Mexican American Studies Should Be Banned Essay

In his “Open Letter to the Citizens of Tucson,” Tom Horne explains why he believes ethnic studies should be banned. Horne explains what happened at the Tucson magnet school when a Republican Latina came to speak. Tom Horne writes, “Her speech was non-partisan and professional, urging students to think for themselves and avoid stereotypes. Yet a small group of La Raza students treated her

How would you discuss the worldviews and value systems of Indigenous peoples prior to European contact/invasion? How did these worldviews impact all aspects of life (science, agriculture, language, spirituality, etc.) for indigenous peoples?

European history and British literature are perfectly fine classes in most American high schools, however the government has deemed that Hispanic-culture related classes are unacceptable, despite the positive results shown by the students. The prohibition of the ethnic studies program might revert the student to their old ways of dropping out of high school, which would essentially take away the chicanos’ chance of succeeding in getting a career and obtaining a college education. This is only one example of how minorities may not have equal opportunities as the white majority does due to institutional

The United States Hispanic population continues to increase each year. In turn, school populations of Hispanics increase as well. Hispanics, although improving academically, continue to have high school dropout rates, higher than other racial and ethnic groups and continue to lag behind school peers. The discrepancy between Hispanic students and other students’ achievement is the result of many factors, including acculturalization, language acquisition, poverty, and school factors. Schools

Sociologists have been studying the effects of education on Latino Americans and to their findings there are physical and conceptual issues which include: language barriers, issues with educators and peers which cause issues within their identity development and ultimately creating this separation of cultures which can effect Latino Americans success in school. While there are other factors that may be

Because Hispanics are the fastest growing population in the United States, it is critical for the development of prevention dropout programs to decrease the dropout rate and improve the quality of life amongst the Hispanic population (Reyes & Elias, 2011).

School hours. Chicanos were dropping out of school and not graduating, only 1 out 4 students were graduating because they were treated unequally. "Mexican American students throughout the Southwest held a 60% high school dropout rate. If they did graduate, they averaged an 8th-grade reading level. Due to Anglo-centric internal school policies, many Chicano students were fielded to vocational training or classes for mentally disabled." The schools would not do anything to help them and made sure they graduated high school. Not many Chicanos were going to college after high school because they were not given the opportunity to go. In school, chicanos were separated from all the students and were given different classes. Instead of getting a class to prepare them for college they would give them classes like

     Why do some groups not succeed in academic settings? One theory brought up in “Understanding inequality” suggests that the gap in the socioeconomic status drives the inequalities in the school system. The low and working class have less time and income to intervene with schooling. This means they have less time to meet with teachers, hire tutors, and provide continuous transportation. Therefore the lower class can’t possibly compete with the middle and upper classes. Angela Valenzuela gives the accounts of some Hispanic students’ experiences in school. These students feel that it is the inferior nature of the schools in the US that contribute to the low success

Undocumented students come from all over the world, not just Mexico, or Spanish speaking countries as many close-minded people believe. It is sad how when someone sees a Hispanic/Latino student they automatically think they are undocumented and are from Mexico. That is not always the case. There are Hispanic/Latino students in the United States that are documented. The reason why many parents risk their life to come here to the United States as an immigrant is because they want a better future for their kids. Even when they have children in their native country, they try their best to bring them to the United States along with them as young children so they are able to get a better education and life. For their kids to be able to receive and have a life that will be a million times better than the one they would have if they stayed in their native country. Every day I am grateful for the risk my mother took for me. For giving me the chance to grow up in a country where I know I am getting a better education. Where I was taught English as my second language and have mastered it just as much as Spanish that is my native language. The United States is where I feel like I am home. Although at times I had the fear of being deported, or have racial comments said to, this is still home. Mexico is only a country where I was born at, raised for the first two years of

