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Educational Leadership:Educating for Diversity:Why Some Parents Don't Come to School - 0 views

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shared by erika webb on 04 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • From talking with Latino parents and parents in two low-income Anglo neighborhoods, we have gained insights about why they feel disenfranchised from school settings. In order to include such parents in the educational conversation, we need to understand the barriers to their involvement from their vantage point, as that of outsiders. When asked, these parents had many suggestions that may help educators re-envision family involvement in the schools.
  • What most people don't understand about the Hispanic community is that you come home and you take care of your husband and your family first. Then if there's time you can go out to your meetings.
  • Diverse linguistic and cultural practices. Parents who don't speak fluent English often feel inadequate in school contexts. One parent explains that “an extreme language barrier” prevented her own mother from ever going to anything at the school. Cultural mismatches can occur as often as linguistic conflicts. One Latino educator explained that asking young children to translate for their parents during conferences grates against a cultural norm. Placing children in a position of equal status with adults creates dysfunction within the family hierarchy.
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  • Whether it is for social, cultural, linguistic, or economic reasons, these parents' voices are rarely heard at school. Perhaps, as educators, we too readily categorize them as “those other parents” and fail to hear the concern that permeates such conversations. Because the experiences of these families vary greatly from our own, we operate on assumptions that interfere with our best intentions. What can be done to address the widening gap between parents who participate and those who don't?
  • erika webb on 04 Mar 11
     
    This article gives various reasons why Hispanics may not paricipate in community and school events. Reasons vary from cultural, linguisitic or economic barriers.
  • erika webb on 04 Mar 11
     
    Here is an article I found that helps explain some reasons why Hispanics do not participate in community forums, etc, at the same rate as blacks and whites.
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