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Reply to "Parent Engagement at Gentrifying Schools - WaPo feature story"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The story was a great read. I am sort of a mash-up of both here - I'm UMC black and technically a gentrifier married to a Native Washingtonian. I also attended public school growing up that had some of the same dynamics. I tend to think that white people are using to getting what they want, which makes them comfy asking for whatever they want. They don't "see" barriers because barriers just don't typically exist for them in the same ways. [/quote] I thought the line about how white people aren't afraid to draw attention to themselves in a bureaucracy was very insightful! After having run into my own issues with the school bureaucracy, I find myself basically in the "lay low" mode. Meanwhile other white parents have no issue agitating to get rid of Yoplait in aftercare or whatever. [/quote]
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