The only way to have equity is to drag down the top performers
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Anonymous
The dog whistles are there. Smart racists in 2025 know to infer and suggest at racist ideas instead of stating them directly. The idea that those who aren’t performing because they are incapable is an old racist, white supremacist trope that avoids holding systems accountable for structural inequity and failed leadership. It holds up the idea that the only kids capable of being smart in MCPS, which are largely the white and Asian kids, the ones most deserving. While the ones doing the worst, largely Black and Hispanic kids, do poorly because they can’t do better. It’s racial superiority garbage. |
Anonymous
We don't have an infinite amount of resources though. And why should high performers be ignored? Making the magnets all regional is ignoring the very high performers. FWIW, I grew up lower income and went to an awful school. |
Anonymous
NP and Actually—what’s Weird that this post only revealed your OWN racist worldview— OP didn’t mention or even suggest race at all. Just emphasized that not all students perform at a high level or choose to meet high standards even when provided the resources to achieve a high outcome. So for the resultant be equitable, the system necessarily must prevent high achievers from out-performing lower ones. It is YOU who assumed that those who would under-perform would not be white (or Asian I assume?)—since you also assumed OP is representing a viewpoint at the W schools, who can is majority white/asian. But OP never suggested either of these things. It is you who is displaying racism by your assumption that an underperforming student would naturally need your protection from “racist” W parents—since, in your mind, the underperforming students can’t possibly be white? That’s concerning on many levels. Look in the mirror. |
Anonymous
The dog whistles are in your own mind and and reveal your own prejudice and attitude ms of white racial superiority that you are cloaking as concerned advocacy. Might need to step back and stop treating a whole group of people as though they need to be rescued and uplifted by you in order to succeed. “Do poorly because they can’t do better” is cringe and condescendingly dripping with low expectations that it is actually gross. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
It benefits everyone in society if schools can get low performers to graduate. You can’t get a job without a diploma and health insurance comes with a job. High performers figure it out. |
Anonymous
+1. |
Anonymous
Yep. Most high performing kids do well at any school Their test scores say high wherever they go. Why spend more money catering to kids who will be fine either way instead of focusing on kids who need the extra help? |
Anonymous
| Getting rid of the magnets, taking away enrichment, lowering the standards…. All of these things are reducing opportunity for top performers. I 100% agree with OP. And it has nothing to do with race. Top performers of color will also we harmed with these policies. |
Anonymous
| Not true at all. |
Anonymous
Tell me you don't have a top performer without telling me... It's not about "doing fine". The kids are wasting their time, going excruciatingly slowly over stuff they already know. This happens even at the magnets. |
Anonymous
+100 The state should really invest the most in the top quartile in order promote excellence and achievement to benefit our society overall. Any honest teacher will tell you that the differences intellectual capacity are significant and important. Some kids work hard and have good personalities but are never going to be acing organic chemistry or advanced calculus. And that is OK. There are many low-skilled jobs that are essential to our society and confer value and dignity to those who perform them. |
Anonymous
+10000000 Also when we talk about equity, why should we limit it to just academics. Why not, extend it to sports. Anyone who wants to play high school football should be able to play not just the best players. |
Anonymous
Either you don’t know MCPS’s data or you’re playing dumb. If you know MCPS’s data, then you know that the majority of the “low performers” are Black and Hispanic kids and the majority of the “high performers” are White and Asian. So when you say that low performers will never improve, you are de facto talking about Black and Hispanic kids. |
Anonymous
The people who write that kind of drivel believe the top performers are all from certain racial groups. |