Reply to Atlantic Article on Rolling Terrace and Outsized Role of Affluent White Parents

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Atlantic Article on Rolling Terrace and Outsized Role of Affluent White Parents"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have to admit that this is right in the sweet spot of things I find fascinating - gentrification, education policy, and how language immersion programs have been co-opted by White families.

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/07/how-marginalized-families-are-pushed-out-of-ptas/491036/

[i]When schools are cash-strapped, the priorities of the members of the parent organization often become the priorities of the school as a whole. Rivera-Blanco says she sees this dynamic play out often at Rolling Terrace with the Spanish-immersion program, which is populated largely by students with means. For example, parents of kids in the program ensure that its teachers receive gift cards at the beginning of the year and during Teacher Appreciation Week to pay for supplies. “There are parents in our school that can’t put enough cents together to get a coat much less give their teacher their supply list,” Rivera-Blanco said. “That imbalance is huge. You can walk into a classroom and know which is a Spanish-immersion classroom and which one isn’t.”[/i][/quote]

Our kid is in immersion at RT and never heard of  parents providing gift cards for supplies at the beginning of the year or teacher appreciation week....[/quote]

My child is also in the immersion program at RT and I remember seeing the call for teacher appreciation gift cards. I gave teachers gift cards directly and not through the PTA.[/quote]

That's completely different.  Sure, typically parents chip in mainly to give a teacher an end of the year gift.  But in none of our classes over the years has there been a push to give a gift card during teacher appreciation week and certainly not to buy supplies during that time or the beginning of the year.  When a gift card has been given either by us individually or as a class its been for the teacher own personal use.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics