USF Educational Center Provides
Information that Helps Children
Importance of Good Education
Education is a basic right to which all children are entitled in the United States. There’s a good reason for this: More than anything else, a solid education is the ticket to a better quality of life, including good jobs that pay decent wages and offer opportunities for advancement. And the benefits of education are more important today than they have ever been.
Providing this education to
every child will go a long way toward fulfilling America’s promise of
equal opportunity for all.
Parents play an important role in helping to make sure their children and all
children get the education they need and deserve.
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Yet for many years, African Continental Migrant parents and or Latinos have been excluded from the educational process, either because the school system simply does not know how to reach out to them or because Latino parents themselves feel intimidated by the system and did not get involved.
Schools are public institutions
and belong to us all. You have the right, indeed the responsibility, to go to
your child’s school and ask questions. In this guide, we offer a number
of suggestions for how you as a Latino parent can get involved and how you can
better advocate
For the education of your children; we also offer information that can be turned
into powerful tools for you to exercise your rights as an involved Latino parent.
High Expectations for African Continental Youth: More than high school; more
education means more choices in work and in life.
Low paying jobs affect the whole family. Many Latino parents work two or three
jobs at a time just to be able to pay the bills, making it harder for them to
spend time with their spouses and children. Such jobs also lack important benefits
like health insurance and paid vacation time that contribute a lot to the quality
of family life.
In today’s economy, a high school degree is no longer good enough. Yes, high school graduates have an edge in the job market over those who dropped out before graduation. But adults with only a high school diploma are twice as likely to be unemployed as those with a college degree.
And unemployment is not the only problem: jobs for people who did not go to college pay less than they used to. Young adults with a high school diploma may earn close to $2,000 more annually than their peers who left high school early. But those with just a high school diploma earn nearly $20,000 less per year than those with a four year college degree.1 Over a working life time, these dollars really add up.
If your children do not get a college education, they will have a hard time finding jobs that pay a living wage or even provide benefits like health insurance as shown in the second graph. And their jobs will be less secure. Clearly, the more education your children get, the more options they will have in life.
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Charity that receives Financial and in-kind
donations for its Free Quality Training;
you may consider providing some financial assistance.
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