Why is Glenn Youngkin lying?

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Anonymous wrote:I will crawl over burning coals to vote for Youngkin. I don't care about that ad - standard politician stuff that MacAuliffe is equally as guilty of, if what you're saying is true.

Parents have been ignited to vote red in VA over school issues. Mark my words.

Naw. The people upset by schools being closed are fringe.

Yeah, in Florida my MIL had to choose between quitting her job and going in person. She couldn't afford to give up her job amd Healthcare. She brought COVID home and my FIL almost died.

Was the last year tough? Yes, but schools had to make hard decisions based on keeping the kids and teachers safe.

I would have agreed with thus until March/April. By then, teachers in Virginia were vaccinated or had the option to be. After that, refusing to reopen was power play where the real loser is the education of children. The kids are so behind it is crushing. And not everywhere. But here yes. So those two-three months of in person would have made a difference. The safety of teachers stance lost credibility because in the end it wasn't their safety that was in peril. It was the education of the kids. And as most politicians know, you don't mess with people's kids. People will elevate a lot of things over their own personal preference but NOT over their kids. It is the real third rail.

and by then local jurisdictions in Virginia were sending kids back to school. Does Youngkin support removing local control of schools? Can you point me to his position on education? Can you point me to his position on anything?

Not really. A week on and a week off is not school. FCPS turned some kids away due to space. Do some fact checking.

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Anonymous wrote:I will crawl over burning coals to vote for Youngkin. I don't care about that ad - standard politician stuff that MacAuliffe is equally as guilty of, if what you're saying is true.

Parents have been ignited to vote red in VA over school issues. Mark my words.

I'm a teacher, but since it's summer, I'm going to be very non-teacher-like:

You're full of it.

During the pandemic all we heard was "open the schools!" and "kids need to be in school, not learning virtually!" There were protests, signs lining the roads leading up to schools in my county, and in some cases, verbal and physical assaults.

And when schools did open for students to come back in for learning fulltime in-person, they didn't materialize! All that non-stop nonsense for less than 50% attendance. Heck, less than 45% at my school. It averaged 37-40% attendance. And most of those were the younger grades, the ones whose parents really do treat teachers like free childcare.

My school had 750+ students. Around 320 came back to the classrooms. In my classroom I had an average of 3-5 kids in attendance on any given day and the remaining 15-17 virtual. So then instead of just being able to focus 100% of my resources on just one group of kids, I had to teach to two different groups of kids at the same time on different platforms. Do you know how hard that is? You have to juggle the group at home who may have distractions there while trying to juggle those in the classroom to make sure they keep their masks on and maintain the 6 feet at all times. And of course, what happens when I'm focusing on the virtual kids to answer their individual questions? The classroom kids want to chat, and vice versa.

The say is "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" and it did. The noisy parents got the schools open fulltime again, but the kids never materialized. I had the kid of one protestor who was on the news several times in my class this year and that kid never came back. Hypocrite.

So, mark my words. VA will remain blue.

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Anonymous wrote:I will crawl over burning coals to vote for Youngkin. I don't care about that ad - standard politician stuff that MacAuliffe is equally as guilty of, if what you're saying is true.

Parents have been ignited to vote red in VA over school issues. Mark my words.

I’m with you. A ride or die Democrat for youngkin. Time to signal that we are paying attention and that the wacky stuff - whether school closures or looting- has gone too far, thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:I will crawl over burning coals to vote for Youngkin. I don't care about that ad - standard politician stuff that MacAuliffe is equally as guilty of, if what you're saying is true.

Parents have been ignited to vote red in VA over school issues. Mark my words.

Naw. The people upset by schools being closed are fringe.

Yeah, in Florida my MIL had to choose between quitting her job and going in person. She couldn't afford to give up her job amd Healthcare. She brought COVID home and my FIL almost died.

Was the last year tough? Yes, but schools had to make hard decisions based on keeping the kids and teachers safe.

