The film focuses on the impact that the proposition would make to the majority of its students who are economic and political refugees from Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador and one in particular who is fifth grade student from El Salvador named Myra. ... (Galinski 1987) In this stage parents are concerned about how realistic they have been as parents and how they are helping their child develop positive self-concepts and ideas, Myra's mother faces a daunting task in being realistic with her daughter about the outcome of the passing of proposition 187 and ultimately her right to attend...

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