Virginia public schools have been deceiving parents

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would be very skeptical of reports coming from people who were appointed to these roles for the specific purpose of undermining confidence in public education to create an opportunity to roll out for-profit charter schools.

Yep. This is what Youngkin had to say about Aimee Guidera last year.

“She believes in charter schools, which is a big part of our agenda.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would be very skeptical of reports coming from people who were appointed to these roles for the specific purpose of undermining confidence in public education to create an opportunity to roll out for-profit charter schools.

Yep. This is what Youngkin had to say about Aimee Guidera last year.

“She believes in charter schools, which is a big part of our agenda.”

Well, I might just be ready for charter schools. ACPS is a bona fide s#$T show, I'm ready for any and all options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would be very skeptical of reports coming from people who were appointed to these roles for the specific purpose of undermining confidence in public education to create an opportunity to roll out for-profit charter schools.

Yep. This is what Youngkin had to say about Aimee Guidera last year.

“She believes in charter schools, which is a big part of our agenda.”

Well, I might just be ready for charter schools. ACPS is a bona fide s#$T show, I'm ready for any and all options.

You would have to hope your kid lotteries into the charter school, because otherwise you’d still be stuck in ACPS except it would get even worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ll add that this post comes from youngkins troll farm- and it is how he won the election.
Gross

+1

[Anonymous]

Parent of minority senior student here: (low income, not connected) heading towards top university. 1540 SAT, 13 AP credits, 12 5’s, 1 score of 4…
Thanks public schools and teachers. Stop Youngkin and his minions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would be very skeptical of reports coming from people who were appointed to these roles for the specific purpose of undermining confidence in public education to create an opportunity to roll out for-profit charter schools.

I hear you, but then FCPS is run by people who spent years talking only about equity and disparaging tests and rankings, only to trot out the 2022 US News rankings of Virginia high schools (which were based on data from years ago) once they thought it would help counter the charter school advocates. Rather hard to discern who is trustworthy.

[Anonymous]

Closing schools for a year disparately affected low income and minority students. Shocking.... Question is whether a charter school / school choice system would have changed this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would be very skeptical of reports coming from people who were appointed to these roles for the specific purpose of undermining confidence in public education to create an opportunity to roll out for-profit charter schools.

I hear you, but then FCPS is run by people who spent years talking only about equity and disparaging tests and rankings, only to trot out the 2022 US News rankings of Virginia high schools (which were based on data from years ago) once they thought it would help counter the charter school advocates. Rather hard to discern who is trustworthy.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would be very skeptical of reports coming from people who were appointed to these roles for the specific purpose of undermining confidence in public education to create an opportunity to roll out for-profit charter schools.

And I’d bet my FCPS paycheck that OP is one of those parties interested in dismantling public education.

I bet you are one of those parents whose kids benefit from inflated grades. Maybe you have connections such that your nearly illiterate kid will still have a steady income no matter their life choices. But the rest of the 98% of income earners need their kid to actually learn enough to be competetive in the workplace.

DP. My kids have learned plenty in their APS schools. I have no concerns about their level of education.

My DC1, a 2016 graduate of APS, was Phi Beta Kappa in college and graduated summa cum laude. DC2 just finished freshman year of college, dean's list both semesters. Idon't know if their high school grades were inflated, but it seems like they were prepared pretty well for college.

[Anonymous]

Youngkin will destroy VA schools so yeah no worries. His buddies just sued barnes and noble to ban books so VA is hosed.

[Anonymous]

If you look at the report, it cites concerning data regarding the performance of public schools, like how the Virginia Board of Education lowered SOL cut scores in 2019 and 2020.

But the reactions on this board opposed to the report don't tackle any of the data - they just say "Fake News!" and "I didn't vote for him so I won't believe any piece of data from that administration unless it fits my views!" Interesting how people on the far left and far right have so much in common.

[Anonymous]

The report is bs.

It’s based on the NAEP report from 2019. Guess where VA ranks nationally?

In the top 5 - 10 states in the country.

[Anonymous]

SOLs have always been kinda inflated in comparison to CC.

But Virginia schools are fine. Don’t let Youngkin trick you into funding more charter schools in this state- we have excellent schools. According to the NEAP- we are doing better than most states- including MD.

https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/profiles/stateprofile?chort=1&sub=MAT&sj=&sfj=NP&st=MN&year=2019R3

The numbers and graphs in the report are “doctored” to look bad. Look at Virginia’s actual NEAP scores. Inside Nova and Wtop got duped. Our schools are fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you look at the report, it cites concerning data regarding the performance of public schools, like how the Virginia Board of Education lowered SOL cut scores in 2019 and 2020.

But the reactions on this board opposed to the report don't tackle any of the data - they just say "Fake News!" and "I didn't vote for him so I won't believe any piece of data from that administration unless it fits my views!" Interesting how people on the far left and far right have so much in common.

I saw that. But then I looked at the actual NEAP scores. The whole thing is BS. This idea that we are failing our kids- the data is all messed up.

Look at the actual test scores and state ranking. Also note- this data is from 2019. If there were truly issues, we would have heard about it so much earlier than this. This is all he has to drum up votes.

https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/profiles/stateprofile?chort=1&sub=MAT&sj=&sfj=NP&st=MN&year=2019R3

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would be very skeptical of reports coming from people who were appointed to these roles for the specific purpose of undermining confidence in public education to create an opportunity to roll out for-profit charter schools.

Yep. This is what Youngkin had to say about Aimee Guidera last year.

“She believes in charter schools, which is a big part of our agenda.”

Well, I might just be ready for charter schools. ACPS is a bona fide s#$T show, I'm ready for any and all options.

You would have to hope your kid lotteries into the charter school, because otherwise you’d still be stuck in ACPS except it would get even worse.

Yeah, it’s cute how these people assume THEIR kids will always be the ones let into the charter schools.