Anyone else educated by FCPS and sees the decline?

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Anonymous wrote:If school choice/vouchers becomes a thing we are going to see enrollment drop to the floor.

That’s a Republican wet dream. Underfund schools for decades, complain about the quality, and then defund for the final nail in the coffin.

Why do they hate public schools so much? I don’t get it.

The Republicans see public schools as an opportunity to build opposition to Democratic policies at the national level relating to immigration and DEI. Youngkin's administration is on path now to deny accreditation to a slew of FCPS schools in a year or two, declare them "failing schools," blame others for the problem, and offer vouchers (and lower funding for public schools) as the "solution."

It's opportunistic and unfortunate, but one reason that it resonates with some people is that the Democrats in charge of systems like FCPS have also made it clear that they resent wealthier public schools and communities. They do plenty on their own to reduce support for public education.

Exactly this. Democrats in the county have set their sights on umc and mc.

Bullcrap. Democrats are umc and mc.

Republicans look for any chance they can to trash public schools.

DP. The Ds may be but they still operate locally based on a politics of resentment towards UMC families and schools and a commitment to an ill-defined and poorly articulated “equity” agenda.

You’re delusional if you don’t realize the Ds gave the Rs the opening to push their own agenda. It helped get Youngkin elected and now he’s going to kick the likes of Karl Frisch in the ass before he leaves.

+1. Ds may be umc and mc in other parts of the country, but here, you’re told that you are racist if you want your kids to go to a good school. Not just on dcums, but by Sandy Anderson and co.

Ds are absolutely the umc and mc in this area. Look at the voting records.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't hate the idea of equity, but it will not be achieved unless you dumb things down. It just can't. Academic excellence should be the goal.

My child benefits greatly from the equity goal. He struggles a lot in school and is a getting a lot of good help that he would not get in private.

But no matter how much help he gets, he will NEVER be as good as the "smart" kids. Equity fails us all. EVERY kid should meet their full potential.

My nephew just graduated. school was easy for him. he admitted so and never challenged himself - he admitted. took a few honors and AAP classes - but never too many - just enough. never studied. got straight A's.

All I could think was goodness, why aren't we challenging these kids? We NEED really smart people to solve all the problems, to be good doctors, to build safe buildings. but fine - dumb it down so my kid can catch up and get A's and smart kids DO NOTHING to be their best and just skate by.

AND this kid was given all the awards, but never worked hard.

My son, works really hard and will never get an award. it is so dumb what we are doing to society. We need hard workers - praise that.

School wasn’t “dumbed down”. Your nephew was just lazy and chose the classes that weren’t as hard.

[Anonymous]

Planning for all the new boundaries might be one way FCPS hopes to prevent schools from failing under the governors‘s new standards.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If school choice/vouchers becomes a thing we are going to see enrollment drop to the floor.

That’s a Republican wet dream. Underfund schools for decades, complain about the quality, and then defund for the final nail in the coffin.

Why do they hate public schools so much? I don’t get it.

The Republicans see public schools as an opportunity to build opposition to Democratic policies at the national level relating to immigration and DEI. Youngkin's administration is on path now to deny accreditation to a slew of FCPS schools in a year or two, declare them "failing schools," blame others for the problem, and offer vouchers (and lower funding for public schools) as the "solution."

It's opportunistic and unfortunate, but one reason that it resonates with some people is that the Democrats in charge of systems like FCPS have also made it clear that they resent wealthier public schools and communities. They do plenty on their own to reduce support for public education.

Exactly this. Democrats in the county have set their sights on umc and mc.

Bullcrap. Democrats are umc and mc.

Republicans look for any chance they can to trash public schools.

DP. The Ds may be but they still operate locally based on a politics of resentment towards UMC families and schools and a commitment to an ill-defined and poorly articulated “equity” agenda.

You’re delusional if you don’t realize the Ds gave the Rs the opening to push their own agenda. It helped get Youngkin elected and now he’s going to kick the likes of Karl Frisch in the ass before he leaves.

+1. Ds may be umc and mc in other parts of the country, but here, you’re told that you are racist if you want your kids to go to a good school. Not just on dcums, but by Sandy Anderson and co.

Ds are absolutely the umc and mc in this area. Look at the voting records.

Right, so they are cannibalizing the base. The Dems on the SB take that for granted and are putting that relationship at risk.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If school choice/vouchers becomes a thing we are going to see enrollment drop to the floor.

That’s a Republican wet dream. Underfund schools for decades, complain about the quality, and then defund for the final nail in the coffin.

Why do they hate public schools so much? I don’t get it.

The Republicans see public schools as an opportunity to build opposition to Democratic policies at the national level relating to immigration and DEI. Youngkin's administration is on path now to deny accreditation to a slew of FCPS schools in a year or two, declare them "failing schools," blame others for the problem, and offer vouchers (and lower funding for public schools) as the "solution."

