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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
Agree. I work at a high FARMS school where the PTA president refuses to spend PTA money on interpreters to attend the PTA meetings, which essentially keeps the Spanish speaking majority away from participating in the PTA. When we looked closely at the budget and expenses, we saw that the amount of money spent on book fair decorations would pay for the interpreter for the whole year but the president still wouldn't budge. They said that if a staff member would volunteer their time to interpret then they would be ok with it. Staff members ended up finding high school students needing SSL hours. The PTA serves the interests of the English speaking UMC minority, and not the majority of the school's population.

The PTA President doesn't get to make all the decisions. Even the Board doesn't get to make all decisions. Votes should be open to members at meetings to vote on budget items. Anyone can propose an amendment on the floor for a public vote. Get more involved in your PTA and more educated on how PTA is *supposed* to work, then you can effect change. If there is an issue with the PTA board at your local school, go to your Cluster Coordinator or Area VP for support. Contact the MCCPTA if you don't know who your cluster coordinator or Area VP are. [/quote]

I suggest you read the article. You can't expect poor, non-English speaking parents who barely have a high school education if that to walk into a PTA meeting and take on the 4-5 mothers with advanced degrees who are controlling everything by calling for a floor vote and an amendment to get interpreters. The point of the article is that the low income parents are intimidated by them and have neither the time nor debate skills to prevail. [/quote]

I’m sorry. You don’t give immigrants enough credit. They traveled half way around the world, sometimes in harrowing conditions, without much money and safety net and built a life in a country where they don’t speak the language

Those PTA SAHMs would wet their pants if dropped into the home countries of these immigrants. [/quote]

Not hardly! I would simply check into their best hotel, book a plane ticket home and maybe pay for a couple high priced call girls while enjoying a fine dinner. If I got in over my head I would call the Consulate. And if something did happen to me it would make national news. Are you starting to see the difference. You over estimate those immigrants, going without food and a bath for weeks at a time doesn’t make you impressive, it makes you vulnerable

But I would never send my kids to the silver spring schools in the OP so I am not exactly the same as those parents. [/quote]

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