Do you think the VA governor's race will have an impact on NoVA school board elections?

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Anonymous wrote:The Republican strategy is to pretend they're Democrats who are voting Republican. Makes them seem more reasonable. Lots of imposters on this thread.

Are you the one who complains to the moderator that DCUM is being overtaken by conservative “trolls”? Did you see the response?

Do you call everyone who disagrees with you a “troll”?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Republican strategy is to pretend they're Democrats who are voting Republican. Makes them seem more reasonable. Lots of imposters on this thread.

Are you the one who complains to the moderator that DCUM is being overtaken by conservative “trolls”? Did you see the response?

Do you call everyone who disagrees with you a “troll”?

DP. I saw that. He said there were a few right-wing people posting A LOT.

Was he referring to you?

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah I’m a democrat. Was planning on voting for McAuliffe. Decided not to vote for him. Won’t be voting for Youngkin either. I live in Arlington.

Oh and I supported school closures. Just sick of Democrats not having a plan to improve educational outcomes.

Well, spoiler already: Rs don’t either. They will pull money out of public schools and funnel it toward religious private schools.

Lol lol. I know you think you are smart but I’m not voting for Youngkin either cos the guy is crazy. I also want to be clear: I’m a Bernie supporter, socialist leaning, love professor Cornell West etc. I have no problem with teaching US history in a way that is critical of the mainstream version. I don’t believe, as some of the cultural left seem to think, that we should make white kids feel guilty about who they are and keep screaming at white people to check their privilege. I am a minority and a woman but in many ways I am more privileged than a white man in let’s say West Virginia. That being said I am sick and tired of cancel culture (and republicans practice cancel culture as well especially when it comes to Palestinians) and sick and tired of this trans shit being shoved in our throat. Yes I understand that people’s gender doesn’t conform to their biological sex. That was the old school way of looking at this. I have a problem with claims that biological sex doesn’t exist. And sorry I don’t think that biological makes should be able to use female bathrooms. Yes we can make an exception for actual trans students but the policy seems to just allow any male to use the bathroom so long as they identify as female that day. Also sick and tired about this fake focus on equity. Real equity would be ensuring that every child, especially black and brown kids and those from disadvantaged economic backgrounds can read. So how about we focus on actually improving educational outcomes??? Democrats seem to not care about improving school quality and actually making sure children can read, write and actually know things. So they are no longer getting my vote. I will say that Kadara, who is running for school board and endorsed by Arlington Dems seems reasonable enough so I will be voting for her. But I definitely won’t be voting for McAuliffe and Ayala. I might end up voting for Sears cuz unlike Youngkin who is bat shit crazy, Sears actually seems reasonable. Had Sam Rasoul won in the primaries I would have gone with him.

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Anonymous wrote:Regardless of anything, I flat-out do not believe anyone who claims that children "thrived" last year. Or more specifically, I believe that they believe it, but I don't trust them as narrators, and I think they have bad judgment. The "thrivers" on these boards seemed totally nuts last year, so much so that I am deeply skeptical of anything they say.

And, see, I think the people like you, the ones who were screaming "open the schools whatever the cost" were and are mentally unstable hysterics. Our kids did great at home. In fact all the families that I know say the same thing. Are there families that struggled? Sure but I think they were probably struggling anyway. The families I know, with stable and structured home lives, and with parents who prioritized those things, they were fine. Maybe a few of us were cramped and it was nice when the weather warmed up in the spring but everyone being at home was a nice break. There was no stress, there was no need to be running hither and thither. If anything we grew tighter as a family.

If your family didn't do as well, I am sorry. Perhaps you need to think about what you could have done differently.

Yes!

Umm… is this a serious post? I mean I supported school closures. We were in the middle of a pandemic. The virus was a novel virus that we know nothing about snd the priority here was to save lives. However the cost was great and many kids, especially those from working class families and/or families where the parents could not stay at home suffered. Yeah my kids did great. My husband and I worked from home - kindergartener did school virtually. We pulled our 4 year old out of pre-k. Both kids played with each other. During our breaks my husband and I tutored our 4 year old. She was able to attend a virtual class in the morning to learn the language of my country of origin. We saved a shit ton of money, to the point that we could have a third. So yes it was great for us. But doesn’t mean it was great for the majority of kids. The fact that you don’t seem to care makes me doubt you are even a democrat because democrats care about the economically disadvantaged. Absolutely disgusting.

