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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Natali Fani-Gonzalez also tore them up about the piss poor literacy rates:

She said they ARE NOT closing the Achievement Gap, despite this being Monifa's supposed top priority. She went after Bench from a literacy curriculum perspective.[/quote]

Because the achievement gap exists because of factors outside of MCPS control, no amount of money can fix this. Instead, they just dumb down classes to pretend they've made progress. [/quote]

That's true about everything government touches, and the huge failure of the county's racial equity law. The law and the entire machine the county has built to do equity work focus solely on equitable outcomes, rather than understanding that many contributing factors are outside government's control.   We need to focus on making governmental systems fair, but not judge that fairness based on precisely equal outcomes.  Instead, look for progress across the board.  [/quote]

That's not the problem. Government can be very effective. Examples include the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Missions.

The problem with equity is people have different goals and values. Pretending that everyone wants the same outcome is doomed to failure.[/quote]

I'm discussing government's role in closing outcome disparities by race and ethnicity. It is not effective in closing gaps because there are too many external confounding factors that lead to the disparities in the first place.[/quote]

Wjat is happening is that the government played a massive role in creating the disparities and the electorate is unwilling to fund reparations that would actually address them.[/quote]

The government absolutely did play a massive role, and most of those laws have been abolished.  However, systemic disparities remain that the government will not be able to undo without creating a massive nanny state.  And even then, it may not work.  Because people are individuals with free will and may make choices that do not help improve their own outcomes.  [/quote]

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