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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of the comments on this thread really show why we need to be more sensitive to all of those around us.  In the DC area we live with many racial differences, cultural differences, etc.   The DC area is fast become majority minority.  Maybe we don't need teacher training - but as a community we do need to deal with reality.  I am sure there are teachers with biases that perhaps they don't even realize they have.   However, I am frankly more worried about the commuity as a whole when I read some of the ignorant comments on this thread.  [/quote]

Yes lets all be sensitive and bury our heads in the sand and pretend that there are not serious problems in classrooms caused by minority students.  Ask ANY teacher who causes the most disruptions in their classrooms and who are the most difficult to deal with.  Why do you think that when there is an opening at schools like Poolesville, Churchill, Whitman, Quince Orchard or their feeder schools that there are hundreds of applicants?  Why?  They want to get away from the jungle that the east side of the county has become.[/quote]

Wow!  So....Blair is a jungle?  Blake?  Paint Branch?  Springbrook? How do the behavior issuses at those schools compare to BCC, Richard Montgomery, Gaithersburg? Where is the data to back up your dogma?  And do not quote me disciplne stats because there are many studies that show that Hispanic and AA boys get harsher discipline than White boys for the same offenses.

Oh and did you know that 2 of the schools that you cite are in the top 4 in the county in suspensions/expulsions due to in-school drug possession? And NONE of the top 4 are East county. [/quote]

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