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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vague accusations that he "only cares" about Latinos makes it sound like you just don't like that he has advocated about the Latino community. [/quote]

If you knew him he’d try to help anyone but the schools his kids go to and the community is primarily Latino. [/quote]

Are you trying to say having kids in a predominantly Latino school is somehow a bad thing?[/quote]

DP.  I'm guessing that the PP was saying in a roundabout way that Lazo is going to toe the MCPS/MoCo establishment line.  That that will offer us nothing new vs. the current BOE policies/MCPS plans which consistently have failed to address [i]student[/i] need, except on the broad, facile bases on which they routinely rely for justification.  And that that will [i]continue[/i] the have/have-not and high-/low-expectation dichotomies among schools, disadvantaging those lower-income MoCo communities in which Latinx, currently, are disproportionately situated.[/quote]

Because his Latino kids go to school with lots of other Latino kids? That is an Fed up and nonsensical way to argue what you claim the PP is arguing. [b]MCPS is not going downhill because it cares too much about Latinos lol...[/b][/quote]

Not at all what I was suggesting might be the message.

MCPS makes decisions that end up reinforcing the social status quo while paying lip service to broader definitions of equity which might upset that status quo.  In the light of a student's academic need, [b]they set up an environment of low expectations, and parallel lower-ceilinged academic delivery, wherever there is not a [i]large proportion[/i] of families either pushing with significant academic supports outside of those provided by the school system or setting kids' expectations based on their own high academic achievement.[/b]

Those large proportions at the local school level correlate closely with areas of higher wealth.  Whether the [i]individual student[/i] has capability or motivation to achieve matters little in this paradigm -- MCPS simply fails to provide equivalent opportunity.

If characterization of Mr. Lazo as an insider is correct, he, like many insiders, political or school-based, may have been able to better ensure access to programs more aligned with the needs of his own kids, but he might not rock the boat to ensure that for others.  With the above-described MCPS setup,  that positioning might continue to leave. those in lower-wealth areas, which currently have higher Latinx representation in their schools, without equivalent access to the opportunites afforded more readily to those in higher-wealth (and lower underrepresented minority) areas of the county.

That poster might chime in with their own clarification of their "If you knew him" claim.[/quote]

Everything you said is on point but what I bolded from what you said is especially true and why schools like Kennedy, Watkins Mill, Gaithersburg, Springbrook, etc struggle and suffer.[/quote]

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