STUDENT VOICE: We must offer underprivileged students more than a meager ‘stay in school’
“‘Echalé ganas, mijo,’ my grandpa would often say — apply yourself and put efforts into your studies. Throughout my childhood in Northern California, this phrase was ubiquitous; I’d hear it at Mass, at the taquería, and certainly at home. Whenever I met family members for the first time, I came to expect these three words.”