Immigrant children hopeful of attending college hit road blocks
Tagged: childrenPosted on: August 13th, 2007“I dont usually have the task of answering the phone at the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama, since Im the only non-Spanish-speaker who works there. But for some reason, that task fell to me on a spring day in 2005.
I remember answering the phone and hearing the voice on the other end of the line that belonged to a kid, about 17 years old. His name, I learned, was José Luis and he would be graduating from a Shelby County high school that May.
The reason for his call was simple and powerful: He wanted to go to college.”
Curation from Tomás
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