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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's really ridiculous at my Title 1 school. I hope the principal stops them in their tracks. They have no idea what disadvantages some of the kids face. We are a middle class biracial family and are turned off by some of these parents. Gentrification is good, but not when you have parents who don't have a clue or complain about the littlest things.

How are the parents at your Title 1 (up and coming) school?[/quote]

I'm at a Title 1 school EOTP school. There are definitely some differences in style and focus between the gentrifier parents (including myself). I think that it's also a slight difference in parenting priorities due to the ages of the kids in question. The gentrifiers all have kids in PK3 or 4, so they are almost by definition out of touch with the way things work in the upper grades. In PK, kids are pretty much all on the same level (with some obvious differences between kids who are reading early and kids who are delayed in some way), but as kids get older, the differences in academics become more pronounced. The older kids also have legacy behavioral issues that were tolerated by the previous principal that are not tolerated by the new principal, and this has caused some friction between the new administration and the parents of the misbehaving kids.

I don't really see the gentrifiers as being entitled or clueless. They just come from really different backgrounds and, as you said, don't have a clue what some of the kids face outside school. Their complaints seem small when taken in the context of larger issues faced by kids in class, but for them, [b]issues like kids getting yogurt with a lot of added sugar for breakfast or Dora the Explorer being shown in aftercare once a week are really big deals.[/b] Privilege is what it is.[/quote]

to me these are big deals, and are big deals especially for poor kids who rely on school to get their meals and to get their education and safe playing time.  kids from high SES families have likely breakfast at home, are never hungry and eat healthy meals everyday. they are less likely parked in front of the TV at 3, but grow up with educated parents who read to them daily and go to enrichment classes (music, dance, martial art, arts, and whatever else you can think of) since they are babies.  to me, fighting so the school provide kids with healthy breakfast instead of a piece of junk full of sugar (which the school pays anyway, maybe the same they would pay an healthier alternative) and the time at the aftercare is spent doing some meaningful activities instead of being parked before the TV is not a matter of being entitled, is fighting for everybody and especially for the more vulnerable among the kids. a lot of them face a very hard life, but gentrifiers, as they are called here, do not have a magic wand and what they can do is limited. certainly they cannot buy a house for a homeless child.  Title 1 schools are supposed to receive substantial additional funding, which pay for things like meals and aftercare. making sure this money is well spent for the kids is important IMO.   [/quote]

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