Anonymous wrote:It's a good and useful survey and only takes about 10 minutes to fill out. That said, I'm trying sooooo hard to not let my absolutely horrible experiences with the school administration (180 from previous grades school) impact responses. Have saved the survey for days and not submitted yet. Trying to be fair--but being highly critical, which I do not enjoy, is fair. I do wonder if my answers would be slightly better if administrator/some staff good faith and capacity were better.

I’m curious what you find good or useful about it? I truly saw no redeeming value in it since it’s so poorly designed.

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Thanks. Indian dad here. With kids in very diverse moco schools I just can't bring myself to fill in the survey. Saw the first questions and I have no idea what they are getting at.

MCPS does not really think you are a stakeholder in this. How would you know if there are books based on Indian heritage in the library? Are you getting MCPS or school communications in Hindi or any other Indian language? You could either ignore the survey or you could complete it and let MCPS do the ignoring for you.

Anonymous wrote:3 messages/reminders from each of the schools that my kids go to, and 3-4 emails from MCPS. Help!! There should be topic-specific unsubscribe options

Do you think they're trying to tell you something?

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah I filled the survey out right away (challenging to answer most questions as an upper middle class white person with a white kid - I honestly have no idea what someone "not respecting my culture" would look like...mocking athleisure??? calling me basic???) but I'm still getting the emails. The reward for doing the survey is supposed to be not getting the emails any more, come on.

The survey was either poorly designed or simply was not meant for white people.

They are either looking for affirmation they are doing a good job or looking for justification to invest in some new required curriculum.

After two years of going down this rabbit hole where everyone felt compelled to fixate on race, can the pendulum just swing back to a more reasonable response along the lines of treat everyone with respect? It’s not hard. Really. And, it’s the right thing to do. People are more than their skin color. No need to label anyone.

Thanks. Indian dad here. With kids in very diverse moco schools I just can't bring myself to fill in the survey. Saw the first questions and I have no idea what they are getting at.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah I filled the survey out right away (challenging to answer most questions as an upper middle class white person with a white kid - I honestly have no idea what someone "not respecting my culture" would look like...mocking athleisure??? calling me basic???) but I'm still getting the emails. The reward for doing the survey is supposed to be not getting the emails any more, come on.

The survey was either poorly designed or simply was not meant for white people.

They are either looking for affirmation they are doing a good job or looking for justification to invest in some new required curriculum.

After two years of going down this rabbit hole where everyone felt compelled to fixate on race, can the pendulum just swing back to a more reasonable response along the lines of treat everyone with respect? It’s not hard. Really. And, it’s the right thing to do. People are more than their skin color. No need to label anyone.

Anonymous wrote:What’s especially ironic is the fact that parents can’t enter the schools … so I have no idea what anti-racist stuff my kids are learning.

Yes!
And the questions asked about material in the library - how are we supposed to know? We can’t enter the building. It also asked whether assemblies represented all cultures. We have not had any since Covid. It just makes them look incompetent.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone want to bet that this survey will be misused to fund someone's personal agenda that no one wants?

Ding ding ding

Absolutely it will be misused. It is like companies getting consultants to provide advice when they want to do something shifty.

This is why I refuse to do it. Who has access to the information and what will they do with it.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone want to bet that this survey will be misused to fund someone's personal agenda that no one wants?

Ding ding ding

Absolutely it will be misused. It is like companies getting consultants to provide advice when they want to do something shifty.

Anonymous wrote:I had been ignoring it, but finally filled it out today. I used it as an opportunity to complain about their decision to waste resources on this stupid survey instead of addressing the massive learning loss they created with virtual learning. I am sure my response will be completely ignored.

+1

Anonymous wrote:Anyone want to bet that this survey will be misused to fund someone's personal agenda that no one wants?

Ding ding ding

Anonymous wrote:What’s especially ironic is the fact that parents can’t enter the schools … so I have no idea what anti-racist stuff my kids are learning.

+1 seriously

It's a good and useful survey and only takes about 10 minutes to fill out. That said, I'm trying sooooo hard to not let my absolutely horrible experiences with the school administration (180 from previous grades school) impact responses. Have saved the survey for days and not submitted yet. Trying to be fair--but being highly critical, which I do not enjoy, is fair. I do wonder if my answers would be slightly better if administrator/some staff good faith and capacity were better.

Academically I have issues with the "is someone form your child's race presented as a hero" question. I understand the noble sentiment, but that's one hell of a way to teach history. You can show different perspectives and different cultures without being so revisionist.

And of course, for our family's culture, being as we come from a long line of Orange Protestants and southern white people, the answer is "no."

I'm fine with that, but as I said, this survey seems less a survey and more a chance to justify an outcome already decided, and one that is obvious.

Yes, we aren't teaching kids about Central American and East Asian "heroes," typically. Why? Because history in secondary school skews American and European. Should we instead spend more time learning about native American culture and history? I'm all for incorporating different perspectives and points of view, but there needs to be a common thread. Balkanize our history and we will turn into the Balkans.

What’s especially ironic is the fact that parents can’t enter the schools … so I have no idea what anti-racist stuff my kids are learning.

Anyone want to bet that this survey will be misused to fund someone's personal agenda that no one wants?