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Description of the students
Within the research population of 41 students, there were 36
families. Five families had two children each in this junior high
school group. Of these five families, there were a brother and a
sister, four sisters, and four brothers. One boy lived with his grand
parents and two sisters lived with their mother only.
Not until the students filled out the Student Survey did I realize
the political organization of Cuba had changed in terms of the names
and sizes of the provinces. Prior to the Revolution, Cuba had six
provinces; now it has 14. The Cuban-American teachers were also
unaware of this geographic change. All but one student knew the former
name of the province where they attended school. Using the former Cuban
identification of six provinces, the distribution of provinces where
students last lived and attended school is displayed in Table 4-11.
For reference, the new names are: Pinar del Rio, Provincia de la
Ciudad de la Habana, La Habana, Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Villa Clara,
Sancti Spiritus, Ciego de Avila, Camagey, Las Tunas, Holguin, Granma,
Santiago de Cuba, Guantanamo (Atlas de Cuba, 1978).
It appears that students and parents did not change the location
of their residence a great deal, because most of the parents who
answered the survey indicated they were born in the same province where
their children attended school. Only five of the parents who responded
indicated they were not from the same province where their children
attended school prior to emigration (see Table 4-12).
Students' birth dates range from the oldesta girlborn on
December 28, 1966 to the youngesta girlborn January 5, 1970. Age
distribution is fairly even. Ranges are shown in Table 4-13.