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I volunteer once a week in my daughter's class. It is insane how little time a core group of kids gets and how much time her teacher has to try to communicate with 1/3 of the class.  We are in Rockville and I thought the system was top notch but it is clear my kid is skating thru as an obvious average student.  The concern at every PTA meeting is communication for the Spanish speaking but yet there is never ever one person of Hispanic/Spanish origin at these meetings. We had Hispanic family coffees once a month and even a movie night in Spanish. No turn out at coffee even thoigh form and listserv reminders were in Spanish. Movie night brought in 12 families. Anyway, every PTA meeting us Americans keep talking about finding ways/money to help them and I am so over it. They don't want to be a part.  They are never involved. I want the time and effort to go to my kid sometimes.  In the class and activities. If that is racist then so be it.  [/quote]

Yes, they don't want to be a part OF THE PTA. They are never involved WITH THE COFFEES AND MOVIE NIGHT THE PTA HOLDS FOR THEM. That doesn't mean they don't want to be a part or be involved. It means that they don't want what the PTA is offering. (Note that many "Americans" don't either.)

What do they want? What do they want to be a part of? What do they want to be involved with? There's only one way for "the Americans" in the PTA to find out, and that's to ask them. (And not by holding Hispanic family coffees or movie night in Spanish, either -- you already know those don't work.)[/quote]

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