Alberto Toro, his current students and two former students of his who came to say good-bye, blend into a hug on the last day of school in the small Spanish village of Pitarque, Teruel, one of the least populated regions of the European Union, June 21, 2022. Two former students of his attended the last day of school together with the last four students to bid him farewell. "Closing the school is going to be negative for the village. Schools are the engine of change and development. When you close them down, you become stagnant," Toro says. REUTERS/Susana Vera