the truth. Gracias!
Definitivamente una producción excelente, te felicito mucho! Excelente reportaje aunque la noticia es sumamente triste y frustrante de como el gobierno hace escante con el país. Pero que bueno que también están usando la propiedad bien aunque puede que tarde o temprano no les ceden o venden por $1 el título lo que invirtieron lo pueden perder.
Great work, thanks for sharing!
Excellent, top notch content. Thank you so much.
Thank you for this information!
Gracias por educarnos.
No tengo palabras para expresar lo q se siente al ver, tan fabuloso trabajo q ustedes están haciendo por nuestra tierra, me llena de orgullo por persona q se preocupe por algo tan valioso, like your home. Es algo q e visionado por mucho tiempo hacer y tengo el equipo para hacerlo, espero algún dia poder hacerlo. Digo esto pq hacer un trabajo como el q ustedes tienen hasta ahora es sumamente importante para este pais. Espero q sigan asi y nunca cambien. Gracias!! 100 chocolates hasta ahora. lol
Esto nos saca las lágrimas a los que vivímos aquí.
Tanto Estados Unidos como los políticos del país lo único que hacen es exprimirnos y destruir día a día a nuestro pueblo Puertoriqueño.
You're as beautiful as the island you're covering. Glad someone is covering topics like these on our land , keep grinding a creating more content I look forward to learning more all the while getting lost in your pretty lil face ❤❤
I thank my best friend for recommending this channel to me. Keep up the excellent work!
Great video!!! Thanks for bringing awareness
Thank you for informing people!
I visited there last year and as a teacher, I was very saddend to see the abandoned schools. Keep up this great work!! Blessings!! Saludos de Oregon.
New viewer! Thanks for sharing and
Publicizing important topics that we not aware of.
Hola Bianca! Felicidades por tu trabajo y gracias por la voz que le das al pueblo. Uno de los temas que me parecen interesantes y lo serán más aún en un futuro cercano es el AGUA 💧. Si no me equivoco ya está o estará cotizada en la Bolsa de valores y sabiendo que en Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 hay recursos de agua, con la deuda existente del gobierno de Puerto Rico y el estatus de colonia no dudo que quieran privatizar esos recursos vitales. Te dejo ese tema por hay para que lo analices! Se que puedes darle una buena cobertura.
thanks for sharing, B. 🖤
Great video. Looking forward to watching your upcoming videos
Eric Graulau thank you!
Excelente la manera de llevar la realidad de nuestra isla del encanto,mucho éxito 100% recomendada,q aprenda la prensa de PR de tus reportes.
Thank you so must for these videos. Finally true information and history about are beautiful island of Puerto Rico. Keep up the good work.
Que triste vivir en un “país” en donde (para el gobierno) el dinero es más importante que la educación.
"Los jóvenes tienen el deber de defender su Patria con las armas del conocimiento." -Pedro Albizu Campos
Pero sin el conocimiento, ¿cómo vamos a salvar nuestra patria?
El cambio empieza desde estos diálogos. Espero que poco a poco podamos reabrir y restructurar nuestro sitema educativo.
"Lo que se les dé a los niños, los niños darán a la sociedad" -Karl A. Menninger.
The school my son attended when we lived there in 2007 is closed and abandoned. So are many of the houses in the neighborhood around it. It’s so frustrating.
I just found out about your channel and your content. Keep it up. I am super Jealous that you can speak both Spanish and English fluently. I grew up in DC of PR decent and my Spanish is good, but not to your level. I visit my mom in Anaso from time to time and wish I was fluent like you. Either way I am looking forward to a Patreon page to support your content.
Awesome video/ information. Thanks and be safe. 😘
Solid. These videos are super interesting and very informative. Thank you for your work.
I am enjoying this so much. Thank you for making them. I am planning on going back to Puerto Rico. I am looking to help as well and teach my skills. I used to teach in the Newark School District. Time to give back.
Always an amazing job in content and presentation--maravillosa!
Gracias por difundir nuestra historia y presente!
Here we are 2 yrs later, and nothing has changed. Still getting worse than ever.
Great video Bianca!!!
Lemanuel Monge thank you!! 🙏🏼
Love to see the out come of this story. Thank you
I’m so glad you have the guts to expose injustice. God bless you!
Excellent work - keep it up!
JB GM thank you! Will do 🙂
Thank you Bianca!!!!!👍🏻👍🏻😎
Great video.. Very good info on that issue , The communitys where these schools are have to be active in the proper use of theses abandoned buildings.. Guanica is a good example.. Community , Elderly centers needed across the island due to many factors..
Thank you for educating me more… Keep up the great and amazing work.
GREAT VIDEOS!
Awesome content and video making.
So well spoken and informative. Thank you for your work.
This channel is really good. Everybody should watch all her videos. This is really, really good journalism. Keep up the good work. We need more professionals like you.
Thank you for bringing this awareness to us. How can I/we help?
Thank you so much for spreading awareness on what’s happening. Its so powerful and inspires me to help Puerto Rico the most amazing place to finally stop being the victim of colonization. I think about it everyday and it’s comforting to know there’s people out there who care.
Este video me rompió el corazón 💔 It is sad to see how this is a reality in the island 🇵🇷 No me imagino viviendo en otro lugar que no sea mi isla pero es tan triste ver la realidad y que en todos los pueblos tenemos la misma necesidad 😢
Great video with awesome information. Thank you Bianca and be safe. 😘
Gracias Biaznca por esos reportajes. Necesitamos que se cree conciencia de lo importante que es atender a nuestras comunidades mas necesitadas.
Blanca, Thank you!
Thank you for this video.
Thank you for your support!
Great video that’s for putting this information out to the public
Wow I learned so much . Great video
Excelente Gracias por lo que haces!