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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was just about to ask, who are these pro-Smith posters? I don't know anyone in the entire system (staff) who likes him. His people need to be more subtle.[/quote]

Jack Smith is the only one that can unify Montgomery County.

Parents hate him
Teachers hate him
Students hate him
County Council hates him
2 members of the BOE hate him
School opening supporters hate him 
Online learning supporters hate him 
People against bureaucratic waste hate him 
People against racism hate him 
People against sexual assault hate him

Lazy Jack, the man that unites MoCo!  [/quote]

Why didn’t the BOE keep Starr? I never understood why he left. He seemed fine to me.[/quote]

Starr was awful but Smith is great. He mostly cleaned up Starr's mess.[/quote]

Explain?  What has he done?  If I had to point to one accomplishment he's done in four plus years I couldn't.  I mean sexual assault has increased but that's all I can think of.  Don't think you're touting that.  [/quote]

He got rid of Starrs C2.0 and also stopped the people from gaming magnet admissions. [/quote]

He's also the only leader with the courage to begin the boundary analysis.[/quote]

How's that going?  No closer to changes than we were two years ago but hundreds of thousands wasted in studies, committees and non-action.  That money could have been much better spent on students.  There will not be major changes in boundaries just small tweaks.  You didn't need years of studies, surveys and outside groups to figure that out[b].  Jack loves burning money to pay outside organizations[/b].  [/quote]

Yep.  I look forward to the results of the $450K anti-racism study.  Surely that will lead to revolutionary changes.  Great way to spend money during a pandemic.  I can’t roll my eyes enough at how much Smith has wasted taxpayer money.  [/quote]

It might not lead to any revolutionary changes, but at least it will document what has been hidden in plain sight for far too long. As a (mostly) black person with (mostly) black children who teaches in a predominantly black and brown school, I’m ready for the sunshine and will help direct the mirrors into the corners that need it the most. I’ve been complaining about some colleagues since 2001. One finally was removed for abusing a child with SN, but it didn’t surface that he hates people of color. The child’s disability just made him a soft target for a man who was too afraid of able-bodied black boys to try it with them.

I consider it money well spent to collect data about systemic racism in MCPS. Even if no policy emerges, people can’t claim the system isn’t rigged.[/quote]

The audit will show data that we already have and the system already has access to.  It will then lead to more studies, focus groups, and surveys.  None of which will actually help improve the educational opportunities for black and brown students.  Jack could implement support systems for students, extra help on weekends or after school, hire more teachers in students with high percentages of minority students, create a county wide magnet system or any other action that would actually help students.  That half a million could go a long way toward helping students but why help students when you can hire someone to dig deep into the data that you already have.  [/quote]

There’s a lot of official data we don’t have such as how high achieving Black and Latino students in MCPS are still treated by staff and peers as if they don’t deserve to be in advanced classes or should not take a class that is a bit of a stretch. We don’t have the official data on how often the advice of teachers of color and even administrators is disregarded when white staff is struggling with our kids. [/quote]

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