To all who have a problem with MO CO changing demographics

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I go to my children's schools every day for the last 4 years. The leadership and teachers do NOT reflect the growing diversity of the student body. personal experience to support the poster. How about your school?

Don't you have anything better to do than to stalk the teachers and admin. at your children's schools?

pretty pathetic

[Anonymous]

You forgot to answer the question or open your ears and eyes. Do the teachers and leadership at your school reflect the diversity of her students?

[Anonymous]

The College Board, like MCPS leadership, is made up of the old generation elite (old guard) and the education estabilshment that are watching a new generation of high performers that are not their own children but are children of recent immigrants. Imagine the College Board sanctioning prep for the SAT reasoning and aptitude test (heresy)?

Imagine yet the College Board rewarding the elite test prep payers (old guard) with a "special SAT exam session" in the summer? Note, others prepping in the summer can't take the test until the fall with course work, college applications and extracurriculars in the mix.

Guess what, thrifty recent immigrant children do not shell out five grand ($5,000) for a 3 week summer prep capped off with the opportunity to take the SAT immediately afterward at peak prep mode. The old establishment guard does this.

An in a "TIA" moment (blind spot) the College Board gives this group an advantage. Why? For precisely the same reason the old guard here in MCPS wants to block the advancement of these new high flying performers by eliminating pathways to give their own children an advantage and "close" the gap. This strategy is "quietly" permeating all phases of education in America. The children of the educational leadership and old guard are no longer the high performers and hence it's time to change policy and the rules (while they are still in charge).

The College Board blundered and they were called out. MCPS, too, has blundered and they are being called out. Who benefits and stands to gain the most from from these attempted policy changes? Who is the worse off because of these attempted policy changes?


http://www.usnewsuniversitydirectory.com/articles/...h-on-new-sat-summer_12424.aspx
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/p...012/06/06/gJQAeLZpIV_blog.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-...d-sat-20120605,0,5866106.story
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/31/sat-summer_n_1560537.html
http://www.usnewsuniversitydirectory.com/articles/...h-on-new-sat-summer_12424.aspx

Leadership makes blunders when they represent only their own interests to the exclusion of their constituents. Are you surprised when the College Board or the MCPS come out with stupid policy? Who does the stupid policy benefit each case? If you can answer these questions these recent policies come as no surprise. Don't squirm in your undies. It's a dead give away the bare truth is near.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Leadership makes blunders when they represent only their own interests to the exclusion of their constituents. Are you surprised when the College Board or the MCPS come out with stupid policy? Who does the stupid policy benefit each case? If you can answer these questions these recent policies come as no surprise. Don't squirm in your undies. It's a dead give away the bare truth is near.

The truth is out there (weird sci-fi noises)....

Sorry, but you've got the wrong end of the stick. The reason MoCo doesn't care about your high-achieving kid is not because your kid is Asian and they are white/black. It's because they know your kid will do well on the standardized tests without their help. Your high-achieving kid allows them to focus teaching resources on the low- and middle-performers so these other kids will pass the tests. You don't need to look to conspiracy theories for something that actually has a very simple explanation.

[Anonymous]

he truth is out there (weird sci-fi noises)....

Sorry, but you've got the wrong end of the stick. The reason MoCo doesn't care about your high-achieving kid is not because your kid is Asian and they are white/black. It's because they know your kid will do well on the standardized tests without their help. Your high-achieving kid allows them to focus teaching resources on the low- and middle-performers so these other kids will pass the tests. You don't need to look to conspiracy theories for something that actually has a very simple explanation.

Tell us how MCPS is consolidating her resources 50 min classes of 25 to 28 of all abilities? Are they providing more teachers in these 50 min classes who can teach to all abilities? Are they planning to use the internet and get Sol Khan and other teaches to provide instruction for all these students?

Now tell us how blocking the pathway of students to advance in Math for example consumes additional MCPS?

[Anonymous]

he truth is out there (weird sci-fi noises)....

Sorry, but you've got the wrong end of the stick. The reason MoCo doesn't care about your high-achieving kid is not because your kid is Asian and they are white/black. It's because they know your kid will do well on the standardized tests without their help. Your high-achieving kid allows them to focus teaching resources on the low- and middle-performers so these other kids will pass the tests. You don't need to look to conspiracy theories for something that actually has a very simple explanation.

