Educating Latinos

The Latino population is growing each year more and more. I agree with Julio Castillo in his blog, and also I agree that we Latinos are trying to get a better education. His argument is about how the Latino population is going to become the largest population in Texas in the future, but how it is also debated whether we are actually going to be able to handle the economy or not because we are not well educated. He proves that this argument is wrong by discussing how the community is coming together to help one another for a better education for the Latinos. One of the strategies they use was mentoring projects. For examples the one the use in the University Of Texas, MALES (Mentoring to Achieve Latino Educational Success) It shows how Latinos students got helped from a college talent search program to get enrolled in college and get financial aid. They even got scholarships too. One of the Latinos students they helped was named Jacob Campos who was involve in the mentoring projects and was actually a mentor. He help other Latinos students achieve they dream of getting good grades and be able to attend to college. He actually help a Latino student named Mello who he though that at first he actually didn't care about his advice but was wrong because Mello actually picked up on his grades and did pretty good. Mello said Campos was a really good mentor and was a great example. Those were not the only people they interview, there was dozens of people. It also talks about how the Latino culture is not very important here and how because of that Latinos don't take pride of there own culture. An example given to support that statement is how Mexican-Americans fought and died in the Alamo but yet when you go to school you never hear about that. Mexicans-Americans don't have a cultural identity. There is more details about this commentary and I say you take a minute to read this and inform yourself a little more. Latinos are doing better and proving people wrong.