Has the fall off of MCPS been as bad as people say?

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Anonymous wrote:If they have mottos like every student succeeds why don't they have any focus on teachers succeeding as they have made financial sacrifices, family time cuts due to massive work hours, hours off their lives as stress leads to cancer, and have joined a profession that is notoriously dangerous, underpaid, unhealthy, corrupt, and mismanaged. Oh yeah- finally tons of wrongful termination in the ed sector

I don't think it is a "motto" rather a formal policy, or "act"

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Anonymous wrote:Lot of people in here have very long drawn out and downright creative ways of saying they are afraid of black and brown kids associating with their precious angels

It's actually Brown and Black families who are leaving the county too. So the ones left are the more lower income ones and bringing down the numbers for those groups.

We first started hearing rumblings of how the schools in a predominantly Brown/Black neighborhood were not going to give homework anymore because it put unfair burden on parents who had to work long hours and did not have time to help their kids with homework. This was several years before the pandemic. During the pandemic was when we started to see the no homework policy more widespread.

I've said it before but I'm not convinced that when looking back, people will look at what MCPS is doing as racist agendas and policies. Where they purposely try to limit the ceiling for students, so that higher level education is not even possible for them. Higher level education was always the ticket to a higher income and better life for families. Higher SES (which usually correlates with race) have ways to work around these MCPS policies and initiatives.

Lies

Nope. First hand experience.

Just because you know one family doesn't mean "It's actually Brown and Black families who are leaving the county". It's completely false.

We stayed, but most other middle class Black women in my social group moved their sons to private for HS.

It’s complex. Quality of academics available wasn’t the main issue. It was systemic racism blocking access to rigorous courses and overpolicing Black boys starting in ES. There were also concerns about peers.

I don’t have regrets that we stayed. DS did well academically and got into UMD EA. But there were so many WTF biased moments beginning with the first day of 9th grade on zoom.

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Of course it's failing. Equity (MCPS's raison d'etre) is a race to mediocrity.