Loudoun Schools Fail Their Most Vulnerable Kids
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The data indicates that Loudoun Schools are perpetrating white supremacy. I think Loudoun should double down on their work agenda to prove otherwise.
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But, but, but …. Kendi says racism is structural. So, the poor results for children of color (except for the inconvenient Asians) is society’s fault, not the school district’s fault. If those domestic terrorists (i.e. parents) would just go away and stop participating in school board meetings the district could get back to the job at hand … teaching “woke theory”.
Besides, the SOLs are, like everything else in American society, racist.
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That’s consistent with BrightBeam’s Jan 2020 report “The Secret Shame; How America’s Most Progressive Cities Betray Their Commitment to Educational Opportunity for All.” https://brightbeamnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/The-Secret-Shame_v4.pdf
I think there are a few reasons for this
– their priorities are misplaced
– they apparently refuse to look at their failures and fix them
– they attempt to blur their failures by changing school zones, essentially bring in higher scoring kids to poorer scoring kids. I want to know why they don’t just get in there and help these kids. -
I still remember the bumper stickers that said, “Don’t Fairfax Loudoun”. I understood and agreed with the sentiment. Liberals from failed states move in, nobody pays attention to local elections, developers and the rent-seeking BoS run amok with zoning, transportation systems falter through under-investment and liberal policies turn once-great school systems into mediocre operations.
What a shame.
What’s the next bumper sticker? “Don’t Loudoun Fauquier”?
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The great irony of that story. A Republican led Board of Supervisors welcomed development with open arms. Who moved in? The blue team. Ditto in Prince William. Fauquier has one more generation of old school local leadership left. But that is it. The creep of sprawl is on my door step.
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Ahh, Prince William County..where Wal-Mart is considered a major employer.
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The key people to replace are actually deep into the 42 member layer of upper LCPS management. Replace the Director of High School, Director of Middle School, and Director of Elementary School. These three people wield the greatest power over the principals. Great leadership at this position can lift academic achievement and create a positive school climate.
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I do not know about the specifics of the charge BUT …. Loudoun County has twice as many students in their system as Chesapeake. Therefore, it is not accurate to compare the numbers of kids who fail between the two systems. I am sure there is more to be done everywhere so that all kids are served well, but this comparison does not show ‘horrid’ results in the Loudoun system.
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I agree it may not be a perfectly fair comparison but in this case James may be onto something. If we are truly interested in equity, we should be learning from those districts where the least advantages are doing well as much as (if not more than) we are emulating the districts where the most advantaged are doing well.
I hope LCPS board and administrators dig deeper into what is happening in these districts and adopt some lessons learned. The hispanic figures are interesting. I suspect there is something else going on here. It might be informative to look at distribution of hispanics throughout the system. If Loudoun schools has them concentrated while they are more uniformly distributed across Chesapeake’s system, that may be one of the factors. I honestly don’t know the answer to that question. James may.
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How do you get just because there are more students means more failing is ok? It shouldn’t matter the #. Look at Wise. It has constantly shown how well they can educate kids who are not in the best position in life.
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[…] special staff and too few classroom teachers compared to Virginia districts like the City of Chesapeake that considerably outperform Loudoun with far fewer Asian kids, an otherwise similar demographic […]
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