Mexican Americans in the education system have been treated unfair. From the Mendez v. Westminster to the low number of students graduating from high school and moving to a higher institution shows that the system has done nothing to help these students. By the help of the community wealth theory many of the few numbers of scholars who have been able to reach these higher institutions have been able to put families, schools, peers, and other influences for their benefit and for helping them enter these systems which are not welcoming to them. Various aspects of these systems need to be change from the diversity of teachers and desegregation in and within schools around the US which would influence the communication and thoughts that Mexican

The Latinos education crisis is a prevalent issue in the United States. More and more research has uncovered magnanimous evidence that our education system is failing the students and thus creating a pipeline away from success and higher education and into gangs, prison and poverty. From 2011-12 alone Latinos made up almost a quarter of the enrolled students in public schools, Hispanic status dropout rate was 13% (higher than both African Americans at 8% and Whites at 4%), and 5% of all doctoral degrees conferred were earned by Latinos. (NCES, Digest of Education Statistics 2013). The crisis is a result of compounding failures and the perpetuation of stigmas within the educational, governmental and societal systems. As each of these systems are complex and composed of countless factors, addressing the issues the Latino population face, specifically within schools, is often overlooked and underaddressed. In light of the problems Latinos must compete against, this paper will address the potential for change and how it can be wrought, beginning on the microlevel of the educational system, by mandating and introducing culturally responsive teaching (CRT) into classrooms and school districts nationwide in an effort to counteract the lack of educational support and to decrease tracking of students onto the school to prison pipeline.. This paper will strive to answer the question of how culturally responsive teaching can address the educational deficits of the Latino/a

Even though Hispanics were viewed more highly than Blacks they were still treated poorly. They worked for barely any pay for hours and their kids went to separate schools. After many court cases such as the “Delgado” case Hispanic children were allowed to go to white schools, Cesar Chaves in the other hand was able to increase wages for many field workers. Just like the African Americans, Hispanics are bran new to the idea of education, thus many families still have their children working at such an early age. The Hispanic culture is a rich culture, “Hispanic families are close-Knit and the most important social unit” (Hispanic culture). For this very reason “Hispanics have a sense of obligation to provide material and emotional support to members of nuclear and external family” (Hispanic Culture). How does this affect GPA you might wonder? Well because of this feeling of obligation most younglings tend to work or else they are considered lazy or unproductive. Working during school results in difficulty for getting school assignments done which make a student look bad, in some cases students are forced to drop out to help the family out economically. This might seem harmless to many, but the reality is this happens quite often, and sadly these young men/women will have a family of their own and due to low education levels most will not have a stable fanatical life, thus resulting in a constant cycle of low education levels between the Hispanic cultures. This is almost becoming a norm to where students don’t even try because they know that they will be forced to do what their family does for a living to support fanatically stability. Even though this is not true for every Hispanic, the reality is that this is a very real life event that happens so

Furthermore, as we can imagine how diversity and multiculturalism of all type benefit all students, we can see our society often being separated into the higher class and lower class, and almost inhabiting separate countries, just as, the decision in “The Immigration Act of 1965.” So, as we can envision how the number of children that live in poverty has grown significantly and the number of children living in communities concentrated in poverty is disturbingly large. Ellis Cose reflect in his own ethnic and racial origins the broad mosaic while he prefer to call it a kaleidoscope that characterizes life in the United States today. In this case I would consider the historical magnitude of this national transformation. For instance, in her haunting memoir China Mend, the acclaimed writer Maxine Hong Kingston devotes an entire chapter to listing the dozens of immigration statues designed to exclude people from China from the America’s shores.

reconsidering the number and categories of visas available for family reunification; that governments establish a sound, equitable process toward earned legal status for currently undocumented immigrants; that governments legislate fair labor and civil laws for all; and that immigration enforcement be conducted in ways that recognize the importance of due process of law”

Illegal Immigration has been a problem in United States for the past few years. Each year around 500,000 immigrants come into America illegally. Many try sneaking across the border, others are smuggled into the U.S. via shipping containers, in vehicles (automobile & trucks) crossing the border at non-authorized locations. While some get caught, others quickly spread throughout the U.S. as far as Maine and New Hampshire.