Reply to Atlantic Article on Rolling Terrace and Outsized Role of Affluent White Parents

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Atlantic Article on Rolling Terrace and Outsized Role of Affluent White Parents"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have to admit that this is right in the sweet spot of things I find fascinating - gentrification, education policy, and how language immersion programs have been co-opted by White families.

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/07/how-marginalized-families-are-pushed-out-of-ptas/491036/

[i]When schools are cash-strapped, the priorities of the members of the parent organization often become the priorities of the school as a whole. Rivera-Blanco says she sees this dynamic play out often at Rolling Terrace with the Spanish-immersion program, which is populated largely by students with means. For example, parents of kids in the program ensure that its teachers receive gift cards at the beginning of the year and during Teacher Appreciation Week to pay for supplies. “There are parents in our school that can’t put enough cents together to get a coat much less give their teacher their supply list,” Rivera-Blanco said. “That imbalance is huge. You can walk into a classroom and know which is a Spanish-immersion classroom and which one isn’t.”[/i][/quote]

Maybe Rivera-Blanco needs to worry about working and saving for her own family and stop looking at all those that make more than her.  She is probably lucky to be in this country. Getting a free education, break breakfast, free lunch, and free english lessons for her kids just aren't enough I guess.   :roll:

I am so sick of the FARMS and ESOL complaints.  Each one of their kids costs more to teach than the affluent kids and most don't go into the few selected programs offered.  Be lucky there are still affluent families left in Montgomery County who pay the ridiculous taxes to supply all these programs to the ever increasing poor (and many illegal) immigrant population.

If we get rid of immersion and magnets, let's get rid of ESOL and FARMS too.  See how that goes over.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics