Problem of Illegal Aliens
As I read Munoz’s column the latent pain in my heart exploded once more. My students at Jefferson High (LAUSD) have the same dreams and faith in a system that seldom delivers to the inner city.
When I began 29 years ago, we educators advised those who felt we’d know what was needed most. Did they ever honestly deliver? Will they ever? Our failures are directly related to the politics and economics of a nation’s leadership having greater interests in “dollar-profit” rather than “people-profit.”
We’ve always been in the basement. L.A. inner-city children have always faced the greatest challenges. Those who are especially exceptional will survive this decade, but they are too few. As Munoz has realized, our children discover the truth, and we experience the hurt with them on a daily basis. We know their strengths, their beauty, their valuable potentials.
I encourage Munoz and our students to strive. We are the future. As working people, as taxpayers, as voters, as the next generation’s parents, as humanistic leaders . . . they will bring change.
ELEANORE JEAN THOMAS
Los Angeles
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