1. Theres nothing wrong with kids.

Ive never met a kid with a dysfunctional relationship

to learning. Ive met a lot of kids with a dysfunctional relationship to school (1:02:39)
2. Approximately 50% of Hispanics drop out of school year after year, and the numbers
are not improving, theyre getting worse. We continue to perpetuate an educational
experience that has been inadequate at best for the majority of Latino children (1:02:21)
3. Without that diploma, youre walking this world with limited opportunities, limited
chances. Youre gonna be the one out there being exploited for 8 bucks an hour
(1:02:15)
4. Theyre using second grade children of color data to determine what number of prisons
theyre gonna need in the future. So, the idea that we are losing these huge number of
kids is appalling (1:02:07 - 1:01:55)

5. In 1997, community activism led the Tucson city council to set up a study committee to
look at ways of boosting Latino student achievement and reducing dropout rates. Based
on its findings, the school board unanimously voted to create what was then called the
Hispanic Studies Department (9:48 - 9:50)
6. In 2002, the Hispanic Studies Department was renamed Mexican American/Raza
Studies. The classes are open to all students at six high schools in Tucson Unified School
District (10:43 - 10:45)
7. If you can narrow down what we advocate for, its the idea of love. Its not simply a
love for myself, but the love for those around me. How can I change the world for the
better? And what this idea of social justice pedagogy ask us to do is to seek the root of
the truth. And in that truth there is greater justice (55:19 - 54:54)
8. In the previous 11 years of my sons education, never did he come and come home and
talk to me about what he was learning in school. I cant get him to shut up about these
stuffs (22:05 - 22:15)
9. When social change begins, it cannot be reversed, you cannot un-educate a person who
has learned to read, you can not humiliate the person who feels pride, and you cannot
oppress the people who are not afraid anymore -Cesar Chavez (1:07:28 - 1:07:36)