This is how the children go to classes in Alquízar: "And it's worse in front of the school."

Cuban children living in Alquízar, in the province of Artemisa, have to go through an ordeal every day to get to school due to the poor condition of the road, which is more like a cow pasture.

A video recorded by a child's father shows the road filled with mud and water, to the extent that some mothers put their children on their backs to prevent them from falling and getting dirty.

"First day of school in Cuba, they say the front of the school is worse," said internet user Ernesto Sánchez on his Facebook profile.

In the recording, several children can be seen standing by the side of the road, waiting for an approaching tanker to pass by, because just a few meters ahead there is so much stagnant water that it could soak them.

"Until school, this is how we have to walk for the children on foot and the parents, and the mud..." laments the author of the video.

"That's when it is in front of the school," a woman is heard shouting.

The political activist Diasniurka Salcedo Verdecia, originally from Alquízar, revealed on Facebook that the school of those children is Ramón Emeterio Betances.

Both publications have generated outrage among internet users, who describe the incident as a lack of respect and a disgrace of the government.

There are not a few who suggest to mothers that they should not send their children to school until the problem is resolved, while some praise the children for their eagerness to study.

"Nothing works, the environment around us has become a mess, all services are collapsed, we live worse than the indigenous people," claimed a Havana resident.

"With water a swamp, and without water a quarry of construction materials working at full capacity and spreading dust left and right. Poor children and staff who have to go back and forth every day on that disastrous embankment," lamented a villaclareño.

While the children of Alquízar suffer this reality, the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel wished on Monday a happy start to the school year "to the children and young people of all Cuba," a message that received an angry response from several internet users who reminded him of the hardships that students and teachers face at the beginning of this period.

"Congratulations to those boys and girls who can start the school year today; there are mothers who couldn't buy backpacks that cost 8,000 and 10,000 pesos and shoes that are extremely expensive, not to mention the number of children who have nothing to snack on today," warned a user.

A few days ago, a Cuban mother erupted over the poor conditions of her son's school in the new term.

The woman showed in a video the deterioration of the classroom, with the ceiling stained from recent rainwater that had leaked in, the floor covered in water, and the door practically detached.

"What I feel is like crying just knowing that my son is going to study here, because as soon as a heavy rain falls, look, look at that roof and that floor..." said the woman indignantly.

"On these tables, hands get pinched, uniforms get torn, and books get damaged. Two little lamps, the child who has problems with their eyesight is screwed," he added.

Another mother reported that her son's primary school in Havana is surrounded by sewage water and has a gigantic dump on the corner, an area conducive to the proliferation of rats, cockroaches, and mosquitos.

The children of the José Manuel Lazo de la Vega Quintana Special School in Marianao attend classes in an unhealthy environment. They have to use a dangerous manhole cover as a step to access the building, and the stench reaches the classrooms.