High School Counselor Made a Comment About Hispanic Recruitment that Bothered Me

<p>Youdon’tsay, I love your comment about not being responsible for your actions. Hang in there!! I’ll defend you if the police are called :).</p>

<p>My DH is Angelo too and at our wedding over 20 years ago I do think the mariarchi (sp?)band did push my MIL over the edge but these days she is great and very proud of her grandson.</p>

<p>Your son sounds like a great kid too and you should be very proud. Why deny his heritage when he is in fact Hispanics. I have been looking at the numbers and it is clear that Hispanics are not graduating in big numbers much less going to college. Here is an example, to get to be national merit semi-finalist in CA you have to have about a 218 yet NHRP is only 183 in CA. When you get the letter from college board, it says that 200K hispanic juniors took the test and that 5000 students qualified for NHRP status. Isn’t that only 2.5% which is a very small number with the qualifying threshold only 183.</p>