>>”I don’t want to study. It’s boring,” said Nery Raul Rodas, 14. “I’m just waiting for my dad to fix my papers so that I can go to the U.S. to work.” <<<
There’s the kind of immigrant we want to take it! Let’s legalize this guy!
It’s true, isn’t it? Studying is boring. Why study when I can be illiterate, show up at the US, and have American sell-outs throwing themselves at my dirty feet?
Former Congressman Henry Bonilla wrote a book, and one thing he brought out was that his hispanic community was so bad about impressing education on their children. He took a lot of flack for it, but he was right.
Here’s another article:
Hispanic boys have lowest grad rate in DPS (Denver - 19%)
[snip]Fewer than one in five Hispanic boys enrolled in Denver middle schools graduates from a city high school five years after starting eighth grade, an analysis by the Rocky Mountain News has found. Only 19 percent of Hispanic male eighth-graders enrolled in Denver Public Schools in fall 2001 graduated from a DPS high school in spring 2006, the lowest rate of any student group analyzed in the study.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/education/article/0,1299,DRMN_957_5561672,00.html