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Argumentative Essay On Chicano Education

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We live in a country that embraces the human rights given to the people and the cultural diversity we have. But it hasn’t always been this way, in fact it use to be the complete opposite. White men were always at the top of the social structure than, white women and at the very bottom is where you find the people of color. Take Mexicans for example. They had always been treated as second class citizens, at school and in the community but no one ever seemed to break the borders. That was until the 1960’s when a Mexican teacher by the name of Sal Castro decided enough was enough and he used one of the best strategies to create change, and that was to organize. Sal Castro took a stand against the biased education that chicano students received …show more content…

They dealt with discrimination from their schools, local authority and community. Mexican american students were put into the old and run down shacks that were ready to fall apart. They had more crowded classrooms than their anglo peers and they had to deal with the mistreated books and poor resources that they were given. One of the biggest difference in the Education that Chicanos and anglo students were given was the curriculum that was taught. Anglo students had classes such as Biology, Algebra or Geometry meanwhile Mexican american students had vocational classes for example, domestic skills for the girls such as cooking and sewing and industrial skills for the boys. So even though they attended school they didn’t learn any content that would help them get into college, they weren’t encouraged to do so either. Chicano students had no support from their predominantly anglo administration, they were always viewed as just incapable mexicans. Even if students attempted to get into honors classes or ask for information about colleges they were always led in the opposite directions because teachers and counselors underestimated their capabilities. The constant doubt really had an impact on how the chicano students viewed themselves as a person. They started to believe in the stereotypes that they weren’t good enough and that they were just wasting their time so many of them lost

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