Blog 1 - Influx of Immigrant Students
Blog 1 – Influx of Immigrant Students This week I found myself reading an article about a school in Missouri that has noticed an influx of immigrant high school students who have very little education or English. In the article it mentions many of these students are coming in from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. The article by Koby Levin of Joplin Globe expresses it “points to the ongoing violence in those countries, which has driven successive waves of immigration by Central Americans into the U.S.” The numbers of immigrant students prior to 2015 school year were 83. By the end of the 2015-2016 school year it had risen to 118. At the end of the following school year the number continue to grow reaching 142 immigrant students. About 28 percent of the districts students are students who speak English as a second language. What I found most interesting about this article is I know I have seen a similar trend occurring at my school and have heard of i