Our Schools Suck
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 Now look, I’m telling you.  It’s not what they’re doing to us.  It’s what we’re not doing.  50 percent drop out.…  These people are fighting hard to be ignorant.… What the hell good is Brown v. the Board of Education if nobody wants it? 
    —Bill Cosby at a gala commemorating the Brown decision

Hispanics, as a culture, do place less stress on the importance of education than do other, more economically and socially successful immigrant groups.
    —Herman Badillo, One Nation, One Standard, 2006

I hate it when people treat me like a fxxx-up.  I’m not stupid… I do plan on going to college but with all this pressure how can I succeed.
    —Rodrigo, a Chicano student in Los Angeles

My first day in middle school was horrible.  I didn’t want to go to that school, so I cried the whole day.… I didn’t want to go to that school, because it was dirty and the people were dirty and I hated it there.…That’s when I first started to hate school.
    —Naima, an African American student in Los Angeles

[The adults tell us,] “You’re students, you have no place in the system, what are you doing here?” Yes, we do, and that’s what we’re demanding. Sometimes, it is hard, because people do not listen to us. But that’s another motivation to keep us going. We’ll go to the next person.
    —Rosalinda, a Latina student in the Bronx



  

 

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