Mexican Education

“Look, you’ve got to understand that we’ve built this Valley to what it is and we’ve gotten to where we are because there’s always been cheap labor around. When you come in talking about raising the educational vista of the Mexican-American and helping him to aspire beyond the fields, and curing the dropout problem, you’re talking about jeopardizing our economic survival. What do you expect, that we’ll just lie down and let you reformer come in here and wreck everything for us?” Anonymous
In 2012, the Census bureau showed about 64% of the United States population consisted of Hispanics, two-thirds being Mexicans, whose population continues to increase. Only 10% of the 64% of the Hispanic population has received a Bachelor's (pewhispanic,
These restrictions forced Hispanic English language learners to attend bilingual programs regardless of their proficiency of English literacy. This action led to Chicanos not being able to perform at their highest capacity. Instead, they felt unintelligent and were discouraged. People like Anamaria C. Loya, a civil rights activist and attorney, have aspirations to work with low income immigrant students struggling with social and economic issues. Loya protects students’ rights from federal laws based on discrimination that prohibits students from becoming educated. Furthermore, Loya mentions her main concern to reduce the “ 50.9% of the Latinos over the age of 25 are high school graduates and about 70% of the Latinos between 18 and 25 complete high school”, in the scholarly article Chicanos Law Education Reform (Loya, 1990). The statistics from research demonstrates a portion of the increasing population of Hispanics that remains uneducated, which correlates to their socioeconomic status of Chicanos. It is disappointing and shocking that the age of the Chicanos finishing school varies, but at the same time it is understandable because there are unknown, influential factors that affect Chicanos perspective about education. Overall, the comparisons and the statistics of Chicanos not completing high school displays that Chicano communities did not receive all of their community and school necessities to enable Chicanos to continue