Reply to The REAL issue with the proposals to shift boundaries & how MCPS can fix it

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "The REAL issue with the proposals to shift boundaries & how MCPS can fix it"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
I never thought it was about race, as much as some posters on DCUM vociferously claim it is.

I think it's about families' educational expectations, and their fear that lower-income families will not encourage their children as much and that therefore the school cohort will not be as academically motivated as before. 
[/quote]
Public school anywhere, it’s about resources.

It’s about resources of several finite goods: 
*Money (school budget is a zero sum game);
*Infrastructure (overcapacity schools, classroom headcount, huge MS and HS grades (400-700 kids!), fixed construction costs, lack of land);
*Teachers, specialists, ECs (all must be allocated around each and every year. PTAs in MCPS are prohibited from highing side— they must volunteer instead)
time (Central office can only focus on what they think is high ROI (the bottom performers, graduation rates, low proficiency bars);
*Politics (what gets votes in an uber liberal huge county?!? What “sounds good”?)

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics