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Medrano / Opportunities in Mexican Schools

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Mr. Medrano-I terminated, finished middle school and cultural technical high school that is in Dallas Hispanic school, everyone, I don't care section of town you live on, I don't care if you live West Dallas, North Dallas, you have to attend cultural. Intervierwer-How far is it from here?" Mr. Medrano-Just Central Dallas, Downtown Dallas, yea its from here, probably two miles. Interviewer-Ok. Mr. Medrano- Two miles, but the nearest, where I go that North Dallas High School [?] because this was a technical school, no college prep, ready to go to advanced college, it was just a para-professional/semi-professional typing, welding, training, architectural [?] those are the fields that are offered there at that time [?] you're are ready to get an education, you going to pick up a technical field [?] just a regular practicing attorney-I mean practicing nurse and than related to move on to it. So, unfortunately I knew that I have to have algebra, geometry, and trig to attend college and that was again being with my associates, my colleagues that I was hanging out in high school and we already said, "We're going to college after this, We're going to college after this." and if trig was not offered, we went to councilors, there were six of us, plan to attend college and its not being offered at [?] technical high school, what can we do that would create a trig or geometry class that would announced if ten or fifteen students wish next semester, we need your names in the councilors office by such and such date and if it generated, the student body concerns or wanted to attend, then they would create a course. Naturally, at that time we only requried three years, the curriculum was three years of English at that time and everybody, based on the consultation really was four years of English to prepare to enter the universities, the colleges to get as much background [?] at that time and so again we were asking, why can we create a fourth year English class and by that time as the student body talked and talked would take that to the [?] that would create only those if at that year, there was enough students to request, request [?] the next year, there wasn't enough students, no fourth year college, i mean fourth year interest was offered, no trig was offered, no geometry was offered, so I went into freshman, I knew that there was no geometry being offered, so how else can I attest to that [?] cause I was taking algebra 1, algebra 2 and then algebra 3, algebra 4 [?] not getting close to the math that I need when we head for college, and thats when the students that were college prone, college prep [?]....

Interview Interview with Robert Medrano
Subjects Discrimination or Segregation › Discrimination or Segregation at School
Education › "Mexican School"
Education › Secondary Education
Education › Quality of Instruction
Tags Crozier Technical High School, Dallas, TX
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Interview date 2015-06-10
Interview source CRBB Summer 2015
Interviewees Medrano, Robert
Interviewers Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Locations Dallas, TX
Duration 00:03:48
Citation "Opportunities in Mexican Schools," from Robert Medrano oral history interview with Moisés Acuña-Gurrola,  June 10, 2015, Dallas, TX, Civil Rights in Black and Brown Interview Database, https://crbb.tcu.edu/clips/252/opportunities-in-mexican-schools, accessed October 20, 2025