VDOE: Next Secretary of Education

[Anonymous]

I can't wait for the new Secretary of Education to crank all the data on the harm caused by VA's (and especially NOVA's) prolonged school closures last year. It really takes an effort and cow-towing to the teachers' unions to finish 44th of 50 states in in-person days.

It will be nice too to have someone who focuses on learning loss, instead of trying to sweep it under the rug because they want to hide the damage they caused by such school closures - not "because of COVID", but "because of school districts' reaction to COVID".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't wait for the new Secretary of Education to crank all the data on the harm caused by VA's (and especially NOVA's) prolonged school closures last year. It really takes an effort and cow-towing to the teachers' unions to finish 44th of 50 states in in-person days.

It will be nice too to have someone who focuses on learning loss, instead of trying to sweep it under the rug because they want to hide the damage they caused by such school closures - not "because of COVID", but "because of school districts' reaction to COVID".

Lmao "cow-towing"

Also teachers can't even get their shit together to achieve collective bargaining now that they actually have it offered to them. Unions?

Try again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't wait for the new Secretary of Education to crank all the data on the harm caused by VA's (and especially NOVA's) prolonged school closures last year. It really takes an effort and cow-towing to the teachers' unions to finish 44th of 50 states in in-person days.

It will be nice too to have someone who focuses on learning loss, instead of trying to sweep it under the rug because they want to hide the damage they caused by such school closures - not "because of COVID", but "because of school districts' reaction to COVID".

Lmao "cow-towing"

Also teachers can't even get their shit together to achieve collective bargaining now that they actually have it offered to them. Unions?

Try again.

Yup. The outside agitator is clueless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't wait for the new Secretary of Education to crank all the data on the harm caused by VA's (and especially NOVA's) prolonged school closures last year. It really takes an effort and cow-towing to the teachers' unions to finish 44th of 50 states in in-person days.

It will be nice too to have someone who focuses on learning loss, instead of trying to sweep it under the rug because they want to hide the damage they caused by such school closures - not "because of COVID", but "because of school districts' reaction to COVID".

Oh, c'mon now. No one is sweeping anything under the rug; however, the continued flagellation of teachers is getting tedious. School systems made best choices they could with the information they had. Many parents, like my husband and me, and our friends, stepped up and our kids had a great year last year. Parents like you sat on your a33es and b1tched the entire time, and then you acted surprised when your kid had learning loss. I don't need some number cruncher to tell me why my kids thrived and yours didn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't wait for the new Secretary of Education to crank all the data on the harm caused by VA's (and especially NOVA's) prolonged school closures last year. It really takes an effort and cow-towing to the teachers' unions to finish 44th of 50 states in in-person days.

It will be nice too to have someone who focuses on learning loss, instead of trying to sweep it under the rug because they want to hide the damage they caused by such school closures - not "because of COVID", but "because of school districts' reaction to COVID".

Oh, c'mon now. No one is sweeping anything under the rug; however, the continued flagellation of teachers is getting tedious. School systems made best choices they could with the information they had. Many parents, like my husband and me, and our friends, stepped up and our kids had a great year last year. Parents like you sat on your a33es and b1tched the entire time, and then you acted surprised when your kid had learning loss. I don't need some number cruncher to tell me why my kids thrived and yours didn't.

Parents like me either put their kids in private school or hired private tutors. It was the poor kids who suffered, as all the data shows.

School systems made best choices they could with the information they had - bahahaha. The Northern Virginia Democratic politicians made their decisions based on politics, not science, and we're rewarded in November with being swept out of power. Bring on Youngkin!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't wait for the new Secretary of Education to crank all the data on the harm caused by VA's (and especially NOVA's) prolonged school closures last year. It really takes an effort and cow-towing to the teachers' unions to finish 44th of 50 states in in-person days.

It will be nice too to have someone who focuses on learning loss, instead of trying to sweep it under the rug because they want to hide the damage they caused by such school closures - not "because of COVID", but "because of school districts' reaction to COVID".

Oh, c'mon now. No one is sweeping anything under the rug; however, the continued flagellation of teachers is getting tedious. School systems made best choices they could with the information they had. Many parents, like my husband and me, and our friends, stepped up and our kids had a great year last year. Parents like you sat on your a33es and b1tched the entire time, and then you acted surprised when your kid had learning loss. I don't need some number cruncher to tell me why my kids thrived and yours didn't.

Parents like me either put their kids in private school or hired private tutors. It was the poor kids who suffered, as all the data shows.

School systems made best choices they could with the information they had - bahahaha. The Northern Virginia Democratic politicians made their decisions based on politics, not science, and we're rewarded in November with being swept out of power. Bring on Youngkin!

