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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many posters on here are dismissing rational and deep concerns that the parents in the arts program are expressing. What you aren't hearing is that they value a more structured, English-proficiency based education for specific reasons. These are a different set of values and equally worthy. I'm cringing at the "white-splaining" going on here. Just for the record, I'm high-SES, married, educated and still find the inability of the DL proponents here tone-deaf.[/quote]

+1 cringeworthy[/quote]

agreed. you can want dual language without calling the people who don't want it dumb.
I don't think it's a coincidence that there are a ton of people calling out an African American single mom for not wanting her only guaranteed option to be immersion.
Plenty of rich white folk choose CMI or IT or 2R over Tyler or Houston DL and nobody's calling them out on that.[/quote]

Note that the one PP who most explicitly did that identified as non-white. I guess she thinks that gives her license to be condescending. Don’t pin the nastiness on white people.[/quote]

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