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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You probably want to head over to the MD schools board and talk to some of the BCC parents before you move.

Lots of the same emphasis on reducing disparities and racial bias over there.

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OP: Thanks, I have talked to several MoCo county parents. I am all for reducing disparities, and I have been a victim of disparities and of stigmatization against Latinos, and in particular against Latino women. As such, I am very aware that a racial debate within an educational institution such as Wilson, has a complexity that goes so much beyond the stereotyped white vs black debate, which seems to be, instead, the mainstream within the DCUM, as well as the framework of Ms Martin's letter to families.

Listen, if you talk to high performing and committed black and Latino students at Hardy MS or Deal MS and ask them how does the race/ethnicity aspect affect their student life, the majority of them point their finger against peers of their same race/ethnicity, not toward their white peers. They will tell you of the stigma associated to being an honors black student in some school black social circles, they will tell you of endless bus rides back home towards NE and SE being bullied for doing the "good kid" at school . Latina girls in honors track can be nicknamed the equivalent of "white's bitches" . Racial biases have roots within each of the school social circles of the same race/ethnicity and are often directed towards members of the same community, and especially towards students of the same race/ethnicity, since academic proficiency is a poorly rated value in some of these communities.  This is why advanced black and Latino students from Hardy and Deal do not want to go to Wilson, and find an escape route into Walls and Banneker.

Reducing disparities and racial bias is an imperative for all education institutions and administrations. But when this issue is presented as a black vs white issue by the school leadership , then the debate is not simplified, is wrong. And I do not foresee anything useful coming out from it in this framework.

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OP, thank you very much for sharing all this. I am sorry to hear that the Wilson community will lose your voice, and your children's.

Un abrazo[/quote]

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