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[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]

Spot on.[/quote]

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