I would have agreed with thus until March/April. By then, teachers in Virginia were vaccinated or had the option to be. After that, refusing to reopen was power play where the real loser is the education of children. The kids are so behind it is crushing. And not everywhere. But here yes. So those two-three months of in person would have made a difference. The safety of teachers stance lost credibility because in the end it wasn't their safety that was in peril. It was the education of the kids. And as most politicians know, you don't mess with people's kids. People will elevate a lot of things over their own personal preference but NOT over their kids. It is the real third rail.

and by then local jurisdictions in Virginia were sending kids back to school. Does Youngkin support removing local control of schools? Can you point me to his position on education? Can you point me to his position on anything?

Not really. A week on and a week off is not school. FCPS turned some kids away due to space. Do some fact checking.

ok, it was local control. Do you think that Wise County had the same policy? Does Youngkin support removing local control- can you point to his policy position?

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Anonymous wrote:I will crawl over burning coals to vote for Youngkin. I don't care about that ad - standard politician stuff that MacAuliffe is equally as guilty of, if what you're saying is true.

Parents have been ignited to vote red in VA over school issues. Mark my words.

I'm a teacher, but since it's summer, I'm going to be very non-teacher-like:

You're full of it.

During the pandemic all we heard was "open the schools!" and "kids need to be in school, not learning virtually!" There were protests, signs lining the roads leading up to schools in my county, and in some cases, verbal and physical assaults.

And when schools did open for students to come back in for learning fulltime in-person, they didn't materialize! All that non-stop nonsense for less than 50% attendance. Heck, less than 45% at my school. It averaged 37-40% attendance. And most of those were the younger grades, the ones whose parents really do treat teachers like free childcare.

My school had 750+ students. Around 320 came back to the classrooms. In my classroom I had an average of 3-5 kids in attendance on any given day and the remaining 15-17 virtual. So then instead of just being able to focus 100% of my resources on just one group of kids, I had to teach to two different groups of kids at the same time on different platforms. Do you know how hard that is? You have to juggle the group at home who may have distractions there while trying to juggle those in the classroom to make sure they keep their masks on and maintain the 6 feet at all times. And of course, what happens when I'm focusing on the virtual kids to answer their individual questions? The classroom kids want to chat, and vice versa.

The say is "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" and it did. The noisy parents got the schools open fulltime again, but the kids never materialized. I had the kid of one protestor who was on the news several times in my class this year and that kid never came back. Hypocrite.

So, mark my words. VA will remain blue.

You still don’t get it. And I don’t blame you because you didn’t make the decisions. But parents didn’t go back what was offered was garbage. The board had months to plan and didn’t and the what they rolled out was pathetic. Some didn’t come back because some had teachers still at home so the school experience was still a TV. Some families were told there wasn’t room so they kept all home. Some decided that one week on or partial weeks was too hard to manage. I’m Texas and Florida and my children’s local private, back meant back. In person teachers. Every day. You cannot deny that what was offered was much less than that and way way too late.

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Anonymous wrote:I will crawl over burning coals to vote for Youngkin. I don't care about that ad - standard politician stuff that MacAuliffe is equally as guilty of, if what you're saying is true.

Parents have been ignited to vote red in VA over school issues. Mark my words.

I'm a teacher, but since it's summer, I'm going to be very non-teacher-like:

You're full of it.

During the pandemic all we heard was "open the schools!" and "kids need to be in school, not learning virtually!" There were protests, signs lining the roads leading up to schools in my county, and in some cases, verbal and physical assaults.

And when schools did open for students to come back in for learning fulltime in-person, they didn't materialize! All that non-stop nonsense for less than 50% attendance. Heck, less than 45% at my school. It averaged 37-40% attendance. And most of those were the younger grades, the ones whose parents really do treat teachers like free childcare.

My school had 750+ students. Around 320 came back to the classrooms. In my classroom I had an average of 3-5 kids in attendance on any given day and the remaining 15-17 virtual. So then instead of just being able to focus 100% of my resources on just one group of kids, I had to teach to two different groups of kids at the same time on different platforms. Do you know how hard that is? You have to juggle the group at home who may have distractions there while trying to juggle those in the classroom to make sure they keep their masks on and maintain the 6 feet at all times. And of course, what happens when I'm focusing on the virtual kids to answer their individual questions? The classroom kids want to chat, and vice versa.

