New principal will lead with equity

[Anonymous]

Equity has become meaningless jibber jabber. It’s sad.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I see the right-wingers are out in force.

I'm not a right winger. I'm a lifelong liberal. I know you won't believe that, but I dare anyone -- on the right or the left -- to get a job with MCPS and see for themselves what's going on there. It is every bit as crazy as the RWNJs say it is. Again, don't listen to me -- see for yourself. It's not that hard to get a job. Then you'll know.

You work for MCPS? Or is the source of your information rumors and conjecture?

Because I work for MCPS and am curious how you are working yourself up into a froth with these weird delusions?

I work for MCPS. I also have kids in and already out of MCPS, so I've seen this once grand system deteriorate over the years, from both sides.

By what metrics? Specifically. Don’t slip into right wing nonsense talking points about equity blah blah blah.

By what metrics and outcomes is there “deterioration?”

Because you are spewing a whole truckload of horse shit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most people are sympathetic to efforts to boost performance of struggling students, but the evidence shows that is not the actual effect of MCPS "equity" efforts. In fact, "equity" has hollowed out the education in MCPS and thus continues to hurt all the students. MCPS is a Potemkin village, and is in dire need of an audit to determine whether it is actually educating students as it says it is.

A few examples of how "equity" manifests in MCPS schools in practice:
-Elimination of honors classes (or rebranding grade-level class as honors as in the case of middle school English).
-Lowering the level of instruction to the lowest common denominator
-50% rule for assignments
-Exclusion of students from schools with large number of gifted students from admission to gifted magnet programs
-Lowering academic standards (including but not limited to grade inflation).
-Restorative Justice/lowering standards of discipline, removing consequences for offenders and placing the burden of offenses on victims (and students wanting to learn)
-Closing of alternative schools and mainstreaming students with significant behavior problems in regular classes
-Replacing challenging classic novels with contemporary "flavor of the month" books (or graphic novels) at markedly lower reading level
-Novels featuring communists or socialists as protagonists used in the curriculum as early as grade school
-Watching videos or listening to audiobooks instead of reading
-De-emphasizing effective writing in favor of other means of communication
-Group work instead of individual work to conceal both the achievement of the high achievers and the deficiencies of the low achievers
-Free feminine products in the girls/womens room
-Free feminine products in the boys/mens room
-More sexual content at a younger age in books and materials in school
-More violent content at a younger age in books and material in school

Honors for English happens in high school too. It is not just middle school. It is a major problem. The English curriculum is extremely week with very little reading expected.

Amazing error here

RWNJs are not the brightest bunch. It’s how they scare so easy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our high school will be getting a new principal. One of the requirements is to appoint a principal who will lead with equity. What does that mean?

That they will dumb down any enrichment opportunities to ensure the gap doesn't grow.

That … isn’t how it works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our high school will be getting a new principal. One of the requirements is to appoint a principal who will lead with equity. What does that mean?

It means your kid is doomed. There will be very little education getting done.

Get out now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see the right-wingers are out in force.

I'm not a right winger. I'm a lifelong liberal. I know you won't believe that, but I dare anyone -- on the right or the left -- to get a job with MCPS and see for themselves what's going on there. It is every bit as crazy as the RWNJs say it is. Again, don't listen to me -- see for yourself. It's not that hard to get a job. Then you'll know.

You work for MCPS? Or is the source of your information rumors and conjecture?

Because I work for MCPS and am curious how you are working yourself up into a froth with these weird delusions?

I work for MCPS. I also have kids in and already out of MCPS, so I've seen this once grand system deteriorate over the years, from both sides.

By what metrics? Specifically. Don’t slip into right wing nonsense talking points about equity blah blah blah.

By what metrics and outcomes is there “deterioration?”

Because you are spewing a whole truckload of horse shit.

No, I'm not. I'm talking about my lived experience. When you can't pull kids out of class who are ahead, because that isn't fair to the kids who are left behind, and you can't have a classroom of kids who all can't read or write specifically so they CAN be taught to read or write, because that's not fair, then there's a problem. Kids aren't learning much in MCPS these days.

[Anonymous]

It means you should start your application to private school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"Equity is the commitment to ensure that every student and staff member, without regard to their actual or perceived personal characteristics, is given the individual challenges, support, and opportunities to exceed a rigorous common standard in order to be prepared for academic and career success"

--MCPS definition of equity

Well, there it is in writing. A rigorous common standard for all. Dumb it up and dumb it down.

Every industry has common standards. If not they wouldn’t be known and understood by all involved.🙄

Here's some examples of rigorous common standards from an earlier pp:

Elimination of honors classes (or rebranding grade-level class as honors as in the case of middle school English).
-Lowering the level of instruction to the lowest common denominator
-50% rule for assignments
-Exclusion of students from schools with large number of gifted students from admission to gifted magnet programs
-Lowering academic standards (including but not limited to grade inflation).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Equity has become meaningless jibber jabber. It’s sad.

It’s not sad at all. It’s a ridiculous concept and it’s a good thing that more people- finally- are catching on to its dog whistle meaning. The sooner we are done with the equity notion, the better.

[Anonymous]

Also means my RMIB kid has had THREE books assigned in all 12th grade for her IB HL English class. One was a short play.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also means my RMIB kid has had THREE books assigned in all 12th grade for her IB HL English class. One was a short play.

One of my kids had to do a feminist analysis of a Shel Silverstein kids book in high school english. I am not even kidding.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also means my RMIB kid has had THREE books assigned in all 12th grade for her IB HL English class. One was a short play.

One of my kids had to do a feminist analysis of a Shel Silverstein kids book in high school english. I am not even kidding.

I don’t even know what to say to that one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also means my RMIB kid has had THREE books assigned in all 12th grade for her IB HL English class. One was a short play.

One of my kids had to do a feminist analysis of a Shel Silverstein kids book in high school english. I am not even kidding.

That actually sounds interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also means my RMIB kid has had THREE books assigned in all 12th grade for her IB HL English class. One was a short play.

One of my kids had to do a feminist analysis of a Shel Silverstein kids book in high school english. I am not even kidding.

That actually sounds interesting.

Not for high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see the right-wingers are out in force.

I'm not a right winger. I'm a lifelong liberal. I know you won't believe that, but I dare anyone -- on the right or the left -- to get a job with MCPS and see for themselves what's going on there. It is every bit as crazy as the RWNJs say it is. Again, don't listen to me -- see for yourself. It's not that hard to get a job. Then you'll know.

You work for MCPS? Or is the source of your information rumors and conjecture?

Because I work for MCPS and am curious how you are working yourself up into a froth with these weird delusions?

I work for MCPS. I also have kids in and already out of MCPS, so I've seen this once grand system deteriorate over the years, from both sides.

By what metrics? Specifically. Don’t slip into right wing nonsense talking points about equity blah blah blah.

By what metrics and outcomes is there “deterioration?”

Because you are spewing a whole truckload of horse shit.

No, I'm not. I'm talking about my lived experience. When you can't pull kids out of class who are ahead, because that isn't fair to the kids who are left behind, and you can't have a classroom of kids who all can't read or write specifically so they CAN be taught to read or write, because that's not fair, then there's a problem. Kids aren't learning much in MCPS these days.

I told you to use metrics. Not ridiculous invalid anecdotes. Anecdotes aren’t data. Put up or sit down and shut up.