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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These immigrants prepare food, care for children, clean clothes, tend to the landscaping, clean houses, build new homes and renovate old ones, repair cars, maintain commercial buildings -- basically support the lives of the many affluent in this area. I know several Latino families who moved to this region from Southern California because they felt that they had better job opportunities here.

[b]Do these jobs need a high school diploma[/b], especially with children starting off high school completely unprepared? I grew up here and have family here. Otherwise we'd move.[/quote]

No, the jobs that immigrant parents take do not necessarily require a college degree -- but these jobs are plentiful here and they pay well here, and that attracts the immigrant work force to the Washington metro area.

Immigrants, like you, also want their children to attend and learn at good public schools so that they can do better than their parents in life -- it is not right to tell immigrants that their children are not deserving of an education because they can only aspire to certain jobs that require no college degree.

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