The say is "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" and it did. The noisy parents got the schools open fulltime again, but the kids never materialized. I had the kid of one protestor who was on the news several times in my class this year and that kid never came back. Hypocrite.

So, mark my words. VA will remain blue.

+1.

The school reopening supporters vastly over estimate how much the general public agrees with them. It may be that they're motivated enough by one issue to sway an election (although I'm doubtful that anyone is that motivated by school closures given that schools are reopening), but the DC area was hugely pro-closures last year. The whole area is still full of vaccinated people wearing masks, even more than other very liberal areas. The culture here is just cautious about COVID and the school closures reflect that. I was pro-reopening, but at some point the majority wins out even if I think it's a bad idea.

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Anonymous wrote:I will crawl over burning coals to vote for Youngkin. I don't care about that ad - standard politician stuff that MacAuliffe is equally as guilty of, if what you're saying is true.

Parents have been ignited to vote red in VA over school issues. Mark my words.

I’m with you. A ride or die Democrat for youngkin. Time to signal that we are paying attention and that the wacky stuff - whether school closures or looting- has gone too far, thanks.

Looting? How much “looting” was there in VA?



Sure, “Democrat”.

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Anonymous wrote:Love him. So disgusted with school closures that I’d vote for satan himself just to prove a point.

Grow up.

Aboti 1/3 the country did in 2016, and look where that got us.

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Anonymous wrote:I will crawl over burning coals to vote for Youngkin. I don't care about that ad - standard politician stuff that MacAuliffe is equally as guilty of, if what you're saying is true.

Parents have been ignited to vote red in VA over school issues. Mark my words.

I’m with you. A ride or die Democrat for youngkin. Time to signal that we are paying attention and that the wacky stuff - whether school closures or looting- has gone too far, thanks.

It's really cute that you think you can fool anybody with more than two braincells to rub together.

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Anonymous wrote:I will crawl over burning coals to vote for Youngkin. I don't care about that ad - standard politician stuff that MacAuliffe is equally as guilty of, if what you're saying is true.

Parents have been ignited to vote red in VA over school issues. Mark my words.

Naw. The people upset by schools being closed are fringe.

Yeah, in Florida my MIL had to choose between quitting her job and going in person. She couldn't afford to give up her job amd Healthcare. She brought COVID home and my FIL almost died.

Was the last year tough? Yes, but schools had to make hard decisions based on keeping the kids and teachers safe.

I would have agreed with thus until March/April. By then, teachers in Virginia were vaccinated or had the option to be. After that, refusing to reopen was power play where the real loser is the education of children. The kids are so behind it is crushing. And not everywhere. But here yes. So those two-three months of in person would have made a difference. The safety of teachers stance lost credibility because in the end it wasn't their safety that was in peril. It was the education of the kids. And as most politicians know, you don't mess with people's kids. People will elevate a lot of things over their own personal preference but NOT over their kids. It is the real third rail.

and by then local jurisdictions in Virginia were sending kids back to school. Does Youngkin support removing local control of schools? Can you point me to his position on education? Can you point me to his position on anything?

Not really. A week on and a week off is not school. FCPS turned some kids away due to space. Do some fact checking.

ok, it was local control. Do you think that Wise County had the same policy? Does Youngkin support removing local control- can you point to his policy position?

It’s funny that the Rs are trying to spin local school board decisions as statewide issues.

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Anonymous wrote:I will crawl over burning coals to vote for Youngkin. I don't care about that ad - standard politician stuff that MacAuliffe is equally as guilty of, if what you're saying is true.

Parents have been ignited to vote red in VA over school issues. Mark my words.

I’m with you. A ride or die Democrat for youngkin. Time to signal that we are paying attention and that the wacky stuff - whether school closures or looting- has gone too far, thanks.

