MCPS is spamming me - Anti Racist audit survey

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh yay! They extended it until March 31 so they can keep emailing about it.
I hate MCPS

They didn't extend it; the date has always been March 31st.

Oops. I thought it was March 15.
We got reminders yesterday. Why more today?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm waiting for the survey to assess the effectiveness of surveys.

Haha!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm waiting for the survey to assess the effectiveness of surveys.

Haha!

Seriously. Mcps collects so much survey data and then never really does matter analysis on how good the quality of the data actually is.

It was pretty interesting in 2020 when people did the survey on in-person school and apparently did not actually read the survey in its entirety even though it was just like a two-question survey

[Anonymous]

I filled it out and I STILL get an email or a text daily. Ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And one more reminder today. Hey MCPS, how about one email about how students are getting such low scores on MCAP and what you are doing to fix it?

Not a chance they’ll address this.

It is much easier and politically palatable to do an ‘anti-racist’ survey.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And one more reminder today. Hey MCPS, how about one email about how students are getting such low scores on MCAP and what you are doing to fix it?

Not a chance they’ll address this.

It is much easier and politically palatable to do an ‘anti-racist’ survey.

They aren’t going to fix the racism either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah I filled the survey out right away (challenging to answer most questions as an upper middle class white person with a white kid - I honestly have no idea what someone "not respecting my culture" would look like...mocking athleisure??? calling me basic???) but I'm still getting the emails. The reward for doing the survey is supposed to be not getting the emails any more, come on.

The survey was either poorly designed or simply was not meant for white people.

They are either looking for affirmation they are doing a good job or looking for justification to invest in some new required curriculum.

After two years of going down this rabbit hole where everyone felt compelled to fixate on race, can the pendulum just swing back to a more reasonable response along the lines of treat everyone with respect? It’s not hard. Really. And, it’s the right thing to do. People are more than their skin color. No need to label anyone.

My (non-White) teen daughter made similar comments after taking this survey in school last week.

The hyperfocus on race in MCPS is helping nobody.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And one more reminder today. Hey MCPS, how about one email about how students are getting such low scores on MCAP and what you are doing to fix it?

Not a chance they’ll address this.

It is much easier and politically palatable to do an ‘anti-racist’ survey.

They aren’t going to fix the racism either.

Yeah, but they can post all over social media how they did an anti-racism survey.

And then, they can justify the results to implement a super expensive program so that some consulting company can make a sh&t ton of money off of taxpayers!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another reminder. This is insane. I have received at least a half dozen emails and texts about this. Ridiculous. The schools over communicate on things that do not matter and remains silent or poorly communicates in the things that actually do matter. Like how about doing a better job sharing my child’s standardized test scores?

This. I did not receive a single communication from my kid’s school or MCPS as to why the MCAP results were SO poor this year, and what MCPS plans to do about it.

[Anonymous]

The agenda in the survey is clear. Never seen a survey try to force answers so much in my life. MCPS is so incompetent. Just teach our kids, all of them. Get back to your priority, please.

[Anonymous]

I don't usually consider myself Native American. I have one documented ancestor from around 1700. When you look at my DNA it's entirely from Northern Europe except for one dot in the Americas--that ancestor.

However, for the purpose of this survey, not only was I native American, but I also did not want to explain what kind of non-cisgender person I was. Normally, my gender and my sexuality aren't things I question: I have slept with enough women to know I prefer men. But, again, for the purpose of this survey ...

The fact that they tried and conflate gender minorites with race and cultural ones is so damned offensive on so many levels. I presume the plan is to divide the results into two piles:

Pile one will be all the white cis people (in these surveys white and cis mean the same thing and it is bad)--

Pile two will be all the "oppressed" minorities, which will include everyone else, be they women who fled domestic violence in El Salvador with an 8th grade education, computer scientists who went to MIT from China, transwomen investment bankers who spent 40 years living as men, optometrists from India, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't usually consider myself Native American. I have one documented ancestor from around 1700. When you look at my DNA it's entirely from Northern Europe except for one dot in the Americas--that ancestor.

However, for the purpose of this survey, not only was I native American, but I also did not want to explain what kind of non-cisgender person I was. Normally, my gender and my sexuality aren't things I question: I have slept with enough women to know I prefer men. But, again, for the purpose of this survey ...

The fact that they tried and conflate gender minorites with race and cultural ones is so damned offensive on so many levels. I presume the plan is to divide the results into two piles:

Pile one will be all the white cis people (in these surveys white and cis mean the same thing and it is bad)--

Pile two will be all the "oppressed" minorities, which will include everyone else, be they women who fled domestic violence in El Salvador with an 8th grade education, computer scientists who went to MIT from China, transwomen investment bankers who spent 40 years living as men, optometrists from India, etc.

I looked and found some of the questions very intrusive about race and background.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't usually consider myself Native American. I have one documented ancestor from around 1700. When you look at my DNA it's entirely from Northern Europe except for one dot in the Americas--that ancestor.

However, for the purpose of this survey, not only was I native American, but I also did not want to explain what kind of non-cisgender person I was. Normally, my gender and my sexuality aren't things I question: I have slept with enough women to know I prefer men. But, again, for the purpose of this survey ...

The fact that they tried and conflate gender minorites with race and cultural ones is so damned offensive on so many levels. I presume the plan is to divide the results into two piles:

Pile one will be all the white cis people (in these surveys white and cis mean the same thing and it is bad)--

Pile two will be all the "oppressed" minorities, which will include everyone else, be they women who fled domestic violence in El Salvador with an 8th grade education, computer scientists who went to MIT from China, transwomen investment bankers who spent 40 years living as men, optometrists from India, etc.

LOL! True.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had been ignoring it, but finally filled it out today. I used it as an opportunity to complain about their decision to waste resources on this stupid survey instead of addressing the massive learning loss they created with virtual learning. I am sure my response will be completely ignored.

These are actually the only thing they're noting. Because if you think the waste of resources right after the pandemic is a problem, or if you think the focus on race as opposed to other diversity is a problem,, then you're probably a big Ole racist!

[Anonymous]

The drivers of racial disparities in schools are the racial disparities out in society. And schools can’t fix that.