Antiracist System Audit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The survey is nothing more than gaslighting and an attempt to change the conversation from the most violent month in MCPS history. Guns are in our schools. Knives are in our schools. One child is dead. Another is in the hospital. Bullying is pervasive. Fights at athletic events.

These are real problems that Restorative Justice is not solving. So Dr. McKnight wants to deflect to change the conversation. Anyone who challenges her BS is a racist because she is a black female trying to solve racism in MCPS.

Please. Make our schools safe. End all forms of discrimination and improve educational opportunities for all. That’s how to improve MCPS.

I agree with most of what you are saying. But I disagree that this is simply Dr. McKnight’s fault. She is not responsible for the poor choices that have led to this decline in MCPS. She inherited a dysfunctional school system. For that, I blame her predecessors and the BOE. And maybe the Teachers Union.

The school system has been a mess for a decade or so. Can’t blame that all in McKnight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What in the fresh hell is this exactly? https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2021-2022/Community-Update-20220202-antiracistaudit.html

This was so overdue! I'm glad they're finally getting this done.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Man am I glad we left this system. They have lost their way, and keep blundering further into the wilderness. No leadership, focused on DEI pseudoscientific garbage, keeping schools closed for a year... incredible to me that any parents keep defending this bloated, ineffective bureaucracy.

Your face is showing under your white hood

No, you kook. We are all tired of the nonsense. And the deflection. My child doesn't know how to capitalize a sentence. How to write an essay or even a proper paragraph. If you want poc to excel (as they should) focus on the meaningful things to raise everyone up. Not drag everyone down.
And we all are tired of the deflection to "duh, you're a racist!" When people try to point out the real issues.

- not your pp.

My daughter learned how to capitalize sentences in first grade I guess your kid wasn't paying attention?

To highlight PPs implicit bias that is common in MCPS when a child is not performing at age expected levels - blame the child or the parent because the child did not learn.

Sometimes children have special needs so to access the curriculum and learn skills, they need specialized instruction and services.

Compound the child’s special needs with English as a second language, the child is black, or the child is a quiet female student. Other implicit biases may compound the child’s fate - ie the child cannot learn because she needs to learn English first, the child is lazy and doesn’t receive support at home, or the child is just not bright.

What MCPS has a responsibility to do is comprehensively evaluate the child to determine her needs and address those needs. Blaming the child, the parent, a language issue, the child’s race or family dynamics, or the child’s gender does not help the child. At the end of the day, all children want to learn and succeed. MCPS has a responsibility to provide a Free Appropriate Public Education so every child has an opportunity to learn.

Surveys will not end the broad divide of discrimination in MCPS. Funding for smaller class sizes, grants so more teachers are trained in Special Education, more school psychologists for performing the educational testing, and training from the Superintendent to every level down to the Para Educators is what is needed. I am constantly shocked at how many Principals and Central Office staff do not know the law so they flagrantly make violations. “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity,” Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968.

I'm the pp above and the point has been missed.

My child can't write correctly yet they are an A student who completed the CES program years ago. It's not that my child does poorly. It's that my child does extremely well, yet lacks basic skills.

This will effect them in their college career and beyond.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:+1 Restorative Justice did nothing to keep a 15 year boy from being shot at Magruder. The response by MCPS was abysmal after the shooting.

This was a December 2021 article about how Dr. McKnight and Central Office are addressing school security:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-leaders-say-school-safety-requires-communication-restorative-justice-practices/

Clearly their Central Office ideas do nothing to protect students and teachers.

Mandatory
parenting classes are far outside the scope of public school. Also. Many of the children who act out at school or harm others aren't doing so because of poor parenting but because of serious psychiatric illness. Parenting classes won't solve that. In some cases, the psychiatric disorders are inherited. Public Schools can't address those issued in our lifetime.

However, children who present to school with behavior that prevents others from learning must be addressed by the school system.
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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What in the fresh hell is this exactly? https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2021-2022/Community-Update-20220202-antiracistaudit.html

This was so overdue! I'm glad they're finally getting this done.

Yes it will certainly fix all problems!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Man am I glad we left this system. They have lost their way, and keep blundering further into the wilderness. No leadership, focused on DEI pseudoscientific garbage, keeping schools closed for a year... incredible to me that any parents keep defending this bloated, ineffective bureaucracy.

Your face is showing under your white hood

No, you kook. We are all tired of the nonsense. And the deflection. My child doesn't know how to capitalize a sentence. How to write an essay or even a proper paragraph. If you want poc to excel (as they should) focus on the meaningful things to raise everyone up. Not drag everyone down.
And we all are tired of the deflection to "duh, you're a racist!" When people try to point out the real issues.

- not your pp.

My daughter learned how to capitalize sentences in first grade I guess your kid wasn't paying attention?

To highlight PPs implicit bias that is common in MCPS when a child is not performing at age expected levels - blame the child or the parent because the child did not learn.

Sometimes children have special needs so to access the curriculum and learn skills, they need specialized instruction and services.

Compound the child’s special needs with English as a second language, the child is black, or the child is a quiet female student. Other implicit biases may compound the child’s fate - ie the child cannot learn because she needs to learn English first, the child is lazy and doesn’t receive support at home, or the child is just not bright.

