The Hispanic Dropout Mystery: A Staggering 30 Percent Leave School, Far More Than Blacks or Whites. Why?

          The dropout rate for Hispanic students nation wide is 30 percent nearly three times the rate for white and twice the rate for blacks. What's even more disturbing is that the rate for children of American born Hispanic is even higher than for those to immigrants, suggesting that the longer a family lives in the United States, the more entrenched the problem becomes. The Department of Education whats to raise awareness to the Hispanic dropout. The New Mexico Sen. spent $100 million on preventing the dropouts of other children. The Hispanic is surpass blacks as the nations largest minority group.
          Hispanic students say that they drop out of school for the same reasons as other ethnic groups, they're failing, they're bored, they're working to support a family. The most populated reason among the Latino are because they say that the public schools marginalize them, disrespecting their culture, neglecting their language problems and setting standards so low that kids cant help but reduce expectations. Hispanic dropouts are foreign born, and many don't get special language help. Most of them were born here and speak English fluently. One third of Hispanic children live in provery and they enter into school with a disadvantage that most American children have since they were born, English specking parents.
          Many parents in Mexico and other Hispanic countries don't put a demand on their children to get higher grades than whites or blacks do. Being smart and having good grades in school was considered being nerdy and "Anglo" as an Hispanic. DeAnza Montoya, a Santa Fe teen went through school without worrying about her future because she was simply doing what was expected of her. The solution of dropout should come from the school. The black's dropout rate decreased once the school got involved.
          Teachers may have to speak spanish and have conferences around parent's jobs. There also need to be more Hispanic role models. Shileene Martinez, 14, is thriving at Colorado High School in Denver, her classes are a lot shorter to accommodate her job. If none of these work, administrators document which states students will have to sign that states that " By signing this, I realize I will not have the skills to survive in the 21st century", if they wanted to drop out. Sandoval, a students who wanted to drop out threw the paper to the principle's face but the principle welcomed him back into school.

          We have to take responsibility for the next generation, even if its working longer hours, finding a diversity among teachers, changing conference meeting with parents, and so much more. Whatever is necessary we need to fulfil it and than we can say we gave it our best shot. I liked what the educators did in this article, they saw a problem and tried their best to fix it and we as society should look at each problem like how those teachers did. In life we have to learn to find solutions to not only help our self but others around us.