Over the years there has been a controversy of who can’t get an education. Around the world there are millions of people who are denied from education . The value of education can be defined as one of the most important things to have a successful life. Although some people may think that education isn’t important in their lives, studies have showed that education is a great investment for people. Countries are denying men and women from having an education, which is morally wrong. Immigrants come to America to have a better life, and are being denied to come here without given a chance, and those who live in America don’t take their education for granted. Education is the only way to get opportunities and open many doors for people in this …show more content…
Many immigrants come to America to better there lives, but are being discriminated and denied from education. People think immigrants are a bad influence to this society but they only want to better their lives like any other race. I read an article named,” Nearly 1 in 4 students at this L.A. high school migrated from Central America – many without their parents” by Cindy Carcamo. Cindy Carcamo informs the readers how many young adults come to America with little help and go through rough obstacles just to get an education so they can have a better future. Although some people may think that immigrants should stay in Mexico, they don’t realize that those immigrants have a better outcome than those who have lived in America longer. Many immigrants come to America with no education and it’s amazing how fast they learn, but because they want a better future and don’t want to face those rough obstacles they did as young kids. In Cindy Carcamo she spoke to a young boy named Gaspar Marcos who came to America to get an education and he said,” If you don’t have an education, nobody will respect you. If you don’t educate yourself, you don’t have employment. I want to be a good person and have an education… have a good, stable job. I want to have a home, the sort of home I never had.” Gaspar is one of those few immigrants who had the opportunity to get an education and even though each day it’s hard for him to maintain a job and school, …show more content…
Education opens many doors for people; it can get them a better home, happy family, money, but most importantly a good career. What we don’t realize about America is that education is being handed to people here, whether your high class or low class, education here is a requirement unlike other countries. There’s an article named,” A girl who demanded School” by Kakenya Ntaiya who moved to America from Kenya, Africa to get an education. In Africa young girls are forced to get married at the age of 13 and start a family without having an option to get an education, unlike America where you can choose what you want to do because there are equal rights for men and women in America. After Kakenya seen how different America was compared to Africa she said,” I learned that the ceremony that I went through when I was 13 years old, it was called female genital mutilation. I learned that it was against the law in Kenya. I learned that I did not have to trade part of my body to get an education. I had a right. And as we speak right now, three million girls in Africa are at risk of going through this mutilation.” People in America need take advantage of how easily it is to get an education here without going through rough challenges like people in Africa and other countries. Some countries around the world don’t have equal rights like America does where women are being raped or getting mutilated, nor can they get an education,
In Subtractive Schooling: US-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring, Angela Valenzuela investigates immigrant and Mexican American experiences in education. Valenzuela mentions differences in high schools between U.S born youth and immigrants such as how immigrants she interviewed seemed to achieve in school as they feel privileged to achieve secondary education. However, she found that her study provided evidence of student failure due to schools subtracting resources from these youths. Both are plagued by stereotypes of lacking intellectual and linguistic traits along with the fear of losing their culture. As a Mexican American with many family members who immigrated to the U.S to pursue a higher education, I have experience with Valenzuela’s
“Michelle earned six small scholarships, two of which are renewable for next year, and took out a federal loan. She also works 16 hours a week in the financial – aid office at the university.” (61). With Wallechinsky providing Michelle and her mother’s story it helps many relate or agree of the high payment for our education. Immigrants come to the U.S hoping for an education and opportunities. To have opportunities, for example jobs, a family, and social mobility an education is needed. Our education is the key to many of our dreams but on the other hand it’s one of the main things holding many back. That doesn’t mean that all people have given up for example Wallechinsky states, “Middle class respondents surveyed say they take responsibility for their own financial destiny and believe that they will succeed or fail based on their own efforts. Still, many are downsizing their dreams” (61). This states that many have positive mindsets that believe that the effort and determination to work is the reason for their financial status. But by them downgrading their dreams it shows how our effort and hard work isn’t going to make wages get higher. However, David Wallechinsky has a point to question the existent of the American Dream as many blame
The authors mention Miguel Fernandez, a fresh graduate from a small high school who has had struggles that have affected his opportunities to go off to college. These struggles include financial hardships and also that Miguel “was undocumented and in the country illegally” (Noguera and Kundu par.8). Though Miguel
Even if these students have achieved the highest honors and have the brains of an engineer, they aren’t able to reach their greatest potential because they simply do not have documents. Those who are undocumented are doomed to working backbreaking jobs that pay substantially below minimum wage. Spare Parts has challenged and shown me that it takes an immigrant double, or even triple the amount of toil to achieve anything in life. These boys endeavoured through adversities that many of us will never encounter. Luis luckily had a green card, but Lorenzo, Oscar, and Cristian were all living under the fear of deportation. They all wanted more after graduating from Carl Hayden but their dreams quickly vanished because the reality was that they’re illegal immigrants. When we hear the word “immigration”, we automatically think “illegal”, but what we don’t see is that these illegal immigrants are trying to reach their own American Dreams by coming to America. As the author includes Patrick J. Buchanan’s perspective on immigrants, “...families came to the United States to leech off government services.” (35), it shows us how immigrants are perceived.