What MCPS has a responsibility to do is comprehensively evaluate the child to determine her needs and address those needs. Blaming the child, the parent, a language issue, the child’s race or family dynamics, or the child’s gender does not help the child. At the end of the day, all children want to learn and succeed. MCPS has a responsibility to provide a Free Appropriate Public Education so every child has an opportunity to learn.

Surveys will not end the broad divide of discrimination in MCPS. Funding for smaller class sizes, grants so more teachers are trained in Special Education, more school psychologists for performing the educational testing, and training from the Superintendent to every level down to the Para Educators is what is needed. I am constantly shocked at how many Principals and Central Office staff do not know the law so they flagrantly make violations. “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity,” Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968.

I'm the pp above and the point has been missed.

My child can't write correctly yet they are an A student who completed the CES program years ago. It's not that my child does poorly. It's that my child does extremely well, yet lacks basic skills.

This will effect them in their college career and beyond.

*affect

Maybe get a writing tutor to help?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:+1 Restorative Justice did nothing to keep a 15 year boy from being shot at Magruder. The response by MCPS was abysmal after the shooting.

This was a December 2021 article about how Dr. McKnight and Central Office are addressing school security:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-leaders-say-school-safety-requires-communication-restorative-justice-practices/

Clearly their Central Office ideas do nothing to protect students and teachers.

Outlier behavior is not a good measure of whether something works or not.

[Anonymous]

MCPS survey?

Is this the same software they used for the virtual polling that lets you diddle the results? Novi survey?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The survey is nothing more than gaslighting and an attempt to change the conversation from the most violent month in MCPS history. Guns are in our schools. Knives are in our schools. One child is dead. Another is in the hospital. Bullying is pervasive. Fights at athletic events.

These are real problems that Restorative Justice is not solving. So Dr. McKnight wants to deflect to change the conversation. Anyone who challenges her BS is a racist because she is a black female trying to solve racism in MCPS.

Please. Make our schools safe. End all forms of discrimination and improve educational opportunities for all. That’s how to improve MCPS.

Agree, They need to deal with the school safety/violence which has nothing to do with race.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that the audit is antiracist instead of anti discrimination proves your point pp

+1 Discrimination is real in MCPS. Discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexual preference, and disability all thrive in MCPS. Dr. McKnight’s narrow focus with the audit ignores all the other ways MCPS discriminates and retaliates against teachers, students, and parents who complain.

But you have to start somewhere. This doesn't mean there won't be an audit on those other issues as well in the future.

Yes, do you start somewhere - start with the Complaints from the Public! Idiot.

As a person who has tried the BS Complaint From the Public Process, it’s a process that goes no where. I once thought, by documenting Civil Rights violations within MCPS then perhaps someone would see the problem and fix it. Nope - not the principal and every appeal step up to the superintendent and the Board itself. There’s a culture of circling the wagon, deny an issue is a problem, then launch a very organized plan to retaliate for the complaint.

Only idiots file a Complaint From the Public with MCPS. For Discrimination and Retaliation you file with the US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights. They have an intake form online or you email them your complaint with the required parts. Simple, easy, doesn’t take an attorney, and it’s an outside agency that will provide an unbiased investigation. You just have to file within 180 days of the discrimination and/or retaliation (another reason to not waste valuable time with the lengthy Complaint From the Public process).

Many parents and teachers have figured out the need to file complaints outside of MCPS as indicated by data on OCRs website. Many of the current investigations were filed under Dr. McKnight’s interim superintendent position. Currently, there are 10 open investigations for retaliation and complaints in every protected class category.

Discrimination is discrimination. MCPS has a discrimination and retaliation problem that the audit won’t solve. The MCPS corporate culture that refuses to fix problems is where MCPS should start.

Agreed. It incenses me that they are doing this audit in this manner without looking at their own systems and processes first. Based on the responses from MCPS employees here, there is a deeply ingrained denial within that organization that they can do any wrong. Which is a terrible attitude to have for a school district that is performing poorly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The survey is nothing more than gaslighting and an attempt to change the conversation from the most violent month in MCPS history. Guns are in our schools. Knives are in our schools. One child is dead. Another is in the hospital. Bullying is pervasive. Fights at athletic events.

These are real problems that Restorative Justice is not solving. So Dr. McKnight wants to deflect to change the conversation. Anyone who challenges her BS is a racist because she is a black female trying to solve racism in MCPS.

Please. Make our schools safe. End all forms of discrimination and improve educational opportunities for all. That’s how to improve MCPS.

I agree with most of what you are saying. But I disagree that this is simply Dr. McKnight’s fault. She is not responsible for the poor choices that have led to this decline in MCPS. She inherited a dysfunctional school system. For that, I blame her predecessors and the BOE. And maybe the Teachers Union.

The school system has been a mess for a decade or so. Can’t blame that all in McKnight.

She was the Deputy Superintendent and had a chance as Acting Superintendent to turn over a new leaf. Did she do this? Absolutely not.

