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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh FFS. Do you want to insist that every parent who enrolls their kid in Reggio Emilia promise to give back to the arts community or only enroll kids who are going to study art through college and beyond? Nobody knows what our PK3 kids are going to be good at or what path our families are going to take. Get over yourselves. [/quote]

That is a nonsense comparison because you’re not relying on a beleaguered and discriminated on arts community to educate your children and integrarte them into your culture. Are you so blind to your privilege and so engrained in your xenophobia and racism that you cant understand that?[/quote]

As a Spanish speaker with kids at an immersion school, I just want to say that this person does not represent my culture and values.  My culture is  warm and welcoming, and we love when people learn our language.  We also know enough about real xenophobia to not call people racists for WANTING THEIR KIDS TO LEARN OUR LANGUAGE.  Xenophobia is the opposite of that, in fact.

All the families at our immersion school are all part of a great community that all contribute to making a great school.  The idea that the English speaking families (who contribute lots of money, time, effort, food, skill, etc.) to the school are somehow taking away from the Spanish speaking community is sad and very off base.  In fact, the English speaking community is much more involved generally than the Spanish speaking families, and getting the Spanish speaking families involved is a big goal of the PTO.

This poster seems sad, confused and bitter.  I actually doubt that she has kids at any immersion school, and she definitely does not represent our community AT ALL.

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