It's opportunistic and unfortunate, but one reason that it resonates with some people is that the Democrats in charge of systems like FCPS have also made it clear that they resent wealthier public schools and communities. They do plenty on their own to reduce support for public education.

Exactly this. Democrats in the county have set their sights on umc and mc.

Bullcrap. Democrats are umc and mc.

Republicans look for any chance they can to trash public schools.

DP. The Ds may be but they still operate locally based on a politics of resentment towards UMC families and schools and a commitment to an ill-defined and poorly articulated “equity” agenda.

You’re delusional if you don’t realize the Ds gave the Rs the opening to push their own agenda. It helped get Youngkin elected and now he’s going to kick the likes of Karl Frisch in the ass before he leaves.

+1. Ds may be umc and mc in other parts of the country, but here, you’re told that you are racist if you want your kids to go to a good school. Not just on dcums, but by Sandy Anderson and co.

Ds are absolutely the umc and mc in this area. Look at the voting records.

Right, so they are cannibalizing the base. The Dems on the SB take that for granted and are putting that relationship at risk.

“Resentment towards UMC families”?
“Cannibalizing the base”?

What are you smoking?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If school choice/vouchers becomes a thing we are going to see enrollment drop to the floor.

That’s a Republican wet dream. Underfund schools for decades, complain about the quality, and then defund for the final nail in the coffin.

Why do they hate public schools so much? I don’t get it.

The Republicans see public schools as an opportunity to build opposition to Democratic policies at the national level relating to immigration and DEI. Youngkin's administration is on path now to deny accreditation to a slew of FCPS schools in a year or two, declare them "failing schools," blame others for the problem, and offer vouchers (and lower funding for public schools) as the "solution."

It's opportunistic and unfortunate, but one reason that it resonates with some people is that the Democrats in charge of systems like FCPS have also made it clear that they resent wealthier public schools and communities. They do plenty on their own to reduce support for public education.

Exactly this. Democrats in the county have set their sights on umc and mc.

Bullcrap. Democrats are umc and mc.

Republicans look for any chance they can to trash public schools.

DP. The Ds may be but they still operate locally based on a politics of resentment towards UMC families and schools and a commitment to an ill-defined and poorly articulated “equity” agenda.

You’re delusional if you don’t realize the Ds gave the Rs the opening to push their own agenda. It helped get Youngkin elected and now he’s going to kick the likes of Karl Frisch in the ass before he leaves.

+1. Ds may be umc and mc in other parts of the country, but here, you’re told that you are racist if you want your kids to go to a good school. Not just on dcums, but by Sandy Anderson and co.

Ds are absolutely the umc and mc in this area. Look at the voting records.

Right, so they are cannibalizing the base. The Dems on the SB take that for granted and are putting that relationship at risk.

“Resentment towards UMC families”?
“Cannibalizing the base”?

What are you smoking?

Are you willfully blind or just functionally illiterate? That is exactly what this SB is doing.

- DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If school choice/vouchers becomes a thing we are going to see enrollment drop to the floor.

That’s a Republican wet dream. Underfund schools for decades, complain about the quality, and then defund for the final nail in the coffin.

Why do they hate public schools so much? I don’t get it.

The Republicans see public schools as an opportunity to build opposition to Democratic policies at the national level relating to immigration and DEI. Youngkin's administration is on path now to deny accreditation to a slew of FCPS schools in a year or two, declare them "failing schools," blame others for the problem, and offer vouchers (and lower funding for public schools) as the "solution."

It's opportunistic and unfortunate, but one reason that it resonates with some people is that the Democrats in charge of systems like FCPS have also made it clear that they resent wealthier public schools and communities. They do plenty on their own to reduce support for public education.

And democrat school board has no problem with a bunch of schools failing by just about every objective measure

Historically the benchmarks for state accreditation have moved around a quite a bit. Youngkin wants to tighten the screws so his VDOE can label more public schools “failing.”

It’s hard not to have sympathy for teachers who do everything they can to help students who arrive here unable to speak English and barely literate in their first language. It’s going to be demoralizing when officials in Richmond who’ve never taught, or never had to teach in those environments, deny their schools accreditation and label them as “failing.”

Send you kid to Hybla Valley elementary and then complain about how it's Youngkin's fault the screws are being tightened

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Planning for all the new boundaries might be one way FCPS hopes to prevent schools from failing under the governors‘s new standards.

Unless they plan on doing extensive bussing, the farms students are too concentrated for boundary adjustments to fix all of the failing schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If school choice/vouchers becomes a thing we are going to see enrollment drop to the floor.

That’s a Republican wet dream. Underfund schools for decades, complain about the quality, and then defund for the final nail in the coffin.

