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LOL...you have a science/math back gound? What do you suppose this subset of data does to the paragraph you cherry picked?

Hispanics: Dropping Out of School or Not Dropping In?

As in the labor market competition, Asian and white immigrants, in that order, are the best performers in school, while Hispanics, mainly Mexicans, lag seriously. In 1990, one of every four immigrants from Mexico of high school age was not in school, a rate markedly higher than that of other immigrants and Mexican-Americans. The study attributes the low Mexican high school participation rate not to dropping out, but to "not dropping in in the first place" — not enrolling at all because of the inability to catch up or the need to support themselves and their families.