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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But what happens when we arrive back at where we started- with tracking? With being able to tell which class is honors and which is on level based on the color of the kids’ skin when you walk by the rooms? That is not okay and there ARE teachers who don’t want that either![/quote]

There are ways to mitigate some of that, like having truly rigorous honors classes but not gatekeeping them (allowing anyone who's not genuinely below-level to enroll or even making enrollment the default unless they opt out, and providing extra outside of class supports for kids who want to take them but aren't quite prepared to succeed, to help them keep up without slowing the classes down for the others.)

But really unfortunately there's no good answer here (at least not one without investing a lot more effort and resources than MCPS is willing to invest.) Having everyone in the same below-level classes because you don't want to see any racial disparities is not a good solution either. [/quote]

Yes to all this.

Another reason I worry about the return to on level and honors- guess who wants to teach the on level classes? No one. [b]Guess who is vocal about it and would have terrible low expectations for the on level classes- the teachers who are racist. Who wouldn’t say anything out loud, but who secretly want to teach white children from the 1950s[/b]. And in lieu of that only want to teach AP classes now. Sigh. I am a teacher in a diverse high school and too many of my colleagues- not all or even most of them- but SOME of them are secretly bigoted. And their glee at returning to this segregation is discouraging. [/quote]

That is a real problem that MCPS leadership needs to address. Not parents or students.

So what are principals and central office going to do about these racist white teachers who don't want to teach on-level kids and who "secretly" look down on the Black and Hispanic students they're tasked with educating?[/quote]

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