What will happen to public schools here?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“Not a great school zone” in Arlington is still far better than many parts of the country.

Not sure this is true. What’s good about the title one classes in Arlington is that they only have 15-17 kids per class. My “good school” has 27 in their class. It’s ridiculous.

Class size does not determine how much kids learn. It's the class environment and the student quality. Even a bad teacher can teach well-behaved, focused students something. And a good teacher can't teach poorly behaved, unfocused students anything. However, even one disruptive or below level student can grind things to a halt for everyone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Schools in Northern Virginia will need to stop pushing the current DEI indoctrination, and other racist nonsense, or risk losing all federal funding.

No more using the false 1619 Project; no more Ibram X. Kendi “textbooks,” etc.

In order to stop they would have had to start.

Legit first sentence on the ACPS homepage: "ACPS places racial equity at the center of everything that we do as a school division." Naw, nothing to see here. SMH

https://www.acps.k12.va.us

Again, TYPE IT. Type it out and tell us why you don't want to center racial equity. Admit it. Come clean. You'll feel good.

I’ll take learning for $500, Alex. Learning should be at the center of everything ACPS does as a school division.

+1. Education should be at the center of what every school system does.

How is APS's pledge to center racial equity in everything they do somehow mutually exclusive of APS's commitment to learning? You can have both? We do understand that learning that is not a monolith, yes? (I know you don't, because racism is a sign of a week mind, but you could...).

It’s ACPS, not APS. I guess they could focus on both, but that’s not what their statement says. It doesn’t say it’s “very important,” it says it’s at the center. Usually just one thing is at the center, and I think it’s weird for a school system to list anything besides education as its primary focus. But oh well.

An apple centers its seeds; that doesn’t diminish the apple. An educational system can center equity; that doesn’t diminish the educational system. Equity is a crucial facet, not a competing identity.

Kamala Harris on line two.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Schools in Northern Virginia will need to stop pushing the current DEI indoctrination, and other racist nonsense, or risk losing all federal funding.

No more using the false 1619 Project; no more Ibram X. Kendi “textbooks,” etc.

In order to stop they would have had to start.

Legit first sentence on the ACPS homepage: "ACPS places racial equity at the center of everything that we do as a school division." Naw, nothing to see here. SMH

https://www.acps.k12.va.us

Again, TYPE IT. Type it out and tell us why you don't want to center racial equity. Admit it. Come clean. You'll feel good.

I’ll take learning for $500, Alex. Learning should be at the center of everything ACPS does as a school division.

+1. Education should be at the center of what every school system does.

How is APS's pledge to center racial equity in everything they do somehow mutually exclusive of APS's commitment to learning? You can have both? We do understand that learning that is not a monolith, yes? (I know you don't, because racism is a sign of a week mind, but you could...).

It’s ACPS, not APS. I guess they could focus on both, but that’s not what their statement says. It doesn’t say it’s “very important,” it says it’s at the center. Usually just one thing is at the center, and I think it’s weird for a school system to list anything besides education as its primary focus. But oh well.

An apple centers its seeds; that doesn’t diminish the apple. An educational system can center equity; that doesn’t diminish the educational system. Equity is a crucial facet, not a competing identity.

Analogies are not arguments. Apple seeds are gross and contain cyanide. No one likes to eat the core anyway. Peaches have pits. What does that mean for racial equity?

Nothing.

This kind of poetry-slam pablum isn't going to convince anyone anymore.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Schools in Northern Virginia will need to stop pushing the current DEI indoctrination, and other racist nonsense, or risk losing all federal funding.

No more using the false 1619 Project; no more Ibram X. Kendi “textbooks,” etc.

In order to stop they would have had to start.

Legit first sentence on the ACPS homepage: "ACPS places racial equity at the center of everything that we do as a school division." Naw, nothing to see here. SMH

https://www.acps.k12.va.us

Again, TYPE IT. Type it out and tell us why you don't want to center racial equity. Admit it. Come clean. You'll feel good.

I’ll take learning for $500, Alex. Learning should be at the center of everything ACPS does as a school division.

+1. Education should be at the center of what every school system does.

How is APS's pledge to center racial equity in everything they do somehow mutually exclusive of APS's commitment to learning? You can have both? We do understand that learning that is not a monolith, yes? (I know you don't, because racism is a sign of a week mind, but you could...).

It’s ACPS, not APS. I guess they could focus on both, but that’s not what their statement says. It doesn’t say it’s “very important,” it says it’s at the center. Usually just one thing is at the center, and I think it’s weird for a school system to list anything besides education as its primary focus. But oh well.

An apple centers its seeds; that doesn’t diminish the apple. An educational system can center equity; that doesn’t diminish the educational system. Equity is a crucial facet, not a competing identity.

