Monday, August 16, 2010

'Growing up in two different cultures'

This Latino club is helping kids who are caught between two cultures and not fitting into either one. Keeping the kids interested, motivated and in school is solving many problems. - - Donna Poisl

BGJHS Latino Club helps improve grades, self-esteem

By LIZ SWITZER, The Daily News

Growing up the child of Mexican immigrants in South Los Angeles, Sandra Light statistically was not supposed to make it.

She beat the odds.

Now the Bowling Green Junior High School reading teacher wants to make sure her Latino students beat them, too.

Bowling Green Independent Schools has become one of the most diverse school districts in the state, but even second-generation immigrant children here still face struggles.
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