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It is crucial for the viability of our study that we, collectively, are able to understand: (a) the historical and political foundations of public education in the United States and Mexico, (b) the ethos and the "invisible curriculum" of schooling in both countries, (c) and the quotidian habits and patterns of educational interaction in school contexts in both countries. A foreign observer in Mexico, even one with full fluency in Mexican Spanish, will have difficulty making sense of the mural on the wall of the Escuela Primaria Nocturna Dos Ejidos in Monterrey, which, like a lot of public school murals in Mexico dedicates a large section to the Día de Muertos (November 2) with dressed skeletons and poems written by students like the one transcribed below: