In this article, I engage critical discourse analysis of in-depth, semistructured interviews with 4 Hmong community leaders to illumine their perspectives on the role of subtractive schooling in the struggles of Hmong students, parents, and the ethnic community as a whole. I reveal their understanding of the exclusionary practices of school that privilege dominant White culture and contribute to children's Hmong language loss, ignorance about the Hmong refugee experience and sacrifices of parents and elders, and disengagement from family cultural obligations. This study significantly contributes to the current research on subtractive schooling.