Why do they hate public schools so much? I don’t get it.

The Republicans see public schools as an opportunity to build opposition to Democratic policies at the national level relating to immigration and DEI. Youngkin's administration is on path now to deny accreditation to a slew of FCPS schools in a year or two, declare them "failing schools," blame others for the problem, and offer vouchers (and lower funding for public schools) as the "solution."

It's opportunistic and unfortunate, but one reason that it resonates with some people is that the Democrats in charge of systems like FCPS have also made it clear that they resent wealthier public schools and communities. They do plenty on their own to reduce support for public education.

And democrat school board has no problem with a bunch of schools failing by just about every objective measure

Historically the benchmarks for state accreditation have moved around a quite a bit. Youngkin wants to tighten the screws so his VDOE can label more public schools “failing.”

It’s hard not to have sympathy for teachers who do everything they can to help students who arrive here unable to speak English and barely literate in their first language. It’s going to be demoralizing when officials in Richmond who’ve never taught, or never had to teach in those environments, deny their schools accreditation and label them as “failing.”

Send you kid to Hybla Valley elementary and then complain about how it's Youngkin's fault the screws are being tightened

If Youngkin wants to complain about the number of Hispanic immigrants in Virginia, he can go ahead and do so. It’s just a bit shitty that he’s chosen to do so in a manner that will imply teachers are failing their kids when, in fact, they are going above and beyond to try and help them.

You don’t seem too bright.

[Anonymous]

Why can’t we just admit that the schools are failing and then look to the root cause?

It may not be the teachers? It may not be the students? Maybe we need a path to ESL competency before you can be mainstreamed.

[Anonymous]

We moved here for the high school pyramid.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If school choice/vouchers becomes a thing we are going to see enrollment drop to the floor.

That’s a Republican wet dream. Underfund schools for decades, complain about the quality, and then defund for the final nail in the coffin.

Why do they hate public schools so much? I don’t get it.

The Republicans see public schools as an opportunity to build opposition to Democratic policies at the national level relating to immigration and DEI. Youngkin's administration is on path now to deny accreditation to a slew of FCPS schools in a year or two, declare them "failing schools," blame others for the problem, and offer vouchers (and lower funding for public schools) as the "solution."

It's opportunistic and unfortunate, but one reason that it resonates with some people is that the Democrats in charge of systems like FCPS have also made it clear that they resent wealthier public schools and communities. They do plenty on their own to reduce support for public education.

And democrat school board has no problem with a bunch of schools failing by just about every objective measure

Historically the benchmarks for state accreditation have moved around a quite a bit. Youngkin wants to tighten the screws so his VDOE can label more public schools “failing.”

It’s hard not to have sympathy for teachers who do everything they can to help students who arrive here unable to speak English and barely literate in their first language. It’s going to be demoralizing when officials in Richmond who’ve never taught, or never had to teach in those environments, deny their schools accreditation and label them as “failing.”

Send you kid to Hybla Valley elementary and then complain about how it's Youngkin's fault the screws are being tightened

If Youngkin wants to complain about the number of Hispanic immigrants in Virginia, he can go ahead and do so. It’s just a bit shitty that he’s chosen to do so in a manner that will imply teachers are failing their kids when, in fact, they are going above and beyond to try and help them.

You don’t seem too bright.

Maybe the kids who live in bounds for these crappy schools should have options to attend better schools. School choice is evil according to the school board, so those kids just get a crappy education even though the same board operates some of the best schools in the state 10 miles away

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If school choice/vouchers becomes a thing we are going to see enrollment drop to the floor.

That’s a Republican wet dream. Underfund schools for decades, complain about the quality, and then defund for the final nail in the coffin.

Why do they hate public schools so much? I don’t get it.

The Republicans see public schools as an opportunity to build opposition to Democratic policies at the national level relating to immigration and DEI. Youngkin's administration is on path now to deny accreditation to a slew of FCPS schools in a year or two, declare them "failing schools," blame others for the problem, and offer vouchers (and lower funding for public schools) as the "solution."

It's opportunistic and unfortunate, but one reason that it resonates with some people is that the Democrats in charge of systems like FCPS have also made it clear that they resent wealthier public schools and communities. They do plenty on their own to reduce support for public education.

Exactly this. Democrats in the county have set their sights on umc and mc.

Bullcrap. Democrats are umc and mc.

Republicans look for any chance they can to trash public schools.

DP. The Ds may be but they still operate locally based on a politics of resentment towards UMC families and schools and a commitment to an ill-defined and poorly articulated “equity” agenda.

You’re delusional if you don’t realize the Ds gave the Rs the opening to push their own agenda. It helped get Youngkin elected and now he’s going to kick the likes of Karl Frisch in the ass before he leaves.

