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Anonymous wrote:I wish MCPS would focus on, oh, I don't know - children's education?

I think their point is that racism impacts certain children's education.

I don't agree with the audit, though. I think, much like their other initiatives, the only outcome will be to dumb down education more so that certain groups don't feel as bad underperforming and/or MCPS can pat themselves on the back for less suspensions and more "graduates" of URM, even as the violence in our schools escalates and more and more kids are graduating with a 5th grade level education.

Completely agree.

We're not out of the woods yet of a, oh, I don't know, let's call it a GLOBAL PANDEMIC, the WORST academic rep MCPS has had in, oh, 20 YEARS, and the focus is NOT in improving schools but to go on a WITCH HUNT so she can retaliate against anyone who opposes her by labeling them a racist? What a f'kng narcissist.

And all of this was done while she's been a temp. If it's this bad now, what is the board shooting for scorched earth?

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Anonymous wrote:Man am I glad we left this system. They have lost their way, and keep blundering further into the wilderness. No leadership, focused on DEI pseudoscientific garbage, keeping schools closed for a year... incredible to me that any parents keep defending this bloated, ineffective bureaucracy.

Your face is showing under your white hood

No, you kook. We are all tired of the nonsense. And the deflection. My child doesn't know how to capitalize a sentence. How to write an essay or even a proper paragraph. If you want poc to excel (as they should) focus on the meaningful things to raise everyone up. Not drag everyone down.
And we all are tired of the deflection to "duh, you're a racist!" When people try to point out the real issues.

- not your pp.

Sit your @ss down and work with your child.

Why? They get As and tell me I'm wrong since the teachers think their work level is fine. I doubt most people even bother reading their children's graded papers and therefore have no clue about the lack of rigor and standards. Not sending work home, itself, is a sign of the poor education in mcps. It's like the intentionally want parents to separate themselves from their children's education.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man am I glad we left this system. They have lost their way, and keep blundering further into the wilderness. No leadership, focused on DEI pseudoscientific garbage, keeping schools closed for a year... incredible to me that any parents keep defending this bloated, ineffective bureaucracy.

Your face is showing under your white hood

No, you kook. We are all tired of the nonsense. And the deflection. My child doesn't know how to capitalize a sentence. How to write an essay or even a proper paragraph. If you want poc to excel (as they should) focus on the meaningful things to raise everyone up. Not drag everyone down.
And we all are tired of the deflection to "duh, you're a racist!" When people try to point out the real issues.

- not your pp.

Besides being racist, you must be a bad parent.

Pretty much everyone in this county is a Democrat and, beyond that, a liberal. I really couldn't understand the backlash that brought about the Trump administration and the hatred of liberals. But I really am starting to get it because of posters like this. I clearly said poc should be thriving but the boe is focused on the wrong agenda. .. and you call me a racist? It's so far beyond absurd that I really fear for what happens next in this country.
I've always voted Democrat no matter what but I take a step back and a look around and I just have to scratch my head. Besides things getting mostly worse, the vitriol and attacks and accusations against other democrats is really just sad.
The poster who mentioned youngkin is spot on. No one thought it would happen in Virginia. No one thinks it can happen here.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that the audit is antiracist instead of anti discrimination proves your point pp

+1 Discrimination is real in MCPS. Discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexual preference, and disability all thrive in MCPS. Dr. McKnight’s narrow focus with the audit ignores all the other ways MCPS discriminates and retaliates against teachers, students, and parents who complain.

But you have to start somewhere. This doesn't mean there won't be an audit on those other issues as well in the future.

That presents it as a false choice. They could have done an audit that also takes into account gender and sexual identity. But they didn’t. They chose race and only race. That was their start. That was their priority.

Bingo

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact that the audit is antiracist instead of anti discrimination proves your point pp

+1 Discrimination is real in MCPS. Discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexual preference, and disability all thrive in MCPS. Dr. McKnight’s narrow focus with the audit ignores all the other ways MCPS discriminates and retaliates against teachers, students, and parents who complain.

But you have to start somewhere. This doesn't mean there won't be an audit on those other issues as well in the future.

That presents it as a false choice. They could have done an audit that also takes into account gender and sexual identity. But they didn’t. They chose race and only race. That was their start. That was their priority.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact that the audit is antiracist instead of anti discrimination proves your point pp

+1 Discrimination is real in MCPS. Discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexual preference, and disability all thrive in MCPS. Dr. McKnight’s narrow focus with the audit ignores all the other ways MCPS discriminates and retaliates against teachers, students, and parents who complain.

But you have to start somewhere. This doesn't mean there won't be an audit on those other issues as well in the future.

Anonymous wrote:The fact that the audit is antiracist instead of anti discrimination proves your point pp

+1 Discrimination is real in MCPS. Discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexual preference, and disability all thrive in MCPS. Dr. McKnight’s narrow focus with the audit ignores all the other ways MCPS discriminates and retaliates against teachers, students, and parents who complain.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man am I glad we left this system. They have lost their way, and keep blundering further into the wilderness. No leadership, focused on DEI pseudoscientific garbage, keeping schools closed for a year... incredible to me that any parents keep defending this bloated, ineffective bureaucracy.

