Immigration in the Classroom - Diversity in U.S.A High Schools

The story of the American people is a story of immigration and diversity. The population of the United States is becoming increasingly diverse. The quality of looking different and having singular and unlike beliefs is what brings people from all over the world together to the United States. Without diversity, we wouldn't have historical figures like Albert Einstein, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and many others. Variety is what makes the United States.
A person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another can definitely encounter a lot of struggling. When children go to High school they are treated different in many ways. It must be hard to assimilate the newcomers. In some cases they do not have the knowledge on a matter that is very common for Americans, even though it’s not their fault because they are from a different country, but they will be judged and the students will make fun of them, forgetting that what is obvious for one is not for others, but the Caucasians will act as if the immigrants don’t know anything about fundamental information.
The particular approach that I strongly disagree is that immigrants have advantages comparing to an American student about their grades. “They are given less homework and rarely get failing grades if they demonstrate good-faith efforts. Also they are given more credit for class participation and on state standardized tests; they are offered accommodations unavailable to other students.” I believe that if they have been fighting to be taken care of equally, it has to be equivalent in all factors, from the skilled to the worthless tasks. Otherwise they will keep being unlike the other students and consequently discriminated. On the other hand, the issue in this case is that they can’t follow like the other all American students and some of the teachers have to stop the lesson to help, for instance a Latino that doesn’t understand the language. If this kid cannot keep up with the rest of the class, the teacher has to focus on that singular child and the mainstream students won’t learn. Even if they respect the immigrant they are losing their education time because of them. So the American parents dislike this situation, they think their kids are being exposed to a non-positive environment.
Background and tradition is very important for group formation in immigrant societies in this country. An immigrant High School student has to deal with many dilemmas. It’s not only the intolerance of the mainstream group of students. Many of them have a lack of tutoring from their families which results in terrible actions and decisions. All this rejection can make a teenager revolted against the system. They can turn to a gang who will do harm to the other students, many girls are pregnant and dealing with that naively, others are stealing to survive, and even the good kids have no choice but to help their parents doing cheap labor, such as construction and cleaning. One Latina student claimed: “If I am going to end up cleaning houses with my mother,” “why go to high school?” Many students end up quitting because of all the difficulties they meet.
It’s hard to find an agreement on the best way to teach immigrant students. It has to be a strategy that helps every race and nationality. Many children had little formal education in their home countries and end up in the 5th grade with no knowledge at all. This is actuality and the immigrants will keep facing many challenges, not only the main ones such as the English verbal communication and mores of a new social order, but the intellectual approval from the others, which will only come with great effort from both parts.
Immigration’s impact is often first seen in the classroom, according to The New York Times Graphic, enrollment of Hispanic and Asian students in American schools have increased by more than 5 million since the 1990s. My point of view is that multiculturalism is fundamental to our belief that all citizens are equal. Multiculturalism ensures that all citizens can keep their identities, can take pride in their ancestry and have a sense of belonging. Immigrants also enrich American communities by bringing aspects of their native cultures with them. What kind of a society would we build if we didn’t uphold such values and instead promoted racism and segregation? Furthermore, if we as a people are to live in total peace, then we ought to respect and learn about other cultures.