Question for VA Republicans re: public schools

[Anonymous]

If you don't like how your public school is run, why can't you just send your kids to private schools? Are you poor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you don't like how your public school is run, why can't you just send your kids to private schools? Are you poor?

Sure, we should also get a tax refund for paying for our own kids' education too. We aren't using the public school system.. Give us our tax money back too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't like how your public school is run, why can't you just send your kids to private schools? Are you poor?

Sure, we should also get a tax refund for paying for our own kids' education too. We aren't using the public school system.. Give us our tax money back too.

Idk what this means. Did you go to public schools?

[Anonymous]

I do send my kids to a private school (as a former public school teacher I'd sacrifice a lot of other things before I sacrificed on school cost) but that doesn't resolve the problem of kids being victims of a system that centers the Woke Brigade and teachers unions over the needs of kids.

I think it's gross that you are so dismissive of the needs of poor kids, even if those kids aren't my kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you don't like how your public school is run, why can't you just send your kids to private schools? Are you poor?

We did. Still think the public schools need a ton of improvement.

[Anonymous]

Is this only for VA Republicans? Or can anyone answer?

I’ll bite though. Private schools would be a struggle for us. DH and so are solidly middle class and this is an expensive area. We’d rather save the money for college or use it for tutoring if we need to supplement our abysmal public school system.

But, I don’t understand the Democrats. Their attitude is that they (wealthy Dems) get school choice (private school) but everyone else is stuck in our dysfunctional public school system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't like how your public school is run, why can't you just send your kids to private schools? Are you poor?

We did. Still think the public schools need a ton of improvement.

Op - I can honestly say I've never given a thought to something that doesn't personally affect me or my dc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this only for VA Republicans? Or can anyone answer?

I’ll bite though. Private schools would be a struggle for us. DH and so are solidly middle class and this is an expensive area. We’d rather save the money for college or use it for tutoring if we need to supplement our abysmal public school system.

But, I don’t understand the Democrats. Their attitude is that they (wealthy Dems) get school choice (private school) but everyone else is stuck in our dysfunctional public school system.

It's messed up. And so many Dem elected officials have kids in private school, but oppose any school choice. WTF?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't like how your public school is run, why can't you just send your kids to private schools? Are you poor?

We did. Still think the public schools need a ton of improvement.

Op - I can honestly say I've never given a thought to something that doesn't personally affect me or my dc.

Apparently, neither did Terry.

[Anonymous]

I voted D and my husband voted R and we did send our kids to private school for the first time this year as a result of FCPS’s failures during the pandemic.

My two friends did the same. One flipped D to R this election and one is an independent who voted R for Gov

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do send my kids to a private school (as a former public school teacher I'd sacrifice a lot of other things before I sacrificed on school cost) but that doesn't resolve the problem of kids being victims of a system that centers the Woke Brigade and teachers unions over the needs of kids.

I think it's gross that you are so dismissive of the needs of poor kids, even if those kids aren't my kids.

The woke brigade? Wow. When you come down from planet kool aid that is going to be so embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

I went public for all but half of my post-HS education. I am sending my kids to private because they need the rigor to stay engaged, and public just doesn’t cut it. Minority-majority school btw. I think a lot of parents started questioning during the pandemic because they could hear what was being taught, and what wasn’t. We know some kids who were in PK with ours years ago, and the gulf was just getting wider each year until it was too much to ignore. There was a lot of that.

Anywho, here’s the deal: you can have the community pay for your schooling and you have to accept what the community does or doesn’t want, or you can pay for it and make your own decisions. Since we’re still part of the community, we’re pushing for more rigor and less crap in the public schools. Because whether you agree with our choices or not, we need your kids to contribute into social security for us.

Just kidding—social security won’t make it past 2035. But you get the idea.

[Anonymous]

PP, forgot to mention, I’m not even a Republican!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't like how your public school is run, why can't you just send your kids to private schools? Are you poor?

Sure, we should also get a tax refund for paying for our own kids' education too. We aren't using the public school system.. Give us our tax money back too.

Well then I can also give back the portion of the value of your home that is related to the school district of it location.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do send my kids to a private school (as a former public school teacher I'd sacrifice a lot of other things before I sacrificed on school cost) but that doesn't resolve the problem of kids being victims of a system that centers the Woke Brigade and teachers unions over the needs of kids.

I think it's gross that you are so dismissive of the needs of poor kids, even if those kids aren't my kids.

+100
Well said.