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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How and why did "accountability," "consequences" and "discipline" become bad words in our school system? Parents didn't ask for this.[/quote]

They’re concerned about disproportionate outcomes for different racial groups. There was a meeting last week with BOE members where it was revealed that black and brown students were receiving consequences of suspension in disproportionate numbers to their numbers in the district’s population. These groups also have disproportionate absenteeism. Brenda Wolff essentially took the position that this was due to racism (no mention of the obvious link between poverty and other root causes that contribute to disproportionate outcomes). One of MCPS’s solutions is to change the code of conduct itself, so that various infractions (disrespect, threats, etc.) no longer are eligible for the suspension consequence. So next year it’ll look like MCPS closed the gap for those groups and reduced suspension, but in reality they just obscure the truth by changing the definition. Kind of like honors for all makes it look like they’ve closed the achievement gap but it’s not the actual truth. [/quote]

I watched the BOE on this topic and it was terrible.

For a school district that prides itself on data and analysis, it was embarrassing to see them miss all the marks on proper diagnosis and confuse correlation with causation.

To your point, the disparity exists due to factors both inside and outside of the school. They need to do the analysis to pinpoint the parts of the disparity that are directly related to the school environment and not pretend they can impact the metric in isolation when the reason for disciplinary and behavioral issues is greatly influenced by the home and neighborhood environment that the student lives in, which MCPS has NO control over.[/quote]

Seems misguided. They need to focus on what they can address because failing to do this has an even greater impact on others.[/quote]

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