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Is there an independent school that exposes children to non-European cultures and religions?
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Anonymous
Welcome to the discussion, Tea Partier! |
Anonymous
Agree. As an American, I pretty embarrassed by this thread. I expect comments like these from my hick relatives in the "real America" but not from educated women on DCUM. |
Anonymous
| The odd thing is, it's the posters who say they have lived abroad who think OP is a troll. While those with no international experience who think she's the real deal. |
Anonymous
You can have a degree, heck, have many degrees, and still be very ignorant. |
Anonymous
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Since when does calling out a troll make one an ugly american?
Yeesh. Why don't you offer even a single defense of OP's behavior? A PP asked you to, and pointed out several ways you could explain OP's insults. Yet all we get by way of response is insults from you. Grow up! |
Anonymous
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3:45 again. Just noticed that I said "yeesh" and the poster you called a tea bagger said sheesh.... We're not the same people.
But you do consistently insult people rather than debate them. There's a good chance you're OP, still playing your little game of baiting Americans. I'm embarrassed to be sucked into talking to you. Unless you can surprise us, by offering substance instead of repeating the words "ugly American" over and over like a cheap toy. |
Anonymous
It's just the old "some of my best friends are_____________s (the group I'm about to stereotype disparagingly)" form of argumentation. No need to engage in it when you aren't stereotyping and what's the point really when you're in an anonymous forum and none of these claims are verifiable? It gets really ludicrous when one anonymous poster attributes a particular background to someone who disagrees in an attempt to claim superior wisdom (which is where the "no international experience" claim comes from in this thread. It's not as if anyone said "Well I've never been abroad, but I think OP is legit...") |
Anonymous
| Is there a private school that does not teach the children in English? |
Anonymous
When you simultaneously start telling people to go back to where they came from or to don a burka, or holding forth on the difference between lovely foreigners (whom you meet abroad -- where they belong) and supercilious foreigners (who come here and ask awkward questions). Seriously, how hard is this? |
Anonymous
Lycee Rochambeau and Deutsche Schule, I think. And there are bilingual schools that teach both in English and another language -- e.g. YuYing, WIS, Oyster. Not an exhaustive local list -- just examples. WIS may be the only true private in the bunch. (Rochambeau is a French public school abroad, YuYing is a charter, Oyster is public) |
Anonymous
Talk about putting words into somebody's mouth ... Where did anybody say that "all the lovely foreigners are abroad, and they should stay abroad?" Nobody said that. Please, please, use your superior understanding to explain OP's insults to us. Otherwise, your just another anonymous person insulting other posters and making up stuff about what they posted. |
Anonymous
These have been pointed out to OP. She has said she's not interested in WIS because of the western focus as well as the spanish focus. She has said she doesn't want a focus on western civilization, which would rule out the Lycee Rochambeau and Deutsche Schule. Probably Oyster's spanish focus would rule out Oyster for her. Although Chinese at Yu Ying might be OK, she has said she doesn't want public and, by extension probably, charter publics. She wants a private school which teaches non-western foreign languages and cultures. |
Anonymous
| 8:38 - thanks for the effort. OP has said specifically that Latin America doesn't meet her criteria in her search for a non-western focus. So Oyster is a no-go. She used the word "shocked" to describe her reaction to the idea of using her local public school, so I'm not sure a public charter like Yu Ying would work for her, but we can see if she responds to it. |
Anonymous
| Op has said that any school that spends more than a year on US history is wrong for her, because there just isn't that much there in 200 years (sic) of the US' existence. I'm afraid that Oyster and Yu Ying probably get their US kids to study US history for at least a year. |
Anonymous
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Hmmm, a case of refusing to integrate into the host country. Many European countries are having this debate. DISCUSS, citing where appropriate, Chancellor Merkel, the British Muslim Council, and your own thoughts on the issue....
My personal take is that the reason there is no private school with a focus on her language is that there aren't enough people from her country to support said private school. However, the dearth of persons speaking her language who would support such a private school isn't really because US citizens are "ignorant," as she's posted several times. US schools with a multicultural bent tend to focus on the more widely-spoken foreign languages. |