I have seen this movie 3times on HBO and once with the producer and his daughter taking questions. In between there have been school walkouts in LA County to protest inflammatory legislation in Congress that though it would never pass would have made felons out of the undocumented. Whereas in 1968 protests were for the right to know about La Raza, and have better educational opportunities, in 2006 the walkouts were chaotic and counterproductive. If only the students of today with their cell-phones, IPods, and video games had one-tenth of the educational focus of the leaders of the "Walkout" of 1968! The historical accuracy of the film suffers from what appears to a "composite" of efforts to suppress Spanish by corporal punishment of earlier generations. In trying to get your message across it does not help to exaggerate history. Nevertheless, the actual walkouts of that time accomplished a lot for Chicanos or Latinos. One has to ask the youth of today, as I have, "To what extent can you blame institutional racism or cultural insensitivity, and totally exempt the individual student of personal responsibility, to echanr ganas para estudiar y seguir adelante? Where do the failures of the system end and self-victimization begin?