Analogies are not arguments. Apple seeds are gross and contain cyanide. No one likes to eat the core anyway. Peaches have pits. What does that mean for racial equity?

Nothing.

This kind of poetry-slam pablum isn't going to convince anyone anymore.

Your SAT scores must have sucked. And I suppose you also thought “A Modest Proposal” was a menu rather than a satire?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools in Northern Virginia will need to stop pushing the current DEI indoctrination, and other racist nonsense, or risk losing all federal funding.

No more using the false 1619 Project; no more Ibram X. Kendi “textbooks,” etc.

In order to stop they would have had to start.

Legit first sentence on the ACPS homepage: "ACPS places racial equity at the center of everything that we do as a school division." Naw, nothing to see here. SMH

https://www.acps.k12.va.us

Again, TYPE IT. Type it out and tell us why you don't want to center racial equity. Admit it. Come clean. You'll feel good.

I’ll take learning for $500, Alex. Learning should be at the center of everything ACPS does as a school division.

+1. Education should be at the center of what every school system does.

How is APS's pledge to center racial equity in everything they do somehow mutually exclusive of APS's commitment to learning? You can have both? We do understand that learning that is not a monolith, yes? (I know you don't, because racism is a sign of a week mind, but you could...).

It’s ACPS, not APS. I guess they could focus on both, but that’s not what their statement says. It doesn’t say it’s “very important,” it says it’s at the center. Usually just one thing is at the center, and I think it’s weird for a school system to list anything besides education as its primary focus. But oh well.

An apple centers its seeds; that doesn’t diminish the apple. An educational system can center equity; that doesn’t diminish the educational system. Equity is a crucial facet, not a competing identity.

Analogies are not arguments. Apple seeds are gross and contain cyanide. No one likes to eat the core anyway. Peaches have pits. What does that mean for racial equity?

Nothing.

This kind of poetry-slam pablum isn't going to convince anyone anymore.

Your SAT scores must have sucked. And I suppose you also thought “A Modest Proposal” was a menu rather than a satire?

You made a dumb argument because you’re not used to anyone disagreeing with you and that kind of nonsense flies with people who already agree with you. Now you’re insulting their intelligence because you don’t know how else to respond when people disagree.

[Anonymous]

What will happen here? We’ll get into $$$$ legal battles over transgender bathroom use and illegal immigrants. We’ll do away with SRO’s, but spend a ton on ineffective security staff. We will spend 99% of our resources on 1% of our population. (Maybe an exaggeration, but resources are not being allocated fairly, for sure.)

I didn’t vote for Trump, but I know why he won. Schools should be about teaching and learning. No politics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools in Northern Virginia will need to stop pushing the current DEI indoctrination, and other racist nonsense, or risk losing all federal funding.

No more using the false 1619 Project; no more Ibram X. Kendi “textbooks,” etc.

In order to stop they would have had to start.

Legit first sentence on the ACPS homepage: "ACPS places racial equity at the center of everything that we do as a school division." Naw, nothing to see here. SMH

https://www.acps.k12.va.us

Again, TYPE IT. Type it out and tell us why you don't want to center racial equity. Admit it. Come clean. You'll feel good.

I’ll take learning for $500, Alex. Learning should be at the center of everything ACPS does as a school division.

Sorry… but I am a racist if I agree with you? I’m looking for reading, writing, and math for a school district. This the appropriate main focus for the Office of Civil Rights or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools in Northern Virginia will need to stop pushing the current DEI indoctrination, and other racist nonsense, or risk losing all federal funding.

No more using the false 1619 Project; no more Ibram X. Kendi “textbooks,” etc.

Hi MAGA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools in Northern Virginia will need to stop pushing the current DEI indoctrination, and other racist nonsense, or risk losing all federal funding.

No more using the false 1619 Project; no more Ibram X. Kendi “textbooks,” etc.

In order to stop they would have had to start.

Legit first sentence on the ACPS homepage: "ACPS places racial equity at the center of everything that we do as a school division." Naw, nothing to see here. SMH

https://www.acps.k12.va.us

So you are for racial inequity? Got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What will happen here? We’ll get into $$$$ legal battles over transgender bathroom use and illegal immigrants. We’ll do away with SRO’s, but spend a ton on ineffective security staff. We will spend 99% of our resources on 1% of our population. (Maybe an exaggeration, but resources are not being allocated fairly, for sure.)

I didn’t vote for Trump, but I know why he won. Schools should be about teaching and learning. No politics.

Trump won because Americans are idiots. Full stop. APS is reflecting the will and the values of the people who live here. You don’t like it, you are free to find some sundown town where your children will get the “education” you think is good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What will happen here? We’ll get into $$$$ legal battles over transgender bathroom use and illegal immigrants. We’ll do away with SRO’s, but spend a ton on ineffective security staff. We will spend 99% of our resources on 1% of our population. (Maybe an exaggeration, but resources are not being allocated fairly, for sure.)

