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   Margueritem said, 2 months ago

   A harsh tale….

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   kajunklown said, 2 months ago

   then stay in Mexico and work!!!!

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   LibrarianInTraining said, 2 months ago

   This is true whether you’re Mexican, Chinese, Italian, AMERICAN!

   If you don’t stay in school, you wind up with a sucky job. Like my brother.

   If you DO stay in school and get your degree, during a recession, no one will hire you because you’re over-qualified and they can’t afford you.

   D@rned if you do, d@nged if you don’t.

   But stay in school anyway. That way, when the recession’s over, you’ve got a sporting chance.

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   euthuno said, 2 months ago

   Migrant Mexican workers are not the majority of seasonal farm workers. Never have been, never will. It’s a stereotype.

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   Joe Allen Doty said, 2 months ago

   During the summer between the 8th and 9th grades, my whole family worked in the fruit and vegetable fields and even in a cherry Orchard near Stayton, Oregon, South of Salem.

   Some of the families working where we did lived like poor white trash in the shacks owned by the same people who owned the farms. Almost all of the workers had European ancestry.

   It made no sense that many of them lived in filth when we rented an apartment in town lived like normal people who wore clean clothing to work and took a bath every day.

   We were paid according to each filled basket or sack. We were not given coins each time; we either had a punch card or given a ticket like they used to have at the movie theaters. At the end of the day, you turned the card or the tickets in and they gave you cash or a check for the total.

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   Carmy said, 2 months ago

   I guess Gracie doesn’t have to worry about working in the fields. Looks like she owns them.

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   Joe Allen Doty said, 2 months ago

   Oh, because of my education and varied work experience, I was sometimes considered “over-qualified” for some jobs in which I had no work experience in the 1st place.

   I find it amusing above that Gracie is dressed up like she is going to a formal affair while wearing a men’s jacket with tails.

   When I worked as an in-house off-set press operator, Dennis was hired to be the supervisor over the ladies who did certain jobs in the offices. It was interesting that the women had to train him to be a boss. In my opinion, one of those women ought to have been promoted to be the head of that particular department.

   I learned how to be a printing press operator when I was a volunteer at church and, Karen, my aunt by marriage, had seen the manual for the press when she visited our home when I was living again with my parents. There was a job opening for a press operator where she worked as an executive secretary and was actually the “boss” for the press operators. Vick was the long-time employee under her.

   Vick told people, “I taught Joe everything I knew about operating the press and when I got through, he taught me a few things, too.” That’s because my way was not only better, it saved the company money, too.

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   kindredlaugh said, 2 months ago

   Once again lets pay attention to the story. They are telling the life history of Jose Hernandez. The first Mexican-American Astronaut.

   http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/hernandez-jm.html

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   bald 716 said, 2 months ago

   this is a true fact of life for any ethnic background

   school is actually important

   even so if you go to a store and the cashier didn’t have that computerized register, how many of them could figure out your change

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    ldyhwkd said, 2 months ago

    bald - while I agree with you whole heartedly, we actually know a teacher who was reprimanded for teaching her class how to count change. She was told that it wasn’t a necessary skill and to stop wasting time teaching it.

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    Potrzebie said, 2 months ago

    Any of you ever watch “Mi familia” Or was it nuestra? With Jimmy Smit’s among others? Fascinating movie. IT starts out like this. with the grandpa working his crops in what was to become east LA. In the end, the milpa is just a piece of concrete in the shadow of one of the freeway overpasses.

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    newworldmozart said, 2 months ago

    bald 716 I agree with you. As a cashier myself for a long time, I had to train some cashiers. I had to fight with, ‘but if the computer tells me what the change is why do I have to count it out.’ And since we re-modeled our store the check outs are worse for someone with skills at counting back change.

    I’m really getting into the story, I think I’ll read the comic one first before I go to that web site for the real story. Got to love history.

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    cholldekkgher stenst... said, 2 months ago

    “I’m sure glad I don’t gotta go to school no mo’”, Farina said to Chubby, one day, while walking to the fishing hole, in a Little Rascal episode. Sounded to me like he still needed to work on the English.

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    LibrarianInTraining said, 2 months ago

    ldyhwkd, WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!

    Have they lost their MINDS?!

    No longer a necessary skill?

    uses spatula to scrape jaw off floor

    What on earth is this world coming to? I was at a register at Publix when the power went out. She’d already rung everything up. She was just waiting for the “computer” to tell her how much change. I knew how much we handed her. I knew how much the total was. I told her how much change was due.

    I was 7 at the time.

    I taught counting back change to 3rd graders when I spent a year as a teacher’s aide. The only thing I didn’t get was when they told kids to start at the amount tendered and count back to the total due. (This was what the textbook said)

    I find it much easier to do it as I learned it, starting at the total due and counting up to the cash tendered. The teacher I worked for didn’t care, as long as they could pass the test.

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    Badto Thebone said, 2 months ago

    I know this is just a comic strip and you should not take it too seriously but… what the hel* are they picking. Extremely low growing corn!!!

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    big G 3469 said, 2 months ago

    @ Kajunklown FYI NOT ALL “MIGRANT” FARM WORKERS ARE MEXICAN!!! Many “migrant” farmworkers are also from Central America!!!! Next time get your facts straight before you “shoot’’ your mouth off at bashing Mexicans!!!

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    OldHipster said, 2 months ago

    HEY! Stop bashing him about bashing MEXICANS! He’s got a right to bash those kinda people! Come here and can’t talk english after many years of working in this country!

    This really pisses an overfed, longhaired leaping gnome like myself OFF when I try to talk to these bastages and all I get outa them is “I no speak English”!

    Sure there are other ethnic cultures that do the same thing, but I’m gonna pick on illiterate MESSICANS simply because I can, so EAT it!

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    Potrzebie said, 2 months ago

    IT’s very hard to pick up a new language once you reach adulthood. Especially if you haven’t been educated enough.

    I wnet through one week of arabic training prior to shipping out and to this date, I can only utter a few words.

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    Carlos Castellanos said, 2 months ago

    Badto Thebone-
    “… what the hel* are they picking. Extremely low growing corn!!!”

    Ground corn. ; )