OAXACA, Mexico (AP) — It looked like a normal first day of school at Patria Libre elementary. Uniformed kids sporting brand-new backpacks with their favorite cartoon characters — Dora the Explorer, Hello Kitty, the "Frozen" heroines — reunited with classmates and sang the national anthem.But that's far from normal in Oaxaca, a Mexican state where teachers' strikes and protests cost the average student 50 days out of the 200-day academic calendar last year, according to federal education officials.Year after year, protesting teachers have blocked highways and cut off oil refineries.

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