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Immigrants In High Schools
Immigration has been a controversial topic for many years. People have been coming into America from different countries for many years. Only what are the people who already live in America doing to help the people coming in? Not a whole lot. Americans need to help these immigrants that are coming into the country. There are many things people can do to help especially if the people who help are in high school or in college. Students in high school have to have a mandatory amount of community service hours in order to graduate, and many students would like to continue on to a higher education (college) which they can’t do if they don’t graduate. So why not help with immigration.
Immigrants come from all over the world and people need to help them learn the language of English if they don’t speak it. Maths and sciences are also a need to know in order to have a GED so they can get jobs. This requires people to be willing to help feed and work with these immigrants. College students that are trying to get a teaching degree can teach people English and math and science. This will help immigrants to meet American school standards. The other college students like …show more content…
The students that go to high school in the state of Florida have to reach a bare minimum of seventy five hours in community service in order to graduate. As most student will say getting the community service hours is hard, however having the students be able to go and help the immigrants for community service is a good thing. Furthermore many students will look at it as a good way to get the hours without having to search for a ton of different and odd jobs. High school students can help the immigrants make food, grow food in a garden, and older high school students can even watch the kids who aren’t old enough to go to school. This is a great way to get high school students involved in the community and get school work done at the same
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