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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I agree with this. [/quote]

+2.  I'm in strong favor of the intensive English + vocational training option.  I think it will yield economic security and upward mobility for their children faster. [/quote]

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