CROSS-CULTURAL CONFLICTS: SEARCHING FOR A SOLUTION ...

CROSS-CULTURAL CONFLICTS: SEARCHING FOR A SOLUTION

Latino and African American parents are each blaming the other's group for their children's poor performance in school. At recent public events, tempers have flared and accusations have been exchanged. Some parents are afraid that worse things might happen at the school. The African American parents feel that the non-English speaking students are taking the teachers' time away from their children, as a result of which their children are not learning. The Latino parents feel that the teachers are too busy offering risk prevention activities to the African American children, depriving their children of adequate attention. A community organization was asked by the Latino parents to do something about the problem. The community builder, who was Latino, collected information about all the students' performance in an effort to resolve the conflict.

Find some strategies of how you could have resolved the above conflict. In an attempt to resolve the conflict, what do you think was done wrong from the very beginning?

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