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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]DCPS is a district focused primarily on the growth and success of low-income children of color. From leadership down that is the priority, [b]and it should be[/b].[/quote]

Explain to me why a school system should focus primarily upon on one socio-economic and ethnic group. Other jurisdictions like Arlington,  Alexandria, MCPS, and Fairfax somehow seem to manage to care about ALL learners. [/quote]

Because inequality is horrible for society overall, yes even for you.

I'm a European immigrant (but not Anglo) who is disgusted with continuing segregation and imprisonment of a significant portion of the US population. I want my kids to benefit from fair competition where the brightest minds can apply their talents and efforts to better society, not a system that suppresses such talent based on random and inconsequential (to quality) attribute, such as skin color, gender, accent, religion, sexual orientation, to name a few.

Do people really not get it or just pretend not to get it? SMH[/quote]

You are arguing that DCPS should prioritize a single demographic out of equality?!  Huh.[/quote]

You know as well as I do that when DCUM parents say they want “equal treatment” of their demographic, what they really mean is that they demand the right to utterly reshape educational policy and implement pro-white affirmative action in a doomed attempt to attract high SES white families to schools.  When they say they want equality, they DON’T mean - as other groups who have made that demand have meant — that they want an end to discriminatory or abusive policies.  What they want is that the schools be reshaped in a way that pleases them (tracking, gifted programs, suspensions and expulsions).  And they want all that as a gesture to high SES whites who currently don’t use the schools —- a gesture that history shows will certainly fail as those high SES whites continue to move to be burbs or go private, despite their protestations to the contrary.  [/quote]

I'm sorry, did you just equate racially biased suspensions and disproportionate discipline of children of color with providing honors classes in MS and HS? This type of BS is how people like you lose people like me who otherwise support equity goals. I is possible to achieve multiple goals and outcomes at the same time. And it is patently offensive to suggest that honors classes and provision of advanced materials is somehow biased against children of color.   [/quote]

Nice try, but you know — or you ought to know — that’s not what I said.  What I said is that DCUM parents demand tracking and gifted programs (programs where kids are segregated —- supposedly by ability —- into G&T classes and « regular «  classes.

No one has any issue with high schools offering honors and AP classes.  However, if you look at the extremely problematic and explicitly racist history of tracking and G&T programs in many jurisdictions, including DC, you will understand why demands from UMC white parents —- made on this board every single day —-  that schools be made over so that  students be tracked early and rigorously cut no ice with most DCPS parents. [/quote]

You are being too cute by half; you denied that what I accused you of is what you said, and then said what I accused you of saying!

Your position appears to be that MS should not track kids or have advanced classes for advanced learners. I wonder if you have kids or spend any time in schools if you fail to understand that kids differentiate well before HS. The position you and your well meaning but regressive cabal seem to take is that because tracking could be used for malintent, we should teach to the lowest common denominator.

UMC white families will supplement or leave the area or system. By refusing to allow advanced classes for advanced MS learners you are disproportionately hurting black kids who can and want to do advanced work. I think you know that, and I think you are ok with that.  [/quote]

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