The survey is nothing more than gaslighting and an attempt to change the conversation from the most violent month in MCPS history. Guns are in our schools. Knives are in our schools. One child is dead. Another is in the hospital. Bullying is pervasive. Fights at athletic events.

These are real problems that Restorative Justice is not solving. So Dr. McKnight wants to deflect to change the conversation. Anyone who challenges her BS is a racist because she is a black female trying to solve racism in MCPS.

Please. Make our schools safe. End all forms of discrimination and improve educational opportunities for all. That’s how to improve MCPS.

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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.

+1 million

My middle schooler didn’t cover all the material they were supposed to cover in her Algebra class last year. But, they were able to find time to teach her a lesson on the Principles of the Black Lives Matter movement. And, they found time to have the kids read Stamped by Kendi.

Sure, my kid will be fine because I got her an Algebra tutor. But I think ALL kids (white, black, purple) would benefit from more time spent on teaching the basics than they would on learning some crazy pseudo-history sh&t by Kendi.

Easier to throw in some bogus lessons, I guess, than it is to actually teach Math and Language Arts.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! They are out in troves trying to refrain people from making white people uncomfortable.

MCPS should just declare all white people racist, fire all the white staff and kick the white kids out of school for fear they are racist to make folks like you happy.

We shouldn't be making anyone regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, culture, gender, lifestyle choices uncomfortable and these type of audits are fishing to get the answers they are looking for. Just like study are pushing to get their desired answer.

Instead of spending the money on antiracist, they should be finding ways to bring people together.

You are ridiculous. The idea that anti-racism is about white people all racist or making white people feel uncomfortable or guilty shows the depth of your ignorance.
One of the ways you bring people together is teaching them to recognize racism and bias, to respect differences and different life experiences. Your failure to understand that is your fault and your fault alone.

I completely understand it and at some point, it gets obnoxious to assume everyone white is racist and you need to "educate them." Clearly that approach isn't working.

Again, no one is assuming that beguine is racist but you keep believing that since it evidently makes you feel right.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! They are out in troves trying to refrain people from making white people uncomfortable.

MCPS should just declare all white people racist, fire all the white staff and kick the white kids out of school for fear they are racist to make folks like you happy.

We shouldn't be making anyone regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, culture, gender, lifestyle choices uncomfortable and these type of audits are fishing to get the answers they are looking for. Just like study are pushing to get their desired answer.

Instead of spending the money on antiracist, they should be finding ways to bring people together.

You are ridiculous. The idea that anti-racism is about white people all racist or making white people feel uncomfortable or guilty shows the depth of your ignorance.
One of the ways you bring people together is teaching them to recognize racism and bias, to respect differences and different life experiences. Your failure to understand that is your fault and your fault alone.

I completely understand it and at some point, it gets obnoxious to assume everyone white is racist and you need to "educate them." Clearly that approach isn't working.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! They are out in troves trying to refrain people from making white people uncomfortable.

MCPS should just declare all white people racist, fire all the white staff and kick the white kids out of school for fear they are racist to make folks like you happy.

We shouldn't be making anyone regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, culture, gender, lifestyle choices uncomfortable and these type of audits are fishing to get the answers they are looking for. Just like study are pushing to get their desired answer.

Instead of spending the money on antiracist, they should be finding ways to bring people together.

You are ridiculous. The idea that anti-racism is about white people all racist or making white people feel uncomfortable or guilty shows the depth of your ignorance.
One of the ways you bring people together is teaching them to recognize racism and bias, to respect differences and different life experiences. Your failure to understand that is your fault and your fault alone.

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Anonymous wrote:Busy work for all the over paid Central Office staff

I know! It's clear racism is alive and well in MoCo just reading this board. Didn't need to pay consultants to find that out.

This. It seems like all the racist people in MoCo frequent this board

I’m coming to the conclusion that I’m not going to put up with 4 more years of this crap.

Every criticism of MCPS is not racists. Even when that criticism is about an anti racist audit. There has been plenty of fair criticism from many perspectives, particularly regarding why they don’t feel that other forms of discrimination are worthy of assessing at this time. I think people would also like to see MCPS put such a high profile effort into auditing school safety.

The more I see these types of remarks, the more I wonder if I won’t be alone in making alternate considerations for my child’s future education.

Bye!

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Anonymous wrote:+1 Restorative Justice did nothing to keep a 15 year boy from being shot at Magruder. The response by MCPS was abysmal after the shooting.

This was a December 2021 article about how Dr. McKnight and Central Office are addressing school security:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-leaders-say-school-safety-requires-communication-restorative-justice-practices/

Clearly their Central Office ideas do nothing to protect students and teachers.

I can’t find the words to tell you how useless I find restorative justice. I’m a teacher in a school that has been using it for years. Your link above praises RJ for helping kids feel “true accountability” for their actions. Nonsense. It usually means the student gets to avoid accountability while the student’s victim has to go through an awkward, useless exercise knowing there will be no real resolution. I’m looking forward to the day we move away from RJ.

If RJ was working, we wouldn't have as many issues as we do. We need to start with mandatory parenting classes and holding parents accountable for their kids behavior.

