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[quote=Anonymous]The core problem in MCPS is lack of leadership and management for its employees. This includes central office staff, principals and teachers. The entire chain of command fails to manage and take accountability. I'm amazed at how divorced and helpless the leadership in MCPS always acts in response to problems within in their organization.

MCPS only response to racism is usually reactionary and misguided because they avoid addressing the core problem. A good example is the changes that were made to the expulsion and suspension policy. The problem was that similar infractions did not receive consistent punishments with a racial bias showing in the data. MCPS changed the punishment guides to make it very difficult to suspend a student for even violent offenses. In their minds, this will make them look better on paper since the majority of students being suspended were minorities but it does NOTHING to address the actual racial bias present in their employees.

MCPS needs to stop being afraid of firing people and holding people accountable for their actions. Racism is a human behavior and you can only change human behavior by creating a consequence for it not skewing your data.  MCPS should set a judicial review board to review and monitor schools' application of complaints, incidents and disciplinary procedures. Any principal that demonstrates a pattern of biased results after case review is terminated. This will change things super fast.

A survey with real questions, not carefully questioned designed not to allow the respondent to find any problem with MCPS, should be given to parents and students with specific questions about the racial bias experienced at their school. The results of this survey should directly effect the principal's performance review. This will change this fast too. [/quote]

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