I speak conversational Spanish and have been visiting the Akumal, PDC, and Tulum areas since the mid 80's. Also, I have visited public schools and little libraries in PDC, Chemuyil, Akumal, Coba, Tulum, Pto. Aventuras, and Xcalak. So, I would be happy to discuss your questions on visiting the area and about the public education in rural areas of Mexico. Additionally, I am on the board and "Director of Library Services" for a fabulous nonprofit group called "Books for a Better World." This group donates a box of high quality paperback children's books (about 50-60 books each year) to impoverished village schools and tiny libraries in Peru, Paragay, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and my beloved little libraries in Quintana Roo Mexico. This next year, I will be buying a box of books for 70 (yes SEVENTY!!! ) little remote places that otherwise would have no or very little children's literature. This is a wonderful project, and I am great at getting books at a big discount. I never pay more than 50% of retail. In most of these places, there's no children's literature -- no Harry Potter, no Dr. Seuss, no ABC books, no nursery rhymes, no mysteries, no fairy tales, -- just textbooks if they are lucky. That is how Hekab Be was before Chuck and I and other generous tourists and local folks got involved. They went from less than 50 children's books in Spanish -- for all of the entire village -- to now having more than 1,500 children's books. The public schools in Mexico make the poorest schools in the U.S. seem great in comparison. And in most of the very poor and remote areas of central and south america, those schools make the mexican schools look great.