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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't want to derail the usual MCPS bashing and complaining, but the fact is that OP's assertion does not seem to be true.

One school in PGCPS outperforms the MCPS average. That's good! I'm happy for Greenbelt MS. But that doesn't really tell us anything at the county-wide level, nor does it tell us anything about how to improve outcomes for Black kids in MCPS, unless the lesson is "have NASA employees as parents."[/quote]

Oh I get it. The parents in Greenbelt are the "good Black parents" and only Black kids with literal rocket scientists as parents can become proficient in math. For all the other Black kids, the problem is the parents, not the schools.[/quote]

You are grabbing the stick from the wrong end. OP is using Black kids as a cudgel with which to beat MCPS, but Black kids are not tools to be whipped out when you have a preexisting grievance.

If PGCPS has something to teach MCPS about educating Black students in math, then let's hear it. But that's not what we are seeing -- we are seeing one of the highest SES middle schools in PGCPS outpace the population-level statistics in MCPS. That's just not a reasonable comparison. [/quote]

Well actually if you look at the post in this thread:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/45/1305522.page

The Black/African American students at Pyle had a lower Algebra I proficiency rate (50 percent) compared to the proficiency rate for FARMS students (71.4).

And this matched the numbers when I looked it up mdreportcard earlier today.

So it's not just a issue with SES.[/quote]

It's an issue with having so few Black students that the data is useless noise:

https://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/Graphs/#/Assessments/MathPerformancev1/UALG01/U/10/3/1/15/0428

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