Except you're conveniently ignoring the fact that POC and immigrants did not support opening schools. At my school we had to require them to send their kids last year otherwise we would have had no one. As it was we had 2-3 teachers/staff for every 1 student. We are a Title I school. Our parents did not support hybrid last year and would this year still prefer distance learning. Until you actually know what you're talking about, you should stay out of the discussion. I am feet-on-the-ground. The "economically disadvantaged" POC and immigrant families did not want what you claim they, in your esteemed opinion, needed.

Lol. You are responding to my post. I am an immigrant, and a POC,Arab to be specific. Opinions within the Muslim and Arab community regarding opening schools ranged from those like me who wanted schools closed and those who wanted schools opened. But whatever opinions were on the matter, school closures ultimately harmed children of those who are from disadvantaged social -economic backgrounds. This doesn’t mean that the closures shouldn’t have happened (I believe they should have). It just means that I’m not gonna go around saying that the closures were great and gloat that my kids and my friends kids didn’t struggle. People did struggle and it had a negative effect on educational outcomes.

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Anonymous wrote:Regardless of anything, I flat-out do not believe anyone who claims that children "thrived" last year. Or more specifically, I believe that they believe it, but I don't trust them as narrators, and I think they have bad judgment. The "thrivers" on these boards seemed totally nuts last year, so much so that I am deeply skeptical of anything they say.

And, see, I think the people like you, the ones who were screaming "open the schools whatever the cost" were and are mentally unstable hysterics. Our kids did great at home. In fact all the families that I know say the same thing. Are there families that struggled? Sure but I think they were probably struggling anyway. The families I know, with stable and structured home lives, and with parents who prioritized those things, they were fine. Maybe a few of us were cramped and it was nice when the weather warmed up in the spring but everyone being at home was a nice break. There was no stress, there was no need to be running hither and thither. If anything we grew tighter as a family.

If your family didn't do as well, I am sorry. Perhaps you need to think about what you could have done differently.

Yes!

Umm… is this a serious post? I mean I supported school closures. We were in the middle of a pandemic. The virus was a novel virus that we know nothing about snd the priority here was to save lives. However the cost was great and many kids, especially those from working class families and/or families where the parents could not stay at home suffered. Yeah my kids did great. My husband and I worked from home - kindergartener did school virtually. We pulled our 4 year old out of pre-k. Both kids played with each other. During our breaks my husband and I tutored our 4 year old. She was able to attend a virtual class in the morning to learn the language of my country of origin. We saved a shit ton of money, to the point that we could have a third. So yes it was great for us. But doesn’t mean it was great for the majority of kids. The fact that you don’t seem to care makes me doubt you are even a democrat because democrats care about the economically disadvantaged. Absolutely disgusting.

Except you're conveniently ignoring the fact that POC and immigrants did not support opening schools. At my school we had to require them to send their kids last year otherwise we would have had no one. As it was we had 2-3 teachers/staff for every 1 student. We are a Title I school. Our parents did not support hybrid last year and would this year still prefer distance learning. Until you actually know what you're talking about, you should stay out of the discussion. I am feet-on-the-ground. The "economically disadvantaged" POC and immigrant families did not want what you claim they, in your esteemed opinion, needed.

Lol. You are responding to my post. I am an immigrant, and a POC,Arab to be specific. Opinions within the Muslim and Arab community regarding opening schools ranged from those like me who wanted schools closed and those who wanted schools opened. But whatever opinions were on the matter, school closures ultimately harmed children of those who are from disadvantaged social -economic backgrounds. This doesn’t mean that the closures shouldn’t have happened (I believe they should have). It just means that I’m not gonna go around saying that the closures were great and gloat that my kids and my friends kids didn’t struggle. People did struggle and it had a negative effect on educational outcomes.

Agree.

-My family did ok.
-I supported remote learning for the safety of our teachers and community.
-It really sucked for some people at the time. And hybrid was not workable for some families.
-And we have significant learning loss across the board, but especially for kids whose families weren’t able to supplement.

