Get ready for even less detentons/suspensions and more restorative justice

[Anonymous]

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/black-hispanic-students-disproportionately-suspended-in-mcps-data-show/?fbclid=IwAR35pQ6w_d5xvMEZpE1r3rRc9rv61da9RxqTUwuhjLRbM-FZqimbFHmplak

The county says it needs to work on how unfair this is.

Meanwhile, parents everywhere are once again, not accountable.

[Anonymous]

So now we will remove the 2.0 GPA requirement for sports because it isn't fair to minorities and we will purposely decrease suspensions too.

Seems right. Seems safe.

How do these teachers do it? No thanks. Even a 6 figure salary is not enough to keep the best in it when you have these kind of stipulations.

[Anonymous]

So you think if Student A who is white does X and Student B who is black does X... the black student should be suspended and the white student should not be suspended?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So now we will remove the 2.0 GPA requirement for sports because it isn't fair to minorities and we will purposely decrease suspensions too.

Seems right. Seems safe.

How do these teachers do it? No thanks. Even a 6 figure salary is not enough to keep the best in it when you have these kind of stipulations.

Why do you think the 2.0 GPA rule is for minorities?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/black-hispanic-students-disproportionately-suspended-in-mcps-data-show/?fbclid=IwAR35pQ6w_d5xvMEZpE1r3rRc9rv61da9RxqTUwuhjLRbM-FZqimbFHmplak

The county says it needs to work on how unfair this is.

Meanwhile, parents everywhere are once again, not accountable.

What's your plan for holding parents accountable?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So you think if Student A who is white does X and Student B who is black does X... the black student should be suspended and the white student should not be suspended?

No, I am saying that anyone who does X should get suspended. Teachers have already said here they can not suspend minorities the past 1-2 years, due to restorative justice - meaning until these "numbers" get fixed and the suspensions are even between blacks, hispanics, white and Asians. But they are not getting fixed. So now I am guessing we will suspend more white and asians to even it out.

[Anonymous]

As the parent of a mixed race kid (AA and white) who is 2- this is already on our minds when looking at schools.

My DH was (and is still) friends with mostly wealthy, white kids. One kid took the cops on a high speed chase through HoCo after being pulled over for a DUI. He got probation and a fine. If he was a minority, he would've been shot.

There are ingrained stereotypes that we all carry with us. Teachers and administrations are not exempt from this and data does not lie. More minority kids are suspended for lesser offenses and non-minority kids can tag a school with offense images (see reference to VA tagging in article about Glenelg "Among black families like hers, there were doubts that the white teens would face the kind of punishment black teens receive for similar crimes. Two years earlier, a group of students had painted swastikas on a historic black schoolhouse in Northern Virginia. A Loudoun County judge sentenced them not to jail time or community service, but to reading: along with visiting the Holocaust museum, each had to choose a single book about Nazi Germany or the Jim Crow era and write a report on it")

Every day, all day across the country.

Little white kids who cant sit still and are interrupting their class=ADD/ADHD. Little black kids who cant sit still and are interrupting their class= thug, bad parenting, disruptive, etc.

[Anonymous]

Why aren't we looking at the factors impacting the kids who are acting out, exploding, setting stuff on fire etc. We should be putting our energy there. And not just in the schools, which only can do so much. Instead of a bajillion trainings on implicit bias, why not beef up mental health support, and offer more parent education, and give students adult mentors and do other things that target some of the root problems. It's once again blaming teachers and admin and putting them in the position of allowing behaviors that put others at risk. If their numbers are disproportionate, they'll be publicly shamed with a list like this, but they'll also pay a price if they can't maintain any order in their classrooms and schools. Instead of paying a central office director to gallivant around the world recruiting teachers full time, use that money to help kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As the parent of a mixed race kid (AA and white) who is 2- this is already on our minds when looking at schools.

My DH was (and is still) friends with mostly wealthy, white kids. One kid took the cops on a high speed chase through HoCo after being pulled over for a DUI. He got probation and a fine. If he was a minority, he would've been shot.

There are ingrained stereotypes that we all carry with us. Teachers and administrations are not exempt from this and data does not lie. More minority kids are suspended for lesser offenses and non-minority kids can tag a school with offense images (see reference to VA tagging in article about Glenelg "Among black families like hers, there were doubts that the white teens would face the kind of punishment black teens receive for similar crimes. Two years earlier, a group of students had painted swastikas on a historic black schoolhouse in Northern Virginia. A Loudoun County judge sentenced them not to jail time or community service, but to reading: along with visiting the Holocaust museum, each had to choose a single book about Nazi Germany or the Jim Crow era and write a report on it")

Every day, all day across the country.

Little white kids who cant sit still and are interrupting their class=ADD/ADHD. Little black kids who cant sit still and are interrupting their class= thug, bad parenting, disruptive, etc.

