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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These will be the leaders. If your neighborhood is zoned to something that makes you unhappy with, quickly get in your private school applications. Expect to be unhappy bc the equity train trumps all other concerns.[/quote]

What specifically do you mean by "equity" here? What do you think MCPS is doing to promote equity?[/quote]

Compare A, B, C and D borders for Woodward and WJ and it will be crystal clear for you.

When new option(s) come out next week, it will be closest to the most “equitable” of those 4. [/quote]

Why do you put "equitable" in quotes? What does "equity" mean to you and what are the competing priorities?[/quote]

I love how equity has become something worth scoffing at.  Try to remove yourself from the situation (imagine your kids are already adults so you don't have skin in the game)[b].  Wouldn't you want a school district to try to treat all students equitably?  [/b]Would you like to live in a society where people don't have equal chances to succeed, and it's anticipated that kids growing up in poor neighborhoods would remain poor or even get poorer as they get older?  [/quote]

Yes. That would mean giving students what they need. Presently, MCPS talks a big game about equity but it is frankly offensive how they use that word. It is insane that they have these high schools with 50% or 60% of students receiving FARMS and these schools get zero extra resources to support these kids. Any extra money they get is for EML and special education, which only supports the kids in those programs and does not address the extra needs associated with poverty. And the gross thing is that MCPS gets extra money from the state for every student that receives FARMS,  but it does not spend it for specific supports for these students.[/quote]

Kids need the help in elementary school. By the time they get to HS it’s too little too late.  Often the schools are focused on the less academic kids, so the smarter kids go without.    Reality is no one really gets what they need or want.  Fix the elementary schools.  [/quote]

At least they give some extra resources to the elementary schools. For middle and high schools they give nothing.[/quote]

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