At the very least, these young people have a right to choose what they want to do with their lives. College isn t for everyone, but they need to be able to make informed choices so they can be empowered as adults. They need to be able to have the tools to succeed. But, alas, they are just brown children. The system doesn t even make enough effort for all the white children that fail to reach their dreams.
Brown children are that much more removed from the top of the list of children to save.
According to the U.S. Department of Education statistics, only one Latino child out of 1000 that enters kindergarten ever makes it to college. Currently, Latino children have the highest drop out rate in the state. Nobody knows the cause because there has not been any definitive studies or exit interviews of these children. In order to find out what is going on in the Latino community, the system has to invest time and money to find the cause. In California, Latino children are targeted for failure through a variety of legislative initiatives such as propositions 187 and 209 which target immigrants and ethnic minorities.