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Back to school for Costa Rican students today

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By Alberto Font
Alberto Font/The Tico Times

Some 940,000 students from Costa Rica’s public schools started classes Monday. Hailyn Guido, 9, and her mother, Patricia Loza, arrived to the Buenaventura Corrales school in downtown San José, where Guido will start 4th grade.

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