ere is a thin line, if in fact there is a line at all, between adjusting and completely conforming to the American culture. Some parents in America attempt to maintain old ways by sending their children to ethnic or religious schools!
             . The most successful of these schools continue to grow mostly from the commitment on the part of the children's parents to revive traditional values and commit themselves to perpetuating their native culture (Pozzetta, 147). The largest parochial school system in the United States is run by the Catholic Church. Ironically, only a minority of Catholics attend these institutions. Many of these schools located in highly populated cities often cater to new immigrants and African Americans, some of whom are not Catholic (Reimers, 185). The previous fact speaks to the ideal that children will receive a better education in a Catholic school than they will in certain public schools. Obviously, parents both immigrant and otherwise, are buying into that idea because so many of them are sending their children to these schools. In Julia Alvarez's piece, the girls' parents send them all away to the same private all girls school. They said that they
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