40 yrs of Chicano Studies

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Old 10-06-2009, 01:46 PM
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So, what has forty years of Chicano studies leading to Chicanista takeover of the school system and many governmental office and civil service managerial positions as well as the Aztlanista demand for unfettered immigration done for Latinos of all varieties? All the veiled racism and racial agenda in "social justice" and "diversity"? That somehow Latinos are "push outs" rather than "drop outs"? That Latinos are victims of white exploitation and oppression?


About half of all California students are Latino and about a third are white.

Almost half of California students are from low-income families, who pay a minimum of taxes and consume a majority of public social services.

A quarter are identified as English learners.

The higher cost of living in California is a significant factor concerning faculty, administrative and other educational costs. Those factors are felt among the rest of the tax paying population in California as well.

In 2007, some 56.1 percent of foreign-born Hispanics ages 18–24 who were not currently enrolled in high school had completed high school .

Compared to foreign-born Hispanics, status completion rates for American born Latinos were higher

Graduation rates for Hispanics born in the United States were 85.9 percent for “first generation” and 85.1 percent for “second generation or higher”

In each immigrant category Hispanics were less likely than non-Hispanics to have earned a high school credential.

18- through 24-year-olds in the South and West had lower status completion rates (87.2 percent and 87.1 percent, respectively)

Again, Luis Torres says it best.

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We stood up, and it mattered.

By Luis Torres
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The Chicano walk out of 1968 was about dignity and fundamental change that we're still striving for...

We also wanted to protest the conditions that led to a drop out rate hovering around 45%. Barely half of us were making it out of high school. Something was desperately wrong and we wanted to do something about it...

I gained a pride in my heritage that made me more comfortable with who I was -- a young man whose parents were from Mexico. I overcame the shame that I used to feel as a kid when my mother "spoke funny" in public. ..

In those times, I remember reading that "the best way to get the Man off your back is to stand up." We stood up on that day...

Forty years ago, the (white) Los Angeles school board was the Man. Today it (the militant brown board) is an ally with the community in the effort to improve education...

The drop out rate at my alma mater, Lincoln High School, and the other Eastside high schools is still about 45%...

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http://classjump.com/mrcilker/docume...20mattered.pdf

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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedi...,5135201.story
The failure of forty years of Chicano studies

You can't blame it on the white man anymore, and no amount of money thrown at the problem will make a difference.

No more imported poverty. Enforce our immigration laws now.

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Old 10-07-2009, 08:25 AM
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It has been admitted by Latino activists that the drop out rate is virtually unchanged from 40 years ago, even though Chicanista dominated administration virtually dictates the school curriculum.

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WASHINGTON - More than 3,400 murders and 172,000 violent assaults nationwide could be prevented if high school graduation rates were boosted by just 10 percent, a report released Wednesday says.

Law enforcement officials from across the country joined the national group Fight Crime: Invest in Kids to unveil the report, which shows that high school dropouts are three and a half times more likely than graduates to be arrested and eight times more likely to be imprisoned.

"With numbers like this, we're not just looking at dropouts, we're looking at a major public safety crisis," said Boston District Attorney Daniel Conley.

Nearly 70 percent of all inmates in the nation's prisons did not graduate from high school, the group said in a news release.

"I can tell you where to find dropouts. You can find them in any state. Go to where there are drug deals or prostitution going on. There are some as young as 13," said San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne.

"Far too often, today's dropouts are tomorrow's criminals," he said.

The group is calling on Congress and state lawmakers to expand and pay for pre-kindergarten programs such as Head Start.

"Research shows that children who receive quality early childhood education have a much better chance of finishing high school," Cincinnati Police Chief Thomas Streicher said.

Nationally, more than $15 billion in lost wages and taxes, and health care and incarceration costs would be saved per year if graduation rates were increased by 10 percent, the report said.
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Old 10-07-2009, 09:02 AM
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I'm going to explore the relationship between high Latino drop out rates and crime.

I was going to just cut and paste some stuff, but that's not right. I need to look at the problem a little closer.

There has been quite a stir on the anti illegal immigration side concerning "anchor babys" being gang bangers, this has been dismissed by the opposite corner as "nativist propaganda", and such.

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I'm going to explore the relationship between high Latino drop out rates and crime.

I was going to just cut and paste some stuff, but that's not right. I need to look at the problem a little closer.

There has been quite a stir on the anti illegal immigration side concerning "anchor babys" being gang bangers, this has been dismissed by the opposite corner as "nativist propaganda", and such.
Yes, we nativists are not allowed an opinion on our government.

