Anonymous wrote:I think the elephant in the room is that for actual equity MCPS needs to educate all kids well. Creating safe schools free from violence with smaller class sizes and more paraeducators plus getting back to proven methods of teaching of teaching such as phonics, reading real books and learning the basics of math will do more to improve equity than paying for equity symposiums. All children deserve to be taught well and money needs to be directed toward supporting learning. Years of resource investment in equity at MCPS has not actually improved equity (hate speech and racist incidents are up not down.) And, academic performance across the board is down especially among non-Asian minority groups. So yes of course MCPS should prohibit discrimination and punish hate but the current experiment on how to go about this has failed.

The school system fixing equity is like the police department fixing the weather.

Why is he goofing on XTwitter instead of doing this job.

Anonymous wrote:Its pretty bad already... if it gets much worse, its really going to hit rock bottom.

Sadly true.

I think the elephant in the room is that for actual equity MCPS needs to educate all kids well. Creating safe schools free from violence with smaller class sizes and more paraeducators plus getting back to proven methods of teaching of teaching such as phonics, reading real books and learning the basics of math will do more to improve equity than paying for equity symposiums. All children deserve to be taught well and money needs to be directed toward supporting learning. Years of resource investment in equity at MCPS has not actually improved equity (hate speech and racist incidents are up not down.) And, academic performance across the board is down especially among non-Asian minority groups. So yes of course MCPS should prohibit discrimination and punish hate but the current experiment on how to go about this has failed.

Restorative Justice - same thing. What exactly do those people do? Time to get a real job and get back in schools. Waste of $$$

Anonymous wrote:Same people over and over again. It’s the equity office just trying to justify its existence since teachers in classrooms have no idea what they do other than create overly repetitious trainings verging on preaching rather than instruction. Teachers are getting very jaded by the lack of concrete action and the justification of lowering standards in the name of equity. Equity is barely mentioned in my school now since it seems to have lost any relatable meaning.

Not only that, it has a VERY strong negative connotation now.

But MCPS is still spending good money to keep these ‘equity’ experts employed!

The head of professional growth was the worst Principal my kids ever had. I think roughly 1/3 of the staff left after her first year. Now she’s in charge of helping staff grow professionally?? Of course.

The Quince Orchard principal who retired just took on a role. As some anti bias classroom specialist or other ridiculous role.
Her test scores were poor and she has no business in this role, if the role even should exist


The system needs to be flushed down the toilet.

How many people work in the equity office full time? I’m curious what they do for 40 hours a week from the comfort of their homes while school based staff are out in the trenches. Talk about a waste of money. Put them all back in classrooms, please.

Another teacher that didn't know about this symposium.

MCPS (and the nation) needs to take a look at what has happened to schools. We need to get back to teaching children to read and do basic math. No child should be leaving elementary. school without these basics, and yet they are.

Part of the reason is standardized testing. We are so busy trying to teach children to read and analyze writing that is well over their heads, rather than just learning to read. Novel studies should be brought back. Reading for enjoyment should be brought back. I have such fond memories of DEAR time and read aloud. Now, all reading is around content standards and answering multiple choice questions.

Then there's math. Instead of teaching the basics, we are teaching problem-solving. In theory, this is great. However, in reality,y kids are not learning the basics and aren't therefore able to apply the basics to the more difficult problems.

If we have to have a DEI department, I'd rather them look at how we can have kids leaving elementary reading!

MCPS Teacher here. Never even heard about it.

Equity office needs to go. It just seems like somewhat of a holding area for displaced admin who needed to come out of schools. I have not been impressed with an anything this office does in schools. Collecting data? Endless speeches and trainings? No concrete goals or results.

No teachers willing to give us a firsthand account of the symposium?

No such thing as equity.

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Anonymous wrote:No wonder your kids are racist AF at Wootton. Listen to yourselves

It's you. Poc fought for many advancement and git them
But there's always a group of whites out there willing to build expensive smoke and mirrors to steal credit for those advancements.

And yeah I've noticed the more you try to shove anti anything down people's throats, the less anti they become. What an expensive paradox.
Mcks might understand that if they spent money on education.

Where are you posting from?

Anonymous wrote:No wonder your kids are racist AF at Wootton. Listen to yourselves

It's you. Poc fought for many advancement and git them
But there's always a group of whites out there willing to build expensive smoke and mirrors to steal credit for those advancements.

And yeah I've noticed the more you try to shove anti anything down people's throats, the less anti they become. What an expensive paradox.
Mcks might understand that if they spent money on education.