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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are a few types of kids who benefit:

Those who perform at the newly lowered ceiling and not much higher or lower - although even this kids will suffer in college
Those whose parents can see past the Harrison Bergeron rhetoric and have the money and knowledge necessary to get their kids a proper education outside of school. The parents of the latter are mostly white, and at times the exact same as the ones pushing for these lowered ceilings. Many minorities are either too scared of the tiger mom stereotype, too poor to afford AoPS/RSM, or too ignorant of the possibilities to do anything.

To add: many minorities come from countries where the education system is heavily top-down, so they have 0 clue advocacy is even an option, much less skilled in things like getting their kids in classes with the teachers who do care, petitioning for enrichment, networking with admin to make advocacy easier, etc. etc.[/quote]
What people cant seem to understand about the equity issue is that some parents will continue to advocate for their child education no matter how many road blocks are put up. And some parents will continue to not care about their childs education no matter how many steps up you give those kids.

Only parents interested in raising their child's performance can effectively close the gap. Unfortunately, those kids and parents have been told its not their fault.[/quote]

Truth. The achievement gap is really a parenting gap. Not to say that kids who aren’t high achievers have bad parents, but their parents do not place a high priority on academics.[/quote]

Largely true and why nothing the county does will have much of an impact on this. [/quote]
This requires blaming parents. No one wants to do that. I blame adults all the time for poor performance on other things. In the case of equity related changes that are designed to address gaps created by poor parenting, you would be blaming URMs, and that is not allowable these days.

How could a school that has built an entire platform around compensating for poor parenting, turn around and do that. Not going to happen. [/quote]

This thread is filled with a whole lot of people claiming things without evidence and then criticizing and making assumptions about things they claim.  [/quote]

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