Not sure if this should be in the policy forum instead... Anyone here voting for Youngkin because of

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone elaborate on how Youngkin will improve education? Every time I hear him talk about education he goes straight to masks and vaccine mandates which are public health policies. I have yet to hear him address actual education policies aside from COVID related public health issues.

He plans to enact statewide teacher raises for public school teachers.

This is huge. Democrats haven’t made this a priority. It should have been while they were in charge for 8 years but it wasn’t.

It’s at the very top of McAuliffe’s list. First thing listed.
https://terrymcauliffe.com/issues/

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with Youngkin is that he will be leaving local school boards at the mercy of disgruntled parents.

McAuliffe will take a more hands on approach and for one thing, will be fixing segregation in our schools with a Chief Integration Officer and an equity council ( I forget the exact name but it’s on his website) that will force the issue. Schools won’t be accredited without the right amount of diversity, funding will be withheld and there will be state led efforts to diversify housing.

No one has to fear losing an election because of boundaries or any other issue. With the state directing it all, a loud obnoxious parents won’t make any difference at all.

This! Mcauliffe is for EQUITY!!!

Schools won't be accredited without the right amount of diversity? What does that mean? It sounds like a school won't be comprised of people in the neighborhood boundaries. Are you saying if a school is predominantly white, they have to bring more diversity? The only way I can see that happening is by busing in students from another area. Someone help me understand how he plans to accredit schools with this approach.

Someone has to give the cowards on the FCPS (and I’m sure other VA) school boards to live up to their ideals. We all saw how they caved in 2019 on the one Fairfax boundary policy and then what they did with the McLean Langley boundary change. A firm hand at the state level means parents can’t threaten them with losing elections for boundary changes and other measures to diversify schools. Things will finally change with McAuliffe, you have to read his education plan!

So now we have to pour millions into diversity efforts? Not only to bus minority students across town, but create programs and training? Is this what people want? Is that what teachers want? I feel bad for the token black kid who has to endure a 45 minute bus ride so he can bring diversity to that school. How does that help anyone?

I want someone who will increase teacher salaries, especially within special education. I want more support for special education students. Especially with what happened in the summer with the ESY program. I want better support so teachers aren't so burned out and leaving the profession entirely. We had a shortage and now it's getting worse. Especially in special ed. We need someone who can reverse that trend.

Read Youngkin's plans on increasing teacher pay and special ed funding.

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Anonymous wrote:These threads have to be started by mostly trolls, rights? The 5 days in school was signed into action in VA and received bipartisan support. All of the representatives in Fairfax County voted FOR IT! They have NOTHING to do with the FCPS SCHOOL BOARD.

Yes, the GOP is driving eDuCaTiOn as a manufactured wedge issue.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone elaborate on how Youngkin will improve education? Every time I hear him talk about education he goes straight to masks and vaccine mandates which are public health policies. I have yet to hear him address actual education policies aside from COVID related public health issues.

He plans to enact statewide teacher raises for public school teachers.

This is huge. Democrats haven’t made this a priority. It should have been while they were in charge for 8 years but it wasn’t.

It’s at the very top of McAuliffe’s list. First thing listed.
https://terrymcauliffe.com/issues/

Except it wasn’t for him or Northam until THIS YEAR!

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Anonymous wrote:I care about

- my body and my choice
- my DAUGHTERS' bodies and their choice
- the rights of minorities and women
- abolishing racists and white supremacists
- my children learning about the holocaust, slavery, quality, diversity, and THE TRUTH about what happened in the past and why it happened, not some whitewashed version of history
- protecting the right of EVERYBODY to vote
- keeping my children safe (meaning no guns, especially not in schools)

So, no, losers, not voting for Youngkin
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Agree with this!

me too


Agree with all this.

I think you are the same person agreeing with yourself. Parents tend to be a bit more thoughtful.

Well, you are wrong. Thoughtful parents will vote for McAuliffe.

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Anonymous wrote:Do Republican led States have better schools? I don’t think so.

This. I’m from Texas. Vote D. I thought about Youngkin bc of all the school BS this year. However, I look at Tx and realize that my home state’s schools are bottom of the barrel. Rs do not make schools better. They make them more religious, equally politically charged, and spaces for teaching about why capitalism above all else, the opposing views of the Holocaust, and slavery wasn’t so bad. Tx teachers also get paid peanuts. Now think FL, NC, OK, WV, MS, etc. Not taking the lead in education.

TBH, I’m not happy with Ds or Rs at this point, but i know that I don’t want to live in permitless carry, guns everywhere, god in school, no reproductive rights state.

What are you talking about?

Texas has fantastic schools.

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Anonymous wrote:These threads have to be started by mostly trolls, rights? The 5 days in school was signed into action in VA and received bipartisan support. All of the representatives in Fairfax County voted FOR IT! They have NOTHING to do with the FCPS SCHOOL BOARD.

Yes, the GOP is driving eDuCaTiOn as a manufactured wedge issue.

Yes parents and children don’t have any problems with these Democrat run school boards and the higher ups who enable them.

It’s all made up by Republicans who have magically convinced long time blue voters that there’s a problem.

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I am so done with all of these TEMPORARY issues, people.

I am voting for people who take climate change seriously.

I was never a single-issue voter before, but I am now. The lives of millions of human beings and other species are at stake in the long-run, due to water and food shortages in various parts of the world, which will lead to forced migration and conflict. We need action now.

