Romeo immigrated to the U.S. with her family from the Philippines as a child in 2004. She has been active as a youth advocate with the Little Manila Rising group in Stockton. And she feels connected to her community, interested in building it up, not looking forward to leaving it behind. It’s a kind of ambition and drive that doesn’t show up in a standardized test.“There’s more to me than what is seen on that piece of paper, and the number that score represents,” Romeo said.
Rain will benefit from the SAT settlement. But it’s too late for some of the other students who participated in the suit like Danica Foronda, a 2019 Edison High grad. “We want our students to have this experience, the experience of victory from their voices to be lifted up,” Delvo continued. “I want them to tell their children, this happened because I stepped up and said something.”
It’s an important lesson for the Filipino American students of Stockton who are part of that lesson. And it’s an important lesson for Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage month.
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