The PP above suggesting that families who struggled should “think about what you could have done differently” is completely tone-deaf and a major a-hole.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly it's pretty effin hilarious there are people right in this thread admitting they've never voted republican before but they're happy to vote for a death cult now because of *checks notes* emotional pandemic spite

It doesn’t make any sense. I don’t get it.

Your willful ignorance isn’t going to dissuade people ready for a change from the Democrats’ mismanagement of local government and woke ideology from voting as they see fit.

"Those Democrats have gone off the deep end! I've had it with them. Let me see what that other party is up to.... Well, they appear to be gathering steam as a bunch of white nationalist anti-woman anti-middle class anti-environment anti-worker anti-safety pro 1% party, but they seem to hate the Democrats as much as I do now so I think I'll fit right in."

There is literally a white liberal male on the rape/Loudoun thread claiming that because the girl had consensual sex with the boy prior, the situation must have been so confusing to the adults in the room, that they would not believe her rape story enough to get more than the resource officer involved.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly it's pretty effin hilarious there are people right in this thread admitting they've never voted republican before but they're happy to vote for a death cult now because of *checks notes* emotional pandemic spite

It doesn’t make any sense. I don’t get it.

Your willful ignorance isn’t going to dissuade people ready for a change from the Democrats’ mismanagement of local government and woke ideology from voting as they see fit.

"Those Democrats have gone off the deep end! I've had it with them. Let me see what that other party is up to.... Well, they appear to be gathering steam as a bunch of white nationalist anti-woman anti-middle class anti-environment anti-worker anti-safety pro 1% party, but they seem to hate the Democrats as much as I do now so I think I'll fit right in."

There is literally a white liberal male on the rape/Loudoun thread claiming that because the girl had consensual sex with the boy prior, the situation must have been so confusing to the adults in the room, that they would not believe her rape story enough to get more than the resource officer involved.

That white, liberal male is confused by "the youth threw her to the floor and forced her to perform sex acts." He probably needs to stay quite if that makes things complicated. SMH....

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Anonymous wrote:Regardless of anything, I flat-out do not believe anyone who claims that children "thrived" last year. Or more specifically, I believe that they believe it, but I don't trust them as narrators, and I think they have bad judgment. The "thrivers" on these boards seemed totally nuts last year, so much so that I am deeply skeptical of anything they say.

And, see, I think the people like you, the ones who were screaming "open the schools whatever the cost" were and are mentally unstable hysterics. Our kids did great at home. In fact all the families that I know say the same thing. Are there families that struggled? Sure but I think they were probably struggling anyway. The families I know, with stable and structured home lives, and with parents who prioritized those things, they were fine. Maybe a few of us were cramped and it was nice when the weather warmed up in the spring but everyone being at home was a nice break. There was no stress, there was no need to be running hither and thither. If anything we grew tighter as a family.

If your family didn't do as well, I am sorry. Perhaps you need to think about what you could have done differently.

Yes!

Umm… is this a serious post? I mean I supported school closures. We were in the middle of a pandemic. The virus was a novel virus that we know nothing about snd the priority here was to save lives. However the cost was great and many kids, especially those from working class families and/or families where the parents could not stay at home suffered. Yeah my kids did great. My husband and I worked from home - kindergartener did school virtually. We pulled our 4 year old out of pre-k. Both kids played with each other. During our breaks my husband and I tutored our 4 year old. She was able to attend a virtual class in the morning to learn the language of my country of origin. We saved a shit ton of money, to the point that we could have a third. So yes it was great for us. But doesn’t mean it was great for the majority of kids. The fact that you don’t seem to care makes me doubt you are even a democrat because democrats care about the economically disadvantaged. Absolutely disgusting.

Except you're conveniently ignoring the fact that POC and immigrants did not support opening schools. At my school we had to require them to send their kids last year otherwise we would have had no one. As it was we had 2-3 teachers/staff for every 1 student. We are a Title I school. Our parents did not support hybrid last year and would this year still prefer distance learning. Until you actually know what you're talking about, you should stay out of the discussion. I am feet-on-the-ground. The "economically disadvantaged" POC and immigrant families did not want what you claim they, in your esteemed opinion, needed.

