The crime rate among young Cubans appears to be disproportionately inferior to their corresponding percentages in the school population. The proportion of Spanish youngsters involved in schoolrelated crimes constituted only 7 percent of the total offender population in 1975. when this ethnic group represented more than 30 percent of the entire school body. And how do the young Cubans. with their language difficulty and their poverty. do in the schools? Are they good students? The Heritage Foundation report says: The initial concern among Mlamians that the wave of refugee children would lower the educational standards of Dade County proved groundless. It was found that within 1.5 years children became more proficient in English and in 1971. Paul W.