What's this about protests at Mundo Verde?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So was it gender inferiority our failure to recognize academic needs? Whatever. This whole thing says more about parents' issues than MV.

Just out of morbid curiosity, where are these people from? Did they really think it was a good idea to disrupt the entire class of first graders after just a few weeks?

I don't like to "judge a book by its cover" - I don't like to assume the nationality/ethnicity of people. I never heard the father speak a single word. The mother speaks English without any detected accent. They both appeared to be caucasian Americans. AGAIN, I don't like to assume, but if I were to make an educated guess, this is what I would say.

[Anonymous]

What was the crux of the parents' complaint? Did they want their daughter transferred to another class, and the school refused, opting to try and resolve the matter with no class transfer? (If so, I side with the school.)

[Anonymous]

Were the signs in Spanish? Or were the parents engaging in linguistic intimidation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Were the signs in Spanish? Or were the parents engaging in linguistic intimidation?

All sings were in English.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were the signs in Spanish? Or were the parents engaging in linguistic intimidation?

All sings were in English.

Sorry, "signs" not "sings" obviously.

[Anonymous]

I know nothing about the facts and am not a MV parent but in reading the reviews I feel compelled to post. Bullying that is severe can happen, even among very young children. And if you are a parent of a child suffering persistent bullying, it is perfectly reasonable to expect a school to deviate from a standard poicy in order to address it. So in other words, even if MV genera;;y doesn't move kids midyear, they might need to in cases of severe bullying.

[Anonymous]

I don't have any association with MV. My completely unbiased opinion of this story is that these are the sort of parents that - 20 years from now - will have "Mommie Dearest" books written about them.

The desire to "make a point" at the expense of your child's privacy, self-respect, and general sense-of-self is terrifying. Some people really shouldn't be parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't have any association with MV. My completely unbiased opinion of this story is that these are the sort of parents that - 20 years from now - will have "Mommie Dearest" books written about them.

The desire to "make a point" at the expense of your child's privacy, self-respect, and general sense-of-self is terrifying. Some people really shouldn't be parents.

+1. I admit it is difficult to judge without having all the facts (no MV parent here), but it is hard to imagine a situation where I would put a sign around my 7 year old child and "encourage" her to stand outside of her school. If I thought the school did something outrageous to my child, I would take action against the school, maybe even put the sign around my neck and stand there alone, but I would never ever put my daughter through that.

teaching a child to stand her ground and putting her through a public humiliation are two different things, especially when the child is only 6 or 7 (maybe at 16 or 17 it would be different).