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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t agree with her stance which makes it hard to be a teacher in this county. She never speaks about academics or safety, just about racism. The schools are in real trouble- kids are so far behind academically and behaviors are out of control. This is leading to teachers leaving, subs refusing to cover classes, and horrible morale.

I just want her to help the county as a whole. We can’t fix all of society’s issues, and she is fixated on racism while leaving everything else to fall apart. MCPS is horrible for everyone right now BECAUSE of her equity focus.[/quote]

Her single-minded focus on equity which seems to be this one size fits all approach to education also doesn't work short of the government taking on raising other people's kids.[/quote]

I don’t think it’s fair to place all the blame on McKnight.  Equity has been the focus of MCPS for about the past 10 years.  This was the case even before McKnight.

[b]The BOE and Central Office have made closing the Achievement Gap the most important goal[/b].  It’s clear from the BOE meetings and from MCPS’ own website.

MCPS has been run with the idea of #EquityNotExcellence for as long as my kids have been in school here.  [/quote]

So how come they haven't come close to closing that Achievement Gap? They are failing spectacularly in this regard.[/quote]

Closing the gap is a fool's errand because not everyone wants the same outcome. All you can really do is ensure that everyone has the same opportunities and let them sort it out.[/quote]

The problem is giving kids the same opportunities is not helpful.  Kids need different opportunities depending on their needs and some kids need more and some need less.  Life isn't fair.  But, we are failing kids by not providing what they need and catching issues early and remediating them, especially reading.  And, when kids cannot read and keep up, that's often when you see behavioral problems.

With all this extra money they are demanding, they need to increase the tutoring, increase reading specialists, SLP's, OT's, PT's and ESOL teachers, to start.  They also need to hire more evaluators and figure out what's going on with these kids to get them directed services.  Early intervention is shown to be helpful.

And, go back to basics.  As they push further away from the basics, the kids scores are going down, not up so clearly their new teaching and education styles are not working.[/quote]

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