Executive Action Benefits SEHS students

On November 20, 2014, in front of millions of television viewers Obama announced the changes to the immigration system through an executive action. This act stipulated that parents of citizen children will be able to finally remain in the U.S. for a determined amount of time legally, DACA (Differed Action for Childhood Arrival) students will be given more aid and support when studying careers in the STEM fields, and a higher priority will be placed on reinforcing borders than deporting immigrants.        

​            Not only will it give students the confidence to apply to out of state schools, but most DACA students will find more motivation in becoming engaged in the science, engineering, technology, and mathematics fields. “Many students are afraid to apply to out of state schools, because they feel the need to monetarily support their parents. Hence, they are constrained to work,” Bry Smith, Counselor from College Corps said.
      

​Despite some students not benefiting from the executive order such as Katherine Pena, senior in the Business, Leadership, and Innovation small school who can neither become a DACA student nor can her parents qualify for this action; she still does not lose hope. “I have faith that one day Obama will a comprehensive reform to all students,” Pena said.
      ​Nevertheless, some of the students’ parents will be able to reap benefits. “I am so excited for my mother, we have both have been waiting a long time for this moment,” Danny Carranza, freshman from the Tech & Media Magnet said. Thus, many students such as Carranza will have less fear in
endeavor into new experiences outside of California.

LAUSD's Mysterious Policy

For many when we see a worker that speaks Spanish we begin to speak because it is our native language. Therefore, the English-Only Policy in cafeterias is irrelevant to primarily all the student body.

Is the district blind or something? Only 76% of the students in LAUSD are Hispanic (Oh so they may say), as it is reported in their 2011- 2012 LAUSD Fingertip Facts report. Therefore, students in primarily all of the LAUSD face the same fleeting reality, a Hispanic the majority of the time will be next to them (which is not a bad thing) but it means that in one way or another they are exposed to the Hispanic culture. What this means (if they already don’t know) is that it is rubbish to say this policy ensures a student’s safety, in terms of the non-speaking Spanish students being exposed to great danger. The district said in a statement, “In an emergency situation in a busy kitchen are where and it trying to communicate ‘hot food’ or a similar warning it is suggested that theses phrases are spoken in English for the benefit of everyone working in the kitchen and cafeteria area,” luckily most bilingual students are always willing to translate and well the district is so smart to print out instructions in English (WOW that is so GENIUS!).

An even more pressing problem is the fact that a Cafeteria Worker would not be able to communicate with a student who does not speak English. What is a student supposed to do then? Sadly there are no Spanish labels and if the workers are unable to speak to the student in Spanish than they will be sued. They should consider ALL of their students before making decisions.