Good-day Bloggoids,
I was having lunch with a friend of mine the other day and she pulled out some staggering statistics on education and income in the Unites States. Apparently, the nation’s average African American with a masters and/or PhD gets paid more than the average White American. Somehow, latino/a communities did not make it onto this graph at all. She showed me another graph that showed the statistics for obtaining a high school diploma is latino/a is extremely low. In the state of California especially, the brown population is large. To imagine that most of them are not obtaining education- at a university level or otherwise- brings about interesting questions around the social boundaries or norms that are preventing this from happening.
If there was ever a time for social reform around education…it is now. The CA education system has clearly abandoned the youth, therefore it is time for those who do care to do something. Granted, those who do care often time do not have the luxury of starting a project while being able to survive- jobs are necessary. But even if it was time to draft a plan to submit to local non-profits about initiating a school of equity would be a useful contribution.
I am going to put forth this challenge to you cyber world, along with myself, to come up with a rough proposal within the next two weeks. It does not have to be elaborate or full of hard hitting statistics, but it should be innovative enough to work. For those of you who do submit something, I will contact education non-profits up and down the coast with them and see if anything may possibly come of it. Why not? Gotta start somewhere…and I am tired of simply writing about the systematic oppression everyone already knows about. Action speaks louder than words…so let’s do it!
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