The Columbia Institute (Instituto Columbia)
Monterrey
Local
K-9
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The school is not yet equipped with multimedia classrooms although they do have a good computer lab. Unfortunately the teaching of computation seems mainly to consist of Microsoft Office (yawn)
The curriculum would be improved if it had less non-academic activities and more academic activities. For instance there is no social studies (history / geography) but they do have music.
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there are better schools.
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