You're blaming the Teacher's Union? For what? Representing the interests of Teachers? The people that McKnight has to rely upon as the first line of contact to children and their parents? She's had two no-confidence votes already and the last one was over 90%. That's bad. That's really bad. She was only a temp and already lost their support.

Safety? She took a chance. She ended SRO support. Was that a good move for the Title I schools?

End all forms of discrimination at MCPS? Does that include everyone? Asians as well?

Why did she turn the Magnet program into a lottery when hit with a discrimination lawsuit against MCPS? Was that a good move?

January was a disaster? Do you really want this person in charge of your kids safety?

It is absolutely Dr. McKnight's fault.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The survey is nothing more than gaslighting and an attempt to change the conversation from the most violent month in MCPS history. Guns are in our schools. Knives are in our schools. One child is dead. Another is in the hospital. Bullying is pervasive. Fights at athletic events.

These are real problems that Restorative Justice is not solving. So Dr. McKnight wants to deflect to change the conversation. Anyone who challenges her BS is a racist because she is a black female trying to solve racism in MCPS.

Please. Make our schools safe. End all forms of discrimination and improve educational opportunities for all. That’s how to improve MCPS.

I agree with most of what you are saying. But I disagree that this is simply Dr. McKnight’s fault. She is not responsible for the poor choices that have led to this decline in MCPS. She inherited a dysfunctional school system. For that, I blame her predecessors and the BOE. And maybe the Teachers Union.

The school system has been a mess for a decade or so. Can’t blame that all in McKnight.

She was the Deputy Superintendent and had a chance as Acting Superintendent to turn over a new leaf. Did she do this? Absolutely not.

You're blaming the Teacher's Union? For what? Representing the interests of Teachers? The people that McKnight has to rely upon as the first line of contact to children and their parents? She's had two no-confidence votes already and the last one was over 90%. That's bad. That's really bad. She was only a temp and already lost their support.

Safety? She took a chance. She ended SRO support. Was that a good move for the Title I schools?

End all forms of discrimination at MCPS? Does that include everyone? Asians as well?

Why did she turn the Magnet program into a lottery when hit with a discrimination lawsuit against MCPS? Was that a good move?

January was a disaster? Do you really want this person in charge of your kids safety?

It is absolutely Dr. McKnight's fault.

To repost something posted in another thread.

McKnight is not responsible for anything that happened while she was deputy.
McKnight is not responsible for anything that happened while she was interim.
McKnight will not be responsible for anything that will happen when she is the superintendent.

[Anonymous]

And if she was so serious about fixing issues, her inbox was chock full of Complaints from the Public, Department of Education OCR complaints, lawsuits - why didn't she start there?

Yes, I think this is all for show as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The survey is nothing more than gaslighting and an attempt to change the conversation from the most violent month in MCPS history. Guns are in our schools. Knives are in our schools. One child is dead. Another is in the hospital. Bullying is pervasive. Fights at athletic events.

These are real problems that Restorative Justice is not solving. So Dr. McKnight wants to deflect to change the conversation. Anyone who challenges her BS is a racist because she is a black female trying to solve racism in MCPS.

Please. Make our schools safe. End all forms of discrimination and improve educational opportunities for all. That’s how to improve MCPS.

I agree with most of what you are saying. But I disagree that this is simply Dr. McKnight’s fault. She is not responsible for the poor choices that have led to this decline in MCPS. She inherited a dysfunctional school system. For that, I blame her predecessors and the BOE. And maybe the Teachers Union.

The school system has been a mess for a decade or so. Can’t blame that all in McKnight.

She was the Deputy Superintendent and had a chance as Acting Superintendent to turn over a new leaf. Did she do this? Absolutely not.

You're blaming the Teacher's Union? For what? Representing the interests of Teachers? The people that McKnight has to rely upon as the first line of contact to children and their parents? She's had two no-confidence votes already and the last one was over 90%. That's bad. That's really bad. She was only a temp and already lost their support.

Safety? She took a chance. She ended SRO support. Was that a good move for the Title I schools?

End all forms of discrimination at MCPS? Does that include everyone? Asians as well?

Why did she turn the Magnet program into a lottery when hit with a discrimination lawsuit against MCPS? Was that a good move?

January was a disaster? Do you really want this person in charge of your kids safety?

It is absolutely Dr. McKnight's fault.

To repost something posted in another thread.

McKnight is not responsible for anything that happened while she was deputy.
McKnight is not responsible for anything that happened while she was interim.
McKnight will not be responsible for anything that will happen when she is the superintendent.

lol +1

[Anonymous]

We have been doing equity trainings in MCPS for at least the last ten years and sadly, it hasn't made much of a difference in standardized test performance. I know various offices have made changes in how they identify students for specialized programs. For instance, you get more of a break on your MAP percentile depending on your race and whether you attend a Title 1, Focus, or non-Focusschools. That has opened up the opportunities for students who wouldn't necessarily show up on an Excel sheet based off MAP scores. Is it right? In some respects, sure. I do feel bad for the students who don't make it in with high scores and recommendations solely because they're white or asian.
We're reaching a point in MCPS of trying to be so woke that we're afraid of making important decisions out of fear of being called a racist organization.