Monday, March 16, 2009

Education and Assimilation

I think that what they did through the 1980s, the schools generally pulled immigrates out of the mainstream classes for at least an hour or two each day for “English as a Second Language” courses that were largely focused on basic English and vocational training would help a lot. The high school American student knows more about America than a immigrate knows, the American student has had a jump start of common sense that the immigrate hasn't had. which turns out to be around 15 years of knowledge. The classes that students take, such as history, will ask questions such as what did the Bolshevik revolution cause in the US? The red scare. The American student knows more about foreign history than a immigrant knows about American history. Which they are a part of.

I think that one thing we can do to help an immigrant assimilate is to give him time to adjust to English classes. Such as have him that a remedial English course such as a lower grade than the high school level. once he becomes familiar with English in that level start advancing him until he has a basic idea of whats going on and then start moving him to the high school level. Another thing we could do is have a set time for them to get out of the mainstream of high school and take a class they are comfortable with to help them grow and feel more comfortable in high school.

one of the things i think that's holding people back from assimilating is that people are somewhat raciest, when asked why the immigrates didnt have friends with the mainstream high schoolers they say "people who cursed at them while they were working at McDonald’s, or an employer who cheated their father of his wages, or a student who told them to stop speaking Spanish on the school bus." when asked why the mainstream dont assosicat with the immigrants they mention "a worker who did not finish a job their parents had paid for, or a line of pregnant women at the clinic where their mother works, or a gang member who stole a friend’s books."

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