The school escort mexicana is one of those national elements to which we are so accustomed from childhood, that we do not even wonder who invented it.
Perhaps some can guess their origin if we remind them that they are made up of six childrenor six teenagers in the case of high school escorts.
Have you already figured out how they came about? Well, the school escorts, used every Monday to perform honors to the flag of Mexicoalso have the function of honoring six cadets of the Military schoolbetter known as the Children heroes.
The 6 members of the escort represent the heroic cadets
Just to have more context, we must remember that these three children, who were more like teenagers, earned a place in the official story for having protected the Castle chapultepec against the assault of troops Americans in 1847.
And here comes another interesting fact. those names boys John of the Barrera, Augustine Melgar, Francisco Marquez, Fernando Montes de Oca, Vincent Suarez and Juan EscutiaThey were between 14 and 20 years old. That is to say, they were contemporaries of another boy who in the future would also be part of the Mexico history: Porfirio Diazborn in oaxaca in 1930.
Porfirio Díaz, contemporary of the Children Heroes
But in 1847, the year the Niños Héroes died, Díaz still did not belong to the mexican militiaalthough he was probably moved, like all the people, by the heroic defense of Chapultepec Castle that those young people had made.
However, once in the presidency of Mexicoaccording to educational authoritiesPorfirio Díaz made the decision to create school escorts to honor his contemporaries, the Children Heroes.
Since then all schools primaries and secondary schools in the country, with the exception of some private ones, follow the mandate to honor the flag every Monday with the help of a school escort, made up mainly of the most academically outstanding students.
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