Being this is issue. How does it effect you? Do you go to  school or work with them?
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I'm from California.  This year for the first time hispanics are 51% of the population if one includes the illegals.  Whites are less that 50% of this stated population.\nI have nothing at all against hispanics except that out state is overcrowded notw and this state doesn't have the infrastructure or transportation system to construct enough housed for everyone who wants to come to California to Live.  The true cost of illegal immigration is tthe cost to provide housing for them including the infrastructure, such as schools, parks, police(crime), for protection, medical services, recreation, social services, ets, etc, etc,\n\nIt's a real serious problem and the quality of life is going to hell here.  The middle class is moving out of state.  many , many hispanics want to take back California as part of mexico so they refuse to assimulate and refuse to learn our language. So everything has to be printed in two languages.\nI could go on and on for hours.\n\nit's bad and getting worse.The only real solution is to put up 2 huge 20 foot high parallel fences along the entire border ( 50 feet apart) with dogs and lights and sensing devices between them.\n\nor we can all move out and just give them the State because it's going to hell anyway.
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Tell the grandparents.  I've know people when I went to high school who did similiar things.  One commited suicide the other O.D.ed.  These problems only get worse as time goes by.
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This is just coming from a country white girl, but oddly enough, I can relate.  I grew up in a little bitty ol country town no one has ever heard of, in a family where no one else had gone to college ever.  Luckily my parents encouraged me and helped me believe I could do anything, but I had friends whose parents discouraged them from ever trying to make anything of themselves or try to get a better education, better job, or better life.  Part of it was money, they didn't have the $$$ to send their kids to college, they didn't know anything about what college meant or even how they'd go about the whole process, and part of it I think was fear.  Fear of failure, fear of success, fear of the unknown, and simply not knowing any other kind of life.  The reason I tell you this isn't to get a pity party for me or my friends, pity isn't what we need.  My point is, we all face so many hardships, and it's hard for people to see, and that I really can relate. I wanted to be a doctor since age 5 but didn't know anyone who'd ever done that, so I didn't know much about the process, and I didn't have any "connections" who could hook me up or even steer me in the right direction.  Even in middle and high school I did research on the internet and asked my pediatrician about med school and what I needed to do to be a doctor.\n\nSo, back to your question.  How to succeed when it feels like the cards are stacked against us??\nYou have to do your homework.  And by that I don't mean schoolwork.  I mean, you set a goal for yourself and stick to it.  Figure out what it takes.  Don't just say "I want to be a business woman" and expect it to happen.  Find someone who you admire in that field and spend some time working with them or getting to know them, and know how they went about becoming successful.  How did they get to where they are today, what sort of schooling did it take, how many years of education or professional training/ecperience did it take, what was the hardest part, what is the best part about it? Do an internet search, go to the library, see what the basic requirements are.  This is the way I found out to be a doctor I needed 4 years of college then 4 years of med school, then at least 3 of residency training.  If I hadn't done this basic research I wouldn't have known.  Another thing you should do (not sure how old you are) is look for programs geared towards you.  In high school I did a summer program at a medical school that was geared towards "rural" students interested in becoming doctors.  And I only found out about it by accident from another student (our guidance counselor told me he didn't think I was smart enough and that I wouldn't fit into a program like that so he never gave me the application)  Anyway the point is, look on the internet or specifically ASK your guidance counselor, college advisor, etcetera if any programs like this exist for you, something geared towards women in business or minorities in business.  That summer program in high school literally taught me everything I needed to know to succeed in geting accepted to college and med school, and to believe in myself. They set us up with mentors, they gave us sample college classes and preparation for them, they put us in touch with the admissions offices of the colleges and med schools. It didn't make it EASY but any means, but it just layed out the groundworks for people like me who otherwise had no idea where to begin, or what I needed to do or when to do it.\n\nSo, to sum it all up:\n1)believe in yourself\n2)find a role model who you can go to for advice and learn from\n3)be proactive and figure out what it takes, how much education, what kind of training, how long etc\n4)There's programs out there to help you.  Look for them\n5)Unfortunately it IS sometimes about WHO you know.  So if you don't know the right people, try and meet the right people\n5)bel
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A part of me does because people who are handed everything do not appreciate it like someone who has to pay for her education would. It sucks that the government won't help someone who is childless and working to make a living for themselves but people who have five kids and surviving on welfare won't have to pay one red cent for their education. This is why I don't even bother filling out the FAFSA...I don't benefit from it so I'm not wasting my time and energy that I need to use on paying for school myself. I know this question was about parents paying for school and let me go there and vent about that one. The people who's parents pay for their education, the ones I've met anyway, are so ungrateful that it's ridiculous. They don't have to work and go to school and I do. They don't go to class and they get drunk every night with not a care in the world. It makes me sooooo made because if I had someone to pay at least half of my tuition, I'd be on the Dean's List. I wouldn't have to worry about paying bills and cramming to study because I have to go to work in a few hours. It just really sucks. So to answer your question. Yes, I do resent people whose parents paid for their higher education.
