Six out of Ten: reading the stereotypes the other way around

Racial Cultural Economic -Unhealthy -language -Deficient -Patterns of -Sub-labor human relations. -Parents formal education -Mexicaniz acion

"The child as a cultural broker facilitates parents and the English-speaking mainstream, such as filling out applications for employment, disputing credit card charges, and dealing with school and legal system. The result of such demand of adult like responsibilities may leave little time for homework and participation in extracurricular activities" (Ream & Rumberger, 2008, p.129) the lack of higher education among Latino parents can work collectively to affect the academic achievement of their children

Six out of Ten: reading the stereotypes the other way around

why the school system is just functioning for the 60% of Latino/a youth? How is that just a 40% of Latinos/as dropout school given the conditions of segregation that they daily face in school? What are the cultural elements that operates as protective factors for Latino/a youths?

BUILDING COMMUNITY FROM DIVERSE LATINIDADES

Who are the Latinos/as? is anybody who is a Spanish-speaker that come from South-America? If so, are the Indigenes who come from South-America Latinos/as? What are the boundaries of America Latina? What countries do fit within those boundaries? Are second generation Spanishspeakers born in Canada Latino/a?

A Task For Latino/a Teacher in the TDSB

Proporcionate alternative images that break the traditional stereotypes to bridge the educational macro estructure with the individual To lead the process of construction of pan-ethnic organizations based on Latino intersectionalities.

Conclusion
Interrogate the stereotypes that shape our image in the Canadian social fabric. Increase the number of Latino Teachers in TDSB

Envision our community as a political tool to reformulate the Latino Diaspora in Canada