The greatest country in the world still has problems evenly distributing education to its youth. The articles I have read for this unit have a common theme regarding our education system. The authors illustrate to the reader about the struggles in America concerning how we obtain and education. Oppression, politics, racism, and socioeconomic status are a few examples of what is wrong with our country and its means of delivering a fair education to all Americans.
There is no denying that immigration will always be a factor in the development of the United States. Whether it is due to religious beliefs, economic problems or even war in their native country, emigrants will always come to America with hopes of starting a new life in the “Land of the Free”. Fortunately, the people who do choose to legally migrate to America are generally motivated for success and well-educated. Even the immigrants who are not well educated are motivated to succeed, work hard and take jobs in areas where labor forces are low or jobs that a native-born American may not even consider, effectively making them a contributing member of society.
I have to introduce you to three individuals, not random individuals, but siblings - two brothers and a sister. They may seem just like any other people, but they have a secret that isn’t easily realized unless you know them. They belong here in the sense that they were born here, but their hearts belong to another land. They are the children of immigrants; the first generation to be born in America. It is a unique experience that to others may seem odd or exotic, but for these three is just as normal as learning to ride a bike.
There are about 60 million school aged children in the world who are not in school, according to the article “Education”. Educated children have more opportunities compared to non-educated children, however, it is not just educated children that get more opportunities, but also educated adults. It does not matter how old someone is when they get their education, but that they are getting an education at all. This is portrayed in the excerpts “Me Talk Pretty” by David Sedaris, “The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society” by Jonathan Kozol, and “Learning to Read” by Frederick Douglass. Education leads to individual success and empowerment.
Throughout the course of my life, I have always encountered individuals wanting to better their economic situation especially those within my community. Those who come from impoverished communities in other countries risk their lives and lifetime savings to come to the United States hoping that one day they will regain everything that they lost. Their only motivation to come to this country is to be able to provide their family with basic necessities and in order to do this, they must work two or more jobs that pay at minimum wage and are taken for granted. However, many individuals do not see this side of the story and categorize immigrants as unambitious people. In order to be completely aware of what immigrants truly go through and how they succeed in life, one must be willing to place themselves in their shoes and hear his/her story. We must acknowledge that the hands of these people work in back breaking jobs in order to sustain their families. While some Americans may be against immigrants arriving to the United States in search of a better life and the American Dream, in The Madonnas of Echo Park, Brando Skyhorse further reveals that immigrants are exploited as cheap labor, and although they contribute greatly to the everyday function of American industry, they are quite invisible.
It has often been said, that high quality education is a privilege base on Race and ethnicity. Let’s take Susan’s example, an enthusiastic Mexican teen who aspires to be a lawyer. She came to the U.S. when she was only twelve, she has work twice as harder
The goal of this research is to find out why the immigrant students have to face more challenges in the level of education they achieve, the high level poverty that they face in their daily lives and all the confusing networks they have around them which they have no clue of how to utilize it. Also, the research focusses on the fewer resources immigrant students have while achieving their goals. The research question is important as it does affect all immigrant students and their respective families and not limited just to the immigrant. I am sure many families move to a different country to achieve better education and to make a brighter future for themselves and their loved ones. These families come with so much hope and faith, but in return they are bombarded with so much confusing information that it’s very easy for them to get lost and give up. At last, children are the future and if from being they don’t have the correct resources then how will they achieve their goals.
I am writing this letter to you because I want to share some articles that I recently found with you. Knowing the both of us, I know that we are not too into politics and such, but these articles really caught my attention and hopefully the same goes for you. I will be emailing you the link to these articles and I hope you will take some time to read over them.
"Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
America is a blessed country in numerous ways, and its citizens reap the benefits. Free education is one major benefit that not many other countries provide for their citizens. While it is only a privilege to many, in the States, people have the right to be educated. However, free education cannot guarantee success for all. For those motivated individuals who cherish the privilege to be educated, they are the ones who climb up the success ladder later in life.
I value the right to an education more than anything coming from a country that places education last in the list of thing necessary in life. In my country, Pakistan, the people worry about money, jobs, etc. They don’t realize without education a person’s future isn’t headed anywhere. The opportunities that ...