really, really strict," and raised the girls to have good manners and respect others.
Most of the time in Latino households, parents do this due to generational trauma or simply wanting to have their kids to grow up with having respect for one another. It is all mainly tough love.
to younger people heavily involved in drugs and gangs.
Sometimes I become scared of what the future will hold for these communities all around the world. What will really happen to these communities if our generation started taking over?
1he only bad thing about chat is that it's almost like a double-edged sword that you have to be in the cop 10-12 per-cent. Getting Bs was considered failing.
I did not go to a good performing high school, but I was in a program called AVID where all of the top 10 people who graduated in my class were in fact part of this program. Most of the time I did feel pressure within myself since I would compare myself most of the time to them, but I was still able to get a good gpa in the end.
we wanted to make sure that the elementary teachers were well trained and very highly motivated.
I feel like she wanted to break the generational trauma and provide her kids with better education than hers when growing up. All this is pure out of motherly love and compassion, something that my mom has as well.
"I wanted to make a difference in my community,"
Coming from a Latino background, I do as well want to make a difference in my community and give back to all those people who are supporting me throughout my journey. I hope that in the future, there will be better harmony and peace.
"because it's a safe area."
What really defines a safe area? Is it the lack of Latinos or is it just a saying in where the neighborhood is farther away from the city? Wait I get it now, Latinos are more family oriented and so I think that's what she meant about "friendly and trusting".
By 2013, 46 percent of the county's population spoke a language other than English at home.
I think this was going to be expected because orange county is around the most popular cities in the world and of course not everyone is going to speak English. Plus, a university is nearby, and it's expected to see people all over the world. Back in the Coachella Valley, majority of the people there speak Spanish so it was like more of culture shock to me wh2en I moved over here for school.
The honors students never became my friends-my friends were in nonhonors classes-but they were cordial to me.
Cordial: Being warm and friendly. People in different classes tend to stick with each other, which in this case sucks for the author. In my opinion, classes that are separated by English level are cliquey and it's not really a warming and welcoming environment when a student wants to make friends.
I realized the students who were not compliant and submissive were the ones who were ridiculed,
This part of the passage says a lot on how education was like back then. If you were black, but you didn't fall into what other people saw as "aggressive", then you were okay in a way. Which still, it does not give the right to anyone to treat you differently. Unfortunately, in some places around the United States, Black people are discriminated in the workplace as well as in school.
students reveal to me that they grew up poor, and often they tell me that they are the first person from their family to go to colleg
I am glad that I had a teacher in where I could talk to them about anything and how I was the first person in my family to go to college. Well, the majority of my school were the first ones in their family to go to college. Literally, almost most of the school were first generation students who had no idea how to apply to college.
These aspects of the school structure all contribute co the achievement gap, and unlike the backgrounds of students, they can be easily modified and reformed.
Yes, the school can't really do anything about the student's personal situation, but the setting also partakes in the student's education. Whether the school is rich or poor, they perhaps need to do the best to provide their students the education that they need.
This suggests that the strain of low income takes a toll on maternal mental health.
I find this amusing and upsetting on how a simple increase in income can help a mother's mental health improve. The struggles that mothers go through for their children needs to be talked about. Especially those form low income, I feel like that is the reason why with families with high-income have less stronger relationships with their children than those that are low-income. I don't know, it's just a thought I have.
Also, children from low-income families are more likely to engage in antisocial behavior and to have mental health problems.
This is absolutely true here. Students that come from low-income families may have a lot going on back at home and are most likely to engage in similar behaviors because they are used to it back at home. They will want to reciprocate that negative behavior because for them it might seem normal and that often leads to mental health problems. In my experience, I did go through some struggles that other kids might not have gone through, and it did leave a big impact for my mental health.
Hence, educators are poorly prepared when we actually confront diversity.
Our education was originally built to spread religion and practice it as well. Education has been constantly changing for more than 200 years, and for professors to not understand diversity is crazy.
