Anonymous wrote:Why aren't we looking at the factors impacting the kids who are acting out, exploding, setting stuff on fire etc. We should be putting our energy there. And not just in the schools, which only can do so much. Instead of a bajillion trainings on implicit bias, why not beef up mental health support, and offer more parent education, and give students adult mentors and do other things that target some of the root problems. It's once again blaming teachers and admin and putting them in the position of allowing behaviors that put others at risk. If their numbers are disproportionate, they'll be publicly shamed with a list like this, but they'll also pay a price if they can't maintain any order in their classrooms and schools. Instead of paying a central office director to gallivant around the world recruiting teachers full time, use that money to help kids.

Anonymous wrote:Although it’s a complex problem that will take a “comprehensive” plan to address, Johns said, he suggested that MCPS focuses on training teachers and principals about students’ different cultural backgrounds and on restorative justice.

The key, he said, is to not pull students out of class to discipline them for actions that are not serious. MCPS considers serious offenses to include physical or sexual assault, other forms of violence and arson.


More training on cultural backgrounds for teachers and principals? That will do it. That will solve the suspensions.
LOL

Anonymous wrote:Although it’s a complex problem that will take a “comprehensive” plan to address, Johns said, he suggested that MCPS focuses on training teachers and principals about students’ different cultural backgrounds and on restorative justice.

The key, he said, is to not pull students out of class to discipline them for actions that are not serious. MCPS considers serious offenses to include physical or sexual assault, other forms of violence and arson.


More training on cultural backgrounds for teachers and principals? That will do it. That will solve the suspensions.
LOL

Anonymous wrote:As the parent of a mixed race kid (AA and white) who is 2- this is already on our minds when looking at schools.

My DH was (and is still) friends with mostly wealthy, white kids. One kid took the cops on a high speed chase through HoCo after being pulled over for a DUI. He got probation and a fine. If he was a minority, he would've been shot.

There are ingrained stereotypes that we all carry with us. Teachers and administrations are not exempt from this and data does not lie. More minority kids are suspended for lesser offenses and non-minority kids can tag a school with offense images (see reference to VA tagging in article about Glenelg "Among black families like hers, there were doubts that the white teens would face the kind of punishment black teens receive for similar crimes. Two years earlier, a group of students had painted swastikas on a historic black schoolhouse in Northern Virginia. A Loudoun County judge sentenced them not to jail time or community service, but to reading: along with visiting the Holocaust museum, each had to choose a single book about Nazi Germany or the Jim Crow era and write a report on it")

Every day, all day across the country.

Little white kids who cant sit still and are interrupting their class=ADD/ADHD. Little black kids who cant sit still and are interrupting their class= thug, bad parenting, disruptive, etc.

Anonymous wrote:As the parent of a mixed race kid (AA and white) who is 2- this is already on our minds when looking at schools.

My DH was (and is still) friends with mostly wealthy, white kids. One kid took the cops on a high speed chase through HoCo after being pulled over for a DUI. He got probation and a fine. If he was a minority, he would've been shot.

There are ingrained stereotypes that we all carry with us. Teachers and administrations are not exempt from this and data does not lie. More minority kids are suspended for lesser offenses and non-minority kids can tag a school with offense images (see reference to VA tagging in article about Glenelg "Among black families like hers, there were doubts that the white teens would face the kind of punishment black teens receive for similar crimes. Two years earlier, a group of students had painted swastikas on a historic black schoolhouse in Northern Virginia. A Loudoun County judge sentenced them not to jail time or community service, but to reading: along with visiting the Holocaust museum, each had to choose a single book about Nazi Germany or the Jim Crow era and write a report on it")

Every day, all day across the country.

Little white kids who cant sit still and are interrupting their class=ADD/ADHD. Little black kids who cant sit still and are interrupting their class= thug, bad parenting, disruptive, etc.

Anonymous wrote:So you think if Student A who is white does X and Student B who is black does X... the black student should be suspended and the white student should not be suspended?

Anonymous wrote:https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/black-hispanic-students-disproportionately-suspended-in-mcps-data-show/?fbclid=IwAR35pQ6w_d5xvMEZpE1r3rRc9rv61da9RxqTUwuhjLRbM-FZqimbFHmplak

The county says it needs to work on how unfair this is.

Meanwhile, parents everywhere are once again, not accountable.

Anonymous wrote:So now we will remove the 2.0 GPA requirement for sports because it isn't fair to minorities and we will purposely decrease suspensions too.

Seems right. Seems safe.

How do these teachers do it? No thanks. Even a 6 figure salary is not enough to keep the best in it when you have these kind of stipulations.