“Echalé ganas,mijo,” my grandpa would often say apply yourself and put efforts into your studies. Throughout my childhood in Northern California, or this phrase was ubiquitous; I’d hear it at Mass,at the taquería, and certainly at domestic. Whenever I met family members for the first time, and I came to expect these three words. […]The post STUDENT VOICE: We must offer underprivileged students more than a meager ‘stay in school’ appeared first on The Hechinger Report.
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