Sixto Perez lives with his parents and five siblings in a trailer
park in La Puente, Calif. Last year , when his father was away from the
family working as a migrant farm laborer, Sixto, 12, did odd jobs after
school, earning money to buy shoes for his brother and himself.
One day last fall , Sixto was sweeping outside the mini-mart where he
worked. A man rode up on a bicycle, flashed a wad of bills and offered
him $100 to sell drugs at his school , Los Robles Elementary.
Sixto knew all about drugs from a school program called S A N
E(Substance Abus Narticotics Education ), run by sheriff’s
deputies.Though scared,Sixto told the man ,’I only make twenty dollars a
week , but I do it honestly .’Then he ran inside to the store
owener,who chased the drug dealer away .
This summer Sixto was honored for his integrity.The sixth-grader,who is
bright but has dyslexia,received a $ 500 savings bond from the Banks of
California. His mother , Efigenia Perez , looked on with approval.
’That man told my son he was crasy to work for so little money ’ she
said.’But I’d rather have him honest.’
Denis Hamilton in Los Angeles Time (Reader’s Digest nov 1992 online
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