How do new Chinese immigrants overcome the difficulty of studying？

　　How do new Chinese immigrants overcome the difficulty of studying?

　　When new Chinese immigrants come to foreign countries and work hard, it is often difficult to take care of their children’s studies. In recent years, some young Chinese immigrants have gone abroad to study, but they are also faced with challenges such as different study environments in foreign countries and family financial difficulties, resulting in some dropouts. Let the children of new immigrants and young new immigrants better integrate into the new learning environment and ensure their academic success, which requires better home-school cooperation and better system design at the social level.

　　It is not common to play truant and work.

　　When new Chinese immigrants first arrive in the United States, they face many difficulties, and the education of their children is one of them.

　　According to the US "World Journal" report, due to the large number of young shop assistants recruited by Chinese restaurants and retail stores in new york, the problem of many new immigrant Chinese students dropping out of school is more serious.

　　According to Zhao Hongfang, a bilingual psychological counselor at Jiangbang High School in Flushing, some Chinese students are in Internet cafes all day and night. When they are familiar with the store, they actually help to watch the store at night. When asked by their parents how they have money to spend, they lie about working after class.

　　Some Chinese students don’t get along well with their parents, so they moved out at the age of 17 and watched the shop at night to earn living expenses. In particular, the owners of new Chinese restaurants in Flushing are looking for young clerks who know English, attracting a large number of dropouts. The school said that they would go to the restaurant to bring these students back.

　　However, the lack of diplomas will only bring more difficulties for new immigrants to seek a living in the United States in the future. According to the report, a survey in new york in 2015 showed that the annual salary of those without a high school diploma was only $21,121, those with a high school diploma was $31,038 and those with a bachelor’s degree was about $60,000.

　　It is worth noting that although new Chinese immigrants have played truant, worked or even dropped out of school, this is not the norm.

　　In an interview with this newspaper, Liang Guanjun, chairman of the American East Asian Association, believes that some students in every school play truant or drop out of school for some reason. "Flushing is so big, and employment opportunities are still limited. We can only say that this phenomenon exists among the new immigrants in new york, but the size of the’ large number’ in the report is debatable."

　　Even so, the difficulty in adapting to new Chinese immigrants still needs attention.

　　Inadvertence in discipline and difficulty in adaptation

　　Different from the "Chinese" born and raised in the United States, behind the new Chinese immigrants who came to the United States to work and play truant is the helplessness of their families’ inability to discipline and adapt to the environment.

　　"This is an old problem, which exists in big cities in the east and west of the United States and is quite difficult to solve." Chinese lawyer Sun Lantao said in an interview with this newspaper that Chinese in the United States often choose school districts to send their children to school. All the above phenomena occur in bad school districts. There, parents are forced to survive, sometimes working hard for 12 hours every day, and have no time to ask about their children’s learning. Children’s own English is not enough, and they are under bilingual pressure, so they are discouraged and unwilling to learn.

　　For new immigrant students, the financial hardship of their families is also a major incentive to play truant and work. "Nowadays, in the United States, it is not easy for restaurants to recruit people, so the salaries are relatively high." Liang Guanjun introduced that the monthly salary of Flushing Restaurant is about 2,800 dollars, which attracts students who can’t go on studying, and there are also cases where individual families have financial difficulties and need their children to make money.

　　The educational environment and allocation of educational resources in American society are also very different from those in China.

　　Sun Lantao introduced that the US Constitution and the constitutions of all states stipulate that any school-age children must receive compulsory education before the age of 18, regardless of whether they or their parents have immigration status. That is to say, even the children of illegal immigrants, as long as they are school-age children, no matter where they live, public schools must accept them and must not refuse them to go to school on the grounds of poor English and insufficient test scores. However, at the implementation level, the imbalance of educational resources has greatly reduced the effect of ensuring the enrollment rate of immigrant children.

　　"American culture is different from that of China, where the whole people attach importance to education. Ordinary public schools often have poor basic education. Psychological counseling and bilingual guidance advocated by the education department cannot be put in place at all because of the lack of human resources. " Sun Taotao introduced.

　　The negligence of family discipline and the difference of social environment bring poor communication between home and school, which eventually leads to inefficiency in the academic management cooperation of new immigrant children. "Chinese immigrants, Chinese new immigrants, survival is a problem, and the language is unreasonable. I don’t know how to start." Sun Lantao said that the communication information between parents and school teachers is seriously poor, which reduces the effectiveness of cooperation between schools and parents.

　　Multi-party cooperation to promote studies together

　　How to help new Chinese immigrants better integrate into the new learning environment and ensure their enrollment rate? Experts said that the joint efforts and effective cooperation of all parties are needed.

　　On the one hand, new immigrant families need to integrate into the new study environment more actively. Cai Wenyao, consultant of the American Chinese Chamber of Commerce, said in an interview with this newspaper: "Children need to get out of the comfort zone and consult more local students. Parents can also make good use of community resources and communicate with other immigrant parents who have experienced difficult stages instead of resting on their laurels."

　　At the same time, home and school also need to better cooperate, psychologically appease their children, and more effectively prevent students who want to skip classes and work from drilling loopholes in the system.

　　In an interview with the World Journal, Zhao Hongfang said that parents can take the initiative to provide contact information to the school and learn to check attendance records and grades online. If parents leave their children completely unattended, the school can report it and ask the Children’s Service Administration to intervene in the investigation.

　　On the other hand, the society can also make efforts in promoting the children of Chinese new immigrants to study.

　　"In a short time, it is still a luxury to solve the problem of young Chinese immigrants going to school." Lawyer Sun Lantao said that despite this, from the legislative point of view, with the increasing proportion of Chinese in politics, this phenomenon will attract the attention of political circles, and the education department will also strengthen investment in this group and training bilingual teachers. With the increase of corresponding educational resources and infrastructure, the current situation may gradually change.