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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No.  
My problem is not LATINO parents and their children.  I am all for language immersion for my child.

My problem is lower income families. There is nothing good about poverty. Poverty is a curse.  And many children and parents are traumatized because of that. 
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Maybe you can verbalize what exactly you’re afraid of.

Are you afraid your kids will catch The Poverty? Are you afraid your kids will accidentally touch Walmart quality clothing? Or they’ll be invited to a play date at someone’s *gasp* apartment? Poverty isn’t contagious. I’m not sure what your issue is. Unless your issue is just being around poor people.[/quote]

Not the responder, but I can speak as a class parent in a very diverse K program.
When it came to collecting a few bucks for a subscription to education program (think something like Highlights or National Geo Kids), the underprivileged families wouldn't cough up 5 bucks - that's 5 bucks for an entire school year.
I also organized the annual school supplies delivered every year a few days before the start of school. The underprivileged families would not order supply kits and the teachers of those classes basically had to take the kits of the few who did order and spread them around as best they could.
And then there are behavioral issues. In preschool, academics don't matter yet. But as the child ascends in grade level, yes, peers really do matter. The more disruptive a student, the more the teacher's energies are devoted to the disruptive student instead of teaching all the kids who are paying attention and happy to learn.
But even preschool kids are clued into who the disruptive kids are in their classes and don't like it.[/quote]
Maybe homeschool is your speed then. Because my kids go to a not particularly diverse public elementary in an affluent area and...guess what. There are plenty of kids with issues. Disruptive kids. Kids that are not nice. Kids with bad manners. Kids who eat crap and play video games and have ...colorful...vocabularies. That just comes with the territory of raising children in the year 2025. But the children of lawyers and master's degree holders and feds would get the benefit of the doubt from you or "well, there's always some bad apples"...instead of their "issues" being attributed to the fact that their parents don't make a lot of money.

Ick. [/quote]

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