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and this affects me how?
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I'm exactly the same as you, I go to university full-time and work 15 hours a week. It's pretty good for me right now. Because I work only weekdays, Monday to Friday I find that sometimes it feels like a struggle to find time to do my schoolwork, but I love my job enough that I would never think of leaving.
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Is there a manager or nurse at your work that could possibly talk with her?  They could tell her that some of the employees are asking about her and are worried about her, and wondering if she is o.k.
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I think the only time it has an effect is if all other factors are the same, and even then it might not matter.  Otherwise, I don't think it really matters what school you graduated from.  If it did, not too many people would have jobs, because not too many of us went to Ivy League schools.  Use your interview to really win them over.  They want to be able to connect with the people they are working with!
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Did you talke with someone at your school about it?
197513
I have been friendly with many of my students, but do not consider them my friends. I think that if students come and visit you when they no longer are your student, and even when they go off to college, they can be considered friends. But I do not think that teachers and students are really friends when one holds the responsibility of a grade in their hands.  Relationships (healthy relationships) that continue after those roles are completed can be quite fulfilling.
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You keep asking homework questions and expecting us to write your papers for you. People are willing to help if you have questions related to details. But they expect you to do your own work. We did ours while we were in school, and we don't want to do yours. What will you do when you get a job? Ask your co-workers to do the work for you??
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I like it. It can be frustrating because your students are often ill-prepared for the rigors of college, but I don't know any job that isn't frustrating at one time or another. It is quite rewarding to share your knowledge with others and to see the "light bulb" when they get it.
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do you whine and cry or bust in to tears about a low grade ? seems like more to it then what your saying or trying to hide. why not ask him/her to tell you why they think that way
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A lot of them are not citizens but are here on student or work visas. We get some of them trying to teach at our college and they barely speak English and will sometimes start writing in their language instead of ours. I've had to help my classmates in classes because they couldn't understand the teacher and would fail the course because of it, which affected my grade because I wasn't able to focus on my own work.
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It seems like this really isn't your problem directly. Where did NY fit in? Dunno, best bet, stay in school and don't worry so much, seems like you're just a kid. Good Luck :)
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Teachers are there to help you - I asked my health teacher about a problem with one of my friends, and she pointed me in the right direction, so don't be scared to talk to them!\n\n**I mean my friend was having a personal problem - so I asked the teacher.... I wasn't talking like a cat fight with one of them, it was something different....
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I am a straight-A-student and for me it's great! If I forget about something, don't know how to do homework or so, teachers always try to help me and there are nearly no consequences of it. They just know I work hard and it's not because of laziness.\nThere are also some cons, though. Sometimes I've got enough of being the first one, HAVING to be the first one. When I say I haven't prepared something just because I don't care, my classmates can't believe in it. It's so strange for them... And, among all, I'm treated like an encyclopaedia. Most of people can't see that I'm a living person, not a machine.