I work at Home Depot, full time, I work at MacDonald's as a supervisor, part time, and I come to school. These are typical Pimmit Hills students, trying to balance school and family and work obligations. Assistant Principal Bud Mayo says the goals that that the school sets for itself in providing a secondary education to immigrant adults are the same as any high school in America. We want to make sure that we provide them with an education that gives them life skills, that they can go on and be good citizens, that they can go on and have families and be successful and have a good life, a good living, and they can proceed to higher education if they want to. We want to make sure that they are well-grounded, that they have the basic education that will let them be successful.
Tomorrow is American Independence Day.
Each year on July 4th many communities hold naturalization ceremonies for new American citizens. Next week in this program you'll hear from some of the people who will be sworn in as new Americans tomorrow.