Can someone explain AEM to me?

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Youngkin, the public school slayer. After he pushes out sChOoL ChoIcE...

The closed school advocates only have themself to blame for Youngkin and school choice advancing so much nationally (when they wanted schools closed in the DC area, within easy view of conservative policymakers and lawmakers from around the US).

Youngkin should send a thank you letter to Smart Restart and One APS.

Schools are open, nimrod.

They are now, but not last year. They are an essential government service, and Democrats (at the urging of closed school activists) didn't treat them like essential services so voters chose a person who would. Youngkin really need to send a fruit basket to Ventilation Woman's house and One APS's castle as a gift.

It's our usual neighborhood DCUM obsessed stalker. You need help, buddy.

There's a lot of misplaced anger here. This guy can't handle life not being normal during a pandemic so he lashes out irrationally at a parent who he should thank for getting hepa filters in his kids' school. And he can't stop bringing it up, over and over on an anonymous message board that he seems addicted to. Sad and disturbing.

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Thank the tiny 25% who (irrationally) objected to school reopening for things that were unnecessary, like hepa filters (which places in Europe and elsewhere in the US did not need to reopen)? Not a chance.

And now their actions have caused the election of a Republican governor that promised schools will not closed and a Republican AG who promised to sue any school district that does. Youngkin couldn't have done it without the NOVA Democrats catering to the crazy nuts.

I agree with this. The far left dems are the ones who let Youngkin win, by creating an entire class of dissatisfied parents who watched kids suffer all last year while the never-open crowd prevailed. Just the number of Youngkin signs in blue Arlington told the story.

And to all of you who are like "we were just surviving a pandemic" you are missing that schools in many places were open last year without causing huge spread. Data supports this. School was safe. Private schools in Arlington were open without major outbreaks, while APS was basically closed for business. Kids suffered. I didn't vote for Youngkin, and Terry's horrible campaign and huge school gaffe are also reasons he lost, but I get why enough people did to cause this outcome.

[Anonymous]

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Youngkin, the public school slayer. After he pushes out sChOoL ChoIcE...

The closed school advocates only have themself to blame for Youngkin and school choice advancing so much nationally (when they wanted schools closed in the DC area, within easy view of conservative policymakers and lawmakers from around the US).

Youngkin should send a thank you letter to Smart Restart and One APS.

Schools are open, nimrod.

They are now, but not last year. They are an essential government service, and Democrats (at the urging of closed school activists) didn't treat them like essential services so voters chose a person who would. Youngkin really need to send a fruit basket to Ventilation Woman's house and One APS's castle as a gift.

It's our usual neighborhood DCUM obsessed stalker. You need help, buddy.

There's a lot of misplaced anger here. This guy can't handle life not being normal during a pandemic so he lashes out irrationally at a parent who he should thank for getting hepa filters in his kids' school. And he can't stop bringing it up, over and over on an anonymous message board that he seems addicted to. Sad and disturbing.

+1

Thank the tiny 25% who (irrationally) objected to school reopening for things that were unnecessary, like hepa filters (which places in Europe and elsewhere in the US did not need to reopen)? Not a chance.

And now their actions have caused the election of a Republican governor that promised schools will not closed and a Republican AG who promised to sue any school district that does. Youngkin couldn't have done it without the NOVA Democrats catering to the crazy nuts.

I agree with this. The far left dems are the ones who let Youngkin win, by creating an entire class of dissatisfied parents who watched kids suffer all last year while the never-open crowd prevailed. Just the number of Youngkin signs in blue Arlington told the story.

And to all of you who are like "we were just surviving a pandemic" you are missing that schools in many places were open last year without causing huge spread. Data supports this. School was safe. Private schools in Arlington were open without major outbreaks, while APS was basically closed for business. Kids suffered. I didn't vote for Youngkin, and Terry's horrible campaign and huge school gaffe are also reasons he lost, but I get why enough people did to cause this outcome.

Seems like lots of overlap with Trump voters (22k) and Youngkin voters (21k).

Youngkin didn’t win in Arlington. He won VA by spinning up voters across the state with GOP lies. McAuliffe had a bad campaign and didn’t energize D voters.

Yes, we know you’re SO MAD at APS. But it’s been a year+. Time to drop the irrational nonsense and focus on learning loss. Time to move forward.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


Youngkin, the public school slayer. After he pushes out sChOoL ChoIcE...

The closed school advocates only have themself to blame for Youngkin and school choice advancing so much nationally (when they wanted schools closed in the DC area, within easy view of conservative policymakers and lawmakers from around the US).

