Thursday, May 12, 2022

‘They Tried to Shame Us’: Germantown Family Urges MCPS to Sensitize Staff to African Students

A Gaithersburg mother, whose son recently moved to this area from Uganda, said the seven-year-old barely speaks in school anymore and is regressing educationally. She says that’s because Montgomery County Public Schools insisted he attend his closest school, a two-way language immersion school.

Christian Okalebo speaks English and Luganda but not Spanish, which is spoken half the day at Brown Station Elementary School. His parents asked to have him enrolled at the nearby Diamond Elementary School...

https://www.mymcmedia.org/they-tried-to-shame-us-germantown-family-urges-mcps-to-sensitize-staff-to-african-students/

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  1. AnonymousMay 13, 2022 at 4:06 PM

    "To continue in English press one"
    "Para continuar en Español oprima dos"

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  2. AnonymousJuly 15, 2022 at 5:29 PM

    The American parent surely didn't know where she lived would determine where the son would go to school? I am an African immigrant myself and this is something I learned and my housing decisions were based on that.

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