How Social Aspects Of Urban Schools

Immigration affects families in many different ways. In the book “Enrique’s Journey” by Sonia Nazario, family is a core element. After Enrique’s mother leaves for the U.S., the whole concept of their family gets distorted. The walking out of Enrique’s father and the abandonment of his grandmother help to disband the family even more. Enrique also threatens to repeat the same mistakes his family made with his daughter when he considers leaving her behind in Honduras. Family is the central theme in Enrique’s Journey because of his relationship and resentment with his mother, the rejection of his father and grandmother, and Enrique’s decision to leave his daughter, Jasmin, behind.

The majority of American children grow up learning that Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. There is little room for argument against the idea that the United States is a nation founded on immigration. However, there are some Americans who contend to the idea that new immigrants should not be allowed into United States and should receive no help adapting to their new culture. When people travel to the United States, the majority choose to bring their children with them. These children leave their homes and must come face to face with their new surroundings. If children are rejected at the border, what does that say about American citizens? How the children are treated by their peers can have a considerable impact on their likelihood of success. If nearly 44 million foreign-born people live in the United States 22 percent of those people are children, that leaves with America nearly 10 million immigrant children who may need assistance while trying to go through school. Immigrant children are typically described as those who have at least one foreign-born parent. These children deserve the same opportunities to succeed as the typical American born children. With assistance, immigrant children are likely to graduate high school and even move forward with college. If American citizens wish to make the United States a better place, they must move forward with helping the immigrant children.

Another major issue that is addressed in the article is with the teachers and their teaching styles. The method in which most teachers teach their

Immigrant groups take refuge in America in hope of starting a better life for themselves and their ongoing generations. They take on the belief that upon coming to America, they will be presented by the riches and freedom granted by the “American Dream”. However, these opportunities are not easily achieved. Many immigrant families are challenged with the initial obstacles of having to adapt to the new languages and the customs of their environment. For example, without the basic knowledge of the standard English language, immigrants will not be able to apply for a majority of the jobs available. This puts immigrant parents at disadvantages because then they will not be able to provide the sufficient funds needed for allowing their children

One of the narratives explains how their father faced racism and mistreatment because of his lower social position, his race/ethnicity, and his limited English language proficiency. Another finding in the study saw that Mexican American parents have a view of “there are no borders for you”. The education in Mexico is limited, but in America the options are endless. Many narratives focused on escaping the working life. Parents would threaten their children by saying if they didn’t pursue an education they would end up like them. On the other hand, some parents showed resistance when it came to education because if their child had a greater education that would mean a loss of respect for the parent. Moreover, sometimes children were on their own. With parents working long hours, children had to become responsible for their education so every “A” they earned was all because of hard work. Many parents feared moving out of their set class. They had a set social status to serve people and do the jobs that no one wanted; not even a college degree can change that. These narratives show a side of the Mexican American story that people don’t really see. Parents influence us in every way through their own experiences and the life lessons they teach

The impressive increase in earnings with length of time in the United States among immigrants is in large part due to their increase in English language proficiency the longer they live in the US. There are also many non-economic benefits for immigrants from becoming proficient in English. These include access to and participation in the civic, cultural, social, and political life of the country, including passing the language test in order to become a citizen (Chiswick & Miller forthcoming). Certain factors, however, make it more difficult for some individuals or immigrant groups to become proficient in spoken or

Whether they have just started to learn English, are developmentally disabled, of a minority, or of low socioeconomic class, students will take the same test as a middle-class White student, who has spoken English all of their life. If it does not sound fair, that is because it is not. Testing should be done in a student’s native language, and tailored to their developmental level. While it is not economical, this would most likely raise states AYP rates

The economic stress is also experienced by the children, where they began to pick up more responsibility in the household which can interfere with their school activities. Family relationships also become strained with the deportation of a parent. Derby (2012) also found that “the threat of deportability affected them profoundly”, causing the children stress and worry. This was applicable to U.S citizens as well as undocumented children. This caused children to worry about what to share about their private lives with the fear of people finding out about their parents undocumented status. This also caused conflicts with the child’s self of identity given that some stated to be “proud that either they or their parents were from Mexico, [but] few felt proud that they or their parents were immigrants”(Derby, 2012). It was interesting that parents believed their children didn’t understand legality, which the interviews with children “suggested that young children are aware that there are social differences based on legal status at very young ages even if this was difficult for them to articulate” (Derby,

