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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also finding it really sort of predictably gross that people are assuming non-native English speakers won't be given directions they can understand and appropriate resources if and when this happens with their child.

I know MCPS can suck in terms of its communication, but at our school at least, there is a tremendous amount of energy put into walking folks through things like this. Not to mention that, for example, Latino vaccination rates are the highest of all groups in MoCo. Lots of immigrants are MORE concerned about public health and more compliant than the typical DCUM demographic.

But I often find rich white folks use inaccurate caricatures of poor people and/or people of color to hide their own personal objections behind.[/quote]

Well I find it predictably unfair to read it this way. I work at a school and I love the children and families I work with but it’s absolutely true that parents who are brand new to this country take a whole lot longer to fill out forms and follow bureaucratic directions than people who grew up in the American system. Yes, the district will try hard to make all this understandable. But it’s totally to be expected that this could cause delays in communication and testing.[/quote]

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