It is hard to become a lawyer like on TV if you’ve dropped out of high school to become a construction worker. It’s not possible to become a doctor like on ER if you haven’t learned to read or to speak English.
Yet stating such when someone says there aren’t enough Hispanic professionals is racist. If it mattered, they’d drag their kids back to school and keep them there.
“...if you haven’t learned to read or to speak English.”
I’ll have to reread this to see what I missed. The biggest problem with Hispanic kids isn’t not knowing how to speak English. Most Hispanic kids who are born here do speak English. How well they speak and write English is another matter. I live in an area that is 85 percent Hispanic, and out of the thousands of kids in the school district, there are probably fewer than fifty who don’t speak English. ...Anyhow, I’m not arguing the English point. Do away with bilingual education, and make classes English only, like they used to be. I will stick to my premise that the big problem with our educational system is that parents have quit taking responsibility for their kid’s education.