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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found this story pretty interesting. It talks about some of the cultural clashes and pitfalls when a school begins to gentrify in DC or there is a wide disparity in experiences and expectations about school. It describes what happens when new to DC (usually white families) clash with native Washingtonians. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/as-cities-gentrify-and-schools-diversify-ptos-grapple-to-ensure-all-parent-voices-are-heard/2019/09/20/50314488-7277-11e9-8be0-ca575670e91c_story.html

It features Kindred, a nonprofit founded by Laura Phelan, that is going into PTA/PTOs to get parents within a school community to talk, share and hopefully find ways to collaborate. It says that they are in 12 schools, including YY, Bancroft.

One anecdote stood out to me -- that many black parents see school leadership as authority figures and they perceive white parents as coming in and making demands and not respecting the administrators.

Did anyone else read this? Is your school working with Kindred? Do you see this dynamic at your children's schools?[/quote]

THIS is YY's biggest problem? Not enough AA parents these days?

How about the actual problem of the school enrolling no more than a handful (literally) of students who mainly speak Chinese at home? How about the fact that great majority of YY students hardly speak Chinese after 7 or 8 years of 50% immersion in the program?

As a native Mandarin speaker, I hear the two dozen upper grades YY students around the neighborhood I've known for years speaking at roughly the same level as my PreK4 kid.

Ludicrous.  I've posted this comment on the Post comments. [/quote]

It's a joke to pat yourselves on the back for having Kindred when you have basically zero at-risk kids of any color.  Charters shouldn't be allowed to do that.[/quote]

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