So, out of curiosity, I looked up the stats on the school where I am an after-school bilingual teacher. New Highland Academy
Here's what I found out:
30% African American
70% Latino
0 (yes zero)% White
90% economically disadvantaged
60% non-English speakers
15% of students met California school fitness standards
7% of students passed the state standardized test in language arts
13% of students passed the state standardized test in math
lowest academic performance score possible according to California standards (1 on scale of 1-10, 1 being lowest performance)
Lesson learned: No money and no English = no education for you.
My kids come in scared because people were coming in their houses with guns. Violence erupts everywhere. We had to round up 90 kids and fortress ourselves into the cafeteria when adult mothers started a violent fight. The police regularly drop by the area, responding to violence in the schoolyard or mothers who arrive drunk. Many of the parents reek of marijuana when they come to get their children. The feds come in to the children's homes and rip apart families, sending back someone's sister who doesn't have papers while her babies get to stay in the USA because they are citizens but their teenage mother is not. And the thing that sucks the most is the five-year-old girls I am teaching now might be teenage mothers deported back to Mexico in a few years because opportunities just aren't available to them. Education in our country is great. If you live in a rich white suburb. If you are a legal resident. If you speak English.
Rant over.
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