How does MCPS determine race/ethnicity?

[Anonymous]

I don't remember specifying when I enrolled my child for kindergarten. How can I check to see my child's designation?

[Anonymous]

If you don’t designate, the register makes a guess based on child’s phenotype or your phenotype.

MU (multiracial) is the worst categorization because it lumps the white-Asian kids with the white-AA ones despite the fact that the two minorities tend to face very different social circumstances in MCPS. Worse still, it treats Hispanic as a race and labels the handful of white Portuguese students as Hispanic.

XH and I view DC’s race differently. As a result, DC is officially MU although DC has mostly lived and socialized in majority minority settings and now identifies as one race.

[Anonymous]

I don't remember being asked! Is the best way to check how a child is designated to call the school and ask? I'm curious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't remember being asked! Is the best way to check how a child is designated to call the school and ask? I'm curious.

If you have a good relationship with a teacher, you can just ask them to look.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't remember being asked! Is the best way to check how a child is designated to call the school and ask? I'm curious.

If you have a good relationship with a teacher, you can just ask them to look.

Also, you can fill this in
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/damascushs/guidance/Race%20and%20Ethnicity%20Form.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't remember being asked! Is the best way to check how a child is designated to call the school and ask? I'm curious.

There's an Ethnicity section on the New Student Information form you presumably filled out when your child first registered:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/info/enroll/2019%20Required%20Forms-English.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't remember being asked! Is the best way to check how a child is designated to call the school and ask? I'm curious.

There's an Ethnicity section on the New Student Information form you presumably filled out when your child first registered:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/info/enroll/2019%20Required%20Forms-English.pdf

If you skip it or decline to answer, the registrar decides for you what race your child is.

[Anonymous]

Is their an advantage to choosing a particular race?

[Anonymous]

It’s funny. My kid is Egyptian and considered white on the census and that form you just posted. But he has dark skin and curly hair. Like Hoda Kotb on TV. Nobody treats him as white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is their an advantage to choosing a particular race?

School gets special treatment if a high number of blacks and/or hispanics. The Equitability Accountability study has 5 certain areas of focus, and the only groups (I won't use "minority" since Hispanic students outnumber all groups including whites at MCPS) to get special treatment even if non-FARMS are black and hispanic.

Citation please, with specifics about the "special treatment".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s funny. My kid is Egyptian and considered white on the census and that form you just posted. But he has dark skin and curly hair. Like Hoda Kotb on TV. Nobody treats him as white.

You can fill the form out however you want, no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is their an advantage to choosing a particular race?

School gets special treatment if a high number of blacks and/or hispanics. The Equitability Accountability study has 5 certain areas of focus, and the only groups (I won't use "minority" since Hispanic students outnumber all groups including whites at MCPS) to get special treatment even if non-FARMS are black and hispanic.

Citation please, with specifics about the "special treatment".

There’s no special treatment. PP is trolling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s funny. My kid is Egyptian and considered white on the census and that form you just posted. But he has dark skin and curly hair. Like Hoda Kotb on TV. Nobody treats him as white.

You can fill the form out however you want, no?

You can, but don’t think about using it to establish a non-Hispanic white child as Native American or anything for college purposes. Colleges want to see tribal registration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is their an advantage to choosing a particular race?

School gets special treatment if a high number of blacks and/or hispanics. The Equitability Accountability study has 5 certain areas of focus, and the only groups (I won't use "minority" since Hispanic students outnumber all groups including whites at MCPS) to get special treatment even if non-FARMS are black and hispanic.

Citation please, with specifics about the "special treatment".

There’s no special treatment. PP is trolling.

You'd almost conclude that American society (or parts of it, anyway) has difficulty talking about race/ethnicity/class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is their an advantage to choosing a particular race?

School gets special treatment if a high number of blacks and/or hispanics. The Equitability Accountability study has 5 certain areas of focus, and the only groups (I won't use "minority" since Hispanic students outnumber all groups including whites at MCPS) to get special treatment even if non-FARMS are black and hispanic.

Citation please, with specifics about the "special treatment".

There’s no special treatment. PP is trolling.

Then why do they track this data?
There is a massive advantage to checking the Black box for college admissions, so maybe it's smart to check the same box when your kid is in high school.