Diversity; Manufacturing Hope and Despair
The article, "Manufacturing Hope & Despair: The School and Kin Support Networks of U.S. Mexican Youth" by Ricardo D. Stanton-Salazar covers the social order of education and adolescence in American and Hispanic young people. He urges school personnel to become more involved with students. He notes, "School agents frequently find themselves acting as co-parents, informal mentors, child advocated, and informal psychologists," and this is especially important to the low-income youth's success in education. He goes on to profile a predominately Mexican high school in San Diego, Auxillo High, and looks at supportive relationships with teachers and counselors in the school. He illustrates several different student/teacher relationships, and shows how they positively affected the student's lives. He also discusses a special program implemented at the school called AVID, and shows how the program has also helped transform some of the students both personally and academically. The author then discusses constraints on these supportive relationships, and why some students simply do not trust the staff, no matter how much help they might need.
This article clearly shows how supportive relationships can help some students become better people, and better academically. Students who trust their teachers and counselors often confide things they would not confide at home and the support staff can help guide students into making better choices for their future. This is an important and valuable lesson for students, and it gives them hope for their futures when sometimes they had seen no hope before. It is quite clear that many educators go far beyond their job description in dealing with their students, and this is to be admired. They make a difference in student's lives, and this is probably the greatest gift they could give to some of these students. It is also clear that supporting these students is not always easy, but they do it anyway, which is also admirable. The author makes it clear that there is much more to being a teacher than simply relaying knowledge to your students. Good teachers care about their students, and become involved when they need to be. It is a great thing that so many teachers are willing to "go this extra mile" for their students.
References
Stanton-Salazar, Ricardo D. "Manufacturing Hope & Despair: The School and Kin Support Networks of U.S. Mexican Youth."
Diversity Manufacturing Hope & Despair: The school and Kin Support Networks of U.S.-Mexican Youth." Stanton-Salazar's article on Mexican youth focuses on the plight of Mexican-American high school students and their experiences and views of the world, including their building of social networks (Hill, 2001). The author emphasizes the importance of diversity and empowerment among students in high school and later in life. Mr. Stanton-Salazar collected data from a San Francisco survey and
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