Antiracist System Audit

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

The fact that the audit is antiracist instead of anti discrimination proves your point pp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My SIL agreed to he part of a similar study and she was found to treat boy students badly. She was given training. But she said just having it pointed out helped a lot and she has been cognizant of it ever since.

This was way before everybody was appalled by everything.everywhere.all.the.time.

My mom was told that she was less likely to call on boys when she was being evaluated (even when they had their hands up). It was useful info for her. It was not part of any official audit. Just regular teacher evals. I liked that at my kids schools they called on kids based on picking a popsicle stick out of a cup with kids names on them. Totally random.

It's amazing what you can learn with a little observations and small changes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish they would take all the money for new initiatives and use it towards having smaller classes. I think that would make the biggest difference

+ 1 million

Hire more staff. Pay subs more. Use the money for things that actually help our kids. Not something like an 'antiracist' audit that will only benefit the company completing the audit.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

How many of these audits get filed away and never leads to improvement? Didn’t MCPS spend $250,000 on a safety audit after the Damascus broom assaults? What happened after that audit? Nothing. Coaches are still being arrested for sexual child abuse. Massive fights at athletic events recorded online.

Another audit is just lip service - not change. We need a leader for MCPS. Not another politician.

[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

And your comment reflects your own implicit biases.

[Anonymous]

how much do you bet that a section of the audit will be about how Monifa is vilified because she's a black woman and not because she's bad at her job. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/03/montgomery-county-schools-superintendent/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:how much do you bet that a section of the audit will be about how Monifa is vilified because she's a black woman and not because she's bad at her job. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/03/montgomery-county-schools-superintendent/

Should Jack Smith complain he was vilified because he was an old white man?

Sometimes the results speak for themselves. To complain otherwise is just gaslighting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Busy work for all the over paid Central Office staff

Yep. And don't forget the useless Equity Initiatives Unit.

[Anonymous]

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/studentservices/

Be Well 360 is still here. I wonder how this wonderful program has been doing in the last 3 years.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two years ago I would have thought this a fabulous idea. But as with everything else, implementation matters more than intent. Policy makers focus way too much on anecdote and not data. And they demonize individuals as racist instead of looking at ways to improve whole systems. So they don’t fix anything but also create resentment and distrust in the process.

+1 Be Well 360 is an example of a previous idea that went no where when it came to implementation.

The timing of Dr. McKnight’s survey is tone deaf in the wake of the most violent month in MCPS history and a huge surge of COVID cases among staff who feel like cannon fodder. MCPS has more immediate fires to put out right now.

Guns are in our schools, a student was shot and bystanders did nothing to help him, another student was found murdered, and a mass brawl at a MCPS basketball game. Teachers are still out with COVID (at least at our school). What’s Dr. McKnight’s plan on these issues?

[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

No, you kook. We are all tired of the nonsense. And the deflection. My child doesn't know how to capitalize a sentence. How to write an essay or even a proper paragraph. If you want poc to excel (as they should) focus on the meaningful things to raise everyone up. Not drag everyone down.
And we all are tired of the deflection to "duh, you're a racist!" When people try to point out the real issues.

- not your pp.

[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

No, you kook. We are all tired of the nonsense. And the deflection. My child doesn't know how to capitalize a sentence. How to write an essay or even a proper paragraph. If you want poc to excel (as they should) focus on the meaningful things to raise everyone up. Not drag everyone down.
And we all are tired of the deflection to "duh, you're a racist!" When people try to point out the real issues.

- not your pp.

+1000. I feel like the people who keep going back to the tired old tagline, "You're racist" are very tunnel-visioned and are either too stubborn to admit that there are issues that require solutions beyond a racial lens or they're just too stupid to comprehend what's going on.

[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

No, you kook. We are all tired of the nonsense. And the deflection. My child doesn't know how to capitalize a sentence. How to write an essay or even a proper paragraph. If you want poc to excel (as they should) focus on the meaningful things to raise everyone up. Not drag everyone down.
And we all are tired of the deflection to "duh, you're a racist!" When people try to point out the real issues.

- not your pp.

Besides being racist, you must be a bad parent.