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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So we have a poster who claims that county selects based on URM and [b]we have another poster who claims MCPS and the BoE are white supremacist[/b].  Isn't there a middle ground somewhere for these two posters?[/quote]

Nobody is claiming that. That PP's point was that MCPS did nothing about the problem until a certain group of affluent parents started yelling about it, and that certain group of affluent parents didn't start yelling about it until the problem affected [i]their[/i] kids.[/quote]

I'm pretty sure there are only a few posters yelling, but she/he/ they have created many threads and are eager to leap into unrelated threads.  Cold Spring somehow comes to mind.[/quote]

Yeah, PP who called out the Happy Dancer here, at this point when the CS dog whistle gets pulled out, I get annoyed, doubly so when it's used on someone who is being positive for a moment.  I wasn't angry (sorry if it sounded that bad) and I don't attack parents for being angry, I know there's frustration to go around here.  But people who derail threads for their amusement, yeash (dollars to donuts that's the PP who's so extreme the actual CS parents have had to push back).

To the title of this thread, I don't think there is any claim that the pilot offering will be equivalent, just that it will help address the highly able students who didn't make the magnet cut.  Having had kids in MS for the past six years already, I know how bad the MS situation is.  Having had kids in MCPS for twelve years I know not all change is good change.  But the current situation is past due for a pendulum swing as I haven't seen any attempt at MS change before this.  Yes, the teacher(s) who weighed in may be right, and at some future point, everyone will have figured out how to ruin it all, but somewhere between now and then there should be something like a happy medium, right?  No guarantee, but doing nothing definitely won't get anywhere.  I appreciate that this is more frustrating for teachers but not many workplaces are free from shifting expectations.[/quote]

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