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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Equity is a trash and worthless waste of money[/quote]

Hi bigot.[/quote]

The reality is it’s not the schools jobs to raise kids out of poverty. Their academic performance is driven by their home situation, the county, state, and a federal govt should be setting income and housing policies to give children the tools to succeed. Schools do not have the resources to fix equity outcomes. [/quote]

It is the schools’ job to educate all students.  They can’t just leave some behind because they need more help than others.[/quote]

Neither APS nor other area jurisdictions were "just leaving some behind."  They have been committing more resources to those student populations than to other cohorts for many years, and under any scenario would have continued to do so.

The question is whether a commitment to "equity" means a single-minded focus on producing "equal outcomes" across all cohorts, which is simply not possible to accomplish, and dispensing with most traditional notions of student achievement if they get in the way of declaring that equity goals have been met.  Parents see where this is heading and will simply pull their kids out of the public schools rather than watch their kids get ignored and the decline in any real measures of accountability.
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