Anonymous wrote:Wow! They are out in troves trying to refrain people from making white people uncomfortable.

MCPS should just declare all white people racist, fire all the white staff and kick the white kids out of school for fear they are racist to make folks like you happy.

We shouldn't be making anyone regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, culture, gender, lifestyle choices uncomfortable and these type of audits are fishing to get the answers they are looking for. Just like study are pushing to get their desired answer.

Instead of spending the money on antiracist, they should be finding ways to bring people together.

Anonymous wrote:+1 Restorative Justice did nothing to keep a 15 year boy from being shot at Magruder. The response by MCPS was abysmal after the shooting.

This was a December 2021 article about how Dr. McKnight and Central Office are addressing school security:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-leaders-say-school-safety-requires-communication-restorative-justice-practices/

Clearly their Central Office ideas do nothing to protect students and teachers.

I can’t find the words to tell you how useless I find restorative justice. I’m a teacher in a school that has been using it for years. Your link above praises RJ for helping kids feel “true accountability” for their actions. Nonsense. It usually means the student gets to avoid accountability while the student’s victim has to go through an awkward, useless exercise knowing there will be no real resolution. I’m looking forward to the day we move away from RJ.

+1 Restorative Justice did nothing to keep a 15 year boy from being shot at Magruder. The response by MCPS was abysmal after the shooting.

This was a December 2021 article about how Dr. McKnight and Central Office are addressing school security:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-leaders-say-school-safety-requires-communication-restorative-justice-practices/

Clearly their Central Office ideas do nothing to protect students and teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:Busy work for all the over paid Central Office staff

I know! It's clear racism is alive and well in MoCo just reading this board. Didn't need to pay consultants to find that out.

This. It seems like all the racist people in MoCo frequent this board

I’m coming to the conclusion that I’m not going to put up with 4 more years of this crap.

Every criticism of MCPS is not racists. Even when that criticism is about an anti racist audit. There has been plenty of fair criticism from many perspectives, particularly regarding why they don’t feel that other forms of discrimination are worthy of assessing at this time. I think people would also like to see MCPS put such a high profile effort into auditing school safety.

The more I see these types of remarks, the more I wonder if I won’t be alone in making alternate considerations for my child’s future 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.

My daughter learned how to capitalize sentences in first grade I guess your kid wasn't paying attention?

To highlight PPs implicit bias that is common in MCPS when a child is not performing at age expected levels - blame the child or the parent because the child did not learn.

Sometimes children have special needs so to access the curriculum and learn skills, they need specialized instruction and services.

Compound the child’s special needs with English as a second language, the child is black, or the child is a quiet female student. Other implicit biases may compound the child’s fate - ie the child cannot learn because she needs to learn English first, the child is lazy and doesn’t receive support at home, or the child is just not bright.

What MCPS has a responsibility to do is comprehensively evaluate the child to determine her needs and address those needs. Blaming the child, the parent, a language issue, the child’s race or family dynamics, or the child’s gender does not help the child. At the end of the day, all children want to learn and succeed. MCPS has a responsibility to provide a Free Appropriate Public Education so every child has an opportunity to learn.

Surveys will not end the broad divide of discrimination in MCPS. Funding for smaller class sizes, grants so more teachers are trained in Special Education, more school psychologists for performing the educational testing, and training from the Superintendent to every level down to the Para Educators is what is needed. I am constantly shocked at how many Principals and Central Office staff do not know the law so they flagrantly make violations. “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity,” Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968.

Wow! They are out in troves trying to refrain people from making white people uncomfortable.

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Anonymous wrote:Busy work for all the over paid Central Office staff

I know! It's clear racism is alive and well in MoCo just reading this board. Didn't need to pay consultants to find that out.

This. It seems like all the racist people in MoCo frequent this board

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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.

Yes, do you start somewhere - start with the Complaints from the Public! Idiot.

As a person who has tried the BS Complaint From the Public Process, it’s a process that goes no where. I once thought, by documenting Civil Rights violations within MCPS then perhaps someone would see the problem and fix it. Nope - not the principal and every appeal step up to the superintendent and the Board itself. There’s a culture of circling the wagon, deny an issue is a problem, then launch a very organized plan to retaliate for the complaint.

Only idiots file a Complaint From the Public with MCPS. For Discrimination and Retaliation you file with the US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights. They have an intake form online or you email them your complaint with the required parts. Simple, easy, doesn’t take an attorney, and it’s an outside agency that will provide an unbiased investigation. You just have to file within 180 days of the discrimination and/or retaliation (another reason to not waste valuable time with the lengthy Complaint From the Public process).

Many parents and teachers have figured out the need to file complaints outside of MCPS as indicated by data on OCRs website. Many of the current investigations were filed under Dr. McKnight’s interim superintendent position. Currently, there are 10 open investigations for retaliation and complaints in every protected class category.

Discrimination is discrimination. MCPS has a discrimination and retaliation problem that the audit won’t solve. The MCPS corporate culture that refuses to fix problems is where MCPS should start.

+1. Agree that only if you file with OCR or get a lawyer and go to Court does anything happen with MCPS.