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Anonymous wrote:Great! finally we have some holistic factor in play. Bravo MCPS for working so diligently on increasing the number of URM in the magnet programs. It won't eliminate the inequality of MCPS right away, but is to the right direction!

I hope when Mrs. Dixon becomes the new elected MCPS BOE member in November, she will remember her promise to have students to attend schools of their choices, not to be limited by their home locations. We need stronger leaders with vision in MCPS. We need people with a big heart to truly the help the URM and to achieve equality.

URMs don't need to be in magnet schools. URMs need to first bridge the gap at the very basic and elementary level of education. All in all, this is charity to the unprepared. It will not bridge the achievement gap.
Inequality in achievement is a function of the home-life primarily. The majority of URM parents are not involved in the education of their kids.

It's hilarious to see so many white folks running scared because your little HGC pipeline for your snowflakes is threatened by attempts at leveling the playing field.
Oh no, if minority and poor kids and their parents learn about the programs and, gasp, test in...what does it meeeeaaaaan?
I mean how could you ever get a taxpayer-funded, special experience for your kids with so many blacks, Latinos and poors around?
Malign diversity efforts. Flood the school board with disingenuous complaints about lowered standards. Make paternalistic prognostications about what URMs really need--after all, you know what's best for them.
Build a wall. Do whatever it takes to keep your privilege secure.
And, if that fails, there's always private.

Anonymous wrote:I think it's more of a race to the middle

They need to rebrand the entire program something fitting like modestly gifted center.

I think it's more of a race to the middle

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Anonymous wrote:Great! finally we have some holistic factor in play. Bravo MCPS for working so diligently on increasing the number of URM in the magnet programs. It won't eliminate the inequality of MCPS right away, but is to the right direction!

I hope when Mrs. Dixon becomes the new elected MCPS BOE member in November, she will remember her promise to have students to attend schools of their choices, not to be limited by their home locations. We need stronger leaders with vision in MCPS. We need people with a big heart to truly the help the URM and to achieve equality.

URMs don't need to be in magnet schools. URMs need to first bridge the gap at the very basic and elementary level of education. All in all, this is charity to the unprepared. It will not bridge the achievement gap.
Inequality in achievement is a function of the home-life primarily. The majority of URM parents are not involved in the education of their kids.

I am as left-leaning as they come, but I agree with this.

And I'm glad my kids are in their final years of school at the Blair magnet, because it seems MCPS is engaged in a race to the bottom going forward.

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Anonymous wrote:Great! finally we have some holistic factor in play. Bravo MCPS for working so diligently on increasing the number of URM in the magnet programs. It won't eliminate the inequality of MCPS right away, but is to the right direction!

I hope when Mrs. Dixon becomes the new elected MCPS BOE member in November, she will remember her promise to have students to attend schools of their choices, not to be limited by their home locations. We need stronger leaders with vision in MCPS. We need people with a big heart to truly the help the URM and to achieve equality.

URMs don't need to be in magnet schools. URMs need to first bridge the gap at the very basic and elementary level of education. All in all, this is charity to the unprepared. It will not bridge the achievement gap.
Inequality in achievement is a function of the home-life primarily. The majority of URM parents are not involved in the education of their kids.

Anonymous wrote:Great! finally we have some holistic factor in play. Bravo MCPS for working so diligently on increasing the number of URM in the magnet programs. It won't eliminate the inequality of MCPS right away, but is to the right direction!

I hope when Mrs. Dixon becomes the new elected MCPS BOE member in November, she will remember her promise to have students to attend schools of their choices, not to be limited by their home locations. We need stronger leaders with vision in MCPS. We need people with a big heart to truly the help the URM and to achieve equality.

Great! Busing students around is a critical 21st century education technique.

Sad but true PP.

Anonymous wrote:Great! finally we have some holistic factor in play. Bravo MCPS for working so diligently on increasing the number of URM in the magnet programs. It won't eliminate the inequality of MCPS right away, but is to the right direction!

