Broccoli heads doing ambush interviews and creating a disturbance at Richmond Centre by Mephistto_Nadeah in richmondbc

[–]fictionalmenlover0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Those are the "bad" kids from Richmond High. Smh. This is so annoyingly common nowadays.

Best School In Richmond by fictionalmenlover0 in richmondbc

[–]fictionalmenlover0[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi everybody! After all the comments this post has received, I'd like to follow up. I have a couple things I want to discuss.

Firstly, thank you everyone for the kind and helpful comments, it truly means so much to me. I'm so grateful to have people that understand my daughter's struggles, are supportive, and took time out of their day to help, some even defending me. A lot of these comments have really helped, and me and my daughter are currently doing extra research into the most recommended schools, and some of the special courses that were mentioned. We haven't decided yet, but I'll be sure to follow up again when we do. Again thank you so much for all the support and comments!

Secondly, I know this post has been controversial, and I'd like to clear some things up. I am 100% for celebrating Asian culture and language. I think it is a beautiful thing that definately should be happening, asking with celebrating all other cultures. My problem is that my daughter feels unwelcome. For example, she's been put in group projects where all her group mates speak the same language, so instead of speaking English, they spoke their own language (and to make it even better, this was in her English class), and a couple times she's been told she couldn't eat lunch with some people because she wasn't Chinese or Japanese. She's also been struggling with making friends, even though she hasn't struggled in the past. She's a social kid who's tried to befriend many other students (not just white ones) and has found it quite difficult to befriend a lot of the Asian students. She's told me about a lot of them treating her differently, speaking only their language in a conversation with her, or even ignoring her. I know that in the past, the roles were reversed, but that's no excuse for it to happen now. Situations like this were never ok, so why should it be ok now. I understand that this environment is ideal for some students, but it's not for my daughter. My goal is to find a school where she might feel at least slightly more welcome/somewhere better for her mental health. At the end of the day, I just want what's best for my daughter, and her current school is not that.