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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=mous]^^This is exactly what I meant when I wrote above aborent involvement.  A few gentrifying parents who are actively involved is not high parent involvement when it appears that the overwhelming jority of the parents are not involved and are separate and apart from these "new" parents.  I want Powell to succeed as well.  Would be great to have a neighborhood school that would really work for my family, but right now that is not happening and I do not want my children to suffer because of it.[/quote]

This is definitely worrisome, as someone who put Powell relatively high. The thing is, I always assumed that parents putting their kids in a bilingual program themselves would speak Spanish and would make an effort to bridge that divide. Maybe that assumption was just flat out wrong.[/quote]

This is not true. There are many involved parents who are not white gentrifiers. The difference is HOW they are involved. The parents who are not gentrifiers are like the SAHM. They do things within the school to take care the children, help out around the school, chaperone field trips, bring dishes for pot lucks, etc. The gentrifiers (i really hate using that word) work outside of the "home" speaking to community leaders and such, drumming up outside support... 
People do what they are most comfortable doing.

So just because the involvement looks different, it doesn't mean it's not there.[/quote]

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