Question for VA Republicans re: public schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't like how your public school is run, why can't you just send your kids to private schools? Are you poor?

We want to expose your children to people with intelligence, style, manners, and taste.

Then why are you so anti-immigration?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't like how your public school is run, why can't you just send your kids to private schools? Are you poor?

We want to expose your children to people with intelligence, style, manners, and taste.

Op My kids go to private school, so they already get that, and not from a bunch of brats whose parents think making $150k a year gives them the authority to go scream at schoolboard members like a bunch of hillbillies.

If you children attend a private school, why are you concerned about public schools? Do you work in one of their cafeterias?

Op I do not care about public schools. I voted for Terry McAuliffe. I literally could not care less about what the public schools teach. If your kids are learning something you don't like, that's your problem for not being able to afford private schools.

I just literally can't even imagine debasing my vote on something that happens in a public school lmfao.

[Anonymous]

It is classic Democrat to not care about something that doesn’t impact you. I am a Republican. I thought my kids would get a good public school education like I did. It was bad. No rigor. We moved to Private 4 years ago and have no regrets. But not everyone can do that and education is the key to advancement and success in life and public schools have to be good. But they aren’t right now and I care about that a lot. It is important for our society.

[Anonymous]

He supports Trump, and the big lie, but distanced himself from it. He made up some CRT bullshit that isn’t real to scare white women. That it worked makes the lies successful, but he still clawed his way into office without a primary, without any real policy issues, and by telling lies. Hard to feel good about that.

Im ok with switching parties in leadership from time to time, but id rather it not be a Trump Republican. I just can’t trust people willing to tear down faith in democracy and politicizing a pandemic. Their just isn’t anything beneath people like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He supports Trump, and the big lie, but distanced himself from it. He made up some CRT bullshit that isn’t real to scare white women. That it worked makes the lies successful, but he still clawed his way into office without a primary, without any real policy issues, and by telling lies. Hard to feel good about that.

Im ok with switching parties in leadership from time to time, but id rather it not be a Trump Republican. I just can’t trust people willing to tear down faith in democracy and politicizing a pandemic. Their just isn’t anything beneath people like that.

That has been the Democrat game plan for the past several years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you don't like how your public school is run, why can't you just send your kids to private schools? Are you poor?

Do you know how much schools cost around here??

[Anonymous]

OP it sounds like you support school choice. I’m forced to pay for public schools. If the government wants to give me the money outright and let me choose what’s best for my child, perhaps it will be private school. But no you don’t get to demand I pay for something and act incredulous that I care about it’s outcomes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP it sounds like you support school choice. I’m forced to pay for public schools. If the government wants to give me the money outright and let me choose what’s best for my child, perhaps it will be private school. But no you don’t get to demand I pay for something and act incredulous that I care about it’s outcomes.

Lmfao it literally sounds like the opposite of school choice. She doesn't want poors in her dc's school

[Anonymous]

I can’t wait for the school choice program to open up


Do you think there will be a waiting list?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't like how your public school is run, why can't you just send your kids to private schools? Are you poor?

To date, I'm still OK with APS public schools, but I live in a nice area and our schools are close and pretty well rated. But we know we will never get financial aid for our kids, so we are super-funding our VA529 accounts to give each kid about $400K for college and graduate school. I teach them my morals and they let me know when their teachers are indoctrinating them with politics, they recognize it, keep quiet, and appreciate hearing a different point of view (but usually not well thought out). For example when a former Swanson teacher (now elsewhere but with APS) was very pro-Obama and played his political ads in the classroom or had the kids debate why the electoral college was racist. The teacher never once mentioned that it was an agreement between the states to protect small states' rights - my kid realized that was pretty bad. That is the main reason for the electoral college, and the teacher never brought it up as an explanation. We supplement with tutors as needed. We like most parents, just not the overly progressive ones (people don't know our politics,) who wear theirs on their sleeve or their very active virtue-signaling yard sign.

Yeah, there is an insane amount of political bias in our schools. I’m fine with it if they teach opposing viewpoints, but it is very heavily skewed in one direction.

Last year, our school didn’t have enough time to cover the entire Algebra curriculum due to virtual learning. I think they did about 70% of the material. Yet, somehow, they managed to fit in lessons that discussed the ‘Guiding Principles of BLM’ and they read Stamped by Kendi.

This is why Youngkin won. Wokes believe indoctrinating kids with Kendi is more important than algebra.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He supports Trump, and the big lie, but distanced himself from it. He made up some CRT bullshit that isn’t real to scare white women. That it worked makes the lies successful, but he still clawed his way into office without a primary, without any real policy issues, and by telling lies. Hard to feel good about that.

Im ok with switching parties in leadership from time to time, but id rather it not be a Trump Republican. I just can’t trust people willing to tear down faith in democracy and politicizing a pandemic. Their just isn’t anything beneath people like that.

The fight against CRT in K-12 has been going on for about a two years. Only recently did it rear it's head in VA so Youngkin didn't make it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't like how your public school is run, why can't you just send your kids to private schools? Are you poor?

Sure, we should also get a tax refund for paying for our own kids' education too. We aren't using the public school system.. Give us our tax money back too.

I don't use any schools at all, where is my refund!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't like how your public school is run, why can't you just send your kids to private schools? Are you poor?

Sure, we should also get a tax refund for paying for our own kids' education too. We aren't using the public school system.. Give us our tax money back too.

I don't use any schools at all, where is my refund!

I didn’t use the fire department or senior center - where’s my refund.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He supports Trump, and the big lie, but distanced himself from it. He made up some CRT bullshit that isn’t real to scare white women. That it worked makes the lies successful, but he still clawed his way into office without a primary, without any real policy issues, and by telling lies. Hard to feel good about that.

Im ok with switching parties in leadership from time to time, but id rather it not be a Trump Republican. I just can’t trust people willing to tear down faith in democracy and politicizing a pandemic. Their just isn’t anything beneath people like that.

The fight against CRT in K-12 has been going on for about a two years. Only recently did it rear it's head in VA so Youngkin didn't make it up.

Forget about labels. Please articulate what specifically was being taught in VA classrooms that you think should stop.

Or is it the possibility that CRT may be taught in the future, as other posters have said?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t wait for the school choice program to open up


Do you think there will be a waiting list?

You have no idea how that’d work, huh.