In the China quake, of the 87,000 killed at least 5,000 (official account) to 10,000 (parent's figures) kids were killed in their schoolrooms.
That's why we were watching for news of the schools in the Mexico earthquake. The very early reports were that the Enrique Rebsamen school in Mexico City and another, unnamed, school in Puebla had collapsed. There are quite a few deaths in the Capital but the Puebla story was in error, the second school building was actually located in Jojutla in neighboring Morelos state and the AP is reporting:
....Buildings also collapsed in Morelos state, including the town hall and local church in Jojutla near the quake's epicenter. A dozen people died in Jojutla.The town's Instituto Morelos secondary school partly collapsed, but school director Adelina Anzures said the earthquake drill held in the morning came in handy."I told them that it was not a game, that we should be prepared," Anzures said of the drill. When the quake came, she said, children and teachers rapidly filed out and nobody was hurt....
