What factors led to increasing educational stratification for Mexican Americans in the early 1900's? Explain the dominant rationale behind educational stratification and the impact it had on Mexican communities. Be sure to consider how Mexican American families resisted.

Due to a surge in the number of Mexicans migrating to America in the 1900's, there was an increase in the number of Mexican children of school age. Authorities used several means to segregate children of mexican origins.

Some of the reasons given for these stratification were,

The Mexican school children were dirty and had lice.
Compared to white children the Mexican school children were thought to be inferior culturally.

Some felt that Mexican school children were slow speakers of the English language and therefore had a language defect

The curriculum was made to distort and devalue the cultural and linguistic heritage of the mexicans through a campaign against diversity.

The Mexicans resisted by;

Enrolling their children in non public schools such as Catholic and Protestant schools. Community based schools were also built to challenge these segregations and to improve academics.
Another response by the Mexican community was an inclusion of Mexicans in school governance, administration and teaching.
Organizations were developed by Mexicans whose aims were to promote equal access of Mexican students at all school grades

a curriculum was introduced that accomodated the inclusion of non English languages such as Spanish in schools.

Through Mediums such as newspaper and conferences,discriminatory practices were fought. Such as inequality in the funding of education and the segregation that existed in schools.