041221 Dreport Foreign Adjustment Program School In Los Angeles 1950s by D Report published on 2021-04-14T01:06:33Z Topics: School, Immigration, Foreign Adjustment Program, High School, Los Angeles 1950’s Title: “Foreign Adjustment Program”- A conversation on going to school in Los Angeles in the 1950’s Participants: Francisco Gonzalez Publish Date: 04/14/2021 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: AnchorFM, iTunes, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org Discussion Topics: Going to school in Los Angeles in the 1950’s. Learning English in the 1950’s as a teenager. What was the “Foreign Adjustment” English language program ? The Foreign Adjustment Program included students from Russia, Germany, Peru and Mexico. Why do some students laugh at other students for not speaking English? Why did Foreign Adjustment participants from Mexico, Central and South America get called “wet backs,” but not students from Europe, if all were equally newly arrived students ? What kind of interactions occur between US-born and non-US-born students? How was the group of students in the Foreign Adjustment program treated by the school faculty and students? How do students remember the different teaching approaches, 60-plus years later ? How was the Foreign Adjustment program different from the “regular school?” How did joining the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) become one of two options (Gym/Sports or ROTC) in High school in the 1950’s? ROTC participation post World War II? What was the United States immigration policy in 1954, that deported an eleventh grader to Mexico? If you are undocumented and a teenager, at what point in our lives do we consider ourselves American or at least part of America? Genre Storytelling
