Hispanics left behind
Hispanics are being left behind at an alarming rate: Only 16% Hispanic high schools students are likely to attend college.
Hispanic students are more likely to go to college part time than non-Hispanic blacks or whites. They are also more likely to attend community colleges, lured by cheaper tuition, more flexible schedules to accommodate outside jobs, and courses in fields like computer science and nursing, which offer a quicker path to a paycheck.
I once had to help some Hispanic kids at their school, and what I saw depressed me: The teachers would simply move the kids along with the rest of the class, but without paying attention to any particular developmental need, issues with parents, poor health, learning disabilities or the like: The children were attending school just because the law requires it, not because they were to derive any benefit from that.
And after a year, they were someone else’s problem.