Probably the most important ingredient in establishing a good school is hiring good teachers. Unfortunately, teachers willing to take the time to teach immigrant children were hard to come by. An immigrant student described his first grade teacher as "cold and forbidding." Teachers would often mispronounce or not say a student's name at all. And many times children were give an "Americanized" name. Mike, whose name was Serbian, went by Thomas because his teacher wouldn't pronounce or spell his name. Physical punishment by teachers was also very common in public schools.

dents' self-confidence. Because of this, most immigrant and Mexican-American children never even made it into the high school level.

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It is evident that Mexican-American and European immigrant students were not given many opportunities when it came to education. Both groups had to go through the same discrimination. Whether if it was name-calling or physical abuse, both groups found a way to keep going. It took a long time, but thankfully both groups were able to fight through that discrimination that was holding them down.

In one example, a student refused to go to school because every time he was wrong his teacher would abuse him. Not only would she hit him, but she encouraged other students to hit him also. A year later, his next teacher broke a ruler on him for reading a book under his desk. Mexican-American children were often told to "go back to the god-damned beet fields." This verbal abuse did not help with stu!

For the most part I don't see very many differences between European immigrants and Mexican-Americans. The only difference I saw is that European

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