Parents of minority students have a fear results will be use to place their children in special education programs or to label their students as under achievers compared to their counterparts. “Culturally skilled counselors are able to engage in a variety of verbal and nonverbal helping responses. They are able to send and receive both verbal and nonverbal messages accurately and appropriately (Derald Wing Sue, 1992).” Consider the student that has never taken a standardized test and speaks another language other than English. The effective school counselor should has an awareness of the student barriers, cultures should seek other methods of helping students. A test that is given to a student that can’t read English is unfair, and schools counselors should advocate for testing that recognize other languages. Schools use computerized tests because of the cost associated with administrating tests, more students are able to take the test at the same time and because results can be evaluated sooner (Hays, 2013). However one still needs to need make sure the tests avoid discriminatory practices and bias

Here in the Rio Grande Valley immigration has become the hit. An immigrant in my own words is someone from a different country that travels to an alternative country permanently for a better life. I belief they are many unlike reasons why people live in their country but cross to another country. Actually, I’m not in immigrant, I’m a US citizen but I have experienced many stories and seen families struggle from this situation. Nevertheless, to my own experience, some people move to the US to find better jobs, but some move to different counties to look forward not only to better their education but their children’s as well. In this research paper I will be pointing out the important factors and expectations of illegal immigrants in the US,

If some people get out of state testing,then everyone else shouldn't take it. First, some students don’t even take state tests. So it isn't fair for the people who do take it. Students spend a week doing state testing, while all the other people get to get out of it, and do something else. Next, if students are gonna take state testing, all students have to do it and not just get out of it. The only people who should get out of state testing are the students who don't speak english fluently. The students who get out of taking the state tests probably do something that has nothing to do with state testing. That shows that if students should not get out of state testing if they are gonna have state tests. (http://worklife.columbia.edu/files_worklife/public/Pros_and_Cons_of_Standardized_Testing_1.pdf)

This paper will explore the injustices, the trauma, the fear experienced by immigrants, particularly, the young children who were brought to the United States by their parents to escape political persecution, and harsh economic backgrounds. This study is important for various reasons, and the primary reason is that the young teenager who grew up loving the United States, and they identify with American values. These youngsters would be an asset to this country, and they want the chance to become nurses, engineers, and teachers etc. The United States is a melting pot of immigrants, and the undocumented immigrant want to come out of the shadows and become productive members of our society. If we sent these political immigrants back to a country, they do not know, and to face uncertain terror, then how can we help them with their trauma. Living in fear is not their source of their trauma.

Although his research is not fully based in the Mexican immigrants, it is rather based in a small community of immigrants from Tucuani, this is a work that helps people to understand the transnational life of migrants in general. In fact, being an international student and coming from a country market by immigration, this book also provides an explanation of some for some of my personal experience. For example, when he notices how the first generation and second generation is treated differently when returning home. The first generation is well received and praised when the second generation is treated as arrogant. My country was also greatly impacted by civil war which forced a number of people to immigrate. This book analysis presented several explanations for the reason why first generation keeps the image of their country of origin as “home” that they would always come back and the second not so much. Like Julia, many second generation returning to my country feel happy to return home, but they make people unhappy since they would not let go of the values they learned growing up in a foreign country. I didn’t understand much and I confess that before moving to the US I also consider many of them arrogant. In fact, these views may influence how both generations are treated when returning to their home

This Alejandro Portes and Rivas are two authors who investigated how young immigrants adapt to a life in the United States. These authors began noting of two distinct migrants: the Asian and the Hispanic. The reason that this article is reliable is both authors are a professor of Sociology at Princeton University with a Ph.D. in Sociology. The article will help me by having authors with a Ph.D. in Sociology describing the life of both Asian and Hispanic adapting the lifestyle in the United

In my Examining Urban Education class, our assignment was to interview an urban teacher given by my teacher Mrs.Dunn. My teacher for this interview is Dr. Dunac who is an urban science teacher. All of our questions were linked to the experience of being a teacher at an urban school and all of the challenges faced. One of the questions we asked her was, “What advice would you give to future science teachers?”. Another question we asked her and also my favorite was, “Why didn’t you choose to go into the medicine field?”. The struggle I have with picking my major is I am not sure if I want to major in medicine or in education to become a science teacher. Conducting this interview was the icing on the cake for me. The questions that we asked her helped finalize my decision on what it is I want to do. I am still not sure what subject I would like to teach, but I know for sure that I want to be an educator.