Your face is showing under your white hood

No, you kook. We are all tired of the nonsense. And the deflection. My child doesn't know how to capitalize a sentence. How to write an essay or even a proper paragraph. If you want poc to excel (as they should) focus on the meaningful things to raise everyone up. Not drag everyone down.
And we all are tired of the deflection to "duh, you're a racist!" When people try to point out the real issues.

- not your pp.

Sit your @ss down and work with your child.

It’s like you’ve forgotten what schools are supposed to be for.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man am I glad we left this system. They have lost their way, and keep blundering further into the wilderness. No leadership, focused on DEI pseudoscientific garbage, keeping schools closed for a year... incredible to me that any parents keep defending this bloated, ineffective bureaucracy.

Your face is showing under your white hood

No, you kook. We are all tired of the nonsense. And the deflection. My child doesn't know how to capitalize a sentence. How to write an essay or even a proper paragraph. If you want poc to excel (as they should) focus on the meaningful things to raise everyone up. Not drag everyone down.
And we all are tired of the deflection to "duh, you're a racist!" When people try to point out the real issues.

- not your pp.

Sit your @ss down and work with your child.

Anonymous wrote:Two years ago I would have thought this a fabulous idea. But as with everything else, implementation matters more than intent. Policy makers focus way too much on anecdote and not data. And they demonize individuals as racist instead of looking at ways to improve whole systems. So they don’t fix anything but also create resentment and distrust in the process.

I thought it was a great idea 50 years ago. However, there's never the appetite, time, tone nor place for these initiatives. Always something more pressing.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man am I glad we left this system. They have lost their way, and keep blundering further into the wilderness. No leadership, focused on DEI pseudoscientific garbage, keeping schools closed for a year... incredible to me that any parents keep defending this bloated, ineffective bureaucracy.

Your face is showing under your white hood

No, you kook. We are all tired of the nonsense. And the deflection. My child doesn't know how to capitalize a sentence. How to write an essay or even a proper paragraph. If you want poc to excel (as they should) focus on the meaningful things to raise everyone up. Not drag everyone down.
And we all are tired of the deflection to "duh, you're a racist!" When people try to point out the real issues.

- not your pp.

Besides being racist, you must be a bad parent.

DP.. you must be one of those "everything is racist" type people. Just an FYI, people like you are making uber progressives look bad and is one of the reasons why VA just elected a right wing Governor. Don't think it can't happen in MD.

Democrats have been in power at the local level and all they have done is destroy public education in Montgomery County. The quality of education matters. Keeping students in classrooms with teachers matters. Class sizes matters. Technology to learn with matters. Safety in schools matters. Special Education services matter. How MCPS treats students and parents matters. How trustworthy are the people in our schools matters. The pay scale for teachers and support staff matters.

I’m a Democrat and I will be voting for the candidate that has a plan for these issues. I look beyond party lines, especially when my party is hurting education and lets the school superintendent waste funds on decisive pet projects. I can’t vote for the next superintendent but I will vote against any BOE member who cast a vote to hire Dr. McKnight.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man am I glad we left this system. They have lost their way, and keep blundering further into the wilderness. No leadership, focused on DEI pseudoscientific garbage, keeping schools closed for a year... incredible to me that any parents keep defending this bloated, ineffective bureaucracy.

Your face is showing under your white hood

No, you kook. We are all tired of the nonsense. And the deflection. My child doesn't know how to capitalize a sentence. How to write an essay or even a proper paragraph. If you want poc to excel (as they should) focus on the meaningful things to raise everyone up. Not drag everyone down.
And we all are tired of the deflection to "duh, you're a racist!" When people try to point out the real issues.

- not your pp.

Besides being racist, you must be a bad parent.

NP. I’m amused that you think it’s the school’s responsibility to teach “anti-racism”, and the parent’s responsibility to teach writing skills. That seems backwards to me.

Anonymous wrote:I wish MCPS would focus on, oh, I don't know - children's education?

I think their point is that racism impacts certain children's education.

I don't agree with the audit, though. I think, much like their other initiatives, the only outcome will be to dumb down education more so that certain groups don't feel as bad underperforming and/or MCPS can pat themselves on the back for less suspensions and more "graduates" of URM, even as the violence in our schools escalates and more and more kids are graduating with a 5th grade level education.

I wish MCPS would focus on, oh, I don't know - children's education?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man am I glad we left this system. They have lost their way, and keep blundering further into the wilderness. No leadership, focused on DEI pseudoscientific garbage, keeping schools closed for a year... incredible to me that any parents keep defending this bloated, ineffective bureaucracy.

Your face is showing under your white hood

No, you kook. We are all tired of the nonsense. And the deflection. My child doesn't know how to capitalize a sentence. How to write an essay or even a proper paragraph. If you want poc to excel (as they should) focus on the meaningful things to raise everyone up. Not drag everyone down.
And we all are tired of the deflection to "duh, you're a racist!" When people try to point out the real issues.

- not your pp.

Besides being racist, you must be a bad parent.

DP.. you must be one of those "everything is racist" type people. Just an FYI, people like you are making uber progressives look bad and is one of the reasons why VA just elected a right wing Governor. Don't think it can't happen in MD.