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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How would you change the wording of the questions on the GBRS form so that they would be less culturally biased? Understanding that it is impossible to 100% avoid any cultural bias whatsoever, but how could it be better than it is now?
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It is not about the wording but rather about who fills it out.

It is filled out by people who have had a different experience than the kids they serve. Look at that thread about how AAs have it tough with fcps hiring practices.

Human beings are biased and fallible and therefore imo Garson should have lesser import than it does currently. P. Not to mention you are comparing kids from different schools within the same app center or even different parts of the county. Does one really believe that the Gibran is effectively benchmarked so that one 14 means the same thing as another 14 the next school over? Or the next zip code over? Heck it doesn't mean the same thing in the same building because that kid - while sharing the same aart- would've likely had different K first and second grade teachers[/quote]

Hmmm...but if you look at an AAP classroom at my kid's school, we have lots of diverse kids in it.  In his class of 21 kids, there are girls, boys, Asian children, African American children, Indian children, a child with Asperger's, 2 with ADHD, Caucasian children, etc.  So it isn't as if we're seeing these classes in our center school that are non-diverse.  Lots of diverse kids are admitted, as they should be.[/quote]

This is what is known as "anecdotal evidence"[/quote]

Yes, I'm aware of the term. I'm also able to see and hear. I have two kids in upper elementary at a center school. I am aware of who has been in their aap classes. [/quote]

You're an idiot. I too have kids in AAP, 3 to be exact. 1 child's is full of white kids, there is 1 black kid, 2 hispanic kids, no asian kids. Another seems like a mix of white and asian, and the third's is white with 2 asians and 4 indian kids. They're in 3rd, 5th, and 6th grade at a center. I'm sure a look in another child's classroom would reveal something out. My point, our observations don't mean squat. [/quote]

Perhaps your school isn't that diverse to begin with.  Perhaps it wasn't a year where a lot of diverse kids from your area got in.  Perhaps your local committee is biased.  Perhaps our local committee isn't biased.  Perhaps you're overthinking this.[/quote]

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