Youngkin should send a thank you letter to Smart Restart and One APS.

Schools are open, nimrod.

They are now, but not last year. They are an essential government service, and Democrats (at the urging of closed school activists) didn't treat them like essential services so voters chose a person who would. Youngkin really need to send a fruit basket to Ventilation Woman's house and One APS's castle as a gift.

It's our usual neighborhood DCUM obsessed stalker. You need help, buddy.

There's a lot of misplaced anger here. This guy can't handle life not being normal during a pandemic so he lashes out irrationally at a parent who he should thank for getting hepa filters in his kids' school. And he can't stop bringing it up, over and over on an anonymous message board that he seems addicted to. Sad and disturbing.

+1

Thank the tiny 25% who (irrationally) objected to school reopening for things that were unnecessary, like hepa filters (which places in Europe and elsewhere in the US did not need to reopen)? Not a chance.

And now their actions have caused the election of a Republican governor that promised schools will not closed and a Republican AG who promised to sue any school district that does. Youngkin couldn't have done it without the NOVA Democrats catering to the crazy nuts.

No, they didn’t elect Youngkin.

All of the gullible, irrational people who believed the GOP lies elected Youngkin.

[Anonymous]

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I agree with this. The far left dems are the ones who let Youngkin win, by creating an entire class of dissatisfied parents who watched kids suffer all last year while the never-open crowd prevailed. Just the number of Youngkin signs in blue Arlington told the story.

And to all of you who are like "we were just surviving a pandemic" you are missing that schools in many places were open last year without causing huge spread. Data supports this. School was safe. Private schools in Arlington were open without major outbreaks, while APS was basically closed for business. Kids suffered. I didn't vote for Youngkin, and Terry's horrible campaign and huge school gaffe are also reasons he lost, but I get why enough people did to cause this outcome.

Seems like lots of overlap with Trump voters (22k) and Youngkin voters (21k).

Youngkin didn’t win in Arlington. He won VA by spinning up voters across the state with GOP lies. McAuliffe had a bad campaign and didn’t energize D voters.

Yes, we know you’re SO MAD at APS. But it’s been a year+. Time to drop the irrational nonsense and focus on learning loss. Time to move forward.

Gubernatorial year electorate is completely different so you can't look at raw vote #s. % spread in Arlington shifted 10% R from 2020, and 7% from 2017. And we know many left-leaning parents, especially in Northern Virginia and other metro areas with school closures, voted R for the first time for Youngkin.

We're actually going to have a governor who will make sure school systems focus on learning loss. Many of them seemed to be not focused up to try to cover up the results of their incompetence from last year.

[Anonymous]

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I agree with this. The far left dems are the ones who let Youngkin win, by creating an entire class of dissatisfied parents who watched kids suffer all last year while the never-open crowd prevailed. Just the number of Youngkin signs in blue Arlington told the story.

And to all of you who are like "we were just surviving a pandemic" you are missing that schools in many places were open last year without causing huge spread. Data supports this. School was safe. Private schools in Arlington were open without major outbreaks, while APS was basically closed for business. Kids suffered. I didn't vote for Youngkin, and Terry's horrible campaign and huge school gaffe are also reasons he lost, but I get why enough people did to cause this outcome.

Seems like lots of overlap with Trump voters (22k) and Youngkin voters (21k).

Youngkin didn’t win in Arlington. He won VA by spinning up voters across the state with GOP lies. McAuliffe had a bad campaign and didn’t energize D voters.

Yes, we know you’re SO MAD at APS. But it’s been a year+. Time to drop the irrational nonsense and focus on learning loss. Time to move forward.

Gubernatorial year electorate is completely different so you can't look at raw vote #s. % spread in Arlington shifted 10% R from 2020, and 7% from 2017. And we know many left-leaning parents, especially in Northern Virginia and other metro areas with school closures, voted R for the first time for Youngkin.

We're actually going to have a governor who will make sure school systems focus on learning loss. Many of them seemed to be not focused up to try to cover up the results of their incompetence from last year.

No, not in Arlington.

Youngkin is not going to do anything to help our schools. He may harm schools by depleting budgets for “school choice”.

[Anonymous]

Since APS couldn't get its act together to build a fourth comprehensive high school it may not be a bad thing if more people vote with their feet and exit APS. Whether that happens because there is school choice or APS abandonment doesn't really matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Since APS couldn't get its act together to build a fourth comprehensive high school it may not be a bad thing if more people vote with their feet and exit APS. Whether that happens because there is school choice or APS abandonment doesn't really matter.

