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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Demographic changes (majority minority)

Socioeconomic changes (the county isn’t as wealthy as it used to be)[/b]

Covid (the county really effed up with keeping the kids home so long, greatly-lowered standards bc mental health, over reliance on Chromebooks)

Discipline changes (kids are less respectful these days just overall, thank you, gentle parenting, and schools are hamstrung on what they can do legally and try desperately to avoid suspending too many kids of color, and MCPS still has a lot of old, racist teachers who LOVE to blame everything on this- but it’s just one piece)

Political changes (since Trump Part 1 everyone has gotten more strident on both sides and too quickly accuses the other of malice and bad intentions)

And now the county is in the middle of a big redistricting (third rail!) and wants to get rid of the magnets (whose racist history is awful, and which are still too white, but which offered real enrichment for super high achievers, so which kept a segment of the families happy).

I have four kids who’ve gone thru MCPS and I still support public education and MCPS in general, but times are TOUGH right now and we can get thru it if we get rid of the stupid racist dog whistles about discipline and come together to make MCPS a decent place for all kids. 
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First two are the root causes for MCPS decline over the years which resulted in widening achievement gap (or lower performance overall). These are societal issues that MCPS has always tried to solve in classroom. You cannot solve (and should not try to solve) social issues in classroom. Schools are for teaching. Focus on teaching. [/quote]

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