Latino American Education

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Senior year is nerve-wracking for any given student. The main incitement being taking the initiated steps towards college. At present time, Latinos are the largest and fastest growing minority group in the United States, coinciding as the least educated. Latinos currently have the lowest rate of college enrollment, the highest rates of college and high school depreciation, and the lowest overall educational attainment of all the major racial/ethnic groups in the United States. Therefore, ethnicity correlates with educational aspirations. Currently, only 6 percent of Latinos who enter kindergarten in this country eventually go on to earn a bachelor’s degree, compared to 49 percent Asians, 16 percent of blacks, and 30 percent of whites (Williams …show more content…

The first theoretical perspective, structural functionalism, presents manifest and latent functions. The manifest function of this article is that college education provides skill set or merits for the job market, in which could lead to a more income based job for Latinos. The latent function view on this article is that, knowing that college unaffordable, adolescents may not allow themselves the confidence or aspiration for education past high school. Therefore, not affording the opportunity to educate an adolescent, leaves them to work, and earn income for their family. Thus, abandoning another uneducated Latino to the workforce, creates a dysfunction. To continue, conflict theory assumes that group in society are engaged in a continuous power struggle for scarce resources. Cuban and Cuban-Americans tend to be middle class, while Puerto Ricans are disproportionally poor. On the other hand, Mexicans and Mexican Americans are the largest Latino group and have the lowest socioeconomic status of the three group. Being that Latinos are looked at as the minority of the country; they are all fighting for resources in which each group hungers. Lastly, symbolic interaction views society as the sum of the interactions of individuals and groups. Being that society personally blames Latinos for their place in our country, it is generally our system to blame. Latinos symbolically represent a group that does not belong, hence, society puts them in a ditch, in which they cannot get out

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