Consolidated VA Elections Thread

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Anonymous wrote:I’m voting for Youngkin because I’m a teacher and see first hand what is happening in public schools in the area. We need drastic changes. Many teachers in my school will be voting for him.

As for the topic of school choice, I’m all for it. Public schools need some competition. Currently they are running wild and no longer care about academics.

Vouchers just destroy schools. That won't fix problems at the administrative level or with fads in progressive education.

And th will ensure pp’ working conditions get even worse when she’s expect do all the same stuff with fewer resources as funding moves to private and charter schools.

And she’d also better hope she never gets a class of kids who aren’t as strong academically, because Republicans favor accountability systems where teachers are evaluated based on things like non-relative SOL performance. Doesn’t matter how much you did to get Billy caught up this year when he came in two grade levels behind, if he just barely fails his SOL pp will get dinged for it in her performance review.

Youngkin plans to raise teacher pay, raise public school funding and focus money and resources into special ed, particularly learning loss from being kept out of school for 18 months and given zero instruction in the case of many special ed kids.

People are done listening to the left's scare tactics.

Cmon man. You're telling me the Trumpy Republican wants to increase public school funding? I will eat my shoe if there's a Republican alive who is going to increase public school funding, over what a Dem wants to do.

Why is Virginia teacher pay 50th in the country? There have been Democrats in charge for 8 years. Maybe time for a change.

Because rich lawyers make too much.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/new-report-virginia-dc-teacher-pay-ranks-last-country/65-72f34f95-ca7d-4707-9c77-fc413a50105e

[Anonymous]

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Why would I want a private equity guy in charge of public schools?

Why would you want someone like McAuliffe? He sent his kids to Potomac School--although one may have gone to Langley.

He never attended public schools at all. Catholic schools all the way through college and graduate school.

Not sure about Youngkin. He went to one of those private schools that push basketball. I'm guessing his kids went to private school, as well, but I couldn't easily find it.

Youngkin is listening to parents, though. McAuliffe is listening to Teachers' Unions.

Pick one.

I am going with teachers unions. Parents shouldn’t be telling schools what to teach. I am so done with this era where everyone thinks they know more than experts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m voting for Youngkin because I’m a teacher and see first hand what is happening in public schools in the area. We need drastic changes. Many teachers in my school will be voting for him.

As for the topic of school choice, I’m all for it. Public schools need some competition. Currently they are running wild and no longer care about academics.

A lot of teachers in your school will lose their jobs when Youngkin puts vouchers in place and people flock to private schools.

But isn't it great for the teachers to make more $$? They deserve a better pay. This administration spent all the billions on their questionable political contracts, not on teachers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m voting for Youngkin because I’m a teacher and see first hand what is happening in public schools in the area. We need drastic changes. Many teachers in my school will be voting for him.

As for the topic of school choice, I’m all for it. Public schools need some competition. Currently they are running wild and no longer care about academics.

Vouchers just destroy schools. That won't fix problems at the administrative level or with fads in progressive education.

And th will ensure pp’ working conditions get even worse when she’s expect do all the same stuff with fewer resources as funding moves to private and charter schools.

And she’d also better hope she never gets a class of kids who aren’t as strong academically, because Republicans favor accountability systems where teachers are evaluated based on things like non-relative SOL performance. Doesn’t matter how much you did to get Billy caught up this year when he came in two grade levels behind, if he just barely fails his SOL pp will get dinged for it in her performance review.

Youngkin plans to raise teacher pay, raise public school funding and focus money and resources into special ed, particularly learning loss from being kept out of school for 18 months and given zero instruction in the case of many special ed kids.

People are done listening to the left's scare tactics.

Cmon man. You're telling me the Trumpy Republican wants to increase public school funding? I will eat my shoe if there's a Republican alive who is going to increase public school funding, over what a Dem wants to do.

Why is Virginia teacher pay 50th in the country? There have been Democrats in charge for 8 years. Maybe time for a change.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Why would I want a private equity guy in charge of public schools?

Why would you want someone like McAuliffe? He sent his kids to Potomac School--although one may have gone to Langley.

He never attended public schools at all. Catholic schools all the way through college and graduate school.

Not sure about Youngkin. He went to one of those private schools that push basketball. I'm guessing his kids went to private school, as well, but I couldn't easily find it.

Youngkin is listening to parents, though. McAuliffe is listening to Teachers' Unions.

Pick one.

They both sent their kids to private school. But only one of them is a private equity guy.

Yeah one an equity guy and the other one who made money by shady business practices and was being federally investigated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m voting for Youngkin because I’m a teacher and see first hand what is happening in public schools in the area. We need drastic changes. Many teachers in my school will be voting for him.

As for the topic of school choice, I’m all for it. Public schools need some competition. Currently they are running wild and no longer care about academics.

Vouchers just destroy schools. That won't fix problems at the administrative level or with fads in progressive education.

And th will ensure pp’ working conditions get even worse when she’s expect do all the same stuff with fewer resources as funding moves to private and charter schools.

And she’d also better hope she never gets a class of kids who aren’t as strong academically, because Republicans favor accountability systems where teachers are evaluated based on things like non-relative SOL performance. Doesn’t matter how much you did to get Billy caught up this year when he came in two grade levels behind, if he just barely fails his SOL pp will get dinged for it in her performance review.

Youngkin plans to raise teacher pay, raise public school funding and focus money and resources into special ed, particularly learning loss from being kept out of school for 18 months and given zero instruction in the case of many special ed kids.

