Miseducation of Latinos

The problem with the miseducation of the Latino is not the that he or she is educated in the Anglo-Saxon literary lines, which are available to him or her, but rather outside of the social environment from whence he or she derives. The education of the Latino is kept within his economic status; left to dwell forever in the culture shock that derives from the differences among his community and the mainstream of America. Latinos have the language barrier, which is often mocked because of the heavy ethnic accent that is char

I can recall when a visitor came to my second grade class in Irvington, NJ before I moved to New Brunswick. While everyone else was so engrossed in the activities of the day, I reclined back and just tried to absorb as much of the information as I could. I was trying to match the actions with the words and looking for sound similarities in languages. When the visitor asked me what was wrong, I just shrugged my shoulders. The teacher said “he is the slow one, you always have one of them in each class. He’s a spic.” I eventually found out that I was lucky though. That was the minimum for Latinos in the area. I later found out that other kids did not attend school at all because they were said to be ineligible. I never quite understood the theory of keeping someone out of school. As a second grader, I felt that my teacher just did not like me and if I were to learn anything, than I needed to read books on my own.

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