Huh. I teach at a Title I school. Filled to the brim with poor kids of color. We've tested three times now. Our kids are back on track. It is provable with our data. We don't need Youngkin. We need parents like you to get a swift kick in the seat of your pants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't wait for the new Secretary of Education to crank all the data on the harm caused by VA's (and especially NOVA's) prolonged school closures last year. It really takes an effort and cow-towing to the teachers' unions to finish 44th of 50 states in in-person days.

It will be nice too to have someone who focuses on learning loss, instead of trying to sweep it under the rug because they want to hide the damage they caused by such school closures - not "because of COVID", but "because of school districts' reaction to COVID".

Oh, c'mon now. No one is sweeping anything under the rug; however, the continued flagellation of teachers is getting tedious. School systems made best choices they could with the information they had. Many parents, like my husband and me, and our friends, stepped up and our kids had a great year last year. Parents like you sat on your a33es and b1tched the entire time, and then you acted surprised when your kid had learning loss. I don't need some number cruncher to tell me why my kids thrived and yours didn't.

Yes. Not that the irrational parents throwing tantrums would recognize that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't wait for the new Secretary of Education to crank all the data on the harm caused by VA's (and especially NOVA's) prolonged school closures last year. It really takes an effort and cow-towing to the teachers' unions to finish 44th of 50 states in in-person days.

It will be nice too to have someone who focuses on learning loss, instead of trying to sweep it under the rug because they want to hide the damage they caused by such school closures - not "because of COVID", but "because of school districts' reaction to COVID".

Oh, c'mon now. No one is sweeping anything under the rug; however, the continued flagellation of teachers is getting tedious. School systems made best choices they could with the information they had. Many parents, like my husband and me, and our friends, stepped up and our kids had a great year last year. Parents like you sat on your a33es and b1tched the entire time, and then you acted surprised when your kid had learning loss. I don't need some number cruncher to tell me why my kids thrived and yours didn't.

Yes. Not that the irrational parents throwing tantrums would recognize that.

APS was likely in the bottom 5% for in-person days for ES kids in the entire state of VA last school year, but it was the parents who were being irrational? Sure. That type of thinking is why we now have Governor Youngkin soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't wait for the new Secretary of Education to crank all the data on the harm caused by VA's (and especially NOVA's) prolonged school closures last year. It really takes an effort and cow-towing to the teachers' unions to finish 44th of 50 states in in-person days.

It will be nice too to have someone who focuses on learning loss, instead of trying to sweep it under the rug because they want to hide the damage they caused by such school closures - not "because of COVID", but "because of school districts' reaction to COVID".

Oh, c'mon now. No one is sweeping anything under the rug; however, the continued flagellation of teachers is getting tedious. School systems made best choices they could with the information they had. Many parents, like my husband and me, and our friends, stepped up and our kids had a great year last year. Parents like you sat on your a33es and b1tched the entire time, and then you acted surprised when your kid had learning loss. I don't need some number cruncher to tell me why my kids thrived and yours didn't.

Yes. Not that the irrational parents throwing tantrums would recognize that.

APS was likely in the bottom 5% for in-person days for ES kids in the entire state of VA last school year, but it was the parents who were being irrational? Sure. That type of thinking is why we now have Governor Youngkin soon.

Yes, the parents were irrational then and they are irrational now.

Youngkin was elected because there were just enough irrational parents to vote R.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't wait for the new Secretary of Education to crank all the data on the harm caused by VA's (and especially NOVA's) prolonged school closures last year. It really takes an effort and cow-towing to the teachers' unions to finish 44th of 50 states in in-person days.

It will be nice too to have someone who focuses on learning loss, instead of trying to sweep it under the rug because they want to hide the damage they caused by such school closures - not "because of COVID", but "because of school districts' reaction to COVID".

Oh, c'mon now. No one is sweeping anything under the rug; however, the continued flagellation of teachers is getting tedious. School systems made best choices they could with the information they had. Many parents, like my husband and me, and our friends, stepped up and our kids had a great year last year. Parents like you sat on your a33es and b1tched the entire time, and then you acted surprised when your kid had learning loss. I don't need some number cruncher to tell me why my kids thrived and yours didn't.

Yes. Not that the irrational parents throwing tantrums would recognize that.

APS was likely in the bottom 5% for in-person days for ES kids in the entire state of VA last school year, but it was the parents who were being irrational? Sure. That type of thinking is why we now have Governor Youngkin soon.

