New principal will lead with equity

[Anonymous]

Our high school will be getting a new principal. One of the requirements is to appoint a principal who will lead with equity. What does that mean?

[Anonymous]

Nothing, it means nothing

[Anonymous]

It means they won’t be white, they will push DIE agenda, they’ll focus on “equity “ not education

[Anonymous]

Who knows what it means.
Equity should mean all students getting a good education but it really seems to mean zero consequences for students.

[Anonymous]

"Equity is the commitment to ensure that every student and staff member, without regard to their actual or perceived personal characteristics, is given the individual challenges, support, and opportunities to exceed a rigorous common standard in order to be prepared for academic and career success"

--MCPS definition of equity

[Anonymous]

A principal who leads with "equity" will waste time and money promoting things like: •Preferential treatment and special privileges for certain groups based on race, gender, or other attributes. This discriminates against more qualified individuals. •Revising curriculum to push progressive propaganda and a "social justice" agenda. They'll cut out important lessons from history and replace them with politically correct nonsense. • Policies like "safe spaces," "trigger warnings," and speech codes that coddle students and restrict free expression. •Forcing teachers to undergo "sensitivity training" and "implicit bias" testing - it's just a way to bully educators into promoting a left-wing ideological agenda.

[Anonymous]

Based my principals comments during the equity training days, it basically not being accused of any racism. He said he had been called racist 16 times in the last two months by parents/students. Honestly, it makes me wonder how people define and use the word.

[Anonymous]

It means that the education will be equally bad for everyone I guess.

[Anonymous]

Most people are sympathetic to efforts to boost performance of struggling students, but the evidence shows that is not the actual effect of MCPS "equity" efforts. In fact, "equity" has hollowed out the education in MCPS and thus continues to hurt all the students. MCPS is a Potemkin village, and is in dire need of an audit to determine whether it is actually educating students as it says it is.

A few examples of how "equity" manifests in MCPS schools in practice:
-Elimination of honors classes (or rebranding grade-level class as honors as in the case of middle school English).
-Lowering the level of instruction to the lowest common denominator
-50% rule for assignments
-Exclusion of students from schools with large number of gifted students from admission to gifted magnet programs
-Lowering academic standards (including but not limited to grade inflation).
-Restorative Justice/lowering standards of discipline, removing consequences for offenders and placing the burden of offenses on victims (and students wanting to learn)
-Closing of alternative schools and mainstreaming students with significant behavior problems in regular classes
-Replacing challenging classic novels with contemporary "flavor of the month" books (or graphic novels) at markedly lower reading level
-Novels featuring communists or socialists as protagonists used in the curriculum as early as grade school
-Watching videos or listening to audiobooks instead of reading
-De-emphasizing effective writing in favor of other means of communication
-Group work instead of individual work to conceal both the achievement of the high achievers and the deficiencies of the low achievers
-Free feminine products in the girls/womens room
-Free feminine products in the boys/mens room
-More sexual content at a younger age in books and materials in school
-More violent content at a younger age in books and material in school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Equity is the commitment to ensure that every student and staff member, without regard to their actual or perceived personal characteristics, is given the individual challenges, support, and opportunities to exceed a rigorous common standard in order to be prepared for academic and career success"

--MCPS definition of equity

This is BS. The DEI MCPS crowd don't believe in giving UMC white/Asian kids more opportunities to meet their academic needs. They view these kids as "privileged" so it would not be equitable to give them anymore opportunities. Nor are the standards all that rigorous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It means that the education will be equally bad for everyone I guess.

This. Sadly, this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It means that the education will be equally bad for everyone I guess.

This. Sadly, this.

+1

Lowest common denominator. Basic education comes last.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Equity is the commitment to ensure that every student and staff member, without regard to their actual or perceived personal characteristics, is given the individual challenges, support, and opportunities to exceed a rigorous common standard in order to be prepared for academic and career success"

--MCPS definition of equity

Well, there it is in writing. A rigorous common standard for all. Dumb it up and dumb it down.

[Anonymous]

Nothing good. This is code for “ideology first; kids last; standards non-existent.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our high school will be getting a new principal. One of the requirements is to appoint a principal who will lead with equity. What does that mean?

It means RWNJs will froth at the mouth and get obnoxious.