ABSTRACT
The issue of immigration pervades all the social institutions in a community. Educational institutions have been one of the most responsive to immigrants since the beginning of public education in United States. Mexican immigrant experience in Carpinteria is diverse. Although immigrants like the David Rodriguez have lived an exemplary protean immigrant experience by improving their socioeconomic condition and their children's opportunities for education and employment, other immigrant families have had a different life in Carpinteria. It is for this reason that Comite de Padres Latinos (COPLA) is all the more imperative. In COPLA meetings, parents learned the results which indicated that by the time Spanish-speaking children reached the third or fourth grade, parents were intimidated by the language barrier presented in homework. Examining the role of education in the conflict between dominant and subordinate ideologies and the role of cultural resistance, should serve as a form of counter hegemony — of change in the dominant culture.
