Ahem, I’m sure in our fast paced go-go information based economy it would be racist to note…
Ashley Vegara, a 16-year-old who says her older sister dropped out of college after getting pregnant, vows she will become the first in her family to get a bachelor’s degree.
To achieve her goal, Vegara of Roswell, attended a four-day Hispanic Youth Symposium this week designed to boost dismal nationwide statistics on how many Hispanic students graduate from college.
The Hispanic College Fund is organizing six symposiums this summer on college campuses in Albuquerque, Baltimore, Dallas, Fairfax, Vir., Los Angeles and Fresno, Calif., and plans to expand the program next summer.
Only 7.2 percent of Hispanics received bachelor’s degrees compared with 72 percent of white students in 2005-2006, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s most recent statistics on college graduation rates.
Which I think only goes to show why it is so critically important for America to import several million more Hispanics, for the burritos fool!
As to the damage to our economy that importing folks that don’t value education?
Well, you can’t put a price tag on ignorance, now can you?
