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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why did Montoya read off percentages of White and Asian students in SMCS at Blair and Poolesville, Ecology at Poolesville, Poolesville Humanities, and RMIB and then talk as though that is why the BOE needs to dissolve the NEC and DCC? None of these are NEC or DCC programs, one of them happens to be located in the DCC but does not serve that many DCC students. Why didn't she get data on DCC academies and magnets? Why is she perpetuating misinformation that suggests that only White and Asian kids participate in DCC programs?[/quote]

Because she (and a lot of people in MCPS) think that there should be racial “proportionality” in these programs that mirrors the racial demographics of the population in MCPS. Never mind that using race as a criteria factor is actually illegal. Never mind that racial quota-esque goals are concerning. Never mind that maybe certain groups of students do not want to leave their neighborhood to attend a magnet and you can’t force people to apply and prioritize what you think is best for them if they don’t want it. Who attends these programs is largely due to who seeks them out and proactively applies for them. Never mind that the transportation isn’t sufficient so only families who can absorb this burden end up matriculating. And never mind consistent, compelling data that significant proportions of black and brown students are not proficient at grade level and would not be appropriate candidates for programs designed to be accelerated, narrowing the number of possible candidates from those groups. Plus geographically Poolesville is far from communities with larger populations of black and Hispanic residents. Is anyone pointing out that high level orchestras are also not proportional, nor are football teams, and so on and so forth. [/quote]

If she thinks they should be proportional, how does the regional program model achieve this? She's calling people racist for having concerns about it but in a couple years should MCPS provide any data on the regional programs we are going to see the exact same pattern.[/quote]

The racism is the huge disparity in schools and the schools with lower parental income get much less in terms of courses so the higher income families flee having no option creating more division.  [/quote]

Right. And literally everyone from every school wants better offerings at their own neighborhood school. But they haven’t found out the secret sauce as to how to make the lower performing schools better since a lot of it is tied to complications of poverty. So instead of investing money and research into strengthening the local schools, they got swept up in this giant vortex of programs, thinking that if they could plop a few of these in other neighborhoods they might attract different demographics. Maybe they should not be so focused on the skin color of the kids and be more focused on matching appropriate educational offerings to the actual human children who exist and mostly want to stay with their friends and neighbors close to home. [/quote]

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