Pedro, a 26-year-old male immigrant from Brazil, immigrated to the United States when he was 13. Here, he is talking about his first impressions of the American educational system:
The material that I had in my native country seemed to be much more sophisticated. And here, education was, one: very disorganized …it just seemed that the students had no discipline at all. Their behavior was completely awkward in class. And in school, it was very easy for me to catch on. I graduated very high in my class. One of the top students in my class, above ninety-five average. And it was easy. I didn’t even have to try that hard, when in my school I had to try very hard to be a good student. And […] I felt that […] the material was very weak.”
