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

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Anonymous wrote:Show me Republican states with good education. There aren’t many.

My second grader is struggling with reading and writing because he missed a full year of school. And don't you dare pretend that online school for 6 year-olds was school. So maybe climb off your "good education" soap box.

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Anonymous wrote:Show me Republican states with good education. There aren’t many.

Show us a democratic city with good education.

There are none.

Why do only cities matter? Cities have their own unique problems. There are plenty of blue states with great public schools… NJ and MA being two of them. Aren’t we talking about a statewide election here?

Good teachers want to work where they feel supported and adequately paid. Constantly complaining about them is going to make them leave for greener pastures. Republicans seem determined to make that happen for some reason.

[Anonymous]

So you all care about your kid's chances of getting into TJ more than you care about other people's human rights. Got it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Show me Republican states with good education. There aren’t many.

My second grader is struggling with reading and writing because he missed a full year of school. And don't you dare pretend that online school for 6 year-olds was school. So maybe climb off your "good education" soap box.

My second grader is doing great because I took matters into my own hands, while still working full time. Sometimes life is like that. Continuing to be angry about last year accomplishes nothing. Why didn’t you pull yourself up by your bootstraps and figure it out? Aren’t you people big on that? Where’s the personal responsibility? I bet you’re the first to blame parents when a kid is acting out and being disruptive in school. But I guess you take no responsibility for your own child’s struggles? Stop blaming others and help your child. Do what it takes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm holding my nose and voting for Youngkin because I still can't believe the way our Democratic-run state and local governments screwed up education during COVID. They didn't follow the science, they don't care about learning loss, and any parent who expresses concern is immediately branded as a Trump-supporting troglodyte. We need some balance.

More like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Good job.

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Anonymous wrote:Show me Republican states with good education. There aren’t many.

Show us a democratic city with good education.

There are none.

Why do only cities matter? Cities have their own unique problems. There are plenty of blue states with great public schools… NJ and MA being two of them. Aren’t we talking about a statewide election here?

Good teachers want to work where they feel supported and adequately paid. Constantly complaining about them is going to make them leave for greener pastures. Republicans seem determined to make that happen for some reason.

NJ and MA frequently have republican governors with democratic legislators.

You just made an argument for electing Youngkin.

Balance.

Not democratic domination.

Cities are examples of democratic domination. Virginia is moving in that direction. The schools will start to fail. Look at the drop of some schools and divksion between the MV, Lewis, Justice type schools and everyone else.

We need balance.

A moderate republican like Youngkin will achieve balance.

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Anonymous wrote:So now if you are a parent organizing in your community to hold your local school board accountable you are a right wing puppet getting lots of funding.

That seems likely. Lol.

No, there are literally right-wing groups openly doing this. One infiltrated the TJ PTA and imploded it.

DP. What on earth are you babbling about? Links? The Coalition for TJ isn't "right-wing." They are fighting to keep TJ's admission standards selective. I don't even have kids at TJ, but can completely understand why the admissions standards shouldn't be watered down in the name of "diversity."

Parents Defending Education (definitely right-wing/Koch associates) had an exec member on the TJ PTA and coordinated to install a new president.

Any actual reputable links proving a Koch association? No? Then I guess you're lying. Again.

Sure.

Parents Defending Education is full of Koch associates and Trump activists. Here is the board:
https://defendinged.org/about/

And here are their connections to Koch/Trump.
https://fedsoc.org/contributors/nicoleneily

https://ij.org/staff/rachel-hannabass/

Richey
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/trump-and-devos-announce-new-hires-at-education-department/2017/06

Aimee Viana
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/the-controversial-couple-heading-trumps-hispanic-education-efforts/2018/09

Nomani is a Trump/Youngkin activist:
https://www.npr.org/2016/11/12/501853618/muslim-woman-immigrant-and-trump-supporter


Nomani was elected as secretary to the TJ PTA and helped support the election of the current president in a dramatic takeover. They did all kinds of shady stuff as part of the PTA. I’ll have to dig up those old posts too.

There’s definitely something shady about any parent defending education.

I stand with Democrats, especially childless ones, who want to dismantle and disrupt systems of hierarchy and oppression like science and technology magnet schools.

"There’s definitely something shady about any parent defending education."

Why would that be shady? Parents are supposed to advocate for this.

They aren’t really though. They just push GOP talking points/lies under the guise of “education”.

They DGAF about students, they just want your vote.

You're being dismissive about their concerns. Parents have every right to complain how things have been handled by the Democrats.

These aren’t just “parents” though. This isn’t just a “grassroots” organization.

This is a well-organized group of GOP political operatives pushing GOP taking points.

If they cared about students they wouldn’t work their way into PTA executive boards to include inflammatory messages in newsletters. They wouldn’t be pushing blatant lies in the name “education”.

Given the number of times people have been flat-out lied to by Democrats on the School Board your post falls flat. Not to mention, the supposedly non-partisan School Board members routinely campaign for Democratic candidates and show up at campaign events.

So just STFU with your faux concerns about parents who are “operatives” - they aren’t disqualified from holding views or advocating for their kids any more than anyone else.

It’s important to understand their motives and objectives. They are not looking out for kids, they are looking out for politicians. How are you ok with that?

It is very concerning that national organizations are f-ing around with our local schools, school boards, even PTAs. All in an effort to get Republicans elected NOT to help kids.

You can’t really be this dense. Parents are responding to the politicization of decisions affecting schools by far-left Democrats who are not just political operatives, but operatives holding ostensibly non-partisan offices.

Look at Karl Frisch, for example. He has no qualifications to serve on a local School Board. He has neither kids nor a college degree, but he’s planted on the School Board because he was a loyal party member and former low-level Democratic staff member on the Hill who made a good stooge.

