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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see a difference between what the "nice white parents" did, and how the author decided that the Mom from Puerto Rico should have been offended/stood up for herself when the older woman was yammering on about speaking two languages at the French party.  "Poor people don't know when they are being mocked or insulted and I'm here to tell them."  It's the same Savior Complex over and over.  The nerve.  [/quote]

I did not hear that section that way. Aimee, the PTA president, had previously remarked that she kept quiet and seethed quietly/at home with her husband later instead of speaking out during PTA meetings. This was another situation in which she did not feel that her perspective would be heard (whether she was correct in that assumption or not), and instead, a white person was talking over her, not respecting her position or experience.

The podcast is obviously created to tell a certain story, but as a white woman who was the PTA president of a majority minority elementary school who had many conversations with prospective parents about their discomfort sending their child to a school with a low test scores and a lot of low income kids they perceived to have "behavior problems" or "parents who weren't invested in education", absolutely nothing I've heard on the podcast so far rings false. I was told, repeatedly, that they were supportive of public education in general, but that the district didn't do enough to make its programs appeal to "middle class people" whose children are "academically gifted." The general feeling was that the school was good enough for the Black and Latino kids who attended the school, but not good enough for the white kids with "middle class parents who were actively invested in their education."

If you find yourself getting defensive about something you heard on this podcast, you should examine why you feel that way. [/quote]

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