Lol. You are responding to my post. I am an immigrant, and a POC,Arab to be specific. Opinions within the Muslim and Arab community regarding opening schools ranged from those like me who wanted schools closed and those who wanted schools opened. But whatever opinions were on the matter, school closures ultimately harmed children of those who are from disadvantaged social -economic backgrounds. This doesn’t mean that the closures shouldn’t have happened (I believe they should have). It just means that I’m not gonna go around saying that the closures were great and gloat that my kids and my friends kids didn’t struggle. * People did struggle and it had a negative effect on ** educational outcomes.

*Some people struggled and it had a negative effect on **their educational outcomes.

There. Fixed that for you. Just because some people struggled doesn't mean that everyone else needs to do dumb things. No one is gloating above. The poster was pointing out a fact. My family had the same experience. In fact, and this will get someone's goat, my children "thrived" with DL.

[Anonymous]

To some extent the governor's race will have an impact on my votes for City Council and School Board. We live in Alexandria. Both my husband and I will likely vote for McAuliffe. We know the family and we like them all a lot. We have confidence in Terry. However, we haven't been at all impressed, or even mildly content, with the Democrats like the Mayor or those who serve on the City Council and School Board. So we are looking at other candidates.

Our feeling is that if we vote for Terry then we're still voting our party but at the local level, where the party is completely off the rails, we can help get them back on the rails by voting against them as a wake-up call. This was all reinforced when this weekend we read the voter information page in the Washington Post. Only two candidates for City Council were willing to express support for SROs. The rest waffled, even those who claim publicly that they support SROs. You know, if you're not willing to put it in writing, I'm not willing to believe what you say. The safety of the children and staff at our schools is too important. If the principals at the schools believe that SROs are necessary then you better believe that my husband and I support them.

Right now we're voting only for the two City Council candidates (an Independent and a Republican) who express support for SROs. For the School Board we're voting for Pree Ann Johnson, Tammy Ignacio and we're undecided if we'll vote for a third. For Mayor we're writing in for Dopey, one of the seven dwarfs; he will undoubtedly do a much better job than Wilson and they look like they're related so at least it is all in the family.

Basically the governor's race is impacting our votes on the school board (and other elections) because voting our party for governor is freeing us to vote outside of the part at the local level.

[Anonymous]

This is a must read about an Arlington school board candidate:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/0/1010386.page#21141435

🤣

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Anonymous wrote:Regardless of anything, I flat-out do not believe anyone who claims that children "thrived" last year. Or more specifically, I believe that they believe it, but I don't trust them as narrators, and I think they have bad judgment. The "thrivers" on these boards seemed totally nuts last year, so much so that I am deeply skeptical of anything they say.

And, see, I think the people like you, the ones who were screaming "open the schools whatever the cost" were and are mentally unstable hysterics. Our kids did great at home. In fact all the families that I know say the same thing. Are there families that struggled? Sure but I think they were probably struggling anyway. The families I know, with stable and structured home lives, and with parents who prioritized those things, they were fine. Maybe a few of us were cramped and it was nice when the weather warmed up in the spring but everyone being at home was a nice break. There was no stress, there was no need to be running hither and thither. If anything we grew tighter as a family.

If your family didn't do as well, I am sorry. Perhaps you need to think about what you could have done differently.

Yes!

Umm… is this a serious post? I mean I supported school closures. We were in the middle of a pandemic. The virus was a novel virus that we know nothing about snd the priority here was to save lives. However the cost was great and many kids, especially those from working class families and/or families where the parents could not stay at home suffered. Yeah my kids did great. My husband and I worked from home - kindergartener did school virtually. We pulled our 4 year old out of pre-k. Both kids played with each other. During our breaks my husband and I tutored our 4 year old. She was able to attend a virtual class in the morning to learn the language of my country of origin. We saved a shit ton of money, to the point that we could have a third. So yes it was great for us. But doesn’t mean it was great for the majority of kids. The fact that you don’t seem to care makes me doubt you are even a democrat because democrats care about the economically disadvantaged. Absolutely disgusting.

Except you're conveniently ignoring the fact that POC and immigrants did not support opening schools. At my school we had to require them to send their kids last year otherwise we would have had no one. As it was we had 2-3 teachers/staff for every 1 student. We are a Title I school. Our parents did not support hybrid last year and would this year still prefer distance learning. Until you actually know what you're talking about, you should stay out of the discussion. I am feet-on-the-ground. The "economically disadvantaged" POC and immigrant families did not want what you claim they, in your esteemed opinion, needed.

