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[quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]I teach Hispanic students in a low income neighborhood. Most do graduate from high school if they are fluent English speakers. The newcomers in our middle school sometimes do not graduate but the high school teachers work hard to make sure they get the extra help they need to graduate. Only a few of my former students have graduated from a 4-year college. If they do go to college, they tend to go to community college while working. If they graduate, it takes a lot longer than 2 years since they are working at the same time. Very few enroll in 4-year colleges due to the cost. Occasionally they get enough FA and scholarship money to go to a 4 yr college. The ones who graduate are almost always very driven girls.

Higher education is not common in their culture. Most are second-generation students and their parents earn enough to send some money home to relatives. Many of the boys go to work with their male relatives in construction and landscaping. Most of the girls have had their first kids by age 22 or so.[/quote]

It is so disheartening to think that you teach these children? Just think logically when you write things like- higher education is not common in their culture. So there are barely any doctors, lawyers, scientists or teachers in all of Latin America? How can you be so ignorant? Alex Padilla, the new senator from CA who replaced Kamala Harris, graduated from MIT with an engineering degree. His parents were a cook and a maid. [/quote]

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