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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]
My kid goes to Sela, so STFU. [/quote]

So it’s cool to use immigrants for your purposes and do nothing in return?

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How, specifically, does a child being in a publically available immersion program exploit immigrants?  But if that's your position, fine.  We entered a lottery and got in.   Sorry that upsets you.  Should we have declined the spot instead?  It seems like your beef should be with the system that sets this up.  I think you are assuming too much about me and others in the program without knowing anything about us as individuals and showing a lot of ire towards those who are taking steps to be more world aware.

But in the end yeah, we're pretty psyched our kid is learning Spanish at such a young age.  Wish I had the opportunity.  Go us![/quote]

Don’t bother trying to get this PP to explain how the exploitation happens. This guy has been trolling the language immersion threads for a long time.

Unless teachers of the target language (or teachers who are immigrants) are being paid less than other teachers, or are otherwise discriminated against in their employment, “exploitation” is not the right term to use. Instead, language immersion schools not only provide educational opportunities to students, but also provide professional opportunities to teachers who are native in the target language. These teachers provide teaching services in the classroom and are not expected to “integrate” students into their culture (as if that were even possible). Immigrant communities may in fact be “beleaguered and discriminated [against],” but if you are blaming language immersion schools for that, you are barking up the wrong tree.[/quote]

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