As an immigrant child, I remember returning home struggling with homework, and the struggle I had to face to finish and complete my homework in a different language. Especially with no help from anyone at home. Because no one understood the language and I was the oldest sibling. I remember staying up nights translating word by word from the dictionary just to understand and complete my homework. While other students had it much easier, homework wouldnt take them more than one hour to complete. For us as immigrant/refugee students, it will take us much longer to complete our daily school homework. The problem with staying up all night; you wont have enough sleep and when you have enough sleep you will not focus in class as the teacher is teaching and it will be much harder and harder for you as a student. One way to prevent this issue is to offer free tutoring programs after school for kids to complete their homework if they need help there
is a tutor to ask and it will be much better if the tutor is bilingual so they can both understand.
Another issue that accounts for Latino education disparity is language barriers. Some children including Latino children do not speak the English language. This will in most cases interfere with their ability to adapt to schooling requirements. Social interactions are also highly limited and future academic success is almost impossible. A student who cant speak the English language will have a harder time participating in class, presenting, and joining clubs and competitions. Opposite of students that speak the language perfectly. For example, if an immigrant student that wanted to join a science fair competition in school, but due to a language barrier and cant speak English very well, he wont be able to present to the judge his idea and he will struggle in presenting it So, he will more likely not win and this will crash the childs morale.