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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was at a back-to-school night recently.  Two of DS's teachers are AA, the rest are white.  One of his AA teachers made the greatest impression - she was full of enthusiasm, she'd prepared a slide deck with a lot of pop-ups that conveyed lots of information in the limited time allotted, and she had the parents laughing with her spot-on observations about teenagers.

On the way out, we stopped to briefly introduce ourselves and thank her for some after-school help she'd been providing DS.  As we did so, we overheard another white parents telling the teacher that her presentation had been "very professional."  I kind of froze in my tracks when I heard that.  It sounded incredibly patronizing to me.  I was just waiting for the teacher to respond with something like "well, yeah, I'm a professional, so that's what I do," but of course she just said thanks.

So my question to black teachers is do you still get this all the time from white parents, and does it bother you, or do you just move on and try not to think worse of the kids because some of their parents sound like characters out of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"?[/quote]

Wife is a teacher.  Hear "horror stories" all the time from her about parents who are controlling and condescending and parents who are apathetic and indifferent and everything in between.  
Based on her experiences I would say that believe it or not the slights and snubs and insolence and ignorance expands across all boundaries.
White parents do it as do black parents, Hispanic parents, African parents, Asian parents, Indian parents, white collar parents, blue collar parents, helicopter parents, half-assed parents, single parents, gay parents...the list goes on and on.  
She's seen it all from parents of every race, religion, class, culture, and community and in my estimation it doesn't bother her when a parent of a particular ethnicity acts like an asshole - it bothers her when a parent acts like an asshole period.[/quote]

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