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Originally Posted by alum
...families with fewer financial resources are more reluctant to fight with a school administrator than those families who have more resources or who are US-born citizens.
I believe that many immigrants at Eagle View ES would hesitate to confront Mrs. Tistadt if she was rude to their kids or to them. She would be able to get away with a certain amount of disrespect towards the students and their parents because there would be no complaints.
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Sorry for cutting down your post, but I wanted to highlight this. I think that poorer or less-educated families, especially if they are New Americans, respect teachers' authority so much that they wouldn't even think of questioning a teacher's decision unless it was blaringly wrong. It's not even that the parents are reluctant to complain--it just wouldn't even come up.
Meanwhile, in an affluent school, the parents and students may see the teachers as just another service provider. Yeah, they're professionals--but so are the vast majority of the parents at the school. Just like how you'd voice your complaints about a bad plumbing job, upper middle-class American parents are more willing to complain about a teacher's actions.
FWIW, I think this woman is nutz.