Minorities in Education Deserve a Better Future

Over the recent years Hispanics have been hit hard by the economy downfall causing
many Hispanics to be below poverty. When it comes to Hispanics attending school across the
United States, many are faced with difficult decisions whether or not they have the time, money,
or moral support from their family members and community to defeat these barriers. A large
percent of the population in the united states today, have immigrant students. This critical
problem that we are still facing today, and we can only hope that change provides equal
opportunity across the United States when it comes to education. School systems have failed in
the ability to prepare every student to advance so when that student finally decides to go to
college they are better fully prepared. As a Hispanic and undergraduate student at the University
of Texas at El Paso, a border line culture between the city of El Paso, Texas and the city of
Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, I feel like an outsider with so much weight on my shoulders. As a
Hispanic student, who has struggled to beat the odds to prove to the outside world that education
matters only if we have the support from family, the community and our school districts and
maybe even the government. So what can we do to change the policy so that lives matter again?
What can we do better to better the lives of every minority facing crisis when it comes to
education?
In my opinion we have many minority friends across the country who are smart and capable of
immense obstacles to fulfill their college dreams. Do we even care and should their lives matter?
Well like everyone knows we would have through go to our school districts, and end with our
government. So the next question would be, is how do we get funded? I believe that the state of
Texas has so much to worry about today. In my opinion we should not change any policy but
make it better. So the question we must ask ourselves is how are we going to make it better

within the years? coming with a program that will better help our students get the community
involved and help. Over the past few years college amongst the Hispanic culture has increased
drastically. According to the 2000 census, Hispanic school dropout rate has had declined, while
college enrollment has increased as Latino Students are working towards earning their bachelors
degree. (Fry, 2005) many Latinos struggle in life to make ends meet. For generations the
Hispanic community has experienced blood, sweat, and tear to improve opportunities in the
elementary and secondary education for its youth. The majority of Latinos are mainly considered
low income, are single parents, school system has failed them, have no moral support, and
language barriers is a main concern in the United States. According to an article by USA Today
it claims that, nearly nine in ten Hispanics say that it is necessary to get a college education to get
ahead in life more than any other ethnic or racial group in the United States. Hispanic students
are more than willing to continue to pursue their education, but many odds are against them.
So as parents, and board members we must ask ourselves what course of action should be
taking. As a Hispanic student, I must say none of this matters till we really make a difference in
each others lives. SO I am asking my audience to support to better chapter 39 where students are
not only heard but their voice makes a difference. In an article written by Hubber (2010), he
interviews a student who struggles with discrimination because she is a minority. She claims that
at such young age she was affected by certain remarks that she encountered because she was a
minority. The majority of the time she felt like she was a newcomer, but often felt forgotten.
(Hubber, p.90) According to Polanco (1991), A insignificant number of immigrant students
attain only minimal schooling in their native country. They are sometimes illiterate, and cannot
make transition from Spanish to English that other native-born, limited English proficient

students make naturally trough the regular bilingual education/ESL programs (p.20). Whether
the student is in elementary, high school, or even college they are still affected by this adversity.
So, I am asking my audience to evaluate my policy and I hope that every Hispanic and
minority gets the chance to make a difference in this world, I hope that my audience does what it
needs to do to improve the lives of every minority that wants to succeeds in this world, we
should have the option to make this right, to make this fair. We can only hope that our
government, district does what is right for every individual to have equal opportunity.
I ask that everyone supports and with the will of God we will someday change something, I have
a perfect solution. better teachers, better friends and better enemies, but I Will propose to you
that we gotta make a difference with the help of the community, people, friends, familily.IN
GOD WE TRUST111

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