User:Itha09/sandbox

The Centro Escolar Benemerito de Las Americas accept students from all over the Mexican territory and some students from North and South America as well. Even though this institution is private and owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS), it is required that they accept non-LDS students too because of the educational laws that the Mexican government applies to every school in Mexico. Students at Benemerito de Las Americas receive secular and religious education. Besides all student electives and traditional required subjects such as Math, History, Spanish and English, students are required to take a religious classes required from the educational system of the school. Non- LDS students also need to take these religious classes. In these religious classes, LDS teachers prepare lessons based on the bible and the Book of Mormon and these lessons are specific to the religious and spiritual progress of each student. In addition to the secular and religious classes for students; there is also a variety of cultural and physical activities for the students to practice. The school believes students to get cultural or physical education such as football, soccer, martial arts, basketball and Jazz dance among other things. It believes that it will increase the students’ physical condition, development students’ talents, positive social environment and use free time wisely. Students decide which activities they want to participate in and they go to practice every day after school. Some of these students excel at what they are practicing so much that sometimes they become national champions in their sports, professional dancers or musicians. There are a lot of facilities where students can practice according to the activity they chose. For example, there is an auditorium for the Folk dance students to practice. There are also football, soccer, baseball and volleyball fields for practice and matches. Benemerito de Las Americas has 50 houses and 4 apartment buildings for the students to live in order to make it easy for students that come from all over the Mexican Republic to attend school there. These houses are divided between female and male students. Every house is consists of 18 boys or girls and every apartment building by 112. A married adult couple is assigned to each house or apartment building to take care of the students and their medical or other needs they could have. Because this school is a religiously based school, students and teachers have to follow the Honor Code that based on LDS standards. The school honor code that the school is based on specifies how students should dress everyday and how they have to behave in order to stay at the school. For example, smoking and drinking alcohol inside or outside the school leads to the termination of the student’s studies in that school. Students also need to wear a specific uniform when they go to classes and they have to dress modesty when they are out of school hours.