Question for VA Republicans re: public schools

[Anonymous]

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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??

That’s why the Rs want vouchers. They want to subsidize their kids who are already in private schools.

[Anonymous]

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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?

The issue is only with what is being taught, but also how work is being evaluated. There are teachers in NoVa who Tweet regularly about how they are striving to be "equitable graders," which suggests they are not grading objectively but instead based on their understanding of a student's race and SES.

[Anonymous]

Link?

Do you mean teachers who give credits for progress (test corrections)?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Fortunate that your children receive at private school what you cannot provide. When limited in intelligence, style, manners, and taste yourself, it makes sense to have your betters educate your poor children.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Then why debase your vote on a sleazy lawyer, political hack, and Clinton retread like McAuliffe. Is it age related dementia or a drug addiction issue?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

The issue is only with what is being taught, but also how work is being evaluated. There are teachers in NoVa who Tweet regularly about how they are striving to be "equitable graders," which suggests they are not grading objectively but instead based on their understanding of a student's race and SES.

One of my clients is s teacher in APS. It took her four tried to get a teacher certification and was given a job in Arlington County at the lowest performing school. She had three babies in three years and most of her teaching career has been on maternity leave.

She natters on about equitable grading. I once asked what happens if the chikdren don’t learn to read snd write and she responded that they would only be cleaning houses do it didn’t matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

The most common way CRT is showing up in K-12 is the teaching of anti-racism which is more often than not, racism. And the most common way anti-racism it taught it with books like Stamped by Kendi. Kendi advocates for discrimination against whites and attempts to indoctrinate kids with this belief in his book. His coauthor admitted this in an interview with Trevor Noah last year.

[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?

It’s not about them, it’s about the GOP billionaires’ agenda to destroy public schools to cut taxes on the rich.

The parents screaming are the marks— the fools who don’t know they’re being taken by Koch and Murdoch while their own kids get hurt.

The Republican Party is built on lies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

The most common way CRT is showing up in K-12 is the teaching of anti-racism which is more often than not, racism. And the most common way anti-racism it taught it with books like Stamped by Kendi. Kendi advocates for discrimination against whites and attempts to indoctrinate kids with this belief in his book. His coauthor admitted this in an interview with Trevor Noah last year.

So now we are calling anti-racism “CRT”? Along with anti-bias training (from another post)? These have been around for a while now - why the new label?

Can you provide examples of how Kendi advocates for “discrimination against whites”? Because that’s different than “antiracist discrimination”.

How should we talk about racism and biases? What are the acceptable ways?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do send my kids to a private school (as a former public school teacher I'd sacrifice a lot of other things before I sacrificed on school cost) but that doesn't resolve the problem of kids being victims of a system that centers the Woke Brigade and teachers unions over the needs of kids.

I think it's gross that you are so dismissive of the needs of poor kids, even if those kids aren't my kids.

Concern troll score: 6

I think it’s grosser you use phrases like “woke brigade.” You sound like a deplorable.

[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?

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.

It’s fascinating that you think your middle school students were reliable reporters and take everything they say as fact when in fact it’s far more likely you trained them to take offense or see bias is every little thing that didn’t validate what you indoctrinated them with at home.

Spare me your talk about “morals” though. You don’t sound like a very moral person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

The most common way CRT is showing up in K-12 is the teaching of anti-racism which is more often than not, racism. And the most common way anti-racism it taught it with books like Stamped by Kendi. Kendi advocates for discrimination against whites and attempts to indoctrinate kids with this belief in his book. His coauthor admitted this in an interview with Trevor Noah last year.

For years parents complained teachers taught to the test. Please show me where in the SOLs there is any mention of CRT or “anti-racism.’l

And stop with the nonsense that anti-racism is in fact racism. That’s some Orwellian doublespeak right there. I am fully cognizant of the fascist impulses of right-wingers, but keep that stuff out of our schools. The irony here is palpable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Most public schools are more rigorous than most private schools. Private schools generally have less qualified teachers. And a larger number of them teach nonsense like man and dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time and the earth is only 7,000 years old.

[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?

Probably because private schools are even deeper into this CRT thing.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/critical-race-theory-private-schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

The most common way CRT is showing up in K-12 is the teaching of anti-racism which is more often than not, racism. And the most common way anti-racism it taught it with books like Stamped by Kendi. Kendi advocates for discrimination against whites and attempts to indoctrinate kids with this belief in his book. His coauthor admitted this in an interview with Trevor Noah last year.

For years parents complained teachers taught to the test. Please show me where in the SOLs there is any mention of CRT or “anti-racism.’l

And stop with the nonsense that anti-racism is in fact racism. That’s some Orwellian doublespeak right there. I am fully cognizant of the fascist impulses of right-wingers, but keep that stuff out of our schools. The irony here is palpable.

OMG, stop with this nonsense. You are in the minority with your way of thinking regarding the schools and that is why you lost. AGAIN, for the 1000th time, it does not matter whether CRT is referred to specifically anywhere. People see through what school boards thought was a sly angle to push the agenda regardless of what you call it. Have you not read these boards. These are not right-wingers upset with the school "stuff" being taught.