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Garza / Elementary and High School Education

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0:30 During the Summer, well first of all, I was enrolled in an elementary school [?] and well we were having a hard time. I, friends reminded me [?] when my mother passed away I was at the school. 0:30 [?] that my mother passed away [?] but, I managed to, I started school at the age of seven, not knowing a word of English, and [?] when I was in [?] elementary 0:30 I managed to, you know, keep up grades and even through I hung out with rough crowds [?] The fact that I didn't have a mother they were pretty much in many activities that were not right, 0:30 they, they [?] but not join them [?] I didn't really care to [?] but, when we were getting ready to finish [?] This perfect teacher 0:30 started talking to us about what he predicted about our future [?] daughter of the JP area, she was going to go into high school [?] so, she would and Raymond Castillo, a very good friend of mine 0:30 he was going to go off to school well because of his father was going to force him to and if he didn't he would beat the heck out of him. Haha! [?] He was going to have to 0:30 go to work [?] he did much for me, when time came, get our final grades in elementary school. We lined up before the teacher was provide the grades and long behold of the great 0:30 results, I end up with the highest grades, so I am valedictorian in elementary school. The lady that was the best, she came out third or fourth. Poor lady, she, she walked out crying 0:30 because what the result were not what she expected, so I went on to high school, and still struggling with my father caring for us and all that 0:30 and some of the things that helped me stay in high school was to work in the summer [?] then you should transfer immagrant families to [?] . That was a good 0:30 opportunity this summer and the person [?] but one thing from my father is that he always insisted that I come back to school in time, to start school on time. And 0:30 Many families would not come back to [?] until [?] September, sometimes October[?] ended up getting behind in school 0:30 and they eventually rather not, thats one thing that I appreciated from my father....

Interview Interview with Trini Garza
Subjects Work › Agricultural Work
Education › "Mexican School"
Education › Elementary Education
Education › Speaking Spanish at School
Education › Teachers and Administrators
Family › Parents
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Interview date 2015-06-11
Interview source CRBB Summer 2015
Interviewees Garza, Trini
Interviewers Bynum, Katherine
Locations Dallas, TX
Stockdale, TX
Montana, USA
Duration 00:04:18
Citation "Elementary and High School Education," from Trini Garza oral history interview with Katherine Bynum,  June 11, 2015, Dallas, TX, Civil Rights in Black and Brown Interview Database, https://crbb.tcu.edu/clips/1423/elementary-and-high-school-education, accessed September 21, 2025