Como Vivimos (How We Live) | Migrant Education
Clip: Season 12 Episode 6 | 57sVideo has Closed Captions
Students, whose parents are migrant farm workers, know all too well the education they are missing.
Students like José Modesto are absent from school to no fault of their own. Their parents are migrant farm workers and are allowed to live near their school for only part of the year when the housing centers are open. Where do they go in the off-season? Families must live 50 miles away as part of state housing rules and so with the rising cost of unsubsidized housing, most go to Mexico.
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Como Vivimos (How We Live) | Migrant Education
Clip: Season 12 Episode 6 | 57sVideo has Closed Captions
Students like José Modesto are absent from school to no fault of their own. Their parents are migrant farm workers and are allowed to live near their school for only part of the year when the housing centers are open. Where do they go in the off-season? Families must live 50 miles away as part of state housing rules and so with the rising cost of unsubsidized housing, most go to Mexico.
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JOSÉ MODESTO: Me studying a lot.
- Mm-hmm.
- And stay here.
- Yeah.
- Stay here because if I leave, I'm not gonna graduate.
- Mm-hmm.
- I'm not gonna... gonna be done with credits, and that's gonna be... that's gonna be a disaster.
JESSICA MUÑOZ: I have students who leave in December.
They don't come back until, um, March, so they miss, I would say, maybe, oh, 20 credits or more credits.
So today all I'm doing is, um, giving your classes, okay?
So we're not gonna go over your credits, just because I have too many kids that are outside waiting, okay?
- That's all right.
JESSICA: A lot of the kids work in the camps, but they close the camps, and so, once they close, they have to leave, so they have to go with their parents.
They have to go to Mexico, migrate wherever they're going, um, pack up and leave.
And when the migrant- or when the camps open, then they get to come back.
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