Does this mean "White" is a minority now?

[Anonymous]

We need to get rid of the word minority. It doesn’t reflect what people often mean when they use it. It doesn’t matter if there are less white people in this country, because of the generations of systemic racism, they will always have the majority of the privilege.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:These threads that attempt to sew right-wing outrage are so silly and predictable. They may want to give it up since MD voters are as dumb as those in VA.

There you go again. Justify denying opportunities for some students and only focus on students of certain groups. Why? Doesn't all students deserve opportunity to excel in education?

The equity accountability model looks at data of student performance to monitor that students in traditionally lower performing groups are doing well. It's not plan to give white/asian UMC kids bad grades or something

But the data shows a different picture though. The lawsuit claims that Asians and highly abled students are not given the same opportunities that other (specific groups) students are provided with. I wonder why leave out high performers just because they work hard? Why deny them opportunities in magnet programs and resort to (non-transparent) lottery system instead of quantitative methods (performance) and pick who you want to provide opportunities to? Wouldn't this cause lack of trust in MCPS as a system?

Perhaps, but most of what you describe is half-truths and misleading. Using local norms is a best practice. Admitting the top kids from any school is better than favoring the less able preppers. Further, the lotteries were only done since the maker of the CogAT wouldn't allow their test to be given remotely during a deadly global pandemic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, whites are a minority. But that doesn't really impact anything.

Are you new to mcps and Dcumlandia?

It definitely impacts housing costs as people scramble to get into a W school.

Not new. I left a W school cluster for a non W school. Trying to get away from those who are attracted to W schools.

Not me I did the opposite. Moved from NC and crappy schools to W schools.

All of mine graduated through grad school. You know what the most important thing to me is they all love learning. Life long learners.

Zero regret.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These threads that attempt to sew right-wing outrage are so silly and predictable. They may want to give it up since MD voters are as dumb as those in VA.

There you go again. Justify denying opportunities for some students and only focus on students of certain groups. Why? Doesn't all students deserve opportunity to excel in education?

The equity accountability model looks at data of student performance to monitor that students in traditionally lower performing groups are doing well. It's not plan to give white/asian UMC kids bad grades or something

But the data shows a different picture though. The lawsuit claims that Asians and highly abled students are not given the same opportunities that other (specific groups) students are provided with. I wonder why leave out high performers just because they work hard? Why deny them opportunities in magnet programs and resort to (non-transparent) lottery system instead of quantitative methods (performance) and pick who you want to provide opportunities to? Wouldn't this cause lack of trust in MCPS as a system?

Equity is the priority in MCPS, not excellence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need to get rid of the word minority. It doesn’t reflect what people often mean when they use it. It doesn’t matter if there are less white people in this country, because of the generations of systemic racism, they will always have the majority of the privilege.

You’ve done that already by coming up with acronyms like BIPOC to try and exclude Asians and draw a circle around the Black and Hispanic communities that want a disproportionate share of public resources and attention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These threads that attempt to sew right-wing outrage are so silly and predictable. They may want to give it up since MD voters are as dumb as those in VA.

There you go again. Justify denying opportunities for some students and only focus on students of certain groups. Why? Doesn't all students deserve opportunity to excel in education?

The equity accountability model looks at data of student performance to monitor that students in traditionally lower performing groups are doing well. It's not plan to give white/asian UMC kids bad grades or something

But the data shows a different picture though. The lawsuit claims that Asians and highly abled students are not given the same opportunities that other (specific groups) students are provided with. I wonder why leave out high performers just because they work hard? Why deny them opportunities in magnet programs and resort to (non-transparent) lottery system instead of quantitative methods (performance) and pick who you want to provide opportunities to? Wouldn't this cause lack of trust in MCPS as a system?

I think gifted programs should be for kids who are truly gifted not for parents who can pay for extra testing which is currently the case in fcps. If 50% of the school is gifted then it's not really supporting the highly gifted kids

[Anonymous]

Racism is solved as you can no longer discriminate against a non minority

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These threads that attempt to sew right-wing outrage are so silly and predictable. They may want to give it up since MD voters are as dumb as those in VA.

There you go again. Justify denying opportunities for some students and only focus on students of certain groups. Why? Doesn't all students deserve opportunity to excel in education?

The equity accountability model looks at data of student performance to monitor that students in traditionally lower performing groups are doing well. It's not plan to give white/asian UMC kids bad grades or something

But the data shows a different picture though. The lawsuit claims that Asians and highly abled students are not given the same opportunities that other (specific groups) students are provided with. I wonder why leave out high performers just because they work hard? Why deny them opportunities in magnet programs and resort to (non-transparent) lottery system instead of quantitative methods (performance) and pick who you want to provide opportunities to? Wouldn't this cause lack of trust in MCPS as a system?

I think gifted programs should be for kids who are truly gifted not for parents who can pay for extra testing which is currently the case in fcps. If 50% of the school is gifted then it's not really supporting the highly gifted kids

All kids are gifted on one way or other. School system identify the gift and help ALL students to reach their potential. Kids work hard and perform better and they should have opportunities too. Why do you think that kids who work hard should not have opportunities? Why do you think that only a few should have get opportunities? why not all students? Why are you discriminating against high performers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These threads that attempt to sew right-wing outrage are so silly and predictable. They may want to give it up since MD voters are as dumb as those in VA.