This would not be a great example of multi-cultural education as you are separating a group of minorities into one single topic and cram them all into one. :(
I was disturbed by what I felt was a Jack of understanding on the apart of many professors as to what the multicultural classroom might be like.
This is the main reason why discrimination in education is a thing. Multi-cultural education can give us the opportunity to learn about the world and welcome every student.
we must acknowledge that our styles of teaching may need to change.
I can agree with this statement simply because not every single student is going to come from the same background/home. With different method, it can shape the future of education.
Multicultural World
Coming from a Latino background, the US should encourage all teachers to consider their students situations as well as their many different backgrounds.
"Get the education. Borrow money if you have to from your parents"
Personally, my mom does not have the current funds to pay for my whole college education. I am surviving off of grants from the government and one loan and I am thankful. I hope in the future to pay off my debt and help my mom on all she has helped me.
The poor are not the problem. Ignorance about wide-spread poverty and how it functions, however, is
YES! People did not become poor by choice; the system failed them. There are families who came here to the US with nothing in their hands and are trying to make a living for their families.
Even after poor students enter college, there is often an imposed sense of not feeling entitled to their own admission.
This is absolutely true and I still feel like that. There are other students who are much more well off because their parents are financially stable and so on. But who am I to judge, there are times where I don't feel a sense of belonging. Although this is all of a process in where we are changing our family generation.
He said, "Remember, graduates: It's not who you know. It's whom."
College is what you make of it. The friends and memories you make will determine the path that is right for you. Yes it will be difficult, but it'll be a journey to enjoy. Some people don't go straight to college and that is completely okay! As long as you are having fun, that is all that matters.
At long last, even after first-generation and poor students like me sur-mount class-based difficulties in college, the debt looms for decades. Although a college education is "the most reliable step" for upward social mobility, the debt that poor college students incur and retain for years keeps them at a handsome distance below their more well-off contemporaries in building net worth and wealth
I don't like how debt became normalized in our society because it is not! Paying to continue our own education should not be a thing and without debt, students would become stress free when having to pay for college.
But brilliance can come from anywhere. If we insist on class equity in schools, it will come from everywhere.
Personally, I came from a poor high school district in where our school hasn't been rebuilt in like more than 50 years. Brilliance can truly come from anywhere, there were students at my school who achieved their goals of getting into their schools and made it possible. To add on, I feel like children in poorer schools will feel like they are inferior to kids from richer schools. But the main goal is to persevere and never give up.
Some districts focus on basic skills while neighboring districts emphasize the teaching of higher-order thinking.
I feel like it really depends on the budget of the district. Some districts that have more money will take in account of the new sets of skills that they want to teach children for the future, but for those districts that are more low income, they are doing the bare minimum to survive and teach their students life skills.
Well-off children almost \ always attend schools that have most of these features; poor children too fre-quently do not.
Coming from one of those "poor" schools, there were some setbacks and some lack of materials that did make it difficult for me during high school. Although it did not stop me from achieving my goals and helped me shape my mindset into what I want the future to become for the new generations of kids.
Most importantly, qual-ified, knowledgeable teachers make a difference.
A good teacher will truly change the way of a student's thought process. They will motivate them to do better in a world full of hate and inequality. Every single student deserves a good education and with the help of these teachers, there will be hope for the future.
Hispanics and inner city residents still drop out much more frequently than others,
This achievement gap will continue to be a thing in the future and will become a repeating process. Although, I don't understand how people will go out of their way to discriminate a whole population just to feel better about themselves.
I am an American, so I have the freedom and opportunity to make whatever I want of my life. I can succeed by working hard and using my tal-ents; if I fail, it will be my own fault.
Although this statement is true, to others it may not be true. Immigrants go through a series of some of the toughest challenges in the world and always give it their all to achieve THAT American Dream. Personally, when my mom entered the country, she started off with a work visa and built her way up to achieve a better future for my brother and I.