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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I worked at a middle school in MCPS that had very few whites or Asians.  One little nice thing about it is that we didn’t have to dance around equity issues since most kids were Hispanic.  We targeted real problems and traumas for specific students.  We had ABC parties to reward students who worked hard.  There were no issues putting kids into the reading classes they needed.  If a kid was acting up staff didn’t get blamed automatically for not connecting to the student.[/quote]

This is actually really heartbreaking. The mere presence of whites or Asians should not complicate targeting problems or traumas for specific students, prevent parties to reward students who worked hard, the appropriate assignment of needed reading classes or automatic blame toward staff for a kid acting up. Each student is an actual individual human, not just a member of a racial or ethnic identity group.

The real truth is that equity itself is a wonderful, noble idea, but the equity leaders who are actually hired to do the work in MCPS and many other organizations are actually just empty suit grifters who want to guilt everyone into funneling as many resources as possible away from those they assume have privilege or power toward their own group, who they see as more deserving. They have not found the secret sauce to actually unlocking the potential in their priority groups, so they go all smoke and mirrors with the optics by depriving high achievers of appropriate enrichment and twisting all policies through a lens derived alongside the bigotry of low expectations. [/quote]

I'm curious what you think "equity" is, that you would refer to it as noble. Equity is equal outcomes, which can only be achieved through force. Equity is authoritarian socialism. In practice in MCPS it means demotivating, demoralizing, and hamstringing students who would achieve so that the gap between them and poorly performing students closes. It also means grade inflation and de-emphasizing or eliminating tests so that progress cannot be accurately assessed. While I was driving my kids and their friends in the car today, they brought up the 50% rule while discussing school. The friend said that she would probably try harder if there were no 50% rule. This, I think is the biggest way equity is implemented in MCPS across the broadest swathe of student population---by instilling in them apathy and laziness--causing them to not try as hard. The noble thing for MCPS to do would be to challenge each and every student to reach new heights (their fullest potential). To the contrary, though, MCPS is not only not doing this---but MCPS is actually expending considerable resources (read our tax dollars) to prevent this from happening.[/quote]

I totally agree with you. I think we are actually saying the same thing. The way I think equity used to be defined before it got all garbled is meeting students where they are and giving them what they need to reach their individual potential. This means some kids “get” more because they need more, but it doesn’t end in equal outcomes for all, because different individuals have different individual trajectories of potential. This is in contrast to what schools used to do which was give everyone the same thing. I am not here for this authoritarian socialism either and I completely agree they are watering down so many things simultaneously that we will have a generation of undereducated kids and they still will have the achievement gap with everyone’s baseline lowered. [/quote]

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