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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yay!! Kids who somehow don't meet criteria for compacted elem math (many of whom are not high SES, hmm) are forever held back and on a separate, unequal track.

Fully support this decision MCPS.

Ignore all the haters[/quote]

There are significant percentages of FARMS, Latino and Black students that currently take compacted math.

Taking compacted math away from them does not increase equity. The right approach to addressing equity concerns would be to:
- make it harder for parents wealthy parents to force kids that don't need compacted math into it
- ensure that qualified Black and Latino kids can access in person compacted math regardless of teacher biases that mountains of research show exist
- offer math interventions in K-3 for kids that aren't progressing

But that all sounds very hard so just shove everyone into the same class and call it "equity" (equity has never meant giving everyone the exact same thing, like giving everyone steak even though some are vegetarians)[/quote]

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