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Anonymous wrote:Where are the Asian American population in HoCo? My Asian American friend frequently post pics of her kids doing things and they are always the only Asian family in the pictures. When I’m in Columbia, I don’t see many Asian families. Go to Rockville/North Potomac and you see a ton of Asian American families.

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Anonymous wrote:Bottom heavy?!

Yes, HoCo schools are “rated” higher because they have a lot fewer black and Hispanic kids, who tend not to score as highly on standardized tests. “Ratings” around here are 100% about whiteness/Asianness of a school system. When people say they want “good schools,” you can simply cut and paste “white and Asian schools.”

MCPS:
30.1% Hispanic
29.3% White
21.3% Black
14.3% Asian

HCPS:
22.4% Asian
24.0% Black
11.3% Hispanic
35.8% White

so...not really. You know it's easy to look this stuff up, right?

What’s crazy and really blows up all this nonsense is that Black students in HoCo schools perform better than MoCo schools.

It doesn’t make sense to just cite the demographic data of the entire county when everyone knows that the schools in these counties are incredibly segregated and that the highest performing schools are majority white/Asian.

So how do you have explain that HoCo has a higher percentage of Black students and yet their Black students perform better?

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is a Blair SMACS senior. He has a great cohort of high achieving Asian-American peers who are instrumental in winning many such STEM competitions. What Blair has provided them has only been the cohort and a curriculum. They accelerate and enrich outside the school for years because their families recognized that curriculum was far inferior to what was being offered in their parents country of origin.

They are kids of STEM professioals - doctors, scientists, programmers, academics, lawyers and businessmen. They are the ones who have artificially propped up MCPS and perhaps every school district in the US which does well. But their parents are sick and tired of MCPS, like I am, and if they have younger kids, they will move to either Bethesda and if they have less money than that then they will move to HoCo. Most do not think highly of the private schools here.

Last I checked, Bethesda is part of MCPS.

-Asian American MCPS parent.

Anonymous wrote:My kid is a Blair SMACS senior. He has a great cohort of high achieving Asian-American peers who are instrumental in winning many such STEM competitions. What Blair has provided them has only been the cohort and a curriculum. They accelerate and enrich outside the school for years because their families recognized that curriculum was far inferior to what was being offered in their parents country of origin.

They are kids of STEM professioals - doctors, scientists, programmers, academics, lawyers and businessmen. They are the ones who have artificially propped up MCPS and perhaps every school district in the US which does well. But their parents are sick and tired of MCPS, like I am, and if they have younger kids, they will move to either Bethesda and if they have less money than that then they will move to HoCo. Most do not think highly of the private schools here.

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Anonymous wrote:Bottom heavy?!

Yes, HoCo schools are “rated” higher because they have a lot fewer black and Hispanic kids, who tend not to score as highly on standardized tests. “Ratings” around here are 100% about whiteness/Asianness of a school system. When people say they want “good schools,” you can simply cut and paste “white and Asian schools.”

MCPS:
30.1% Hispanic
29.3% White
21.3% Black
14.3% Asian

HCPS:
22.4% Asian
24.0% Black
11.3% Hispanic
35.8% White

so...not really. You know it's easy to look this stuff up, right?

What’s crazy and really blows up all this nonsense is that Black students in HoCo schools perform better than MoCo schools.

It doesn’t make sense to just cite the demographic data of the entire county when everyone knows that the schools in these counties are incredibly segregated and that the highest performing schools are majority white/Asian.

So how do you have explain that HoCo has a higher percentage of Black students and yet their Black students perform better?

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Anonymous wrote:Bottom heavy?!

Yes, HoCo schools are “rated” higher because they have a lot fewer black and Hispanic kids, who tend not to score as highly on standardized tests. “Ratings” around here are 100% about whiteness/Asianness of a school system. When people say they want “good schools,” you can simply cut and paste “white and Asian schools.”

MCPS:
30.1% Hispanic
29.3% White
21.3% Black
14.3% Asian

HCPS:
22.4% Asian
24.0% Black
11.3% Hispanic
35.8% White

so...not really. You know it's easy to look this stuff up, right?

What’s crazy and really blows up all this nonsense is that Black students in HoCo schools perform better than MoCo schools.

It doesn’t make sense to just cite the demographic data of the entire county when everyone knows that the schools in these counties are incredibly segregated and that the highest performing schools are majority white/Asian.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bottom heavy?!

Yes, HoCo schools are “rated” higher because they have a lot fewer black and Hispanic kids, who tend not to score as highly on standardized tests. “Ratings” around here are 100% about whiteness/Asianness of a school system. When people say they want “good schools,” you can simply cut and paste “white and Asian schools.”

MCPS:
30.1% Hispanic
29.3% White
21.3% Black
14.3% Asian

HCPS:
22.4% Asian
24.0% Black
11.3% Hispanic
35.8% White

so...not really. You know it's easy to look this stuff up, right?

What’s crazy and really blows up all this nonsense is that Black students in HoCo schools perform better than MoCo schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bottom heavy?!

Yes, HoCo schools are “rated” higher because they have a lot fewer black and Hispanic kids, who tend not to score as highly on standardized tests. “Ratings” around here are 100% about whiteness/Asianness of a school system. When people say they want “good schools,” you can simply cut and paste “white and Asian schools.”

MCPS:
30.1% Hispanic
29.3% White
21.3% Black
14.3% Asian

HCPS:
22.4% Asian
24.0% Black
11.3% Hispanic
35.8% White

so...not really. You know it's easy to look this stuff up, right?

Anonymous wrote:I get so tired of the toxic MCPS spin machine. Whenever MCPS drops in prestige or rankings which it has been doing for years, they cry that its the fault of illegal hispanic kids. They then turn around and say that it is racist to notice the system's declining performance because it is the fault of the illegal hispanics. The second spin cycle is to ride on the coat tails of a few schools with a concentration of extremely intelligent and wealthy kids while simultaneously going after these schools for having a concentration of extremely intelligent and wealthy kids.

MCPS is NOT declining because of the hispanic students. MCPS is declining because of MCPS actions. The culture within MCPS is a toxic workplace. You can not completely screw up your curriculum, force teachers to work in unsafe and retaliatory conditions, make bad financial decisions, piss off your community, implement bad academic decisions AND then wonder why you are no longer #1.

MCPS is a mess and it isn't getting better anytime soon. The only advantages MCPS has now are for the actual truly gifted (the .05%) and the kids in extreme poverty. Even these groups are at risk of losing their advantage within MCPS as MCPS seems hell bent on diluting or shutting down its magnets and only provides wrap around services in certain schools. The large cluster of students who are not on the edges -the above average, the average, or the below average but not bottom are very poorly served within MCPS which brings down the scores.