Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The Hispanic Dropout Mystery: A staggering 30% leave school, far more than blacks or whites. why?
After reading this article bu Susan Headden made me realize that i should take education more serious because is true that there are teenagers that will do anything to get educated but are not able to, this motivates me more to go forward with my education and represent the hispanics that are not able to go to school because of their poverty, or need to work to help their family. Most latinos are not able to attend school not because they dont want to or are "lazy" but because their parents can't afford to pay for school or need the help of their children to work to help support the family. When i go to ecuador, i see kids at the age of 10 working helping their father with the consturction work, and my grandma tells me that they would rather go to school instead of working but they have no other choice, thats why i should appreciate my education in the united states. The article explains that their are more hispanics that dropout then whites or black also because the language, latinos have trouble learning english. One of the solutions the article explained was when a student wants to droput the administators make the student sign a waiver saying that they "wont be able to survive in the 21st century" and give the students a "certifacte of dropping out", it made a student back out of dropping out, thats a bit harsh and funny to me but atleast it helps from preventing some students to drop out.
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This is so true. This happens not only in other countries but here in America for lations. Certin circumstances put children in situations that make them choose what is more important. Society puts these people in a steotypical catagory and this is why it is so hard to move up in the class system.
ReplyDeleteI find this article to be very accurate. Due to the place where people are born both in terms of money and power and their position it affects where their mobility and the chance to get a education.
ReplyDeleteI think that this article is correct on inequalities that some races have more than others. Because most Hispanic people that come to states illegally do not speak English, it puts them at a disadvantage in school already. I also agree that example you provided on how they have to to sign a waiver saying they "Wont be able to survive in the 21st century" to be funny because I did not know they made students do this. But if it helps with the dropout rates, why not.
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