Escuela

Escuela DVD VIDEO DOCUMENTARY teenage Mexican American farm worker portrait 2002 Type: Movie Platform: DVD Publisher: Women Make Movies Released: 2002 Media: DVD There are over 800,000 students enrolled in migrant education programs in the United States and, of those, only 45-50Ͼver finish high school. ESCUELA, the sequel to Hannah Weyer’s critically acclaimed documentary LA BODA, personalizes these glaring statistics through the honest portrait of a teenage Mexican-American farm worker, Liliana Luis.ESCUELA is a clear-eyed view into the lives of contemporary Mexican American migrants and their struggles to educate their children while obtaining employment. Centered around the life of Liliana, a daughter entering her first year of high school, Hannah Weyer follows the back-and-forth movement of the family between their home in Texas near the borderlands and the California agricultural fields. Despite the best efforts of the school systems to accommodate students like Liliana, the