Reply #12: Well, partly...they don't think they'll get anything better. [View All]

[CTyankee]

It is also a "power play." Us against them.

Here's the background: this school was nearly fated for closing due to lack of enrollment. The school got entreaties from some German parents in the city wanting a German immersion class for their kids. The concept was expanded to include Spanish and Italian (my grandson is in the Italian class), attracting in parents who just wanted their kids to become bi-lingual. This brought in a whole new group of kids and their parents. The original parents were primarily Hispanic. They didn't care too much for the changes that the "new" parents were bringing in. They even wrangled with the Spanish speaking parents of the Spanish class (they weren't from the same countries as the original parents group and thought they were stuck up. Also the original parents wanted English only for their kids, which they also had). It got into a kind of "we were here first!" type of argument...