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Old 10-07-2009, 09:42 AM
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For various reasons, one side wants to flood the country with people from Mexico. The immigrants, legal or not, have children. Some of those children become educated and have a purpose, get into all levels of education and all levels of government. Everything to do with enforcing immigration laws is made to be difficult, while social services are virtually pushed on new arrivals from south of the border. Meanwhile, multi generational kids who don't know the difference between Der Weinerschnitzel chili and a Mexican grandmother's version of Mole Poblano are inundated in school with a selective version of "Mexican" culture in school simply because of the tint to their skin.

However, educational achievement for that demographic is virtually unchanged from forty years ago, despite all the "programs" and "interventions" which weren't there forty years ago.

Latinos are more likely to be drop outs, despite curriculum which caters towards them, and drop outs are much more likely to be involved with crime.

There is the statement that funding programs is more cost effective than incarceration. However, where is the money going to come from? Why do we, regardless of race, have to cater to one ethnicity's inherent back ground cultural problems? Why aren't these children encouraged to assimilate in school rather than pointed back to Mexico at every turn? Race doesn't make for attitude. Why the attitude?

I look back at The Labyrinth of Solitude, wherein Octvio Paz writes in 1958 to the effect that the "Mexican" of Los Angeles doesn't want to be a part of either Mexico, or America, that he goes out of his way to be different and, even though he knows it is dangerous for him to do so, intends to offend.

I'm going to have to reread Paz. But, why the general attitude which leads to failure in America society? Can money thrown at that issue actually solve the problem?

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I'm going to have to reread Paz. But, why the general attitude which leads to failure in America society? Can money thrown at that issue actually solve the problem?
Money isn't a cure for most problems that aren't directly related to financing. It does act as two things when it falls ou of that category:

A placebo

A salve on an open wound.

In either case, the producers and handlers of the alleged cure are the ones profiting; not the patient

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Here is an editorial by the Press Enterprise. This is slightly off topic because it doesn't specifically mention drop outs or "Latino", whether the Latino is Mexican or American born, and however slight or great there is a cultural difference between those with different nationality of childhood and youth.

I include this because it talks about programs and budget cutting in overcrowded prisons, similar to the rhetoric coming out of overcrowded schools, the fact that Latinos are the least likely to finish high school, and drop outs are more inclined towards criminal activity.

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Prison miscue

Budgetary savings should not come at the expense of coherent corrections strategy. The state's efforts to trim corrections spending target the programs that stand the best chance of easing crowding in state prisons. The state should focus on cutting the number of ex-cons who reoffend, not continue setting muddled policy that perpetuates prison crowding.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced last month that it would trim $250 million from education, job training, counseling and other programs for adult prisoners. The cuts represent more than a third of the budget for such programs.

The move is part of the state's effort to pare $1.2 billion from the $10 billion the state spent on corrections last fiscal year. But trimming programs that help inmates avoid returning to prison is a bizarre strategy for a state that needs to reduce its inmate population. California will never fix its prisons by sacrificing long-term reforms for short-term savings.

The state's prisons are crowded to nearly double their intended capacity, and a panel of federal judges has ordered the state to shrink the inmate population by more than 40,000 in the next two years. The state has about 148,000 prisoners in 33 prisons, plus another 17,000 in camps and other facilities. Trimming the number of inmates would also cut corrections costs, which have more than doubled over the past decade.

A big part of the reason for the crowded conditions in prison is the dismal fact that two-thirds of California parolees end up back behind bars within three years. The causes for that record are complex, but a key factor is that many inmates lack education and job skills and struggle with addictions or mental health ills.

A prison system that makes little attempt to address those issues, and simply releases inmates with $200 and no prospects, can expect those people to return to incarceration. A variety of official reports on prisons over the past decade have highlighted the need for programs that can help inmates avoid trouble upon release.

Corrections officials plan to cope with the budget cuts by directing the remaining funding to the most effective programs. That would be a sensible strategy, if the department knew which programs met that benchmark. The state auditor reported last month that corrections spent $208 million on prison education in 2008-09, but had no way to tell if the courses were doing any good.

And the cuts work at cross-purposes with spending reductions approved by the Legislature last month. The legislative plan would save money by shortening prisoners' sentences if they finish education, drug treatment and other programs -- just as corrections officials slash those services.

Comprehensive reforms could save money and convince federal judges the state can responsibly oversee prisons. But that approach requires a consistent plan for change, not a bunch of conflicting ideas thrown together to relieve a budget meltdown.
This editorial by the Press Enterprise does not indicate endorsement of or affiliation to any organization or cause.