Anonymous wrote:3 messages/reminders from each of the schools that my kids go to, and 3-4 emails from MCPS. Help!! There should be topic-specific unsubscribe options

What I find so curious is this seems to make you uncomfortable...

This and many other DCUM threads is exactly why the anti-racism audit survey is needed. It takes a lot of privilege to complain about how much getting those emails bother you compared to other constant pieces of communication MCPS send out when 1) you can delete them and 2) there are probably people from all backgrounds who are craving the chance to speak honestly about their experiences. Look at how popular the "Black at B-CC" "Black at Whitman" accounts were - we can't support equity and diversity unless we create accountability, which was the main theme of those posts ("nothing was done to help me in that situation" or "I'm not doing well because I don't feel genuinely affirmed in this environment and I spend more time here than at home in the course of a typical week"). Think deep down about exactly why those emails bother y'all and other ones don't - for once, you aren't centered, it rightly calls into question your daily experiences/habits, and for once, people who have been undermined are getting what they deserve. It is individuals with mindsets like yours who are going to hurt our county's rep - just because you're liberal or "progressive", doesn't mean you express that selectively or not support causes such as this.

The harm and damage of a culture of discrimination is not ended by protecting one specific group but promoting discrimination against others. An anti-discrimination audit would have been more appropriate but the limitation for an anti-racism audit shows the implicit bias of individuals leading our public school system.

Anonymous wrote:I agree with all who say the survey is poorly designed and is a waste of money.

+1 MCPS is wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars on a survey that even the name identifies the pre-engineered objective while ignoring the discrimination that other student populations such as students with disabilities face every day in MCPS.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/26/montgomery-county-schools-antiracism-audit/

Anonymous wrote:Somebody needs to make screenshots of the survey questions and post them here.

7. I believe my child should be taught to recognize, understand, and interrupt racism

8. My child is taught about the negative effects of racism in their classes

9. Community groups brought in by my child's school for events such as career fairs, science fairs, assemblies, afterschool clubs, and college and career nights reflect the racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the school

10. Communication from my child's schools is easy to understand and helps me know how to support my child.

Some samples: You can choose Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Agree, Strongly Agree, and I don't know

Our school participation rate is very low. it is very biased against Caucasians. The wording of each question is skewed to the point where I started laughing as I took the survey.

Anonymous wrote:Somebody needs to make screenshots of the survey questions and post them here.

Why not you, I wonder?

Anonymous wrote:I agree with all who say the survey is poorly designed and is a waste of money.

You have training in survey design?

I agree with all who say the survey is poorly designed and is a waste of money.

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Anonymous wrote:Another reminder. This is insane. I have received at least a half dozen emails and texts about this. Ridiculous. The schools over communicate on things that do not matter and remains silent or poorly communicates in the things that actually do matter. Like how about doing a better job sharing my child’s standardized test scores?

This. I did not receive a single communication from my kid’s school or MCPS as to why the MCAP results were SO poor this year, and what MCPS plans to do about it.

So true. Why are schools being a tool to enforce equity rather than focus on education? mystifying.

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Anonymous wrote:The drivers of racial disparities in schools are the racial disparities out in society. And schools can’t fix that.

Of course. But MCPS can waste taxpayer money on a survey. And then MCPS was hire a consulting company to address the issue, in order to waste even more taxpayer money.

When it’s taxpayer funded, there’s no limit to what MCPS can do, as long as it aligns with the political preferences of county residents.

Don't blame this on Democrats. Their only sin is that most of them are so well-intentioned and terrified that someone will call them racist that they nod and break out their checkbooks every time someone hustles them with a scam like this.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't usually consider myself Native American. I have one documented ancestor from around 1700. When you look at my DNA it's entirely from Northern Europe except for one dot in the Americas--that ancestor.

However, for the purpose of this survey, not only was I native American, but I also did not want to explain what kind of non-cisgender person I was. Normally, my gender and my sexuality aren't things I question: I have slept with enough women to know I prefer men. But, again, for the purpose of this survey ...

The fact that they tried and conflate gender minorites with race and cultural ones is so damned offensive on so many levels. I presume the plan is to divide the results into two piles:

Pile one will be all the white cis people (in these surveys white and cis mean the same thing and it is bad)--

Pile two will be all the "oppressed" minorities, which will include everyone else, be they women who fled domestic violence in El Salvador with an 8th grade education, computer scientists who went to MIT from China, transwomen investment bankers who spent 40 years living as men, optometrists from India, etc.

I looked and found some of the questions very intrusive about race and background.

They were intrusive and not particularly enlightening. Unless you want to show that white cis people don't feel oppressed or discriminated against and everyone else does, which I assume is the foregone conclusion.

The entire survey was about "feelings." Here's a newsflash, McPS BoE: "feelings" don't fix public education. Feelings don't undo centuries of systemic racism, or make your curriculum inclusive. Teaching your American children that they need to balkanize themselves into tranches based on how their ancestors suffered or sinned also teaches them nothing.

Anonymous wrote:The drivers of racial disparities in schools are the racial disparities out in society. And schools can’t fix that.

Of course. But MCPS can waste taxpayer money on a survey. And then MCPS was hire a consulting company to address the issue, in order to waste even more taxpayer money.

When it’s taxpayer funded, there’s no limit to what MCPS can do, as long as it aligns with the political preferences of county residents.

Somebody needs to make screenshots of the survey questions and post them here.

The questions are strange and I'm not sure what they are going to get out ofi t. Are they asking individual students the same questions?