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The article presents information on the community education in reference to the migrations in the New York City. In the immigrant communities, composed of foreign-born parents and American-born children, the most critical period in the life of the family is that in which the children reach adolescence and on through the adolescent period. This is the high-school age. It is the age when the so-called American idea of living one's own life, which the immigrant-born children have absorbed from their American environment, begins to dash with the European idea of family solidarity, of obedience, of respect for elders, and of subservience to family needs and requirements. The real educational problem lies in the emotional conflicts that are particularly tormenting to the boy or girl whose parents still have both feet planted firmly and deeply in centuries of European tradition and custom. With these established traditions and customs, the younger generation is often in conflict. There is often a feeling of scorn and shame in the children of the foreign born because of the pressure of adverse opinion from without their own racial group. This often produces an anti-social attitude that is dangerous to the boy and dangerous for the community.