Education: the gateway to success

Education: the gateway to success

Education: the gateway to success
Education has always been known to be the gateway to success for every human being that seeks it. It takes hard work, dedication, as well as patience to bare all the demands that education brings. For many years now, this topic has been the concern of many educational institutes regarding the Latino community; this minority group is getting behind when it comes to education. There are many factors that affect the Latino community regarding this topic, one is that the same educational institutes that are in charge of providing a basic and uniform education, don’t provide the adequate funds to better help the low-income schools where most of the Latino children attend. Instead, these institutions are choosing to misinform and mislead the community with bogus data making it seem that Latino children are meeting the basic benchmarks rather than tackling the issue of illiteracy among Latino children. By doing this, educational institutes are covering up their incompetence rather than dealing with the necessities of this minority group. This action is undermining the Latino community, and is affecting their ethnic identity perception of themselves when it comes to wanting a higher education.
Most Latino children attend low-income schools particularly because many of their parents are field workers. For this reason, many parents don’t have the essential educational background needed to help their son or daughter on assignments, and this becomes a huge part of a student’s success in school. When school districts ignore this basic knowledge, they fail to tackle the real problem as to why low-income schools don’t get the same support as other schools that do better academically. This is what is leaving behind Latino children. The schools that Latino children attend have fewer resources at their disposition to become successful. Technology is needed to advance in education and many of those schools lack the technology. Rather than to...

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