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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People need to have realistic expectations (and honestly a lot of people don't).  There are very few people around the world who go from a rural peasant background to professional, upper middle class in one generation.  Immigrants through the history of the United States take a couple of generations to move up the SES ladder.  The immigrants from many of these communities view themselves as better off than they were in their home country, otherwise they wouldn't stay.  So, we don't need to fret, but just continue to provide educational opportunities.  It is not systemic racism that keeps a teenager who arrived in the US speaking no English and having little to no formal education (many aliterate) from going to college.  Honestly, I think we could help more if we took those teenagers and put them in an intensive English/vocational program, rather than trying to have them adapt to Geometry class.  Kids that are smart can move quickly and enroll in CC once they speak English.  [/quote]

This is true. I’m the poster on the other page with the white husband who grew up poor. In my family, it took about about three generations. None of my grandparents attended college and only one finished high school. That was unusual and considered an advanced education back then.  My parents went to college, but my mother went later in life after all of her children were older.  Everyone in my family was very proud of where they came from, and still are! No one felt like they didn’t have the same opportunities and wanted to work for everything we had.  I had many older relatives who didn’t speak English. It wasn’t necessary for them since everyone in the neighborhood and lives spoke the same here in their US neighborhoods.  Now a few generations later, my children are very much white Americans in FCPS, by anyone who’s quickly looking.  But they are also proud of their relatives even if they don’t really understand since their experiences have been so different.  I think it takes at least 2-3 generations if not more. You are right, don’t worry. Just provide opportunities. [/quote]

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