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Home : 2009 : Mar : 23
It's not true that Hispanic parents don't value education. They truly do. I think that some of them had a negative school experience themselves--experienced racism, perhaps--and so are a little uneasy about coming to school. Also, some of the Hispanic parents speak limited English and that makes them feel awkward, I think. And when we run into Hispanic parents who frankly aren't parenting all that well, it's very easy to blame it on "being Mexican" when really, it's just being stupid. Being Mexican has nothing to do with it. I have not-so-great white parents who are easily as stupid as my not-so-great Mexican parents. So I think it's really easy to attribute a lot of stereotypes to Hispanics (or blacks or Asians). Speaking of Asians, we have a lot of those too, and it's not true at all that all Asians are great students with great parents. I could point out to you some SERIOUSLY underachieving Asian students, whose parents we never see, who seem not to be involved. You can be a stupid parent if you're Asian, too, and you can be a terrible student. I think we need to remember that almost all parents do the best they can, often against tremendous odds: poverty, single parenthood, bad neighborhoods.....we can point to good and bad students in any race, good and bad parents too. It's not a race thing, I don't think.
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