I didn’t vote for Trump, but I know why he won. Schools should be about teaching and learning. No politics.

Trump won because Americans are idiots. Full stop. APS is reflecting the will and the values of the people who live here. You don’t like it, you are free to find some sundown town where your children will get the “education” you think is good.

I also live in Arlington, so I guess it’s not. Not really pleased to see teachers cut and my tax dollar go to three full time security guards and a coordinator because no one can would dare ask a transgender person to use the private changing room. We’re talking about how many people, do you think? Trump won because a lot of Americans are sick of that sort of nonsense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What will happen here? We’ll get into $$$$ legal battles over transgender bathroom use and illegal immigrants. We’ll do away with SRO’s, but spend a ton on ineffective security staff. We will spend 99% of our resources on 1% of our population. (Maybe an exaggeration, but resources are not being allocated fairly, for sure.)

I didn’t vote for Trump, but I know why he won. Schools should be about teaching and learning. No politics.

Trump won because Americans are idiots. Full stop. APS is reflecting the will and the values of the people who live here. You don’t like it, you are free to find some sundown town where your children will get the “education” you think is good.

I also live in Arlington, so I guess it’s not. Not really pleased to see teachers cut and my tax dollar go to three full time security guards and a coordinator because no one can would dare ask a transgender person to use the private changing room. We’re talking about how many people, do you think? Trump won because a lot of Americans are sick of that sort of nonsense.

Although not denying that these people who voted for him are idiots!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What will happen here? We’ll get into $$$$ legal battles over transgender bathroom use and illegal immigrants. We’ll do away with SRO’s, but spend a ton on ineffective security staff. We will spend 99% of our resources on 1% of our population. (Maybe an exaggeration, but resources are not being allocated fairly, for sure.)

I didn’t vote for Trump, but I know why he won. Schools should be about teaching and learning. No politics.

Trump won because Americans are idiots. Full stop. APS is reflecting the will and the values of the people who live here. You don’t like it, you are free to find some sundown town where your children will get the “education” you think is good.

I also live in Arlington, so I guess it’s not. Not really pleased to see teachers cut and my tax dollar go to three full time security guards and a coordinator because no one can would dare ask a transgender person to use the private changing room. We’re talking about how many people, do you think? Trump won because a lot of Americans are sick of that sort of nonsense.

You're not making sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What will happen here? We’ll get into $$$$ legal battles over transgender bathroom use and illegal immigrants. We’ll do away with SRO’s, but spend a ton on ineffective security staff. We will spend 99% of our resources on 1% of our population. (Maybe an exaggeration, but resources are not being allocated fairly, for sure.)

I didn’t vote for Trump, but I know why he won. Schools should be about teaching and learning. No politics.

Trump won because Americans are idiots. Full stop. APS is reflecting the will and the values of the people who live here. You don’t like it, you are free to find some sundown town where your children will get the “education” you think is good.

I also live in Arlington, so I guess it’s not. Not really pleased to see teachers cut and my tax dollar go to three full time security guards and a coordinator because no one can would dare ask a transgender person to use the private changing room. We’re talking about how many people, do you think? Trump won because a lot of Americans are sick of that sort of nonsense.

You're not making sense.

I am. Wake-y, wake-y, Wokey, Wokey. Teachers are being cut next year. Meanwhile, APS is hiring security guards and a coordinator as a result of the incidents at W-L, which are completely preventable. Require that individuals with different privates than the locker room they might identify with use the private/family changing room. Maybe you need to look this up???

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“Not a great school zone” in Arlington is still far better than many parts of the country.

Not sure this is true. What’s good about the title one classes in Arlington is that they only have 15-17 kids per class. My “good school” has 27 in their class. It’s ridiculous.

Class size does not determine how much kids learn. It's the class environment and the student quality. Even a bad teacher can teach well-behaved, focused students something. And a good teacher can't teach poorly behaved, unfocused students anything. However, even one disruptive or below level student can grind things to a halt for everyone.

+100. And I see such “grinding to a halt” daily. All of the funding in the world can’t improve scores if you can’t get the kids to 1) attend school regularly 2) behave respectfully 3) be removed if they continue to impede others’ learning. You also can’t improve scores when it is virtually impossible to remove a bad teacher. Our system is broken and doesn’t just need more, more, more $. It needs to be rebuilt from the ground up — vocational schools, alternative schools for poor behavior, LESS tech until it can be respected/used appropriately, and perhaps better connection to the school. Another thread asked whether kids in the US should clean their schools. If they aren’t learning to respect common spaces at home, perhaps they do need to learn it at school. You wouldn’t believe what teachers see in a day — halls trashed, food thrown on purpose and left on the floor, computers taken apart with keys missing, classroom supplies defaced. Give me a break if you think this should go on.