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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been that mom.
Always provided interpretation yet participation was low. I choose to think it is because they can’t, not won’t.
Advocated for my child, yes, but kept being told that teachers don’t have resources to really differentiate (except if a kid is really gifted and willing to do extra work after having done what is busywork for them). 
My kid finally lotteried into a middle class school recently and I am so happy.
I have come to think that the needs and wants of UMC and farms/ESOL are almost the opposites. They are so different that it is impossible to cater to both groups in the same school unless they are separate groups maybe (tracking).

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PTA is a lot about fulfilling the wants, the extra stuff in a more affluent school. In higher farms schools it’s about fulfilling the needs. When you have a mixed population one group is gonna get the short end of the stick. Same thing with the classrooms, high performers and low performers have very different needs and they cannot equally be fulfilled. Diversity is good thing but how do we handle these issues? [/quote]

Yes this is how it was at our school.
All our commitments were appreciated, but my kid didn’t get grouped with other high performing kids, for example. Also very few afterschool activities because too many just couldn’t or wouldn’t pay, and because who would organize it?
I had to ask for challenging work- one teacher agreed, another hinted my kid was not advanced enough. FYI when he transferred to the new school I was told how good he was at math. The old teacher was too overwhelmed to care. [/quote]

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