On the note of climate change, the dems have been sending multiple full page, heavy card stock legal sized mailers each day for the past month to our district.

They are wasting so much expensive paper and resources sending this crap out.

Their environmental waste and hypocrisy is disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with Youngkin is that he will be leaving local school boards at the mercy of disgruntled parents.

McAuliffe will take a more hands on approach and for one thing, will be fixing segregation in our schools with a Chief Integration Officer and an equity council ( I forget the exact name but it’s on his website) that will force the issue. Schools won’t be accredited without the right amount of diversity, funding will be withheld and there will be state led efforts to diversify housing.

No one has to fear losing an election because of boundaries or any other issue. With the state directing it all, a loud obnoxious parents won’t make any difference at all.

This is a troll post, right?

Please say this is a troll post. Please?

This is not a troll post.

It was on Terry's website, along with bussing, until he took it down over the summer.

It was there last week, at least on the detailed plan. Maybe he took it off the summary page.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow, this thread got nasty soon! I am not a troll or someone trying to drum up support for Youngkin. As I said, I have NEVER voted for any Republican in my life here or any conservative in my country of origin.

And yes, I do have children in FCPS.

Anyway, despite all the insults thrown back and forth here, it is clear to me that I'm not the only one going through the same dilemma - my husband is horrified I'm contemplating voting for Youngkin and, like a bunch of you, thinks I should vote with PS in mind at the local level.

Thanks to the people who pointed out the limitations of the governor over local schools policies. I will have to research this a bit because where I come from, curriculum and policies are decided at the Federal level and the same across the board. I confess I had never paid much attention about these things here until last year.

Those people are wrong.

In Virginia, the governor has tremendous power of education policy through his or her appointees to the Department of Education.

And if you read through Terry's education plan, he supports busing of students based of race and ESOL status, school funding tied to mandatory public housing being added to neighborhoods.

Read his education plan in depth. It was all on his website.

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Anonymous wrote:Do Republican led States have better schools? I don’t think so.

This. I’m from Texas. Vote D. I thought about Youngkin bc of all the school BS this year. However, I look at Tx and realize that my home state’s schools are bottom of the barrel. Rs do not make schools better. They make them more religious, equally politically charged, and spaces for teaching about why capitalism above all else, the opposing views of the Holocaust, and slavery wasn’t so bad. Tx teachers also get paid peanuts. Now think FL, NC, OK, WV, MS, etc. Not taking the lead in education.

TBH, I’m not happy with Ds or Rs at this point, but i know that I don’t want to live in permitless carry, guns everywhere, god in school, no reproductive rights state.

What are you talking about?

Texas has fantastic schools.

I wouldn't say a system ranked 28/50 is "fantastic."

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Anonymous wrote:I care about

- my body and my choice
- my DAUGHTERS' bodies and their choice
- the rights of minorities and women
- abolishing racists and white supremacists
- my children learning about the holocaust, slavery, quality, diversity, and THE TRUTH about what happened in the past and why it happened, not some whitewashed version of history
- protecting the right of EVERYBODY to vote
- keeping my children safe (meaning no guns, especially not in schools)

So, no, losers, not voting for Youngkin
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Agree with all this.

Ah, yet your version of “THE TRUTH” to be taught is every bit as one-sided as the antiquated version from the past you seek to retire permanently. And you will only protect the rights of women and minorities if they subscribe to the right views; if they do not, you’ll repudiate them in a quick second.

You people scare me - you are like a bunch of Bolsheviks or Pol Pot followers.

You think the holocaust was a lie? You think people were not enslaved, not only in the U.S., but around the world??? You want this country which used to be so proud of its heritage as a melting pot for the world, to be lily white, white, white and boring and racist like you?

Also, please stop making up "insults" that you don't understand, I'm embarrassed for you.

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Anonymous wrote:Do Republican led States have better schools? I don’t think so.

This. I’m from Texas. Vote D. I thought about Youngkin bc of all the school BS this year. However, I look at Tx and realize that my home state’s schools are bottom of the barrel. Rs do not make schools better. They make them more religious, equally politically charged, and spaces for teaching about why capitalism above all else, the opposing views of the Holocaust, and slavery wasn’t so bad. Tx teachers also get paid peanuts. Now think FL, NC, OK, WV, MS, etc. Not taking the lead in education.

TBH, I’m not happy with Ds or Rs at this point, but i know that I don’t want to live in permitless carry, guns everywhere, god in school, no reproductive rights state.

What are you talking about?

Texas has fantastic schools.

I wouldn't say a system ranked 28/50 is "fantastic."

Sorry, out of 51.

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Anonymous wrote:I care about

- my body and my choice
- my DAUGHTERS' bodies and their choice
- the rights of minorities and women
- abolishing racists and white supremacists
- my children learning about the holocaust, slavery, quality, diversity, and THE TRUTH about what happened in the past and why it happened, not some whitewashed version of history
- protecting the right of EVERYBODY to vote
- keeping my children safe (meaning no guns, especially not in schools)

So, no, losers, not voting for Youngkin
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me too


Agree with all this.

I think you are the same person agreeing with yourself. Parents tend to be a bit more thoughtful.

Nope, sorry, those weren't me.

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Anonymous wrote:No. Schools are controlled by your local school board. People are stupid.

In Virginia they are controlled by the governor appointed dept of ed board.