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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Theres already a thread on this but to emphasize, all employees have had a background screening and initial fingerprinting. They are working on completing ADDITIONAL cps checks along with re fingerprinting employees and enrollment in the rapback system.[/quote]

MCPS is gonna MCPS. They should be renewing these annually. Other school systems (and companies where employees have a security clearance do this).

Just learned about this MCPS department today, because main MCPS X account retweeted them: MCPS Department of Systemwide Equity:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/equity/

10 staff members, so that's at least $1mln in budget just in staffing costs.

I guess they can't spend the money on the HR system to ensure all employees are paid on time but...
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You're really mad about 10 people who work evenings and weekends training mcps staff on working with Muslim, Latino, black students and working towards equity? 10 for the whole county? K.[/quote]

It just seems like a luxury, and they should focus on the basics (paying employees on time, background checks) first. MCPS is 75.6% non-white students, so it's not like the groups you cited are marginalized. Latinos for example are the largest group at MCPS, at 34.6%.

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And we still have a majority white female workforce who don’t all know how to engage with other cultures effectively or understand bias.

There is so much implicit bias in classrooms. I am white and more than once I’ve watched teachers hand FARMS applications to Black and Latino parents and not to me at BTSN or Open House. That’s just a small example.[/quote]

Based on data MCPS publishes: 74% of county Hispanic students receive free lunch, and 62% of African American students. Less than 5% of white families do. I wouldn’t call your anecdote implicit bias. [/quote]

How about taking an objective approach by offering the FARMs application to all so as not to offend anyone? Would the 95% be offended if it was offered?[/quote]

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