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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“ I'm curious as to what kind of policies she'd recommend at the end of this.”

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I liked both episodes but the message did kind of make me wonder “so what are you saying SHOULD happen?”  In one she rails against parents that decided not to send their kids to a certain public school after lobbying for its location (yeah, I get that). In the other she is focusing on shaming parents that opted into that public school but are spending time and money trying to create a program They want there (that would be open to any kids from the school). [/quote]

Just to add though that the program — French immersion — was not the choice of the original community. They were never engaged in the decision. Had they had a voice they may have wanted Spanish or Arabic based on their population.

I’ll add that both the parents and perhaps most shockingly [b]the kids had a sense of white saviorism — the school was only good when they got there[/b].[/quote]

That's what stood out to me. Kids are being taught this. They are being taught at home that they are better and only what they want -in this case French Immersion- matters.[/quote]

Ok.  But isn't this exactly what we are doing on this thread?  
We kind of buy into the premise that only white parents are better, can fix problems, and only what white kids and parents want matters.  The problem is that THESE parents wanted the wrong things.  If the parents in this story had only wanted equality instead of French-immersion...[/quote]

Educational policy in the coming years will be less about white saviourism and more about trying to level the playing field by systematically depriving white and Asian students of whatever advantages they may currently enjoy in the public schools by slashing resources and programs for the majority white and Asian schools to a point where those parents would be just as happy to be reassigned to a majority ESOL/FARMS school.  It is a not very subtle attempt to narrow the gap by bringing down the top.

Unfortunately (or, fortunately, depending on your perspective), many of those parents will shift their kids to privates, try to break away from existing school systems, replace the School Boards, and of all else fails relocate to less “progressive” systems. Altruism only goes so far when it comes to parents and their children’s education.[/quote]

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