The largest block of new students in my classes are foreign (read: "students from countries other than the USA"). Of that group the largest number are Hispanic students: from a variety of countries in Central and South American, the Caribbean, etc. I have recently had and currently have students from Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Peru, Columbia and many many islands.
I enjoy working with the Hispanic students because of their generally strong "work ethic" -- which is not couched just in descriptive phrases but real words and ideas; real sweat and brain power. Any teacher out there in any country understands the kind of "open" and "hard working" temperament I am referring to. My students soon exceed expectations and work in the realm of higher inquiry.
Questions get asked -- inquiries get made -- learning happens. It is the way it should be. At all levels of education.
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