Montserrat Garibay was undocumented and it took her 20
years to become a U.S. citizen. She is currently a teacher at Houston Texas. Inspired
by her personal experience and the large Latino population she has a seminar that
helps “families and children navigate the bureaucracy of the immigration
system.” She wants to help close the education gap where low achievement and
low graduation rates are common because a diploma is worthless because a lot of
these students do not have a social security number to work. She was awarded a
5,000 grant from the National Education Association and for her next workshop she
hopes to fill out 300 300 citizenship applications.
The
education is gap is a serious problem in my high school where half of the
students where Mexicans many dropped out or the girls got pregnant. But, fortunately
things are changing because there an increase in the amount of Hispanics going
to college. The pre-schools are very helpful because children learn and practice
what they learn with their siblings or neighbors. There is definitely a lot of
work to be done. I hope their where workshops like in central Florida because
the bureaucracy of the immigration system is very complicated and a mistake can
created many problems.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/02/us/closing-a-fear-gap-so-children-can-achieve.html?ref=politics&_r=0
I understand and agree with you that if this continues to happen its going to be ugly. I feel that we overlooks this problem a lot mostly blaming it on the young teens that dropout/get pregnant. We need to work on this as a nation.
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