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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish there were educational equity. It's wrong that accelerated classes are offered at wealthy schools, but equally advanced students at others often lack access to those same opportunities.[/quote]

I think this is the linchpin issue. If educational equity existed, PTA funding would follow and be more equitable.[/quote]

I think you mean "equality" not "equity".

Is MCPS proposing taking away children from their parents and putting them into Greentree Group Home barracks?  Because if the parents don't care about academics or if their home environment isn't suitable, there is no amount of "equity" that will help.  In fact, MCPS will most likely disenfranchise the very students they're pretending to help. [/quote]

No, I meant equity. I was responding to the poster who pointed out that different opportunities exist at wealthy schools which seems unfair.[/quote]

Seriously, you sound like a child.  ("Waaa!  This is unfair!!  I didn't work hard but I still want money!!!")

My guess is that you're looking to scapegoat MCPS for being a terrible parent.  There are no "different opportunities" at "wealthy schools".

There are, however, lots of educated parents who (on the average) earn more than parents who don't really care about education.  Those educated parents tend to select their homes in locations that feed into schools with other like-minded parents.  And no, the parents who don't care about education will not be swayed by anything MCPS does or says.

Equality means each individual or group of people is given the same resources or opportunities. Equity recognizes that each person has different circumstances and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome.  Equality is non-discriminatory.  Equity is, by definition, discriminatory.

It is naive to assume that all children will "reach an equal outcome" and I believe the people using this argument are doing nothing but discriminating against others (given the personalities involved, Whites and Asians, although the superficial claim is it's about FARMS).  Not all children will achieve 1600's on their SAT's and all do the same things in life.  The fact that not all FARMS children wish to spend their time on weekends and over the summer studying or in specialized programs is not an unusual circumstance.  For example, MCPS offered free tutoring, free computer and robotics courses, etc.  However, the classes were so awful that it made a lot of kids even less interested in those topics.  Why?  It was perceived as 'nerdy' or for 'geeks'.  If their families don't find that a good thing, then of course the children won't likely either.

By the same token, [b]there will be no "equity bus".  Parents won't sit idly by while a few "Robin Hood syndrome" crackpots cause issues.  The truly rich would just disengage from the system entirely[/b], then it will be like certain states where Public school is not for the serious college-bound students (and yes, that is a real danger given the current direction of MCPS).[/quote]

This is exactly the opposite of what is happening, which is why I suspect you are so worked up about this.

Check out groups like Integrated Schools or the Nice White Parents podcast. The city of Charlottesville just undid a racist and segregating school zoning that was decades old. This is on people's radars now. We have a HHI of $1 million in a lower cost of living area than DC and we send our kids to majority POC Title 1 schools with PTA budgets under $10k. An angry mob hasn't driven us out of town yet because it's almost as though we're . . . just people sending our kids to school. The only thing we're upsetting is the contrived racial caste system that makes vain, insecure, and vapid people feel better about themselves because if they aren't better than THOSE people, then who are they?

Do you honestly believe that the parents who can't afford to get their kids out of hyper-segregated schools don't care about education? What do they find so silly or unappealing about educating their children? They get together in groups and say things like, "The teacher tried to teach my kid to read, but I know better mwah ha ha! Education is the worst thing for my kid!" I mean, honestly. What a flimsy argument to justify asserting that you deserve more than people who already have less.[/quote]

Our MCPS PTA would be thrilled to have $2500 -$9/10K would be a dream come true.[/quote]

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