Achievement gap

[Anonymous]

Changing school admin, changing teachers or busing students will not close the Gap. If Whitman HS and Wheaton HS are combined and all the students attend one campus and have the same excess to the teachers, classes and facility, the Gap will still be there. Early education, changing the culture of some of the low achievers, boarding school for those kids start from 1.5 year may lift some of the students.

I think you need to read some history about forced boarding schools for native/aboriginal populations before advocating boarding school for 18 month old toddlers.

[Anonymous]

This is not a MD-specific topic; the achievement gap is being talked about nationwide, and now even between the US and other countries. The growing wealth gap is the drive behind this, and the result is increasingly segregated schools, a hyper-focus on ranking schools, and a large number of children learning in separate and not equal schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not a MD-specific topic; the achievement gap is being talked about nationwide, and now even between the US and other countries. The growing wealth gap is the drive behind this, and the result is increasingly segregated schools, a hyper-focus on ranking schools, and a large number of children learning in separate and not equal schools.

You think the achievement gap is because of wealth disparity? I think it's just the latest think being used to try to explain it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not a MD-specific topic; the achievement gap is being talked about nationwide, and now even between the US and other countries. The growing wealth gap is the drive behind this, and the result is increasingly segregated schools, a hyper-focus on ranking schools, and a large number of children learning in separate and not equal schools.

You think the achievement gap is because of wealth disparity? I think it's just the latest think being used to try to explain it.

I think there is a strong link between the student's performance and the education level of the mother. I have seen many Asian kids who are not doing well because the mother is not very well educated. I very rarely hear of the Tiger dad but I always hear about the Tiger mom!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MoCo has become, as Doug Gansler so ineloquently put it in the recent debate, a "majority minority county." Whites are a minority now, and minorities have growing power in politics. They've (rightly) made it an issue, IMO, because the schools are insanely segregated, and black and Latino kids are not doing as well statistically. Part of this is SES but part of it is the overall school culture and treatment of minority kids. There are still more suspensions, more discipline, more expulsions of minority children. They can't do much about the SES disparity and impact, but they can do their part to ensure equitable treatment of all kids on their end.

And after watching them testify ad nauseam this year during many budget sessions, I am convinced they are clueless about the issue.

Yeah, this can't possibly be fair. If these kids were actually causing more problems we would expect the trend to continue once they left school and became adults, and that doesn't happen right? And I suppose Asian kids aren't considered a minority? They get expelled at a lower rate than whites; it must be that the school system is biased against whites as well.

Black and Hispanic children get punished more, and more severely, than white children, for the same offense. Black and Hispanic adults get punished more, and more severely, than white adults, for the same offense.


Why? Well, racism has something to do with it.

Yes. Racism does have something to do with it. Like I posted before, they can't do much about the SES disparity. They can only control what's in their own power. And there is stereotyping and inequitable treatment going on. Just has to stop.

Repeat offenders have something to do with it as well. As do triple repeat offenders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not a MD-specific topic; the achievement gap is being talked about nationwide, and now even between the US and other countries. The growing wealth gap is the drive behind this, and the result is increasingly segregated schools, a hyper-focus on ranking schools, and a large number of children learning in separate and not equal schools.

You think the achievement gap is because of wealth disparity? I think it's just the latest think being used to try to explain it.

Lack of values vs a Having values. If your parents don't value working hard, staying out of trouble, studying well, taking personal responsibility, exercise, etc neither will you. No amount of county, state, or federal aid will be able to help you.