Says otherwise in Arlington (don't know how votes are split by parents, admittedly, this was a 3 second google search)

https://patch.com/virginia/arlington-va/virginia-governor-election-2021-how-arlington-precincts-voted

But we get it. You really like Glenn Youngkin and are willing to ignore all th bad and regressive shit he'll probably do because you want people to be "punished" or some dumb shit thinking like thay

[Anonymous]

Youngkin sent all his kids to the private schools who serve children of the elite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin sent all his kids to the private schools who serve children of the elite.

Yeah, he has no problem at all with the middle class and lower class kids going to schools and getting sick. From his Darwinian perspective he probably thinks of it as thinning the herd.

[Anonymous]

I will withhold judgment until I see some actual policy, but consider me skeptical.

The fundamental problem with an education consultant selling data collection tools is that you get what you measure. So if her perspective is going to be more metrics, it will be absolutely critical that the *right* metrics are chosen. This is where the culture war will again wage.

There is no indication she is knowledgeable about curricula or pedagogy. If her solution is the apply saber metrics to public schools, we are in trouble. This could end up being the blind leading the blind.

It is, for example, 100% critical we continue commitments to improve equity in schools — so if her focus on metrics involves closing achievement gaps, great. That said, we don’t need metrics to tell us there are achievement gaps. As education secretary, what will be her policies to close them? And no, the answer isn’t charter schools. Charter schools can game metrics by being more selective about who they accept. So what you end up with is growing gaps between schools. Factor in the massive trail of corruption in charter schools — lots of flim flam artists in that space, lots of taxpayer waste — and this could end *very* badly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will withhold judgment until I see some actual policy, but consider me skeptical.

The fundamental problem with an education consultant selling data collection tools is that you get what you measure. So if her perspective is going to be more metrics, it will be absolutely critical that the *right* metrics are chosen. This is where the culture war will again wage.

There is no indication she is knowledgeable about curricula or pedagogy. If her solution is the apply saber metrics to public schools, we are in trouble. This could end up being the blind leading the blind.

It is, for example, 100% critical we continue commitments to improve equity in schools — so if her focus on metrics involves closing achievement gaps, great. That said, we don’t need metrics to tell us there are achievement gaps. As education secretary, what will be her policies to close them? And no, the answer isn’t charter schools. Charter schools can game metrics by being more selective about who they accept. So what you end up with is growing gaps between schools. Factor in the massive trail of corruption in charter schools — lots of flim flam artists in that space, lots of taxpayer waste — and this could end *very* badly.

Charter schools were always Youngkin’s endgame. I’d also expect to see taxpayer subsidization of religious schools. He has no interest in improving the public schools whatsoever. That’s going to be a real shock to a lot of the MAGA parents when their mediocre, L/D kids aren’t offered a spot out and have to stay back in underfunded schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will withhold judgment until I see some actual policy, but consider me skeptical.

The fundamental problem with an education consultant selling data collection tools is that you get what you measure. So if her perspective is going to be more metrics, it will be absolutely critical that the *right* metrics are chosen. This is where the culture war will again wage.

There is no indication she is knowledgeable about curricula or pedagogy. If her solution is the apply saber metrics to public schools, we are in trouble. This could end up being the blind leading the blind.

It is, for example, 100% critical we continue commitments to improve equity in schools — so if her focus on metrics involves closing achievement gaps, great. That said, we don’t need metrics to tell us there are achievement gaps. As education secretary, what will be her policies to close them? And no, the answer isn’t charter schools. Charter schools can game metrics by being more selective about who they accept. So what you end up with is growing gaps between schools. Factor in the massive trail of corruption in charter schools — lots of flim flam artists in that space, lots of taxpayer waste — and this could end *very* badly.

Charter schools were always Youngkin’s endgame. I’d also expect to see taxpayer subsidization of religious schools. He has no interest in improving the public schools whatsoever. That’s going to be a real shock to a lot of the MAGA parents when their mediocre, L/D kids aren’t offered a spot out and have to stay back in underfunded schools.

Youngkin nominated Aimee Guidera as Secretary of Education. Ms. Guidera has a long history of being a public school advocate with center-left groups. Similar to President Obama and Clinton, Guidera has supported charter schools as well. Guidera was a strong ally of the Democrats in opposition to most conservatives during the last reauthorizaiton of the main federal K-12 law. The organization she founded, DQC, is a well known primarily Democratically aligned organization at the federal level. Guidera has a solid history of aligning with with anti-voucher groups and advocating for the Democrats for Education Reform agenda and initiatives such as Common Core. Guidera's history suggests she is more aligned with never-Trumpers than MAGA types.