People are done listening to the left's scare tactics.

Cmon man. You're telling me the Trumpy Republican wants to increase public school funding? I will eat my shoe if there's a Republican alive who is going to increase public school funding, over what a Dem wants to do.

Why is Virginia teacher pay 50th in the country? There have been Democrats in charge for 8 years. Maybe time for a change.

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The comparison was average teacher pay to average state pay.

It's because Loudon County is the highest HHI county in the country for most of the past couple decades...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Why would I want a private equity guy in charge of public schools?

Why would you want someone like McAuliffe? He sent his kids to Potomac School--although one may have gone to Langley.

He never attended public schools at all. Catholic schools all the way through college and graduate school.

Not sure about Youngkin. He went to one of those private schools that push basketball. I'm guessing his kids went to private school, as well, but I couldn't easily find it.

Youngkin is listening to parents, though. McAuliffe is listening to Teachers' Unions.

Pick one.

I am going with teachers unions. Parents shouldn’t be telling schools what to teach. I am so done with this era where everyone thinks they know more than experts.

Which teachers unions would those be in Virginia? Just curious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Why would I want a private equity guy in charge of public schools?

Why would you want someone like McAuliffe? He sent his kids to Potomac School--although one may have gone to Langley.

He never attended public schools at all. Catholic schools all the way through college and graduate school.

Not sure about Youngkin. He went to one of those private schools that push basketball. I'm guessing his kids went to private school, as well, but I couldn't easily find it.

Youngkin is listening to parents, though. McAuliffe is listening to Teachers' Unions.

Pick one.

I am going with teachers unions. Parents shouldn’t be telling schools what to teach. I am so done with this era where everyone thinks they know more than experts.

Exactly. What has the last year taught us? “Doing your own research” is crap.

[Anonymous]

Anymore Twitter accounts to follow?

From another PP:

John Couvillon is tracking early voting
Chaz Nuttycomb is a must follow for Virginia politics
and of course Dave Wasserman

I checked this morning and Couvillon says Dems are still trailing their usual EV turnout - 1 million early voters so far and 2.7 million total votes in 2017. Nuttycombe says the odds of Youngkin winning are '60% and no higher'. That seems pretty high to me?

Wasserman retweeted his May post:

[Anonymous]

A different post from Wasserman yesterday and that was BEFORE McAuliffe's two scandals blew up in the campaign's face.

[Anonymous]

I am going with teachers unions. Parents shouldn’t be telling schools what to teach. I am so done with this era where everyone thinks they know more than experts.

Teachers' unions are not experts. Teachers unions are out to promote themselves--not the teachers and not the schools, and definitely not the students.

signed:
Experienced Teacher who learned this in my first year of teaching. Never saw anything over the years to change my mind.

[Anonymous]

Which teachers unions would those be in Virginia? Just curious.

Yes, I know--you are pointing out that teachers unions are not in Virginia. You are very naive if you do not realize that the School Boards listen to the organizations, associations, unions or whatever you wish to call them.

In Fairfax County, Kimberly Adams has been the president of the Fairfax Education Association. She has the ear of the School Board and they listen to her.

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers has strong ties in the White House. She has been very involved in CDC decisions which are followed in Virginia.

In the state of Virginia, teachers' unions are now allowed to collective bargain with the school systems. FCPS School Board has already announced that they will begin collective bargaining this School Year.

Teachers' unions are poison. They are out for themselves--not the teachers and not the students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anymore Twitter accounts to follow?

From another PP:

John Couvillon is tracking early voting
Chaz Nuttycomb is a must follow for Virginia politics
and of course Dave Wasserman

I checked this morning and Couvillon says Dems are still trailing their usual EV turnout - 1 million early voters so far and 2.7 million total votes in 2017. Nuttycombe says the odds of Youngkin winning are '60% and no higher'. That seems pretty high to me?

Wasserman retweeted his May post:

No scandals will result in the R's winning. NOVA is so blue that D's across board will coast to victory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Why would I want a private equity guy in charge of public schools?

Why would you want someone like McAuliffe? He sent his kids to Potomac School--although one may have gone to Langley.

He never attended public schools at all. Catholic schools all the way through college and graduate school.

Not sure about Youngkin. He went to one of those private schools that push basketball. I'm guessing his kids went to private school, as well, but I couldn't easily find it.

Youngkin is listening to parents, though. McAuliffe is listening to Teachers' Unions.

Pick one.

I am going with teachers unions. Parents shouldn’t be telling schools what to teach. I am so done with this era where everyone thinks they know more than experts.

NP. The same experts who demanded schools be closed in August 2020 and subjected thousands of students to essentially no education for over a year? How do you make up being in some cases, a year behind? It's not like you can go to school double time. We're now finding out that these kids are also stunted emotionally and violent behavioral incidents at school are greater than normal. Who knows how many of these kids were abused while at home for months on end. I feel particularly bad for the poorest of the poor (inner city) that nobody ever mentions. Do you really think those kids were dutifully logging onto Google meet daily? Those kids are gone forever.

And look, as a taxpayer, I do think I should have done say in what is taught to my children at school. The current offering is garbage filled with the latest fad in education and some fluff. Lucy Calkins anyone? They need to get back to tried and true basics- reading, writing and 'rithmetic.

[Anonymous]

The stupidity is stunning. And I find it hilarious that the nation's media, the majority of which live right here in the D.C. area, can't spend one hour and identify who each of these sad schmucks are to the public.