Reply to Grade equity at MCPS

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Grade equity at MCPS"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just don't see it. Most questions are right or wrong. It's not up for debate. 2+2 = 4 bias won't change that.[/quote]

OP said "subjects like English and History or anything else that requires writing and where the grading is highly subjective."[/quote]

I just gave a reading and writing assignment to my students yesterday.  I was very disappointed by the results.  [b]Most of my AA students did not submit and were really struggling with the reading[/b].   I want to become a better teacher, but the reality is that many students from low SES backgrounds have been passed ahead without gaining enough skills.  I know I can do better, but I am not even sure where to start.  It's clearly a attendance/curriculum issue.  Not just an equity issue.[/quote]

Black parent here. Were they struggling with the reading or just not engaged or wanting to do the reading and associated work at all?

I find that in our community, there is so much unfettered access to phones that it is absolutely sapping black teens of their imagination, attention and creativity. I mean these kids lose any and all motivation to do ANYTHING other than text message, look at TikTok/Instagram and watch YouTube/Twitch. In white and Asian families, there's a lot more vigilance and supervision around things like screen time and monitoring how much time their kids are using those devices and the impact it's having on their kids' focus and attention spans.

The two could be intertwined as the underlying reason why some of the black kids you're teaching are behind is because of unrestricted access to a phone, that distracts and prevents them from focusing and learning as they should.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics