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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish mcps and the larger MoCo community would step back and examine what the real issues are. I’m not opposed to tackling the issues, but I feel like our community tends to miss the mark despite its well-intentioned, well-resourced efforts.

Fact: MoCo is a highly educated, super progressive, welcoming place.

Fact: Racism exists everywhere and everyone experiences bias.

Fact: There’s nothing wrong with flagging this and encouraging people to do better…and there’s nothing wrong with establishing expectations for teachers and students.

Fact: Demographics have shifted dramatically in the last two decades, and it’s causing issues that moco and mcps seem to fail to understand.

-Latino newcomers can’t be shoe-horned into our culture. They don’t prioritize education the same way African and Asian newcomers do. Latinos make up the fastest growing student demographic and will outpace whites across the county soon (it’s already happened in several school pyramids).

Fact: There’s a conflict between blacks and Latinos. Reams of research and data on this at the school level as well as the societal level.

Fact: We won’t see the success mcps is looking for until they realize the game has changed. We need a system that recognizes the real issues rather than focusing on the wrong things.

The unfortunately, I’m not optimistic. The changes we need are big. [/quote]

Oh and one comment I did take issue with above is the comment that Hispanic/Latinos don't care about education.

Again drawing my experience from that family.  There are indeed Hispanic/Latinos that do care about education, just like anyone else.

But there's a lot of issues related to access, opportunity, etc.

So you can't paint a broad stroke over any particular group. [/quote]

The comment was limited to newcomers. Do you think the tweens/teens young males crossing the border are interested in getting an education? Their parents send them here alone to work and send money home.

I’m not saying Latinos who have been here for generation don’t prioritize education. I’m talking about the influx of newcomers and 1st Gen who now are the majority in certain schools.

Interestingly, some Latino families are moving out of down county and other heavily dominated newcomer areas (think: Germantown) to “whiter” areas because they want their kids to not be surrounded by what they presumably fled.

Re: black/brown dynamic - it’s a thing when it comes to scarce MoCo and mcps resources. Long story short: massive resources are being redirected to Latino newcomers  while black students still struggle. They were the signature minority for generations and now they feel they’ve lost their status. Add immigration status and the fact that Latinos tend to quickly move up the economic ladder and you’ve got a political powder keg. This plays out in big and small ways in moco and mcps. [/quote]

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