Both political parties openly endorse candidates for school board. That is a transparent process, even if you don’t like the outcomes. The local orgs for Ds and Rs do it.

But these fake “grassroots” organizations try to appear like “parents” addressing education issues but they are actually national-level political activists trying to get their party elected. They are not transparent and are pushing blatant lies.

It’s not ok for them to use our kids as pawns.

You are incorrect, and I see you haven't bothered to challenge the fact that Karl Frisch is a prime example of the type of Democratic party hack parents are expected to tolerate on a School Board, lest the local Democratic mandarins claim the parents are "national-level political activists" (at the same time as the local Democrats attempt to get the full force of the Federal Government to harass and intimidate parents).

There are more of us finally speaking up and pushing back - in some cases after years of quietly tolerating the nonsense imposed by the Democrats making decisions about education policy at the state and local level. It remains to be seen whether there are enough of us to tip this election in Youngkin's favor, but we will continue to cross party lines and continue speaking out more loudly when elected officials who ought to be listening to parents instead consistently ignore us.

You are conflating local parents' dissatisfaction with an individual SB member with a national astroturfing effort.

Not relevant or comparable.

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Anonymous wrote:Show me Republican states with good education. There aren’t many.

Show us a democratic city with good education.

There are none.

Why do only cities matter? Cities have their own unique problems. There are plenty of blue states with great public schools… NJ and MA being two of them. Aren’t we talking about a statewide election here?

Good teachers want to work where they feel supported and adequately paid. Constantly complaining about them is going to make them leave for greener pastures. Republicans seem determined to make that happen for some reason.

NJ and MA frequently have republican governors with democratic legislators.

You just made an argument for electing Youngkin.

Balance.

Not democratic domination.

Cities are examples of democratic domination. Virginia is moving in that direction. The schools will start to fail. Look at the drop of some schools and divksion between the MV, Lewis, Justice type schools and everyone else.

We need balance.

A moderate republican like Youngkin will achieve balance.

Youngkin isn’t a moderate, but you sure are gullible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Show me Republican states with good education. There aren’t many.

Show us a democratic city with good education.

There are none.

Why do only cities matter? Cities have their own unique problems. There are plenty of blue states with great public schools… NJ and MA being two of them. Aren’t we talking about a statewide election here?

Good teachers want to work where they feel supported and adequately paid. Constantly complaining about them is going to make them leave for greener pastures. Republicans seem determined to make that happen for some reason.

NJ and MA frequently have republican governors with democratic legislators.

You just made an argument for electing Youngkin.

Balance.

Not democratic domination.

Cities are examples of democratic domination. Virginia is moving in that direction. The schools will start to fail. Look at the drop of some schools and divksion between the MV, Lewis, Justice type schools and everyone else.

We need balance.

A moderate republican like Youngkin will achieve balance.

Youngkin isn’t a moderate, but you sure are gullible.

Youngkin is indeed a right of center moderate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Show me Republican states with good education. There aren’t many.

Show us a democratic city with good education.

There are none.

Why do only cities matter? Cities have their own unique problems. There are plenty of blue states with great public schools… NJ and MA being two of them. Aren’t we talking about a statewide election here?

Good teachers want to work where they feel supported and adequately paid. Constantly complaining about them is going to make them leave for greener pastures. Republicans seem determined to make that happen for some reason.

NJ and MA frequently have republican governors with democratic legislators.

You just made an argument for electing Youngkin.

Balance.

Not democratic domination.

Cities are examples of democratic domination. Virginia is moving in that direction. The schools will start to fail. Look at the drop of some schools and divksion between the MV, Lewis, Justice type schools and everyone else.

We need balance.

A moderate republican like Youngkin will achieve balance.

You know what else NJ and MA have? Strong teachers' unions. And well-paid teachers.

And they have balanced Rs, not these wackadoodle fanatics like Amanda Chase. Youngkin is no Weld or Romney, he's a Trump Republican.

[Anonymous]

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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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How do you abolish human beings? Do you propose killing them?

Agree with all this.

[Anonymous]

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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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How do you abolish human beings? Do you propose killing them?

Agree with all this.

How do you abolish human beings? Do you propose killing them?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Show me Republican states with good education. There aren’t many.

My second grader is struggling with reading and writing because he missed a full year of school. And don't you dare pretend that online school for 6 year-olds was school. So maybe climb off your "good education" soap box.

My second grader is doing great because I took matters into my own hands, while still working full time. Sometimes life is like that. Continuing to be angry about last year accomplishes nothing. Why didn’t you pull yourself up by your bootstraps and figure it out? Aren’t you people big on that? Where’s the personal responsibility? I bet you’re the first to blame parents when a kid is acting out and being disruptive in school. But I guess you take no responsibility for your own child’s struggles? Stop blaming others and help your child. Do what it takes.

Wow. You sound like a supposed republican.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Show me Republican states with good education. There aren’t many.

My second grader is struggling with reading and writing because he missed a full year of school. And don't you dare pretend that online school for 6 year-olds was school. So maybe climb off your "good education" soap box.

My second grader is doing great because I took matters into my own hands, while still working full time. Sometimes life is like that. Continuing to be angry about last year accomplishes nothing. Why didn’t you pull yourself up by your bootstraps and figure it out? Aren’t you people big on that? Where’s the personal responsibility? I bet you’re the first to blame parents when a kid is acting out and being disruptive in school. But I guess you take no responsibility for your own child’s struggles? Stop blaming others and help your child. Do what it takes.

Thank you for making me feel more confident about my vote for Youngkin

[Anonymous]

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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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How do you abolish human beings? Do you propose killing them?

Agree with all this.

How do you abolish human beings? Do you propose killing them?

you have to agree with them and be in lock and step. Any hint of dissension calls for death.