+1. Ds may be umc and mc in other parts of the country, but here, you’re told that you are racist if you want your kids to go to a good school. Not just on dcums, but by Sandy Anderson and co.

Ds are absolutely the umc and mc in this area. Look at the voting records.

Right, so they are cannibalizing the base. The Dems on the SB take that for granted and are putting that relationship at risk.

“Resentment towards UMC families”?
“Cannibalizing the base”?

What are you smoking?

Are you willfully blind or just functionally illiterate? That is exactly what this SB is doing.

- DP

They aren't. Who do you think is electing them? UMCs who want much of what the SB is doing.

The only people to resent here are the MC/UMC RWNJs who are trying to trash our schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If school choice/vouchers becomes a thing we are going to see enrollment drop to the floor.

That’s a Republican wet dream. Underfund schools for decades, complain about the quality, and then defund for the final nail in the coffin.

Why do they hate public schools so much? I don’t get it.

The Republicans see public schools as an opportunity to build opposition to Democratic policies at the national level relating to immigration and DEI. Youngkin's administration is on path now to deny accreditation to a slew of FCPS schools in a year or two, declare them "failing schools," blame others for the problem, and offer vouchers (and lower funding for public schools) as the "solution."

It's opportunistic and unfortunate, but one reason that it resonates with some people is that the Democrats in charge of systems like FCPS have also made it clear that they resent wealthier public schools and communities. They do plenty on their own to reduce support for public education.

And democrat school board has no problem with a bunch of schools failing by just about every objective measure

Historically the benchmarks for state accreditation have moved around a quite a bit. Youngkin wants to tighten the screws so his VDOE can label more public schools “failing.”

It’s hard not to have sympathy for teachers who do everything they can to help students who arrive here unable to speak English and barely literate in their first language. It’s going to be demoralizing when officials in Richmond who’ve never taught, or never had to teach in those environments, deny their schools accreditation and label them as “failing.”

Send you kid to Hybla Valley elementary and then complain about how it's Youngkin's fault the screws are being tightened

If Youngkin wants to complain about the number of Hispanic immigrants in Virginia, he can go ahead and do so. It’s just a bit shitty that he’s chosen to do so in a manner that will imply teachers are failing their kids when, in fact, they are going above and beyond to try and help them.

You don’t seem too bright.

Maybe the kids who live in bounds for these crappy schools should have options to attend better schools. School choice is evil according to the school board, so those kids just get a crappy education even though the same board operates some of the best schools in the state 10 miles away

School choice is mostly a tool for middle and high income kids to get away from the low income ones and everyone knows it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If school choice/vouchers becomes a thing we are going to see enrollment drop to the floor.

That’s a Republican wet dream. Underfund schools for decades, complain about the quality, and then defund for the final nail in the coffin.

Why do they hate public schools so much? I don’t get it.

The Republicans see public schools as an opportunity to build opposition to Democratic policies at the national level relating to immigration and DEI. Youngkin's administration is on path now to deny accreditation to a slew of FCPS schools in a year or two, declare them "failing schools," blame others for the problem, and offer vouchers (and lower funding for public schools) as the "solution."

It's opportunistic and unfortunate, but one reason that it resonates with some people is that the Democrats in charge of systems like FCPS have also made it clear that they resent wealthier public schools and communities. They do plenty on their own to reduce support for public education.

Exactly this. Democrats in the county have set their sights on umc and mc.

Bullcrap. Democrats are umc and mc.

Republicans look for any chance they can to trash public schools.

DP. The Ds may be but they still operate locally based on a politics of resentment towards UMC families and schools and a commitment to an ill-defined and poorly articulated “equity” agenda.

You’re delusional if you don’t realize the Ds gave the Rs the opening to push their own agenda. It helped get Youngkin elected and now he’s going to kick the likes of Karl Frisch in the ass before he leaves.

+1. Ds may be umc and mc in other parts of the country, but here, you’re told that you are racist if you want your kids to go to a good school. Not just on dcums, but by Sandy Anderson and co.

Ds are absolutely the umc and mc in this area. Look at the voting records.

Right, so they are cannibalizing the base. The Dems on the SB take that for granted and are putting that relationship at risk.

“Resentment towards UMC families”?
“Cannibalizing the base”?

What are you smoking?

Are you willfully blind or just functionally illiterate? That is exactly what this SB is doing.

- DP

They aren't. Who do you think is electing them? UMCs who want much of what the SB is doing.

The only people to resent here are the MC/UMC RWNJs who are trying to trash our schools.

Too funny. I’ve never been called a RWNJ in my life-Always been a democrat who supports public schools.

As has been discussed before, the school board members hid their intent this past November. They would’ve bled a lot of votes if they has disclosed the comprehensive boundary change plans.