Bridging can feel threatening to immigrant parents, however. Recently arrived immigrant parents have reported retaining aspects of the home culture as a protective mechanism, perceiving a correlation between loss of home culture and negative social and educational outcomes for youth. Other studies have documented the ways in which immigrant families make explicit efforts to shape their children’s experiences in U.S. schools. Trueba (1998) found that Mexican families did not hesitate to send youth back to their countries of origin if their educational (and behavioral) trajectories were taking a turn that parents found unacceptable. – Doucet (2011)

The article tile captures my attention in terms of immigrant parents. I am student teaching in a local public high school in Brooklyn now. All my 34 students are immigrants from China or South American countries. Technically, some of them are not immigrants based on the definition of immigrant because they were born in the United States. For example, in Brooklyn China town, you can see one of categories on immigrant advertisements is sending kids back to China. This market demand comes from many different backgrounds. Some parents are working class, which they don’t have time to take care kids at pre-schooling age nor be able to hire nanny taking care kids. Some students confessed to me that the reason they were back to China was parents’ or/and grandparents’ decision because they do not want kids forgetting where they come from and the culture and the language. Therefore, being back to home origin is the best way to cultivate the senses.

Moreover, parenting skills and schooling styles are very distinct from culture to cultures. On the paper, the author mentioned about police intervention into punishment regulation. Therefore, parents lose their authority at home. That reminds me the punishment in school in Taiwan. Although laws explicitly assert teachers cannot adopt physical punishment at school, there was still a lot punishment in school especially when I was little. In middle school, I was in an “academic” class, which all suspended and problematic kids were in that class. The teacher requested all parents to sign physical punishment agreement consent in order to keep their kids in the class. The teacher explicitly listed all conditions when the punishment was given. On the contrary, the class became more and more well-behaved after time and all of us got graduation certificates. Just as what the article claimed “close links between home and school should be the goal of both teachers and families.” I am not supporting to the strategies of punishment, but strengthened my ideas that teachers and families should cooperate together as long as meeting consistent home and school standards and expectations that both sides agree with.