Chicano Educational Pipeline Summary

Critical Race Counter stories along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline by Tara Yosso focuses on a parent organization called the “Las Madres”. This article counters common stereotypes of Mexican Americans and brings light to several injustices in the education system. This article connects to other readings that also bring up the stereotype of Mexican American parents not caring about their student’s education. “Las Madres” is living proof that they do care about education despite what others may think about them. I feel like more change can be done through “Las Madres” than PTA meeting that they feel like they are being excluded from because they are noticing injustices and issues within the community due to the color of people’s skin.

While they were several elementary school walking distances within my house, my parents put me into the choice program where my parents could enroll me in any “high performing school”. The reason that my parents did that was because as Yosso said Chicanas usually attend under financed racially segregated overcrowded elementary schools which describes many of the schools in my neighborhood. The school district’s solution to this problem Yosso described was to create a program that allowed low-income families to send their children elsewhere to “better schools” within the district instead of fixing issues at these underfunded schools. School districts and officials believe in typical stereotypes which prevent any change from happening. What I admired about this article is that there are actual solutions to several issues that we have been reading about such training teachers to appropriately implements bilingual/multicultural education by drawing on the cultural and linguistic knowledge students bring from their homes and communities to the classroom. Chicano students should also attend academic enrichment or acceleration instead of being held back due to the first