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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]99% of the county did not watch and does not care, OP. And rightly so, because it's meaningless. Families want schools that aren't falling apart, with working A/C and heating, no rodents, and hustling to build more schools to alleviate overcrowding. Also, they'd love to have an adequate number of qualified teachers to fill all empty positions, and enough bus drivers.

We can all dream.[/quote]

This would be great, and more teaching vs. discussions and group projects, actual homework that relates to the class topics for reinforcement, textbooks for references and to guide the class, reading actual books in English class and going back to the basics - math facts, spelling, grammar, etc.

I care that my kids are in an environment where the religion they identify with is regularly being subjected to hate crimes but sadly we/they know there isn't anything anyone is going to do about it as its not a group of MCPS interest.[/quote]

This is my reaction too. [b]DC is subject to nearly daily racism in MCPS but because they are not a group of interest to them[/b], Dr. McKnight and others choose to ignore it. I'm glad she is stepping up to address the anti-semitic attacks, finally, but there are a lot of other groups who are being hurt and they are doing nothing. I hate the hypocrisy. [/quote]
Did you listen to the speech. She addressed every marginalized group (all races except white). What group is your DD that you think she did not address? In fact, you are demonstrating part of the rationale for the speech. Just because anti-semitic attacks have been in the new recently and are getting direct attention right now, doesn't mean that other groups targeted by racism and bias are less important.[/quote]

Anti Semitic attacks are not new.  They are ignored as most Jews are white and many think white peoples cannot experience racism or hate.  How do you think it impacts our kids, some of whom lost great grandparents and other relatives to the holocaust?   [/quote]

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