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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right, go ahead and be pissed about this, OP, because clearly Latino parents have SO MANY advantages and special deals that you are cut out of.

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PP again.  Okay, this is my last post in a row, I promise!

This right here if what I find offensive.  As if ALL Latino parents are somehow 'disadvantaged'?  Just because we're Latino, you assume we're disadvantaged?  Where is the Asian parents meeting then?  Or, the White parent meeting?  If it's to address the 'needs of the community', then there should be one for all the different communities.

I'm done ranting (for now).   :)  [/quote]D
21:20 here I understand where you are coming from.
As  an AA, I get the sensitivity about how people view toy and assume things about you.
But I need to make it very clear that I was speaking about what took plAce at my school.
I was also made a point to say SOME and MAY because common  sense would dictate that not every Latino person has the same needs.
At my school there is as the Latino population.
Within that populAtionTe those who have need of and a bail themselves of the groupsime OP mentions.
If there were a large population of Vietnamese speaking filies who expressed Amex and desire for such a group more power to them.8? [/quote]
OMG! My phone went nuts!
I meant to say:
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right, go ahead and be pissed about this, OP, because clearly Latino parents have SO MANY advantages and special deals that you are cut out of.

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PP again.  Okay, this is my last post in a row, I promise!

I'm done ranting (for now).   :)  [/quote]
21:20 here I understand where you are coming from.
As  an AA, I get the sensitivity about how people view you and assume things about you.
But I need to make it very clear that I was speaking about what took plAce at my school.
I was also made a point to say SOME and MAY because common  sense would dictate that not every Latino person has the same needs.
At my school there is a large  Latino population.
Within that population  those who have need of and a desire to, avail themselves of the groups OP mentions.
If there were a large population of Vietnamese speaking filies who expressed Amex and desire for such a group more power to them.[/quote][/quote]

I'm the PP you quoted.  And, I am not 19:50, though I agree mostly with the sentiment in that post.

I understand what you're saying PP, and can see how having a 'Hispanic Parent' Meeting can be somehow, convulutedly (sp?) be considered well-intentioned.  And, you're right.  I might be overly sensitive about how we (especially, my kids) are viewed and how people do make assumptions about us based on race.

We're at a very diverse public MoCo school.  The ES does NOT have a 'Hispanic Parent' group, but the MS does.

What bothers me most is that by simply having this association, it implies the following assumptions:

1)  Hispanic parents would prefer or would benefit from meeting up with/socializing with other Hispanic parents.  
Again, our school is very diverse and I have made great friends of various races.  I have hit it off with some Hispanic parents, but have also hit it off with some Asian and AA parents.  The separate 'Hispanic' group seems almost like segregation.

2)  Hispanic parents need 'extra' services.  
There is no Asian parent / White parent group at our MS.  It's as if it's assumed that those parents/students will be fine.  It seems to me, to subliminally send a message to other parents that Hispanic parents are all somehow 'disadvantaged'.

3)  All Hispanic parents are the same and should be lumped together as one group.
Hispanic can describe a college-educated parent, or an undocumented worker, or a Fed employee, or an attorney, or a physician.  It can describe someone from Columbia, Venezuela, Mexico, Guatemala.  There is a huge diversity amongst Hispanics.  Why would we all be lumped together?

Again, you're probably right that I'm being overly sensitive.  If it's a language issue, then address it as such.  Our school most all its notices home in Spanish and English.  I think that's great so that parents can stay informed.  But, I'm still not sold on the need for a 'separate but equal' Hispanic Parent Committee.[/quote]

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