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Equality and Equity in Our Schools: The Real Meaning

According to UOPeople.edu, “Equality treats everyone the same without paying attention to the natural differences between people in different races, sexes, social classes, and more. Equity is the idea of “leveling the playing field” so that fairness happens along the path to success.” There’s a big problem in the school system, and it’s their model of Equity.

Equity deprives or takes from those who achieve in order to give to those who don’t achieve. The establishment believes that Equality can be accomplished through Equity. The fact is, Equality cannot be successfully achieved at the expense of others. The political use of the term Equity is used deceptively, and its camouflaged meaning is commonly twisted and used to make Equity into something it’s not.

This short 2-minute video explains Equality, Equity, and Diversity in simplicity:

The school system will commonly use a graphic like the one above, to further deceive. Most people would look at this image and think “that makes perfect sense.” That’s where the deception creeps in. The graphic also concludes that “Equity is when every student has what they need.” Who can argue with that? Between the school’s policy and their conclusion, it all sounds great.

Equality never gave anyone a disadvantage as depicted. In addition, this image shows a family stealing from others by not paying admission to see the game. How is this Equitable to those who own the stadium, or those who paid admission? This is Democratic Socialism by entitlement (what one thinks they deserve from others). Stealing is not okay. Try doing this at your school’s next football game and see what happens.

To show that the school system really has a different intention, the State of Maryland defines Educational Equity under COMAR 13A.01.06, for which it abides. Educational Equity requires the disaggregation of student data by race. It also refers to an “Equity Lens,” which requires a school system to look at people differently and to define groups based upon their demographics, socio-economic status, and other physical attributes. Ironically, their Education Equity establishes Educational Inequity, as educational resources are allocated with partiality.

Know the difference:

Equality = Everyone has the same opportunity.

Equity = Everyone must have the same outcome.

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2 thoughts on “Equality and Equity in Our Schools: The Real Meaning”

  1. Equity in the NFL and NBA would mean all games end in a tie. That’s a level playing field. Of course each team will have the equal players such a equal number of each race, sexual preferences and height measurements and so on.

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