There you go again. Justify denying opportunities for some students and only focus on students of certain groups. Why? Doesn't all students deserve opportunity to excel in education?

The equity accountability model looks at data of student performance to monitor that students in traditionally lower performing groups are doing well. It's not plan to give white/asian UMC kids bad grades or something

But the data shows a different picture though. The lawsuit claims that Asians and highly abled students are not given the same opportunities that other (specific groups) students are provided with. I wonder why leave out high performers just because they work hard? Why deny them opportunities in magnet programs and resort to (non-transparent) lottery system instead of quantitative methods (performance) and pick who you want to provide opportunities to? Wouldn't this cause lack of trust in MCPS as a system?

I think gifted programs should be for kids who are truly gifted not for parents who can pay for extra testing which is currently the case in fcps. If 50% of the school is gifted then it's not really supporting the highly gifted kids

Who decides who is gifted or not? How do they determine the "gift" Any quantitative measures?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These threads that attempt to sew right-wing outrage are so silly and predictable. They may want to give it up since MD voters are as dumb as those in VA.

There you go again. Justify denying opportunities for some students and only focus on students of certain groups. Why? Doesn't all students deserve opportunity to excel in education?

The equity accountability model looks at data of student performance to monitor that students in traditionally lower performing groups are doing well. It's not plan to give white/asian UMC kids bad grades or something

But the data shows a different picture though. The lawsuit claims that Asians and highly abled students are not given the same opportunities that other (specific groups) students are provided with. I wonder why leave out high performers just because they work hard? Why deny them opportunities in magnet programs and resort to (non-transparent) lottery system instead of quantitative methods (performance) and pick who you want to provide opportunities to? Wouldn't this cause lack of trust in MCPS as a system?

I think gifted programs should be for kids who are truly gifted not for parents who can pay for extra testing which is currently the case in fcps. If 50% of the school is gifted then it's not really supporting the highly gifted kids

All kids are gifted on one way or other. School system identify the gift and help ALL students to reach their potential. Kids work hard and perform better and they should have opportunities too. Why do you think that kids who work hard should not have opportunities? Why do you think that only a few should have get opportunities? why not all students? Why are you discriminating against high performers?

No, not all kids are gifted... Most people are average in all dimensions. Hence the term 'average'.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These threads that attempt to sew right-wing outrage are so silly and predictable. They may want to give it up since MD voters are as dumb as those in VA.

There you go again. Justify denying opportunities for some students and only focus on students of certain groups. Why? Doesn't all students deserve opportunity to excel in education?

The equity accountability model looks at data of student performance to monitor that students in traditionally lower performing groups are doing well. It's not plan to give white/asian UMC kids bad grades or something

But the data shows a different picture though. The lawsuit claims that Asians and highly abled students are not given the same opportunities that other (specific groups) students are provided with. I wonder why leave out high performers just because they work hard? Why deny them opportunities in magnet programs and resort to (non-transparent) lottery system instead of quantitative methods (performance) and pick who you want to provide opportunities to? Wouldn't this cause lack of trust in MCPS as a system?

I think gifted programs should be for kids who are truly gifted not for parents who can pay for extra testing which is currently the case in fcps. If 50% of the school is gifted then it's not really supporting the highly gifted kids

All kids are gifted on one way or other. School system identify the gift and help ALL students to reach their potential. Kids work hard and perform better and they should have opportunities too. Why do you think that kids who work hard should not have opportunities? Why do you think that only a few should have get opportunities? why not all students? Why are you discriminating against high performers?

No, not all kids are gifted... Most people are average in all dimensions. Hence the term 'average'.

What are the dimensions used? How do they decide who is gifted?

[Anonymous]

(Grabs popcorn. Kicks back.)

[Anonymous]

Hers a crazy thought focus on providing a high quality education regardless of the race or income of the kids in the classroom

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These threads that attempt to sew right-wing outrage are so silly and predictable. They may want to give it up since MD voters are as dumb as those in VA.

There you go again. Justify denying opportunities for some students and only focus on students of certain groups. Why? Doesn't all students deserve opportunity to excel in education?

The equity accountability model looks at data of student performance to monitor that students in traditionally lower performing groups are doing well. It's not plan to give white/asian UMC kids bad grades or something

But the data shows a different picture though. The lawsuit claims that Asians and highly abled students are not given the same opportunities that other (specific groups) students are provided with. I wonder why leave out high performers just because they work hard? Why deny them opportunities in magnet programs and resort to (non-transparent) lottery system instead of quantitative methods (performance) and pick who you want to provide opportunities to? Wouldn't this cause lack of trust in MCPS as a system?

Equity is the priority in MCPS, not excellence.

Yep. That is the truth and MCPS is honest about it. You can read their goals and listen to their language AND observe the actions.

Equity, not excellence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hers a crazy thought focus on providing a high quality education regardless of the race or income of the kids in the classroom

We do but not everyone is going to excel. We provide equal opportunities. It is up to families to decide what to do with what is being offered.