Dear Panelist:
Could you please elaborate on the types of pressures that immigrant girls
face on assimilating vs pressure against selling out, old home culture vs.
new home culture and its impact on educational achievement.
Could you provide some examples of the pro's and con's on being trilingual,
bilingual and monolingual and how language impacts the family structure,
school learning and the benefit's to American society.
Can you provide strategies on how schools and community have worked
together to build a more accepting and tolerant environment for all
immigrant children to aspire for academic excellence.
I find that this topic of immigration bring more questions than answers but
it is through asking the questions that one learns of other cultures. It is
through inquiring that we start breaking down the myths and misinformation
we receive through media that is always negative. It is vital that we
learn to accept differences and applaud immigrant girls cultures that are
rich with tradition,language, arts, music and ask them share it with us.
It is a two way street that needs to be always open for girls to aspire and
dream to be educators, researchers, writers, scientist etc. But at times we
are blinded by our own culture lens. We do not see the wonderful resources
and knowledge that immigrants bring to the classroom's of social science
and science classes, history and geography classes, music and art classes
etc.
Hilandia
EdEquity Moderator
edequity-admin@mail.edc.org
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