But isn't this hypocrisy. MCPS and MoCo leadership cared in 1960, 1970 and 1980 when these high achieving kids were European Americans (Whites) even if they did well on the standardized tests then without help. Why in 2010 when these high achieving kids are no longer white does MoCo and MCPS leadership decide to refocus and drop there caring souls?

I understand from your preamble to your post ... the truth is out there and you have spoken it well.

[Anonymous]

Yup, in 1970 they cared for the high performers and ignored the rest. In 2010, they no longer care for the high performers and now want to focus on the rest. Hmm. I wonder why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

he truth is out there (weird sci-fi noises)....

Sorry, but you've got the wrong end of the stick. The reason MoCo doesn't care about your high-achieving kid is not because your kid is Asian and they are white/black. It's because they know your kid will do well on the standardized tests without their help. Your high-achieving kid allows them to focus teaching resources on the low- and middle-performers so these other kids will pass the tests. You don't need to look to conspiracy theories for something that actually has a very simple explanation.

But isn't this hypocrisy. MCPS and MoCo leadership cared in 1960, 1970 and 1980 when these high achieving kids were European Americans (Whites) even if they did well on the standardized tests then without help. Why in 2010 when these high achieving kids are no longer white does MoCo and MCPS leadership decide to refocus and drop there caring souls?

I understand from your preamble to your post ... the truth is out there and you have spoken it well.

There were no high stakes tests in the 70s, 80s and 90s for schools to be judged on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

he truth is out there (weird sci-fi noises)....

Sorry, but you've got the wrong end of the stick. The reason MoCo doesn't care about your high-achieving kid is not because your kid is Asian and they are white/black. It's because they know your kid will do well on the standardized tests without their help. Your high-achieving kid allows them to focus teaching resources on the low- and middle-performers so these other kids will pass the tests. You don't need to look to conspiracy theories for something that actually has a very simple explanation.

But isn't this hypocrisy. MCPS and MoCo leadership cared in 1960, 1970 and 1980 when these high achieving kids were European Americans (Whites) even if they did well on the standardized tests then without help. Why in 2010 when these high achieving kids are no longer white does MoCo and MCPS leadership decide to refocus and drop there caring souls?

I understand from your preamble to your post ... the truth is out there and you have spoken it well.

You're crazy. I'm leaving, just in case it's contagious.

[Anonymous]

I am confused by this whole thread. I thought the high performing kids were white and Asian and most of the Asians are not recent immigrants. The recent immigrants are the hispanic families who are typically not performing in the top group and are likely to benefit from a focus on the bottom 90% of the kids. Granted my kids are in MCPS HS so are not affected by the new math curriculum but this tirade against some perceived "old guard" (not clear exactly who that is or how many of them there are) seems misplaced.

[Anonymous]

There were no high stakes tests in the 70s, 80s and 90s for schools to be judged on.

I like your defense/spin.
Sounds like the College Board spin. SAT for the rich in the summer after prepping well and hard for their aptitude test. This was just a pilot!

[Anonymous]

I am confused by this whole thread. I thought the high performing kids were white and Asian and most of the Asians are not recent immigrants. The recent immigrants are the hispanic families who are typically not performing in the top group and are likely to benefit from a focus on the bottom 90% of the kids. Granted my kids are in MCPS HS so are not affected by the new math curriculum but this tirade against some perceived "old guard" (not clear exactly who that is or how many of them there are) seems misplaced.

You are confused.

[Anonymous]

I'm confused too. When I look around my kids' magnets, I see lots of white (mine) and Asian kids. OP is Asian, judging by her links. Perhaps her kids aren't in magnets, though.

And Whitman, one of the better schools in the county, is known as "WhiteMan" for a reason.

[Anonymous]

I think the goal of mcps is to reduce the "gap". Previours, all students got extra push in mcps. Although the teat results have been improved for AA and Hispanic, the Asia A and white students also got better. No reducing in the gap. Noe, since only very limited high performing kids can go to the magnet program, the smart kids left in regular class will not be able to advance to their best abilty. The test results from the top performers in regular classes will be more close to the middle. The slow learners who have gotten a lot of extra push will continue getting the same amount or even more extra pushes so they will test better than before. A small gap is finally here in mcps!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I go to my children's schools every day for the last 4 years. The leadership and teachers do NOT reflect the growing diversity of the student body. personal experience to support the poster. How about your school?

I am in my children's schools every day. The principal and teachers DO reflect the student body.

What does this prove?