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I have kids in MCPS.  One was in a magnet program and one not.  From my experience, this will never happen in MCPS because MCPS (as a whole, not individual teachers) does not care about kids.

We see this over and over.  MCPS rarely does what is in the best interest of our kids.  MCPS is, first and foremost, interested in ‘optics’ and making the stats look good.

MCPS wants to be able to say they have made progress by highlighting the numbers of AA and Latino kids in magnet programs.  Who cares if they are struggling in the program.  Who cares what happens to them after?

MCPS is a disaster and it has let down kids of all races equally.  [/quote]
You got this exactly right. MCPS is a disaster.

https://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/Graphs/#/ReportCards/ReportCardSchool/1/E/1/15/XXXX/2019

[b]The state report card shows 80% AAs and Hispanics not proficient in math in middle school.[/b]

80% not proficient in math in middle school. Let this sink in. (21.9% AA and 18.7% Hispanics proficient.)

[b]ESOL students are the fastest growing group in MCPS. They are only 11.8% proficient in middle school math.[/b]

Yet MCPS spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on magnet program reform, boundary analysis, and antiracist study...[/quote]

Such misplaced priorities. Guess it takes real work to solve difficult problems.[/quote]

And yet boundaries haven't changed in over 40 years. Some schools are half empty. Others live across the street from one school but get bussed across the county to another. Some schools are mostly segregated and have obviously gerrymandered boundaries from a lifetime ago, but nothing is done about any of it. It's possible they spend a few dollars to appease some wokes but they never change anything so it's all moot.[/quote]
Your first few statements are nonsense.  But I agree with your last statement.  And the reason they probably won't change much is because 90+ % of the county said they wanted to stay in their current schools because stability is the most important factor to them, even more important than geography or overcrowding.  Diversity came in dead last out of the 4 priorities which shows how woefully out of touch the 2018 BOE was that made demographics (diversity) the top factor in the boundary policy.[/quote]

If by nonesene you mean accurate sure.[/quote]

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