Looting? How much “looting” was there in VA?



Sure, “Democrat”.

I absolutely WAS a Democrat up until a car was stolen and shots were fired just outside my door. I moved to VA recently and am not eager to see VA start to be like DC on a whole host of different issues. Seems the best route to a sane local government is to vote R.

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I don’t understand the angst against Youngkin’s wealth (and I’m a GDI btw). I mean, there isn’t much difference between super rich McAuliffe vs super rich Yougkin. They’re both white, middle age men who made fortunes in business and then ran for office for fun. McAuliffe is connected to the Clintons (big time), was called a grifter and carpet bagger, made some pretty sexist comments about how his wife shouldn’t complain about how much he works because he pays her credit card bill, and he majorly F-Ed up Charlottesville. Youngkin has no record, I have no idea how he would do policy, if he’s moderate, if he’s too conservative, etc.

But as for background, they’re almost the same. GMAB that McAuliffe is our savior. I am so disappointed he decided to run again. Ridiculous.

To me I have to decide do I want the devil I know, or the devil I don’t know.

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Anonymous wrote:I will crawl over burning coals to vote for Youngkin. I don't care about that ad - standard politician stuff that MacAuliffe is equally as guilty of, if what you're saying is true.

Parents have been ignited to vote red in VA over school issues. Mark my words.

I’m with you. A ride or die Democrat for youngkin. Time to signal that we are paying attention and that the wacky stuff - whether school closures or looting- has gone too far, thanks.

Stop campaigning for Youngkin as a fake “ride or die” Democrat. No such Democrat would vote for him in a million years. You’re not fooling anybody.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the angst against Youngkin’s wealth (and I’m a GDI btw). I mean, there isn’t much difference between super rich McAuliffe vs super rich Yougkin. They’re both white, middle age men who made fortunes in business and then ran for office for fun. McAuliffe is connected to the Clintons (big time), was called a grifter and carpet bagger, made some pretty sexist comments about how his wife shouldn’t complain about how much he works because he pays her credit card bill, and he majorly F-Ed up Charlottesville. Youngkin has no record, I have no idea how he would do policy, if he’s moderate, if he’s too conservative, etc.

But as for background, they’re almost the same. GMAB that McAuliffe is our savior. I am so disappointed he decided to run again. Ridiculous.

To me I have to decide do I want the devil I know, or the devil I don’t know.

I don't think anyone is begrudging Youngkin's business success, but when you're born into privilege, attend prestigious private primary schools and colleges, and work in private equity, painting yourself as salt of the earth and calling your opponent an out of touch elitist sort of rings hollow.

For all the people calling him a carpetbagging sleazeball, at least the Macker is up front about who he is. And he had a wildly successful term governing as a left-leaning technocrat, so the pearl-clutching about woke antifa thugs taking over schools and ruining the economy falls particularly flat on its face.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the angst against Youngkin’s wealth (and I’m a GDI btw). I mean, there isn’t much difference between super rich McAuliffe vs super rich Yougkin. They’re both white, middle age men who made fortunes in business and then ran for office for fun. McAuliffe is connected to the Clintons (big time), was called a grifter and carpet bagger, made some pretty sexist comments about how his wife shouldn’t complain about how much he works because he pays her credit card bill, and he majorly F-Ed up Charlottesville. Youngkin has no record, I have no idea how he would do policy, if he’s moderate, if he’s too conservative, etc.

But as for background, they’re almost the same. GMAB that McAuliffe is our savior. I am so disappointed he decided to run again. Ridiculous.

To me I have to decide do I want the devil I know, or the devil I don’t know.

If McAuliffe was campaigning as a salt of the earth hard luck tale who pulled himself up by his scholarship, the comparison would matter more. I don't know anyone who is particularly excited by McAuliffe, let alone calls him their savior. He's a party hack with all the good (connections, pragmatism) and bad (indebtedness, refusal to rock the boat) that comes from that. But Youngkin is so full of it that he should expect pushback.