So all the MCPS teachers are racist and only suspend minorities? Got it

[Anonymous]

I read that article and thought the same thing.

Because, of course, it is completely the fault of the teachers and admin that this is the case. And only the teachers and admin will be held responsible for solving this discrepancy.

Look forward to more PBIS in our MS.

[Anonymous]

Although it’s a complex problem that will take a “comprehensive” plan to address, Johns said, he suggested that MCPS focuses on training teachers and principals about students’ different cultural backgrounds and on restorative justice.

The key, he said, is to not pull students out of class to discipline them for actions that are not serious. MCPS considers serious offenses to include physical or sexual assault, other forms of violence and arson.


More training on cultural backgrounds for teachers and principals? That will do it. That will solve the suspensions.
LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As the parent of a mixed race kid (AA and white) who is 2- this is already on our minds when looking at schools.

My DH was (and is still) friends with mostly wealthy, white kids. One kid took the cops on a high speed chase through HoCo after being pulled over for a DUI. He got probation and a fine. If he was a minority, he would've been shot.

There are ingrained stereotypes that we all carry with us. Teachers and administrations are not exempt from this and data does not lie. More minority kids are suspended for lesser offenses and non-minority kids can tag a school with offense images (see reference to VA tagging in article about Glenelg "Among black families like hers, there were doubts that the white teens would face the kind of punishment black teens receive for similar crimes. Two years earlier, a group of students had painted swastikas on a historic black schoolhouse in Northern Virginia. A Loudoun County judge sentenced them not to jail time or community service, but to reading: along with visiting the Holocaust museum, each had to choose a single book about Nazi Germany or the Jim Crow era and write a report on it")

Every day, all day across the country.

Little white kids who cant sit still and are interrupting their class=ADD/ADHD. Little black kids who cant sit still and are interrupting their class= thug, bad parenting, disruptive, etc.

Your kid is 2.

I'm not white, but wait until your kid gets to MS. Your kid who CAN sit still and pay attention will be in all his classes with kids who are throwing chairs, throwing trash cans, yelling out in class, yelling at the teacher, etc. Kids of all races. Not just the White kids. Not just the AA kids. Not just the Latino kids. Why? Because they have learned early on in MCPS ES that bad behavior is not punished, and that restorative justice is A JOKE.

Get back to us and let us know if your 'woke' opinion changes on this, mixed race kid or not. Don't just make your decisions based on biased media stories that you've read. Wait until your kid is older and has been through the MCPS system, which is a complete joke with a total lack of discipline. You might possibly feel different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Although it’s a complex problem that will take a “comprehensive” plan to address, Johns said, he suggested that MCPS focuses on training teachers and principals about students’ different cultural backgrounds and on restorative justice.

The key, he said, is to not pull students out of class to discipline them for actions that are not serious. MCPS considers serious offenses to include physical or sexual assault, other forms of violence and arson.


More training on cultural backgrounds for teachers and principals? That will do it. That will solve the suspensions.
LOL

More training and less pulling kids out of class = hell for teachers. So I guess if it a kid constantly acts out or doesn't listen or disrupts the entire class over and over again, the teacher just puts up with it because they are culturally different and it isn't considered a serious offense by MCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Although it’s a complex problem that will take a “comprehensive” plan to address, Johns said, he suggested that MCPS focuses on training teachers and principals about students’ different cultural backgrounds and on restorative justice.

The key, he said, is to not pull students out of class to discipline them for actions that are not serious. MCPS considers serious offenses to include physical or sexual assault, other forms of violence and arson.


More training on cultural backgrounds for teachers and principals? That will do it. That will solve the suspensions.
LOL

Also, don't forget that it's best to downplay anything. A kid hits another kid during PE? That's just kids being kids. Don't count it as 'assault'. Pretty much nothing in MCPS counts as 'physical assault'. Boys being raped in the locker rooms? Eh, it's just 'hazing'. I remember very distinctly that the press from MCPS after the Damascus rape case was exclusively about 'hazing' versus calling is sexual assault.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why aren't we looking at the factors impacting the kids who are acting out, exploding, setting stuff on fire etc. We should be putting our energy there. And not just in the schools, which only can do so much. Instead of a bajillion trainings on implicit bias, why not beef up mental health support, and offer more parent education, and give students adult mentors and do other things that target some of the root problems. It's once again blaming teachers and admin and putting them in the position of allowing behaviors that put others at risk. If their numbers are disproportionate, they'll be publicly shamed with a list like this, but they'll also pay a price if they can't maintain any order in their classrooms and schools. Instead of paying a central office director to gallivant around the world recruiting teachers full time, use that money to help kids.

+ 1 million

Because it is way easier to blame teachers and admin. Makes MCPS leadership look like they're being all 'progressive' and doesn't really solve a single issue. Typical MCPS.