Instead of Changing Boundaries Add New Programs
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Anonymous
| In case you didn't think racism was alive and well in MoCo... see the OP. Geez. "right type"? "punish US". Gross. |
Anonymous
I see that from your post. When people talk about issues, you associate those with race. |
Anonymous
I absolutely agree with PP even though you're trying to spin it. |
Anonymous
Agree with him/her on which part? On "racism is still alive"? Yes, I agree with that part too. But not for the same reasons. |
Anonymous
+2 |
Anonymous
When the OP mentioned "attracting the right type of students to under-performing schools" just like the magnet program - it would be hard to associate that with racism. The analogy to the magnet programs explains it all. Some people are simply trying to put the label "racism" on anything they could not find an easy way to argue against. |
Anonymous
not that hard. |
Anonymous
What types of programs were you thinking of OP? |
Anonymous
Of course it would be easy for people who like to associate things to racism, because they do not need valid reasons. That is called "imagination" not "deduction". |
Anonymous
You're certainly entitled to your opinion. |
Anonymous
You are too. Someone makes a statement, without mentioning race at all. The statement can be easily interpreted without using race - the OP's statement on the "right type" can clearly be interpreted as "putting high performing students into low-performing schools" when he/she uses the magnet program as an analogy. Some people don't like it and simply want to use their interpretation (which they failed to explain) to associate the OP's statement with racism. That is of course, a very interesting piece of "opinion". |
Anonymous
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Why don't we add programs in less crowded schools as centers for the "under-performing students"?
Similar to the magnet programs which serves the high-performing students, it would be very effective to deal with the problems of under-performing students together. The kids have to be really performing below a certain level to be admitted to the program, and of course this would be entirely voluntary. That is really doing something to help the under-performing kids, rather than playing political games to get support from various groups. |
Anonymous
| While I have nothing against new programs in schools and if that is the direction OP thinks the county should take -- they should make these comments to MCPS. However, let's not kid ourselves. People aren't actually concerned with under performing schools -- they are concerned with preserving boundaries. |
Anonymous
Please note that different people care about different things. People from high-performing schools don't necessarily care too much about low-performing schools (why should they?); while people from low-performing schools don't care that much about the preserving boundaries. So if we can make changes that satisfy both (groups of parents), why not? |
Anonymous
The current boundaries are so out of wack and gerrymandered that everyone would benefit from a clean slate. |