How does MCPS determine race/ethnicity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Yep. Now imagine that this is your daily experience growing up as a black or brown kid. How stressful and discouraging that would feel. How that might make it much riskier to raise your hand in class or enroll in a more challenging course.

According to MCPS own data, MCPS student body is majority black/brown. Hispanics outnumber whites, and if you add hispanics + blacks together, it's just more than 50%.

So more than half the kids feel this way? They're in the majority. Is this the tyranny of the ... minority?

[Anonymous]

I know a way for MCPS to narrow the achievement gap and lower overall average and median scores: Keep teaching remedial stuff to the bottom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Yep. Now imagine that this is your daily experience growing up as a black or brown kid. How stressful and discouraging that would feel. How that might make it much riskier to raise your hand in class or enroll in a more challenging course.

According to MCPS own data, MCPS student body is majority black/brown. Hispanics outnumber whites, and if you add hispanics + blacks together, it's just more than 50%.

So more than half the kids feel this way? They're in the majority. Is this the tyranny of the ... minority?

It’s the tyranny of bigoted eachers, cowardly administrators, and students who racist parents on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Zero sum game. Esol and FARMs get the $2.6b budget, non-esol and non-farms get to supplement. Enjoy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of private school kids in silver spring too. Maybe they’re the ones at the libraries

This is such an interesting microcosm of racist thought.

Racist Assertion 1: There are no Black or brown kids at the library because their families don't care enough.

People in the Neighborhood: Actually, there are lots of Black and brown kids at the libraries near me. Maybe the problem is your neighborhood.

Racist Assertion 2: Oh, but those are probably not PUBLIC school kids.

It's like....the goalposts keep moving to placate some ridiculous and untrue stereotypes about who is an is not an involved and interested parent.

Don't forget "Oh, but they're probably not "long-term" African-American families!" I really hope that PP isn't asking black families at the library about their immigration history.