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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. [/quote]

Here it is right on MCPS's site:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/evidence-of-learning-framework/equity-accountability-model.aspx

Their 5 focus groups are:

1. Poor blacks
2. Poor latinos
3. Poor whites/asians
4. All blacks
5. All latinos

So in their own model, they assume latinos and blacks, even those who are well-off, need special focus and help solely because of their race. Latinos are the largest ethnic group among MCPS students (outnumbering whites too), but MCPS has decided that they still need special help. That's how racially-focused MCPS is. It's right on their site.

I was incensed when I finally starting digging and found stuff like that.[/quote]

Why does this upset you so much? Yes, MCPS tracks the performance of racial/ethnic and economic groups that have traditionally not been able to fully access the curriculum for a variety of reasons. Yes, it is helpful to be able to compare non-FARMS Black kids to FARMS Black kids, in order to try to understand how hundreds of years of institutional racism impact school performance, and how poverty exacerbates those issues.

It's just....data. Some of it is federally mandated, and some of it MCPS has decided is worth disaggregating. Why do you hate data so much? [/quote]

How about data on all groups. They don't seem to care about collecting data for non-FARMS whites and Asians.

Also they lump Asians and whites together.

Why not just track each ethnic group separately, if their goal is to track data?[/quote]

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