Turn the Page Review

At first, I had a hard time understanding what the idea was. There were a lot of statistics on DACA, immigration, sign language, and then it turned to tutoring for different languages, and it was all over the place for me. It was only until they showed their website that I understood what it was trying to be. Still, I believe they were trying to do too much and didn’t have a clear focus on one thing. I think there were some interesting ideas sprinkled throughout their presentation. Having an online translation for deaf students would have been a great idea by itself. A platform to help international students understand something better is great to! But when combined all together, along with help to write resumes and help for people taking their citizenship test, and including free downloadable textbook, it became way too much to comprehend. The idea should have been edited down. Maybe start off with the translating aspect because I think that would be helpful to a lot of people, then that would have work. Instead of adding on more and more, take away some things in order to put full focus on one problem and its solution. 

 Also, there are a lot of copyright issues in having textbooks online that are not from the distributor. They own the content, so no one else has the right to publish it online. (If there is a pdf, get it. Don’t let them steal your money!) Even if there is a fee of $50, the evil textbook overlords will do whatever is possible to take down their content. They’re making millions on broke college students that need their books, of course they’re going to go whatever to keep that cashflow coming in. They’re evil.

      

      Being someone that was greatly affected after Trump took away DACA, I was glad that someone brought up the issue and letting people know about it. At the same time, I was confused on what it had to do with anything. There is no clear path to citizenship for us so I don’t know the reason in bringing it up when I felt that it didn’t add much of a solution. Sure, keeping us updated on scholarships is something useful but it won’t be when our permissions are expired (like mine) and we have no form to renew them so we can qualify for those scholarships.