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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another comment re: Hispanic. DS's friend was a national "Hispanic Scholar". Did not speak spanish, had not lived anywhere other than Fairfax County, no hardship, went to an Ivy.[/quote]

It's amusing when the students that speak Spanish at home take Spanish as their foreign language and do worse than the kids who have never been exposed to the Spanish language prior.  [/quote]

It should not be “amusing” to you it’s because many many Spanish teachers are actually white women who travelled a little and majored in Spanish in college and probably harbor some deep seaded racism themselves.  My white American mutt kid who is raised by her Hispanic stepfather and speaks Spanish at home and feels affinity with the Hispanic people - just dropped her Spanish 3 course through Virtual Virginia the teachers Spanish was *terrible*. She made numerous mistakes and when I helped DD bring them to the teachers attention because she was marked down on a quiz she was accused of cheating even though she was drawing on knowledge from her life and home [/quote]

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