But in California I am always astonished at the people jumping over the border every night who speak no English, have not gone to any school in the United States, and probably only to third or fourth grade in their own country, but who two days later are employed. In the United States we say that it is important that people have high school diplomas and good English skills in order to work. We believe that skills training should go along with work. Most of the people on aid failed school. In order for you to get a job, you must go back to the same systems in which you failed.
Work is a better approach.
When you work, your classroom work improves. If you go to work at a low skilled job, you get bored pretty quickly. School becomes very important in terms of your own mobility, and you put in more effort. Because we are trying to structure our program to look like the world outside, we proposed a 12 week maternity leave. We will provide child care, but we also want to teach moms to be child care providers.