Directive Strategies for the School Entrance of Returned Children and Adolescents in Sonora. The Applicability of the School Control Standards

Abstract

Objective: Presenting the school regulations implementation strategies during the administrative registration processes of return migrant students from the United States. Methodology: Qualitative study from action research approach was used. Twenty-one directors of public primary and secondary school in Hermosillo were interviewed. The analysis focuses on management personnel discourses about the strategies of implementing the school control standards in the administrative registration processes. Results: The difficulties for school access processes and the applicability problems of control standards are presented. Value: This article highlights the context in which a school regulation that lacks of institutional training for its implementation operates in the administrative registration processes. Limitations: Another migrant population are not considered; they should be taken into account in order to expand the administrative and institutional knowledge presented by the management staff of basic education schools. Conclusions: The basic education management staff in Sonora requires a better understanding of the school control standards, in order to be implemented according to the contexts and needs of the return migrant students.