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[quote=Anonymous]https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/detail.aspx?id=258

From the mcps website: a report on a special 2007|2008 initiative to address the special issues faced by Latino newcomers.

Seems like a lot of thought and funding was dedicated to issues that have only grown more complex given the influx in latino newcomers and 1st Gen Latinos.

In short: mcps already had issues with low-income black students/families back in the day, and now mcps has bigger issues as shifting demographics become Latino-heavy.

Icymi: there are very real subcultural norms when it comes to priorities. Education isn’t their priority…socioeconomics via manual labor is. They need cash to send “home” (meaning their country). Many boys (who are the source of the issue) arrive without their parents (google the DHS data on unaccompanied children arrivals).

But sure, mcps can take a hardline approach. The affluent white parents will dutifully comply. The affluent Indian parents will reluctantly comply or file a lawsuit (infringing upon their religious freedom to travel to their home country). But the chronically absent black and Latino boys and their families won’t shift behavior.

Has anyone at mcps pulled their own report from 2007? [/quote]

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