Immigrant childen alienated from “Naco” school?
12:53 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration
27 Sep 2005
Interesting story out of Arizona via HispanicTips. Intriguing first because of the weird word play: the school is called “Naco” (which for non-Mexicans is a classist, racially charged insult flung from Mexican to Mexican) and it’s located in an Arizona town called “Ajo”. Is this one of those Latin American magical realism movies?
No. Apparently, there’s some tension going on in the town of Ajo, between Naco students and parents and authorities, with charges of discrimination against Mexican families:
The U.S. Department of Education received complaints of discrimination and sent a team to investigate. The complaint says Hispanic students who live within the school district were being asked to pay tuition while non-Hispanic students were not.
The allegation is that the children cross back into Mexico across the Arizona border after school, so they should be paying non-resident (probably international student) tuition.
- Tags: arizona, children, discrimination, Education, Immigration, mexico, naco
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3 Responses to Immigrant childen alienated from “Naco” school?
Cynthia
August 15th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
The town is not Ajo it is NACO just as you have it written on the map. We rarely hear people calling each other “naco” as an insulting remark. You’d have to live here all your life to understand. There is actually a story which I’m sure most people around here have heard as to how the name of the two towns came to be! The name of the school has nothing to do with the issues going in our two towns.
sylvia
June 24th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
well i guess that there is alot of people who are so ignorant, If you would bring your kids to Naco School maybe they could learn so much of values
Julie
January 10th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Naco Elementary School is in Naco AZ. It is no where near Ajo. Ajo is much too far for students to commute across the boarder. Please look at a map before you print. Then maybe you will get your facts right.