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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are doing ourselves a huge disservice with the way we have framed the racial equity conversation.   The audit is nothing but a bunch of studies about how people feel, and what they perceive.  There is no science behind any of this.

I have a question for those who think performance disparities mean there is systemic racism within the schools:

Asian students outperform everyone on every measure.  Graduation rates, English proficiency, SAT scores, AP test scores, and so on. Is the system somehow set up to advantage Asian students above everyone else, including whites? Because that's what the data shows. The superficial data that everyone takes as gospel.

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We don't "take superficial data gospel". We look at it in the context of empirical studies from outside the county that inform what is happening, as well as an understanding of the history of this country and how it impacts education, particularly of Black children. Unfortunately the history you and I were taught in schools was severely lacking in a lot of context about racism, such as the fact that when schools were desegregated, Black teachers were kicked out of the teaching workforce and have not really been able to return. It is complex and not really something that can be explained in a internet forum, especially to people who are determined not to learn it. But if you are truly interested in this, there are a lot of free resources on the internet about this, including why Asian children as a group tend to do well. But I hope you start with learning about anti-Black racism in education because that is really what drives a lot of this.
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