I hope when Mrs. Dixon becomes the new elected MCPS BOE member in November, she will remember her promise to have students to attend schools of their choices, not to be limited by their home locations. We need stronger leaders with vision in MCPS. We need people with a big heart to truly the help the URM and to achieve equality.

URMs don't need to be in magnet schools. URMs need to first bridge the gap at the very basic and elementary level of education. All in all, this is charity to the unprepared. It will not bridge the achievement gap.
Inequality in achievement is a function of the home-life primarily. The majority of URM parents are not involved in the education of their kids.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great! finally we have some holistic factor in play. Bravo MCPS for working so diligently on increasing the number of URM in the magnet programs. It won't eliminate the inequality of MCPS right away, but is to the right direction!

I hope when Mrs. Dixon becomes the new elected MCPS BOE member in November, she will remember her promise to have students to attend schools of their choices, not to be limited by their home locations. We need stronger leaders with vision in MCPS. We need people with a big heart to truly the help the URM and to achieve equality.

URM is such a stupid term, minorities aren't supposed to have absolute parity in a representative democracy. When we dump on the majority too much so that others can feel equal they will then be completely unprepared when the real world reminds them where they truly stand.

what real world? the world without affirmative action? we are going to change that, starting from education and public sectors, the private companies are catching up. One step at a time, sis!

One country at a time and then the world!

You realize that China, Germany, Russia, Japan, etc. don't care about American black and Hispanic students closing their "achievement gap", right ?
If Americans break their education system to make certain groups "feel good", the rest of the world will just crush American companies.
Survival of the fittest. American top companies won't be able to hire Chinese and Indians forever.

No amount of funds will fix the achievement gap. This solution in particular will only close the gap by hurting people who currently benefit. It effectively just lowers the bar so everyone is on a lower level.

That being said there is certainly room for improvement with MoCo's approach to HGCs. The current program is too restrictive. Perhaps, better home school differentiation is what is needed? I think that's how FCPS handles this? Does that approach work better?

Since their only criteria seems to be the racial and SES of the applicants and admitted students I predict a big SUCCESS!!!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great! finally we have some holistic factor in play. Bravo MCPS for working so diligently on increasing the number of URM in the magnet programs. It won't eliminate the inequality of MCPS right away, but is to the right direction!

I hope when Mrs. Dixon becomes the new elected MCPS BOE member in November, she will remember her promise to have students to attend schools of their choices, not to be limited by their home locations. We need stronger leaders with vision in MCPS. We need people with a big heart to truly the help the URM and to achieve equality.

URM is such a stupid term, minorities aren't supposed to have absolute parity in a representative democracy. When we dump on the majority too much so that others can feel equal they will then be completely unprepared when the real world reminds them where they truly stand.

what real world? the world without affirmative action? we are going to change that, starting from education and public sectors, the private companies are catching up. One step at a time, sis!

One country at a time and then the world!

They should call this the Fox Chapel Plot instead of Pilot. Sounds more nefarious like the title to a murder mystery like who killed MoCo's HGC program?

MCPS's strategy now is to explicitly encourage teachers to "identify" URMs. I think this would not be illegal because they are not taking race into account in the actual admissions process but simply biasing the teacher recommendations in a different direction. I think they have found a clever way around the law.

To what end? Using administrative trickery to effectively lower the bar however well intentioned seems like a good way to crate a whole new set of problems. At least they're trying this out before implementing it countywide.

MCPS's strategy now is to explicitly encourage teachers to "identify" URMs. I think this would not be illegal because they are not taking race into account in the actual admissions process but simply biasing the teacher recommendations in a different direction. I think they have found a clever way around the law.

To what end? Using administrative trickery to effectively lower the bar however well intentioned seems like a good way to crate a whole new set of problems. At least they're trying this out before implementing it countywide.