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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent your kid. Vote sensibly. The ELLs will get a better education in MCPS and benefit our society. Remember they along with others bring the "diversity" that everyone claims they want for their kid to be exposed to, but have their kid turn their heads when a "diverse" person approaches them or sees them. Ya those people. The upper and upper middles will do fine regardless. [/quote]

Claiming everyone wants diversity as if people are buying homes here to expose their family to diversity is such a crock. People buy for the academic excellence first and foremost.  Unfortunately,  that's gone in the toilet. And no- it's not true that if you're wealthy you'll be fine. Your child may test higher on standardized tests but spending 12 years in a school system that doesn't correct grammar leads to poor outcomes for every child. I suspect those who make the "if you're rich you'll be fine" claims aren't actually reading their students work.[/quote]

By "fine" they mean mediocre, which is the intent of the "equity" policies. It looks to me like MCPS has been quite successful in its stated goal of "equity" as the performance of students in the middle to mid-upper has flattened or declined, therefore closing the gaps. ([b]And furthermore if MCPS is allowed to exclude from performance data students who it allows to be chronically absent, then the performance of students at the bottom are artificially inflated[/b]). I agree that MCPS is in decline, but that is only if one assumes that the purpose of MCPS is to provide an excellent education and give every student the opportunity to realize his or her full academic potential. The problem is that this is not actually the purpose of MCPS anymore, and hasn't been for quite some time. Based on its own stated goals, MCPS has been (and continues to be) quite successful.[/quote]

If a student is absent for a significant amount of time, clearly their performance and any teacher’s ability to teach them the same things is going to be impacted.  Remove chronically absent students from the data is not about inflating numbers but getting to specific and reasonable data.[/quote]

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