Census: one-fourth of all kindergartners are Hispanic
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Rob Kuznia
HispanicBusiness.com
A new report from the U.S. Census is showing that Hispanic children now constitute a fifth of all K-12 students. It appears the trend is set to accelerate, because the younger the grade level, the higher the percentage.
Nearly a quarter of all the nation's kindergarten students are Hispanic, more than triple the rate during the 1970s, the Associated Press reported. Meanwhile, the 2007 data shows that nursery schools serving 4-year-old children are posting an even higher proportion: 53 percent, up from 21 percent in 1987, according to the report, which was released Thursday.
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That is amazing. Pretty soon, I can call myself a minority. It will get worse. Obama will not secure the borders and maybe it will be 50% hispanic.
How many of those are legal citizens of this country? I know here in Los Angeles – not a lot. They've turned our public schools into ESL schools so that citizens have to enroll their children into a private school if they want their child to be on the same level as the rest of the country. Sad. How about writing that there's a 50% dropout rate each year in the high schools and the predominant dropouts are Hispanics?
First of all, Hispanics are Catholics and like to have large families. NOT ALL Hispanics are from Mexico..... not ALL are illegal.
While White-Americans are having 2 or less children, Hispanics average 3. By mid-century Hispanics will be our largest minority, if not a majority.
Hispanic children in Kindergarten are on the increase. What does it signify? Hispanics ,before were out of school, and now into it , as they have realised the value of education. The reason for such high density in Kindergarten, seems peculiar, and it appears that the trend is supposed to accelerate. How:?