Hi Irene!
Thanks for your response, I really agree with your point about how much blame is always placed on the individual and not enough on the systems of oppression against multilingual students. This made me connect to previous weeks’ texts on how these systems often see multilingualism or the children's home languages as a barrier for multilingual learners with disabilities and deprived from their home language. Ultimately, this ends up marginalizing these students more. This brings up your other point about how we should understand these students and mothers in how these systems affect them and how much this also impacts what kind of programs are offered for mothers to support their children in their education. These support systems are flawed by design because it disregards the complex lived experiences of these mothers and also their cultural understanding of involvement varies more than the standard white monoglossic lens being placed in these programs.
Thanks for your response, I really agree with your point about how much blame is always placed on the individual and not enough on the systems of oppression against multilingual students. This made me connect to previous weeks’ texts on how these systems often see multilingualism or the children's home languages as a barrier for multilingual learners with disabilities and deprived from their home language. Ultimately, this ends up marginalizing these students more. This brings up your other point about how we should understand these students and mothers in how these systems affect them and how much this also impacts what kind of programs are offered for mothers to support their children in their education. These support systems are flawed by design because it disregards the complex lived experiences of these mothers and also their cultural understanding of involvement varies more than the standard white monoglossic lens being placed in these programs.