If they're taking money that should go to APS schools with them, it does really matter.

If they just leave, that's great. Buh-bye!

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Anonymous wrote:Since APS couldn't get its act together to build a fourth comprehensive high school it may not be a bad thing if more people vote with their feet and exit APS. Whether that happens because there is school choice or APS abandonment doesn't really matter.

If they're taking money that should go to APS schools with them, it does really matter.

If they just leave, that's great. Buh-bye!

Yup. If they are taking away money from APS to subsidize the private school their kids already attend - nope.

Which is how “school choice” played out in Indiana…

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Anonymous wrote:Since APS couldn't get its act together to build a fourth comprehensive high school it may not be a bad thing if more people vote with their feet and exit APS. Whether that happens because there is school choice or APS abandonment doesn't really matter.

If they're taking money that should go to APS schools with them, it does really matter.

If they just leave, that's great. Buh-bye!

Yup. If they are taking away money from APS to subsidize the private school their kids already attend - nope.

Which is how “school choice” played out in Indiana…

I’m really looking forward to finding out what matters more to people — being partisan Democrats/Republicans, or reasonable parents. I think we just got a taste of it last week and we’re going to get a lot more in the next few years, when neither party has d$ck to say about overcrowding, elimination of advanced curricula, and the mandatory work trainings we all pretend are edifying are integrated into the grade school day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Since APS couldn't get its act together to build a fourth comprehensive high school it may not be a bad thing if more people vote with their feet and exit APS. Whether that happens because there is school choice or APS abandonment doesn't really matter.

If they're taking money that should go to APS schools with them, it does really matter.

If they just leave, that's great. Buh-bye!

Yup. If they are taking away money from APS to subsidize the private school their kids already attend - nope.

Which is how “school choice” played out in Indiana…

I’m really looking forward to finding out what matters more to people — being partisan Democrats/Republicans, or reasonable parents. I think we just got a taste of it last week and we’re going to get a lot more in the next few years, when neither party has d$ck to say about overcrowding, elimination of advanced curricula, and the mandatory work trainings we all pretend are edifying are integrated into the grade school day.

Stop politicizing local issues FFS.

[Anonymous]

And no one is “eliminating advanced curricula”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


Youngkin, the public school slayer. After he pushes out sChOoL ChoIcE...

The closed school advocates only have themself to blame for Youngkin and school choice advancing so much nationally (when they wanted schools closed in the DC area, within easy view of conservative policymakers and lawmakers from around the US).

Youngkin should send a thank you letter to Smart Restart and One APS.

Schools are open, nimrod.

They are now, but not last year. They are an essential government service, and Democrats (at the urging of closed school activists) didn't treat them like essential services so voters chose a person who would. Youngkin really need to send a fruit basket to Ventilation Woman's house and One APS's castle as a gift.

It's our usual neighborhood DCUM obsessed stalker. You need help, buddy.

There's a lot of misplaced anger here. This guy can't handle life not being normal during a pandemic so he lashes out irrationally at a parent who he should thank for getting hepa filters in his kids' school. And he can't stop bringing it up, over and over on an anonymous message board that he seems addicted to. Sad and disturbing.

+1

Thank the tiny 25% who (irrationally) objected to school reopening for things that were unnecessary, like hepa filters (which places in Europe and elsewhere in the US did not need to reopen)? Not a chance.

And now their actions have caused the election of a Republican governor that promised schools will not closed and a Republican AG who promised to sue any school district that does. Youngkin couldn't have done it without the NOVA Democrats catering to the crazy nuts.

I agree with this. The far left dems are the ones who let Youngkin win, by creating an entire class of dissatisfied parents who watched kids suffer all last year while the never-open crowd prevailed. Just the number of Youngkin signs in blue Arlington told the story.

And to all of you who are like "we were just surviving a pandemic" you are missing that schools in many places were open last year without causing huge spread. Data supports this. School was safe. Private schools in Arlington were open without major outbreaks, while APS was basically closed for business. Kids suffered. I didn't vote for Youngkin, and Terry's horrible campaign and huge school gaffe are also reasons he lost, but I get why enough people did to cause this outcome.

Seems like lots of overlap with Trump voters (22k) and Youngkin voters (21k).

Youngkin didn’t win in Arlington. He won VA by spinning up voters across the state with GOP lies. McAuliffe had a bad campaign and didn’t energize D voters.

Yes, we know you’re SO MAD at APS. But it’s been a year+. Time to drop the irrational nonsense and focus on learning loss. Time to move forward.

