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Not sure if this should be in the policy forum instead... Anyone here voting for Youngkin because of
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Anonymous
I guess you don't know any teachers, and how stressful it was for them to pivot through the constant changes. The move to teach virtually then concurrent. They also took a lot of blame whenever things went wrong, even if it was out of their control. Many have quit and taken a leave of absence. |
Anonymous
I am so over EQUITY!!!!!!! How about educational excellence for a while? |
Anonymous
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“Hard pass” lady, you must have older kids in FCPS, if at all.
I don’t care about other states, just the Commonwealth. |
Anonymous
Yes this ^ Instead of pouring millions into segregation policies, use that money to boost teacher pay (including substitute teachers). Also create a separate pay scale for special Ed teachers. It blows my mind they are paid the same as general Ed. They definitely need to be paid more. |
Anonymous
Was the "McAuliffe is for Equity" post an argument in favor of Youngkin? If so, I'm in. |
Anonymous
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My mother and MIL and FIL were all pubic school teachers. It was important to DH and I to put kids in public K12. And for more than a decade we staunchly supported FCPS. We even have a kid who graduated from TJ.
But last year made us realize how stupid we had been. My TJ kid was back on campus, in hybrid classes 1/2 the meeting in person, half virtual) or small seminar classes in larger spaces. There was almost no spread. With good surveillance testing. My HS kid still in FCPS kid is 2e, with significant LDs. She got a year of online school. And the more she struggled, the more I realized how privileged I had been. We had chosen housing based on schools and used AAP and TJ to opt for a better path. And we were trapped. dad’s grades mattered a lot for college, and it was a mess. We would have paid for private, but there was no where to send a junior. I came to realize two things last year. Vouchers can be good. Public schools are a monopoly and no parent should be forced to send their kid to a school where the kid is doing poorly. What’s wrong with making public schools compete with charters for students? What’s wrong with giving students options? Why is defunding schools bad if the money goes to an option that works better for kids? And so what if that money goes to religious schools? ,y kids don’t have to attend, and apparently we need them since the school calendar is tied in knots with 11 O days. The second is the the teachers unions or associations or whatever you call it) donate to R candidates, so the Kimberly Adams of the world get an outsized voice in how sschools are run. My kid eventually returned to school for 5 in person classes and 2 Zoom in a Room classes with monitors. With fully vaxxed teachers at home teaching. They are back this year, BTW. It’s gross when decisions follow campaign contributions on the right. And no better when it happens on the left. |
Anonymous
I’ve read this reasoning a couple of times, which boggles my mind. Vote for a Trump supporting R to send this message? |
Anonymous
I'm an independent and like Terry's education plan EXCEPT this school segregation nonsense. If he can remove that part, he has my vote. |
Anonymous
DCUM is anonymous so it’s impossible to know numbers or who is actually a VA voter. Regardless, encourage your family/friends/neighbors to get out to vote. I think the biggest concern is low turnout. |
Anonymous
VDOE and Qarni. This is a governor level decision. Public noise caused abatement to some level on that math mess but will it be back? 2 decades ago 1 school in FCPS had Core Knowledge, phonics, well defined math and FARMS+ESL objective achievement skyrocketed. A renegade Democrat on the school board bucked the party and approved! The school day had what parents provide via after schooling so those that can't/don't provide it benefited. People are really sick of having to supplement and VDOE/Qarni even daring to bring up that math plan? The only reason FCPS is now attempting to improve literacy instruction is because of the NAACP. How many decades did it take? In a real WTF moment when FCPS went to full day K everywhere it had the impact of the kids getting worse stuff since some spent the other 1/2 day before that in programs. VA does have part time gov schools and that could have been done with TJ. VA should also have SEA mechanisms that counteract excessive LEA-divisions actions like unplanned capacity expansion [adding costs during bond projects-Langley] or funding expansion instead of doing boundary changes [West Potomac] or the ludicrous cost of IB v AP. The funny thing is FCPS R's bellowed about literacy instruction and were considered evil. Now the D's want it but the big D had a scheme to remove math. So in VA any English class is capped at 24:1 in grades 6-12. Hah. That's not an average 24:1 for a school or division. It's a class. School boards are supposed to adjust boundaries promptly to operate with maximum efficiency. That means wads of West Potomac to Mount Vernon. Mclean to Langley 3 years ago. $$$ wasted and it's against the code of Virginia. |
Anonymous
No way!!! The GOP is pushing crazier and crazier ideas each year. I can’t imagine what they will come up with next. We need a D to block that crazy. |
Anonymous
| Yes I very much feel this way. My usual main issues are also abortion (and gun control), both which I don’t trust Youngkin on. I am not voting until Election Day because I’m waiting for McAuliffe or Northam to start the converation about lifting the mask mandate in schools now that 5-11 can be vaccinated. My kids are not handling masks well and the data that is constantly cited is not convincing evidence w/o a control for community vaccine rates. I am just done with the over-caution in schools. These kids have had enough. I am leaning Youngkin but not happy about it. |
Anonymous
The idea that McAuliffe personally cares about equity, and isn’t just pandering as usual, is ridiculous on its face, so your confusion is understandable. But there’s a real risk that if McAuliffe is elected he’s going to appoint people who’ll be like Atif Qarni on steroids - demanding an end to neighborhood schools in the name of equity and insisting on subsidized housing in the middle of neighborhoods with higher performing schools. Rest assured, however, that none of this will ever inconvenience the likes of McAuliffe, Elaine Tholen, etc, one bit. They’ll happily destroy the “privileges” of others, so long as it doesn’t affect them at all. |
Anonymous
| Math is not “getting removed”. Stop lying. |
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It would be insane to vote for Governor based on education. There are huge issues at stake in this election. “Democracy itself is under assault.”
Read this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/23/glenn-youngkin-virginia-governor-race-fail-character-test/ |