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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow lots to read but thank you for the summary. Early identification of URM students and early mentoring can help achieve equity without discrimination against another group.  [/quote]

Agreed.  But how do we do this?  Very important issue so I am truly interested in hearing how this can be achieved.[/quote]

I am no education expert. Teachers can start to identify gifted kids from K, you don’t have to be an advanced reader to be gifted. Maybe teachers need to figure how how to identify giftedness without assessing advanced reading and math skills. Parents play a big role in their child’s education and future. Unfortunately gifted kids will be left behind if they don’t have an involved parent. Each title one school should have a mentor for these kids, make sure they are doing what they need to stay on track. The mentor along with the AART should make sure these students to have what they need to thrive and be ready for TJ if that’s where they want to go. [/quote]

And the best part is TJ gets to not have URM or FARMs students for another decade while the experiment is conducted and the data is analyzed. [/quote]

DP, but it's odd that somehow in the midst of a pandemic Brabrand and the School Board decided that one of FCPS's top priorities should be increasing the number and percentage of URM and FARMS students at one school out of the 200 or so schools in FCPS.  It's certainly not like they don't have other schools with demographics that are anything but representative of the county as a whole.  [/quote]

To be fair, Brabrand and the SB’s second biggest priority was the tens of millions of $$$ spent renaming all those schools (it cost $500k to $1 million - per school to rename).

A distant priority was:

- Covid and distance learning.  In 2023, can we please elect a SB focused on, maybe, academics?[/quote]

The school renamings didn't cost tens of millions.  Four FCPS schools have been renamed: Stuart (to Justice), Lee (to Lewis), Lanier (to Johnson), and Mosby Woods (to Mosaic).

A fair estimate would be that each HS renaming cost $500K, and the middle and elementary school renamings cost $200K each.  So that would be about $1.5M in total.  Further, since Lanier was a City of Fairfax-owned school and the City of Fairfax School Board ultimately made the decision to change that school's name, the cost was largely borne by Fairfax City, not Fairfax County, taxpayers.

From a process perspective, after the Stuart renaming, which took forever and chewed up a lot of time, the later renamings were fairly expeditious.  In comparison, the TJ admissions changes seemed to be the main priority of the School Board and Brabrand for much of 2020, which was really unfortunate. [/quote]

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