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Anonymous wrote:This is not a MD-specific topic; the achievement gap is being talked about nationwide, and now even between the US and other countries. The growing wealth gap is the drive behind this, and the result is increasingly segregated schools, a hyper-focus on ranking schools, and a large number of children learning in separate and not equal schools.

You think the achievement gap is because of wealth disparity? I think it's just the latest think being used to try to explain it.

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Anonymous wrote:MoCo has become, as Doug Gansler so ineloquently put it in the recent debate, a "majority minority county." Whites are a minority now, and minorities have growing power in politics. They've (rightly) made it an issue, IMO, because the schools are insanely segregated, and black and Latino kids are not doing as well statistically. Part of this is SES but part of it is the overall school culture and treatment of minority kids. There are still more suspensions, more discipline, more expulsions of minority children. They can't do much about the SES disparity and impact, but they can do their part to ensure equitable treatment of all kids on their end.

And after watching them testify ad nauseam this year during many budget sessions, I am convinced they are clueless about the issue.

Yeah, this can't possibly be fair. If these kids were actually causing more problems we would expect the trend to continue once they left school and became adults, and that doesn't happen right? And I suppose Asian kids aren't considered a minority? They get expelled at a lower rate than whites; it must be that the school system is biased against whites as well.

Black and Hispanic children get punished more, and more severely, than white children, for the same offense. Black and Hispanic adults get punished more, and more severely, than white adults, for the same offense.


Why? Well, racism has something to do with it.

Yes. Racism does have something to do with it. Like I posted before, they can't do much about the SES disparity. They can only control what's in their own power. And there is stereotyping and inequitable treatment going on. Just has to stop.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not a MD-specific topic; the achievement gap is being talked about nationwide, and now even between the US and other countries. The growing wealth gap is the drive behind this, and the result is increasingly segregated schools, a hyper-focus on ranking schools, and a large number of children learning in separate and not equal schools.

You think the achievement gap is because of wealth disparity? I think it's just the latest think being used to try to explain it.

Anonymous wrote:This is not a MD-specific topic; the achievement gap is being talked about nationwide, and now even between the US and other countries. The growing wealth gap is the drive behind this, and the result is increasingly segregated schools, a hyper-focus on ranking schools, and a large number of children learning in separate and not equal schools.