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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP- I know there’s been a backlash on this board regarding FCPS’s AAP equity initiatives but I should add that in my parent referral form, I mentioned that my DC reads and writes what I imagine is an under-represented language in AAP and they didn’t get in, so whatever equity initiative is in play didn’t benefit DC, despite what some posters might think. It’s all quite mysterious. It’s possible the scores just didn’t hit the mark for our school? 🤷‍♀️ [/quote]

What does this have to do with an equity initiative?[/quote]

Did you missed the part about mentioning that DC speaks an underrepresented language? Underrepresentation = equity.[/quote]

No, I got that part. Let’s say it is Spanish. How is the kid speaking Spanish helpful? Maybe his au pair taught him. Maybe he went to an immersion preschool. What does this have to do with the kid be URM?[/quote]

Oh, because it’s a language that’s not typically learned by non native speakers or taught by au pairs (lol). Can’t tell if you’re being deliberately dense?[/quote]

NP here. Knowing another language doesn’t correlate completely with the factors listed on the GBRS. Does your kid know Spanish and French because the parents respectively have roots in Spanish- and French-speaking countries?  Or did your kid teach themselves Esperanto because they have a desire to learn new languages?

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Missing the point once again. There’s been a meltdown on this board about how equity has taken over AAP decision making. My DC has strong scores PLUS a mention of knowing to read and write a difficult and almost certainly unrepresented language in AAP and didn’t get in. So that specific data point which may or may not tick the equity box which we don’t know much about and people are making assumptions about, didn’t seem to weigh more than others. [/quote]

DP.  They don't care about diversity.  They care about optics and checking the boxes that make them look equitable on paper.  If your kid is white or Asian, non FARMS, non ESOL, and non SN, then your child isn't checking any equity boxes for them.  An affluent, white hispanic kid or Nigerian Immigrant kid with highly educated parents still checks the 'Hispanic' or 'black' box, respectively, so they are a priority for equity purposes.  A lower middle class Asian kid from an ethnic minority group with non college educated parents who also speaks an 'unrepresented language in AAP' doesn't check any equity boxes, so they're not a priority.  [/quote]

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