The Pros and Cons of Coastside Immigration reinforcing any of the above strategies:
Problems:
1. The schools on the Coastside have a very large population of Mexican immigrant children, from families of laborers. This group has some of the lowest academic achievement rates in the nation. [Cite Source]
a. School officials view this as a burden (since the population is thought to extract more resources than it adds,
Q. Immigrant laborer families children have parents with low literacy and educational attainment. Do these families offset their cost to schools through what they produce/contribute?
Counter-Question: Do low income families generally offset their cost in use of services through what they contribute/produce.