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PROGRAM — Nevada Opportunity Scholarship

English translation below.

Soy madre soltera de un hijo que viene de estudiar en una escuela en donde terminaba bien rápido los trabajos y las maestras siempre me decían que hablaba mucho. Yo les decía que lo movieran a un grado más alto o le dieran más tareas y me decían que no podía estar más avanzado que los otros niños.Era bien pobre esa escuela, no lo motivaban. Y no podían hacer nada para adaptarse a su inteligencia y a su ritmo, que era más rápido. No me gustaba para nada, por que él es bien inteligente y necesita que le pongan más atención.

En esta escuela -San Cristóbal- tienen menos estudiantes en cada clase que en las escuelas públicas. Los estudiantes en una clase no son más de quince estudiantes a veinti y pico. No es como las otras escuelas [públicas] que tienen treinta a cuarenta niños en una sola clase.

Como madre soltera, la beca de la opportunidad ha sido una salvación. Sin eso, sería muy difícil pagar por una mejor educación. Aunque si me faltara la beca, necesitaría trabajar más o buscarme otro trabajo que me pagara más con tal de que mi niño reciba esta oportunidad.

A los legisladores, les pido que no nos quiten la beca, porque sin eso, yo no pudiera tener a mi hijo en una escuela privada.

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I am a single mother of a son who attended a school where he finished his work very quickly and the teachers always told me that he spoke a lot. I would tell them to move him to a higher grade or give him more homework and they would tell me that he couldn’t be more advanced than the other children. That school was also very poor, and they didn’t motivate him. There was nothing they could do to adjust to his intelligence and pace, which was faster. I did not like it at all, because he is very intelligent and needs more stimulation.

In his new school – St Christopher Catholic School – they have fewer students in each class in comparison to public schools. There are no more than 20 students in a classroom, so my son can get more one-on-one attention. It is not like the other public schools that have thirty to forty children in one class and the teachers don’t have the time to spend on individualized attention.

As a single mother, the Opportunity Scholarship has been a salvation. Without that, it would be very difficult to pay for a better education. If we didn’t have the scholarship, I would need to work more or find another job that would pay me more to be able to continue giving my child  this opportunity.

To the legislators, I ask that the scholarship not be taken away from us, because without that, I could not have my son in a private school, and he would not be thriving like he is.

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