Lol. You are responding to my post. I am an immigrant, and a POC,Arab to be specific. Opinions within the Muslim and Arab community regarding opening schools ranged from those like me who wanted schools closed and those who wanted schools opened. But whatever opinions were on the matter, school closures ultimately harmed children of those who are from disadvantaged social -economic backgrounds. This doesn’t mean that the closures shouldn’t have happened (I believe they should have). It just means that I’m not gonna go around saying that the closures were great and gloat that my kids and my friends kids didn’t struggle. People did struggle and it had a negative effect on educational outcomes.

Agree.

-My family did ok.
-I supported remote learning for the safety of our teachers and community.
-It really sucked for some people at the time. And hybrid was not workable for some families.
-And we have significant learning loss across the board, but especially for kids whose families weren’t able to supplement.

The PP above suggesting that families who struggled should “think about what you could have done differently” is completely tone-deaf and a major a-hole.

+1

Also, that PP sounds like an idiot, which goes back to the original point that the "thrivers" have bad judgment and should not be trusted. I do not think there is any real debate at this point about how disproportionately harmful the closures were to the most vulnerable student populations. The data documenting the harm is piling up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Regardless of anything, I flat-out do not believe anyone who claims that children "thrived" last year. Or more specifically, I believe that they believe it, but I don't trust them as narrators, and I think they have bad judgment. The "thrivers" on these boards seemed totally nuts last year, so much so that I am deeply skeptical of anything they say.

And, see, I think the people like you, the ones who were screaming "open the schools whatever the cost" were and are mentally unstable hysterics. Our kids did great at home. In fact all the families that I know say the same thing. Are there families that struggled? Sure but I think they were probably struggling anyway. The families I know, with stable and structured home lives, and with parents who prioritized those things, they were fine. Maybe a few of us were cramped and it was nice when the weather warmed up in the spring but everyone being at home was a nice break. There was no stress, there was no need to be running hither and thither. If anything we grew tighter as a family.

If your family didn't do as well, I am sorry. Perhaps you need to think about what you could have done differently.

Yes!

Umm… is this a serious post? I mean I supported school closures. We were in the middle of a pandemic. The virus was a novel virus that we know nothing about snd the priority here was to save lives. However the cost was great and many kids, especially those from working class families and/or families where the parents could not stay at home suffered. Yeah my kids did great. My husband and I worked from home - kindergartener did school virtually. We pulled our 4 year old out of pre-k. Both kids played with each other. During our breaks my husband and I tutored our 4 year old. She was able to attend a virtual class in the morning to learn the language of my country of origin. We saved a shit ton of money, to the point that we could have a third. So yes it was great for us. But doesn’t mean it was great for the majority of kids. The fact that you don’t seem to care makes me doubt you are even a democrat because democrats care about the economically disadvantaged. Absolutely disgusting.

Except you're conveniently ignoring the fact that POC and immigrants did not support opening schools. At my school we had to require them to send their kids last year otherwise we would have had no one. As it was we had 2-3 teachers/staff for every 1 student. We are a Title I school. Our parents did not support hybrid last year and would this year still prefer distance learning. Until you actually know what you're talking about, you should stay out of the discussion. I am feet-on-the-ground. The "economically disadvantaged" POC and immigrant families did not want what you claim they, in your esteemed opinion, needed.

Lol. You are responding to my post. I am an immigrant, and a POC,Arab to be specific. Opinions within the Muslim and Arab community regarding opening schools ranged from those like me who wanted schools closed and those who wanted schools opened. But whatever opinions were on the matter, school closures ultimately harmed children of those who are from disadvantaged social -economic backgrounds. This doesn’t mean that the closures shouldn’t have happened (I believe they should have). It just means that I’m not gonna go around saying that the closures were great and gloat that my kids and my friends kids didn’t struggle. * People did struggle and it had a negative effect on ** educational outcomes.

*Some people struggled and it had a negative effect on **their educational outcomes.

There. Fixed that for you. Just because some people struggled doesn't mean that everyone else needs to do dumb things. No one is gloating above. The poster was pointing out a fact. My family had the same experience. In fact, and this will get someone's goat, my children "thrived" with DL.

DP. Are you trying to demonstrate the point that people who talk about how their kids "thrived" in DL have bad judgment? You seem to be a poster child.

