Reply to To the lawyers here..

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "To the lawyers here.."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s no entitlement that all schools in the same district or all districts in the state have the same educational programs and opportunities available. If you could show a lack of access on the basis of race, national origin, or disability, you *might* have a claim. But you’d a) need to have a child from the harmed group and b) generally need to show an intent to discriminate (disparate impact claims are basically dead).[/quote]

This is your high quality answer right here, OP. There is no legal theory on which to build a case, and the only way you might be able to make a case is if you could show that MCPS deliberately placed certain programs in certain communities in ways that harmed a protected class. That's not the case, however. The "regions" are pretty diverse, and while I'm not thrilled with the placement of the programs that best fit my kids' interests, I don't think that was intentional -- it's just bad luck for my family. [/quote]

They literally placed criteria humanities and arts programs in the wealthiest schools AND are allowing them to have a home seat preference, thus disadvantaging the poorer, more likely to be Black and brown kids. And when called out by the design team members, they said it was because of their “asset map”, either because they’re too stupid to understand that relying on today’s assets bakes in inequities or because they think parents are too stupid to notice.

That entire team is terrible. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics