Posted on 11/12/2020 4:18:18 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Maryland's Montgomery County plans to spend more than $450,000 on an "anti-racist audit" intended to create "equitable outcomes for every student's academic and social-emotional well-being."
According to a Tuesday memo from the county's superintendent of schools, Montgomery County Public Schools will award a one-year "anti-racist" consulting contract to the Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium for $454,680. The consulting firm will investigate the district's culture, hiring practices, and pre-K-12 curriculum, which Montgomery County says should be tailored so that it "strengthens students' sense of racial, ethnic, and tribal identities, helps students understand and resist systems of oppression, and empowers students to see themselves as change agents."
The Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium's website states that it promotes "equity in education to achieve social justice" and touts a handful of left-leaning education partnerships. Among those partners is the Southern Poverty Law Center's "Teaching Tolerance" arm, which pushes for students to learn about slavery beginning in kindergarten.
The school district awarded the lucrative contract despite anticipating a budget cut of up to $155 million. According to Bethesda Magazine, the district's enrollment is down more than 2,000 students from the 2019 school year, which will decrease the required government funding to schools.
The one-year audit will be the largest such initiative reported to date. In nearby Loudoun County, Va., the district spent $422,500 over two years on equity training inspired by critical race theory, which claims racism is intrinsic to nearly every aspect of American life.
On Sept. 21, Montgomery County Public Schools issued a "request for proposal" document to hire a consultant "with deep knowledge and expertise in … racial equity." A district spokeswoman declined to tell the Washington Free Beacon how many consulting firms submitted a proposal.
Despite mounting budget cuts and an already-existing "Equity Initiatives Unit," district spokeswoman Gboyinde Onijala said the anti-racist audit is considered "critical work."
"Whether we are providing instruction virtually or in person, we remain committed to ensuring that our students' academic success is not predictable by race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, language proficiency, or disability," Onijala told the Free Beacon. "We will continue to strive in these efforts until all gaps have been eliminated for all groups."
promotes “equity in education to achieve social justice”
Among those partners is the Southern Poverty Law Center's "Teaching Tolerance" arm, which pushes for students to learn about slavery beginning in kindergarten.
Gosh, just give every student the same grades regardless and be done with it.
If your with us you get if your not your wasting your time here. I will go with wasting your time here and get the hell out quick. Boycott the system until it is fixed and the commies are run out of town
>”strengthens students’ sense of racial, ethnic, and tribal identities”
That’s called racism, especially when it excludes Whites.
If I were there, I would be screaming “Racist!” in their faces.
And, yes, I defied public elementary and junior high school Advanced Progam teachers and administrators 45 years ago and ended up valedictorian at a religious high school.
And I defied people there who turned out to be corrupt.
I have defied people at work and elsewhere with logic and none of them ever won.
Do it and damn the consequences.
My nic is my life.
Heck, we could have used that money down this-a-way cuz we had to remodel all our high school/middle school bathrooms to accommodate...
In other words, "Your skin color is your uniform", as George Lincoln Rockwell so aptly put it.
MD ping.
The usual suspects, too.
This audit will find that this super-lib area is not black racist enough.
They will recommend that all students, especially white, be required to bow and kneel before the BLM altar every month in school assemblies as their cuckold parents did back in June.
...transsexuals?
....Moslems?
RATS love throwing money out the window.
I live in Montgomery County Maryland.
My kids went to Montgomery County public school.
20 years ago Montgomery County schools were among the best in the country.
Today they are terrible. The schools are run by liberal Democrats. They have declined rapidly and will continue to decline.
Pull your kids out.
Public schools = child abuse.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Grew up there in the 60’s and 70’s. It still had large wooded areas. Great place and time to be a kid.
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