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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP  - why not CM? Is it bc the teachers are young? [/quote]

Young teachers.  But more than that I did not like the head of school's answers to my questions about cultural competency.

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This. And I felt like the very young teachers were enthusiastic but felt like the administration was cold and unengaged [/quote]

The administration seemed surprised and cold when Spanish speaking parents came to the orientation.  The parents were left to have their children translate for them.  [b]The school was in Columbia Heights so they should have been prepared for interpretation or made other accommodations.[/b] [/quote]
Are you kidding me? Is Columbia Heights a part of the USA? Then I don't understand why the 'spanish speaking parents' should expect any kind of special accomodation. They moved the the US so they need to learn English and, before you accuse me of racism, I am an immigrant but do not expect anyone to speak Russian to me when I go to school orientation meetings. [/quote]

Totally agree.  The bolded is getting real old. Do we want to change the rest of the US into Miami where US citizens are treated like foreigners in their own country because they can't speak Spanish.[/quote]

Wow!  The responses - if from CM folks - is making my point.  It is my family's preference that a school I send my child to can treat a diversity of students and parents with respect.  I am not telling you what kind of environment you should want for your child.  [/quote]

You are responding to me.  I am not a CM parent.  Have no interest in the school.  My post was about the overall atmosphere that we are getting to a place that if you cannot speak Spanish or accommodate, as you state, Spanish in the USA, something is inherently wrong.  Why?  If I move to Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, Honduras, etc I would have to learn the language without accomodations.  I don't know if you have lived in Miami, but it is difficult for a non-college educated person to obtain decent employment.  In some areas, it is difficult for college edcuated kids to obtain first employment without Spanish language background.  Why are they treated like second-class citizens because they cannot speak Spanish?  That's what your initial post advocates for a future DC.  [/quote]

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