Donny Jones has been the assistant principal of Collinsville High School for more than 10 years. Today there are 214 Hispanics out of a total of 598 students. The school has hired several Spanish-speaking teachers to work with kids who have yet to master English. One high school is adapting its cafeteria menu for the changing student body. All the lunches will be prepared according to the rules of the Muslim religion-meat prepared according to religious rituals, and no pork.
Many multiracial kids glide easily between their mixed cultures.
His mother takes him to a Buddhist temple, where he has learned how to meditate. He can understand and speak some Korean and knows a little French. The America today's young people live in is one that their parents could never have imagined. It is one that allows them to create a new definition of what it means to be American. You meet people from all different backgrounds.