More than likely, it was a combination of all of these types of human beings. The bottom line is that there have been individuals throughout your lifetime who have said and done things that have changed the course of events for you. I can only briefly highlight the area of education, today. The greatest, single negative that is impacting our people's educational status is their economic well-being. We know that this translates into one in three Hispanic children being poor in this country.
Poor teens fall behind their peers.
Hispanic youths hampered by poverty and language barriers are almost three times as likely to have repeated a grade. By age 17, one in six Hispanics has fallen at least two years behind their expected grade level and nearly two in five have fallen one year behind. Hispanic high school graduates are only half as likely as White graduates to have taken advanced math and science courses. Hispanics are also more likely to be placed in watered-down general or vocational classes. Of those Hispanics who have managed to graduate, rarely have they taken the full academic program that would prepare them for higher education or future employment.