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Anonymous wrote:Regardless of anything, I flat-out do not believe anyone who claims that children "thrived" last year. Or more specifically, I believe that they believe it, but I don't trust them as narrators, and I think they have bad judgment. The "thrivers" on these boards seemed totally nuts last year, so much so that I am deeply skeptical of anything they say.

And, see, I think the people like you, the ones who were screaming "open the schools whatever the cost" were and are mentally unstable hysterics. Our kids did great at home. In fact all the families that I know say the same thing. Are there families that struggled? Sure but I think they were probably struggling anyway. The families I know, with stable and structured home lives, and with parents who prioritized those things, they were fine. Maybe a few of us were cramped and it was nice when the weather warmed up in the spring but everyone being at home was a nice break. There was no stress, there was no need to be running hither and thither. If anything we grew tighter as a family.

If your family didn't do as well, I am sorry. Perhaps you need to think about what you could have done differently.

Yes!

Umm… is this a serious post? I mean I supported school closures. We were in the middle of a pandemic. The virus was a novel virus that we know nothing about snd the priority here was to save lives. However the cost was great and many kids, especially those from working class families and/or families where the parents could not stay at home suffered. Yeah my kids did great. My husband and I worked from home - kindergartener did school virtually. We pulled our 4 year old out of pre-k. Both kids played with each other. During our breaks my husband and I tutored our 4 year old. She was able to attend a virtual class in the morning to learn the language of my country of origin. We saved a shit ton of money, to the point that we could have a third. So yes it was great for us. But doesn’t mean it was great for the majority of kids. The fact that you don’t seem to care makes me doubt you are even a democrat because democrats care about the economically disadvantaged. Absolutely disgusting.

Except you're conveniently ignoring the fact that POC and immigrants did not support opening schools. At my school we had to require them to send their kids last year otherwise we would have had no one. As it was we had 2-3 teachers/staff for every 1 student. We are a Title I school. Our parents did not support hybrid last year and would this year still prefer distance learning. Until you actually know what you're talking about, you should stay out of the discussion. I am feet-on-the-ground. The "economically disadvantaged" POC and immigrant families did not want what you claim they, in your esteemed opinion, needed.

Lol. You are responding to my post. I am an immigrant, and a POC,Arab to be specific. Opinions within the Muslim and Arab community regarding opening schools ranged from those like me who wanted schools closed and those who wanted schools opened. But whatever opinions were on the matter, school closures ultimately harmed children of those who are from disadvantaged social -economic backgrounds. This doesn’t mean that the closures shouldn’t have happened (I believe they should have). It just means that I’m not gonna go around saying that the closures were great and gloat that my kids and my friends kids didn’t struggle. People did struggle and it had a negative effect on educational outcomes.

Agree.

-My family did ok.
-I supported remote learning for the safety of our teachers and community.
-It really sucked for some people at the time. And hybrid was not workable for some families.
-And we have significant learning loss across the board, but especially for kids whose families weren’t able to supplement.

The PP above suggesting that families who struggled should “think about what you could have done differently” is completely tone-deaf and a major a-hole.

+1

Also, that PP sounds like an idiot, which goes back to the original point that the "thrivers" have bad judgment and should not be trusted. I do not think there is any real debate at this point about how disproportionately harmful the closures were to the most vulnerable student populations. The data documenting the harm is piling up.

Uh, no. I also do know kids (not many) who thrived.

That PP may be clueless jerk but that doesn’t mean you have to sh1t on everyone who “thrived”.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Regardless of anything, I flat-out do not believe anyone who claims that children "thrived" last year. Or more specifically, I believe that they believe it, but I don't trust them as narrators, and I think they have bad judgment. The "thrivers" on these boards seemed totally nuts last year, so much so that I am deeply skeptical of anything they say.

And, see, I think the people like you, the ones who were screaming "open the schools whatever the cost" were and are mentally unstable hysterics. Our kids did great at home. In fact all the families that I know say the same thing. Are there families that struggled? Sure but I think they were probably struggling anyway. The families I know, with stable and structured home lives, and with parents who prioritized those things, they were fine. Maybe a few of us were cramped and it was nice when the weather warmed up in the spring but everyone being at home was a nice break. There was no stress, there was no need to be running hither and thither. If anything we grew tighter as a family.

