Antiracist System Audit

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What in the fresh hell is this exactly? https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2021-2022/Community-Update-20220202-antiracistaudit.html

Love the brainwash video they watch before responding to the survey in class.

Do parents have to give permission, or are they forcing this upon the students?

The FAQ says parents can opt out:

What if I do not want my child to take the survey?
All parents and guardians have the option to complete a student opt-out form if they
do not wish their student to take the survey.
This form needs to be completed by February 18, 2022.
Any student not taking the survey will be provided an alternative, age-appropriate activity
to do on their Chromebook.

The form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdM1jmqbkAJxHpZiZaSTmR3cahMZsaEkhcz0jCAR0QGBnCuZw/viewform

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What in the fresh hell is this exactly? https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2021-2022/Community-Update-20220202-antiracistaudit.html

Love the brainwash video they watch before responding to the survey in class.

Do parents have to give permission, or are they forcing this upon the students?

Looks like it’s automatic unless you pay attn and Opt Out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man am I glad we left this system. They have lost their way, and keep blundering further into the wilderness. No leadership, focused on DEI pseudoscientific garbage, keeping schools closed for a year... incredible to me that any parents keep defending this bloated, ineffective bureaucracy.

Your face is showing under your white hood

Ugh. I can’t wait for November elections. You sensationalists are so exhausting.

You are in for a big disappointment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man am I glad we left this system. They have lost their way, and keep blundering further into the wilderness. No leadership, focused on DEI pseudoscientific garbage, keeping schools closed for a year... incredible to me that any parents keep defending this bloated, ineffective bureaucracy.

Your face is showing under your white hood

Your racism is showing and glowing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man am I glad we left this system. They have lost their way, and keep blundering further into the wilderness. No leadership, focused on DEI pseudoscientific garbage, keeping schools closed for a year... incredible to me that any parents keep defending this bloated, ineffective bureaucracy.

Your face is showing under your white hood

Your racism is showing and glowing.

Troll failed

[Anonymous]

I'm not ok with them asking personal questions like that to kids. The general questions are good about do they feel safe, can they go to teachers, etc. but why do they need more information about our kids backgrounds and what if we don't fully know.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know how a survey is going to help. More data for them to ignore?
Also, a lot of problems around racism in our schools are already baked into the cake by our zoning policies. Unless affordable multi family housing is built in mass quantities in say, the zone for Whitman HS, I don’t see how meaningful change is going to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know how a survey is going to help. More data for them to ignore?
Also, a lot of problems around racism in our schools are already baked into the cake by our zoning policies. Unless affordable multi family housing is built in mass quantities in say, the zone for Whitman HS, I don’t see how meaningful change is going to happen.

Perhaps if enough people say they feel safe, they can justify doing nothing?

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know where we can find all of the questions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t an anti discrimination audit be a more inclusive perspective? There’s a lot of hurt an inequities in how MCPS treats teachers, parents, and students who report problems to MCPS and Dr. McKnight. There’s no independent review by MCPS or the Board of complaints.

MCPS is rotten to the core with discrimination. A tunnel view of just one aspect of discrimination when others forms of discrimination are supported by administrators who run the school system will increase the distrust of the MCPS political machine that is the Central Office.

This is such a great point. I hope Dr. McKnight works harder to be inclusive than the previous superintendent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not ok with them asking personal questions like that to kids. The general questions are good about do they feel safe, can they go to teachers, etc. but why do they need more information about our kids backgrounds and what if we don't fully know.

No zoning in Houston, don’t think they ended racism there buddy. You may want to educate yourself before spouting off like you know something about racism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know how a survey is going to help. More data for them to ignore?
Also, a lot of problems around racism in our schools are already baked into the cake by our zoning policies. Unless affordable multi family housing is built in mass quantities in say, the zone for Whitman HS, I don’t see how meaningful change is going to happen.

I am trying to understand what this means and I have no clue. Like zero.

It diminishes and essentializes an important issue in a way that’s really quite offensive.

[Anonymous]

An anti-racism audit just sounds so bad and seems to by nature as saying white people are racist. Does racism exist? Yea but I think surveys labeled like this just stir the pot. If they called it a school safety and well-being survey it would have been a lot more popular. There are whites too who are treated poorly and “discriminated” against in their classroom. We should strive to be inclusive of everyone.

[Anonymous]

I’m so tired. We have some kindergarteners coming in knowing their letters, who are read to every night by doting upper middle class parents, and we have kindergarteners who have never seen letters or numbers and never been in a school environment and have harried and overwhelmed parents who leave them with older siblings. And a year or two in, when that second set of kids is underperforming the first, we are told it’s because of our implicit biases.

[Anonymous]

There should be an anti discrimination audit for students with disabilities. With 10% of students who have that classification and the difficulties they have had over the last two years to receive accommodations and services, there is a huge need to end discrimination and implicit biases for that population of students.