Can I (a non-Asian) attend the Asian Pacific American Parent Engagement Night ?

[Anonymous]

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You know MCPS has such event for African American community twice a year for years?
This is the first time MCPS having this event for Asian community.
What do you mean by "focus on Chinese"? This is an event for Asian American community, not Chinese community.
MCPS indeed has been making some efforts focusing on Asian American community. [b]MCPS is focusing on reducing the Asian American student admitted by GT/Magnet program to eliminate the "racial disparity" and close the achievement gap.[/b]
But it's OK. Asian parent are very quiet about this.
MCPS can keep doing what they want and make more aggressive policies.
Asian American has incredible tolerance.

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If you have evidence to support this assertion, you should sue. Of course, if you don't have any evidence to support this assertion, you shouldn't sue. Wasn't there going to be a lawsuit?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think anyone is welcome. We don't discriminate. You will have to sit through interpreters and such but you will be welcomed.
- Asian American.

MCPS certainly doesn't discriminate. Treats parents of all colors as if they don't matter.

Was there any discussion about the sexual abuse in MCPS at this meeting, or did they just pretend it doesn't happen?

Then why such focus on Chinese as if rest of world does not exist.

Non Chinese person here... I don't feel this way at all. But, I do realize that MCPS has a large Chinese and Hispanic population, and some of those parents aren't comfortable with speaking up in their broken English in front of lots of white people. They also may have specific interests that they want covered. Most of the MCPS forums to the public are attended by white parents, so I can understand why MCPS wouldn't necessarily need to have a separate forum for "white" parents.

I will say that I find a lot of their meetings to be useless. I went to the cluster meeting where the BOE attended, and where the meeting was supposed to be about this specific cluster, yet they couldn't provide any real data points or issues specific to the cluster. Waste of time. Never will go to one again.

Umm, we are European American. Let's not describe by color of skin. We have not talked about brown parents, or yellow parents, or black parents, etc. I would like to see MCPS prove they are not discriminatory and hold a session for European American parents. I am of Irish and Swedish decent. MCPS, throw out your political correctness and stop discriminating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Umm, we are European American. Let's not describe by color of skin. We have not talked about brown parents, or yellow parents, or black parents, etc. I would like to see MCPS prove they are not discriminatory and hold a session for European American parents. I am of Irish and Swedish decent. MCPS, throw out your political correctness and stop discriminating.

Sure! Organize one, then invite MCPS.