My grand daughters’ schools are more than half Latino, almost none speak English, the reverse actually, Americans are being taught Spanish. My daughter and SIL just built a new house far away from there.
These aren’t second generation, third or anything like that; they’re 1st generation anchor babies of illegal alien parents, and they are choking our schools, hospitals, services and largess.
What is there in their culture or experience to say they will EVER achieve academic achievement? In countries south of the border they have had two hundred years of Independence and made a hash of things. I think educational achievement will have to wait three or four generations until ties with the home culture and language inevitably diminish. This should take place much more rapidly, but by encouraging multicultural claptrap—bilingual education—we are actually slowing the process of assimilation.