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I feel like a pawn in this Board of Education race. I am a Latina woman and my kids are in mcps. The implication that white and Asian children are the desired races with the desired higher test scores stings. One side feels that by mixing and moving white and Asian children into mostly minority schools will fix the problem. Test scores will rise! Money is going to come in from those families and even things out. It’s not that easy. The other side does not want to deal with the real issues that come with lower ses families (The majority being Latino and black).

I don’t know the ins and outs and my ideas don’t take into account the complexity of these issues. I would rather instead of moving based on race and test scores* that more funding is allocated to lower performing schools. I can only speak to the issues within the Latin community and a lot of it is situational because the parents lack education themselves so they are unable to help their own children with school. I wish one of the resources was to even have Night classes to the parents so they could be better equipped to help their children. Have more accessibility to the teachers and administration at their own schools including hiring more staff who speak multiple languages to assist not just the Spanish-speaking community but many other minority communities. If you want children to succeed in schools you need families who are invested in those schools and who care about what is happening in those schools which means a greater community involvement. I think my ideas And how I feel will be flamed by dcum but I feel like I have insight not only to the Latin community but a point of view and experienced that the majority of people here don’t have.

(I think shifting boundaries to help overcrowded schools and under crowded schools is a good idea.)[/quote]

This is exactly what many of us support.  Enrichment and funding at "lower performing" schools instead of doing a redistricting to hide the problems.[/quote]

Yes, many, many people favor improving schools so that all offer quality educational opportunity...until the issue of paying for those improvement arises. Then, they say they are willing to pay for those improvements, but only after all the undefined “waste, fraud, and abuse” is weeded out. Sometimes, on the heels of that, comes the lament about the “illegals” and “sanctuary cities” and how they need to be weeded out too, before any new investments in schools are made. The old saw about property taxes being too high comes next, even though MoCo has one of the lowest property tax RATES in the state—somewhere around 18th out of 24 jurisdictions, if I recall correctly. In the end, schools in poorer neighborhoods don’t get the resources needed to meet the educational demands of those schools, while schools in wealthier neighborhoods get new turf fields and other amenities, either through MCPS directly or through their PTAs. That is the reality in MCPS.[/quote]

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