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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.

[b]Higher education is not common in their culture[/b]. 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]

The above bolded is very racist. You know that Latin America is full of successful and affluent doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists, etc... The immigrants who come to the US tend to be the poorest and least educated so they are not representative of all Latin American culture. [/quote]

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Of course there are professionals in Latin America. Duh. 
That does not mean OP presumes there are not. I think it is a genuine question and I wondered the same.

Totally agree with the other PP who noted that most of the Hispanic immigrants to the US are NOT from the professional classes in Latin America (since those folks can do fine at home) but rather poorer classes - probably similar to most cultures that immigrated here en masse at one point like past waves of Irish and Italians for instance. I think more telling will be the kids of the people born here as first generation and whether higher numbers of them are able to make the jump. But expecting first generation Americans to be going to college in droves is not realistic at all based on historical immigration patterns.  [/quote]

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