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Anonymous
That’s basically what we are doing, yes. Maybe I will run for school board after I retire. 
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Anonymous
God help us. PS * You rented a house at Thanksgiving, and saw family members you don't live with. Right. |
Anonymous
I learned it. Which is why the pandemic has made me such a proponent of vouchers and charters and money following kids. Then I will take charge of my kid’s education. Sorry, I can’t teach calculus. But, I can ensure it happens. |
Anonymous
What I think you’re missing is how many of us who are moderately liberal and HATE Betsy DeVos, but are saying we don’t trust teachers in general or FCPS at all any more and want vouchers and more private competition so we can find educational options we do have faith in. My kid is in 10th and likely stuck halfway though high school. If they were younger, they’d be out. But, like a lot of families, we’ve been stuck wishing private had been an option. And would feel a lot better if it were an option going forward. A lot of institutions and businesses innovated because they had to. My federal agency, with Trump actively trying to destroy telework (and the DP federal government in general), was finally been dragging kicking and screaming into 2021 and has been creative and flexible in ways that have left me stunned. All of a sudden, the dumb rules disappeared, and it became “we have people who must be served, for whom we are a housing/ eviction, food/ starvation, medical care/ death resource. We have no choice but to make this work.” So we did. A year in I’m so proud of what we’ve done. It wasn’t pretty at first. We made mistakes. We hit speed bumps. But we did it. A year in, our metrics show that we are doing a much better job than we were a year ago. Think about it. The federal government not just kept functioning, but in my little corner got better, being manned by people who were also monitoring 2nd grade. Privates and many publics found a way. No one told FCPS they had to find a way, so they did the easy thing and failed. It was hard. It was uncomfortable. So, they didn’t. All parents, not just the wealthy, should have a different choice. And vouchers frees up the money to make it happen. That’s how I vote going forward. FCPS needs to be held accountable. Free up a billion dollars in schools funds, and watch charters hold them accountable. They may not care about kids. They care a lot about per pupil funding. |
Anonymous
Yeah. We’ve all had anxiety when forced to venture out into the real world this year. And the nature of anxiety is the longer you wait to deal with it, the worse it gets. You stay home next year and we get 1% positivity, you will still be anxious. There are three cases left on Earth, and you will be anxious. It’s not going to get easier because you put off doing it. At some point, give into the agoraphobia and become housebound. Or, take a deep breath and go. |
Anonymous
+1. Who doesn’t believe in science anyway, and can’t assess risk. |
Anonymous
You want to hold teachers accountable for decisions they didn’t make. My DW and I have been ready to teach in person since July. My employer, the school board, decided to keep my students at home. |
Anonymous
Well said. Public education no longer cares about actual education. That has become evident. |
Anonymous
| I am working harder than I ever have in FCPS. And my kids are learning. I am so so so sick of people threatening legal action because of a PANDEMIC as if we won’t want to WORK. I work 70-80 hour weeks. I truly loathe you people. You have NO idea how hard this has been and how ouch we are trying. |
Anonymous
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The concept of competition producing a better marketplace for education is absurd. It's not business, it's education, and the people who can afford to pay for better service already are doing so in the form of private schools. And vouchers, ugh, yes, let me give a bunch of science-denying religious schools my tax money so we can up the uneducated citizenry more.
Without some serious regulation around charter schools, they are a mess, especially the for-profit entities. Look at Florida or Arizona - schools open and close with little notice, they don't hire actual teachers, some of them are just sticking kids in front of a computer. K12, which runs the Virtual Virginia Academy program and is one of Virginia's few charter schools, is a for-profit and an overall terrible organization (who, BTW, registers students through poorer counties to get more per-pupil money). No regulation, no validation, no public money. |
Anonymous
Any legal action isn’t about you. You need to remind yourself of that. Most teachers are working hard. This is legal action against the administration and the school board. |
Anonymous
Everyone knows that the ADA dump forced FCPS’s hand. That was a coordinated job action. That’s on the teachers. Maybe not all teachers. But several thousand. |
Anonymous
Of course education should be regulated and validated. This isn’t TX. There is a lot of money in this area and a lot of education. Parents can absolutely make informed decisions. But with TJ going lottery, there’s a lot of demand for BASIS and innovative options. For example, I’m fine with my kids in a HS that saves money by not having athletic fields. That saves their charter a lot of money right there. But, music is a must. And FCPS clearly has grown complacent. It needs to learn how to innovate too. Chapters and schools receiving voucher money should be held to the same SOL standards with the same transparent data as publics. |
Anonymous
Lol I’m a teacher and I just tried listening to the Dave Ramsey podcast bc I heard he had good advice, but he was a little too preachy... but anyway... on the February 23rd episode about Biden and student talons Dave said something like “parents aren’t doing their jobs at all and they’re sending animals to school and expecting the teachers to be able to do their jobs with a room full of kids that act like animals.” It was honestly sort of horrible for him to say but I laughed because many kids have zero expectations at home and will not listen to any teachers either because they’re used to doing whatever they want. Teachers have rooms full of kids. As a parent you likely have 2.5 kids. Please do your job to make ours easier! Or just keep blaming us until there’s no good teachers left because the ones that have trouble not caring a lot get anxiety and/or depressed because it’s so hard to teach kids with all the distractions doing on by a lot of the kids! Like oh your kid won’t listen to you at home? Don’t blame me for why they’re failing! They won’t listen to me no matter how hard I try and other teachers come in to try to get them to listen and they still won’t, making me aware the issue is them and not me. Their issue is probably caused by awful/lazy parenting. Then there’s parents who freak the F out if you don’t grade their babies work super high or don’t give them extra time or speak to them with a tone to try to get them to realize they did something wrong. Your kid hit someone? Don’t yell at me for having a serious conversation with your child and having them apologize then they go home upset and crying to mommy and daddy because I “yelled” at them. If you want to help your child and have better teachers, be a better parent! |
Anonymous
| Ugh my phone wrote student “talons!” I meant loans. Haha. |