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Lessons from Mexico.
Byline: Dan Hardy
Jul. 31--Two years ago when Salomon Diaz came from Mexico to live in Kennett Square in Chester County, he knew life would be different.
New home, new language, new school. There were other changes as well -- challenges that most of the teachers in Salomon's new school were not tuned in to. In his home town of Moroleon, in central Mexico's Guanajuato state, Diaz walked to school and his mother made the trek at midday to bring him a hot meal. At Kennett Square, Diaz had to bring his lunch or buy it, "and I didn't like the school lunch," he said. Riding the school bus with children he didn't know "was scary," said Diaz, now 14 and entering seventh grade in the fall.
All in all, "it took a long time to feel more at home," he said.
To help students like Diaz and their families, some teachers in Chester County are traveling to Guanajuato state, where most of the Latino students come from, to learn more about their lives there.
Several dozen have been part of a weeklong West Chester University graduate school class that started in 2001 called Humanizing…
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Source: HighBeam Research, Lessons from Mexico.
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