If your family didn't do as well, I am sorry. Perhaps you need to think about what you could have done differently.

Yes!

Umm… is this a serious post? I mean I supported school closures. We were in the middle of a pandemic. The virus was a novel virus that we know nothing about snd the priority here was to save lives. However the cost was great and many kids, especially those from working class families and/or families where the parents could not stay at home suffered. Yeah my kids did great. My husband and I worked from home - kindergartener did school virtually. We pulled our 4 year old out of pre-k. Both kids played with each other. During our breaks my husband and I tutored our 4 year old. She was able to attend a virtual class in the morning to learn the language of my country of origin. We saved a shit ton of money, to the point that we could have a third. So yes it was great for us. But doesn’t mean it was great for the majority of kids. The fact that you don’t seem to care makes me doubt you are even a democrat because democrats care about the economically disadvantaged. Absolutely disgusting.

Except you're conveniently ignoring the fact that POC and immigrants did not support opening schools. At my school we had to require them to send their kids last year otherwise we would have had no one. As it was we had 2-3 teachers/staff for every 1 student. We are a Title I school. Our parents did not support hybrid last year and would this year still prefer distance learning. Until you actually know what you're talking about, you should stay out of the discussion. I am feet-on-the-ground. The "economically disadvantaged" POC and immigrant families did not want what you claim they, in your esteemed opinion, needed.

Lol. You are responding to my post. I am an immigrant, and a POC,Arab to be specific. Opinions within the Muslim and Arab community regarding opening schools ranged from those like me who wanted schools closed and those who wanted schools opened. But whatever opinions were on the matter, school closures ultimately harmed children of those who are from disadvantaged social -economic backgrounds. This doesn’t mean that the closures shouldn’t have happened (I believe they should have). It just means that I’m not gonna go around saying that the closures were great and gloat that my kids and my friends kids didn’t struggle. People did struggle and it had a negative effect on educational outcomes.

Agree.

-My family did ok.
-I supported remote learning for the safety of our teachers and community.
-It really sucked for some people at the time. And hybrid was not workable for some families.
-And we have significant learning loss across the board, but especially for kids whose families weren’t able to supplement.

The PP above suggesting that families who struggled should “think about what you could have done differently” is completely tone-deaf and a major a-hole.

+1

Also, that PP sounds like an idiot, which goes back to the original point that the "thrivers" have bad judgment and should not be trusted. I do not think there is any real debate at this point about how disproportionately harmful the closures were to the most vulnerable student populations. The data documenting the harm is piling up.

Uh, no. I also do know kids (not many) who thrived.

That PP may be clueless jerk but that doesn’t mean you have to sh1t on everyone who “thrived”.

I'm sure there are a few kids who truly thrived. But in general, yes, it is a good shorthand for bad judgment.

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Anonymous wrote:To some extent the governor's race will have an impact on my votes for City Council and School Board. We live in Alexandria. Both my husband and I will likely vote for McAuliffe. We know the family and we like them all a lot. We have confidence in Terry. However, we haven't been at all impressed, or even mildly content, with the Democrats like the Mayor or those who serve on the City Council and School Board. So we are looking at other candidates.

Our feeling is that if we vote for Terry then we're still voting our party but at the local level, where the party is completely off the rails, we can help get them back on the rails by voting against them as a wake-up call. This was all reinforced when this weekend we read the voter information page in the Washington Post. Only two candidates for City Council were willing to express support for SROs. The rest waffled, even those who claim publicly that they support SROs. You know, if you're not willing to put it in writing, I'm not willing to believe what you say. The safety of the children and staff at our schools is too important. If the principals at the schools believe that SROs are necessary then you better believe that my husband and I support them.

Right now we're voting only for the two City Council candidates (an Independent and a Republican) who express support for SROs. For the School Board we're voting for Pree Ann Johnson, Tammy Ignacio and we're undecided if we'll vote for a third. For Mayor we're writing in for Dopey, one of the seven dwarfs; he will undoubtedly do a much better job than Wilson and they look like they're related so at least it is all in the family.

Basically the governor's race is impacting our votes on the school board (and other elections) because voting our party for governor is freeing us to vote outside of the part at the local level.

this reads like “As long as it doesn’t’ affect MY family…”