Listen, I'm on your side (broadly speaking), but I consider myself an independent who would never consider voting for a R again because of Trump. But the D's majorly screwed up on schools last year, and that's what let the R's gain. Those of you who are hard core D's need to get this and listen to it, or it only gets worse in the mid-terms or 2024, and I shudder at the thought of another Trump run.

Education was a huge issue. Yes D still won in Arlington (of course!) but D's only win in VA when they win overwhelmingly in Northern Va. R's made gains in N. Va this time, and that is why D's lost.

And I can't just "get over it" when we still have a tone deaf school board pretending like last year was totally fine when all the data show it was actually a sh@tshow. If you are a hard core D, you need to understand this. Telling people to just "get over it" is tone deaf and only drives more people away.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


Youngkin, the public school slayer. After he pushes out sChOoL ChoIcE...

The closed school advocates only have themself to blame for Youngkin and school choice advancing so much nationally (when they wanted schools closed in the DC area, within easy view of conservative policymakers and lawmakers from around the US).

Youngkin should send a thank you letter to Smart Restart and One APS.

Schools are open, nimrod.

They are now, but not last year. They are an essential government service, and Democrats (at the urging of closed school activists) didn't treat them like essential services so voters chose a person who would. Youngkin really need to send a fruit basket to Ventilation Woman's house and One APS's castle as a gift.

It's our usual neighborhood DCUM obsessed stalker. You need help, buddy.

There's a lot of misplaced anger here. This guy can't handle life not being normal during a pandemic so he lashes out irrationally at a parent who he should thank for getting hepa filters in his kids' school. And he can't stop bringing it up, over and over on an anonymous message board that he seems addicted to. Sad and disturbing.

+1

Thank the tiny 25% who (irrationally) objected to school reopening for things that were unnecessary, like hepa filters (which places in Europe and elsewhere in the US did not need to reopen)? Not a chance.

And now their actions have caused the election of a Republican governor that promised schools will not closed and a Republican AG who promised to sue any school district that does. Youngkin couldn't have done it without the NOVA Democrats catering to the crazy nuts.

I agree with this. The far left dems are the ones who let Youngkin win, by creating an entire class of dissatisfied parents who watched kids suffer all last year while the never-open crowd prevailed. Just the number of Youngkin signs in blue Arlington told the story.

And to all of you who are like "we were just surviving a pandemic" you are missing that schools in many places were open last year without causing huge spread. Data supports this. School was safe. Private schools in Arlington were open without major outbreaks, while APS was basically closed for business. Kids suffered. I didn't vote for Youngkin, and Terry's horrible campaign and huge school gaffe are also reasons he lost, but I get why enough people did to cause this outcome.

Seems like lots of overlap with Trump voters (22k) and Youngkin voters (21k).

Youngkin didn’t win in Arlington. He won VA by spinning up voters across the state with GOP lies. McAuliffe had a bad campaign and didn’t energize D voters.

Yes, we know you’re SO MAD at APS. But it’s been a year+. Time to drop the irrational nonsense and focus on learning loss. Time to move forward.

Listen, I'm on your side (broadly speaking), but I consider myself an independent who would never consider voting for a R again because of Trump. But the D's majorly screwed up on schools last year, and that's what let the R's gain. Those of you who are hard core D's need to get this and listen to it, or it only gets worse in the mid-terms or 2024, and I shudder at the thought of another Trump run.

Education was a huge issue. Yes D still won in Arlington (of course!) but D's only win in VA when they win overwhelmingly in Northern Va. R's made gains in N. Va this time, and that is why D's lost.

And I can't just "get over it" when we still have a tone deaf school board pretending like last year was totally fine when all the data show it was actually a sh@tshow. If you are a hard core D, you need to understand this. Telling people to just "get over it" is tone deaf and only drives more people away.

A thousand times yes to this. If Democrats — and I always vote for them even if I don’t consider myself a party person — keep spouting g this nonsense that Youngkin won by “lying” it is going to get Trump elected in 2024. We are fortunate that this issue surfaced now and not in 2 years when it’ll be too late to right the ship. Democrats need to do some soul searching. White liberals in particular are neurotically obsessed with not being confused for white conservatives and it’s driving them far to the left of the views of the very minorities they seek to ally with.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I agree with this. The far left dems are the ones who let Youngkin win, by creating an entire class of dissatisfied parents who watched kids suffer all last year while the never-open crowd prevailed. Just the number of Youngkin signs in blue Arlington told the story.

And to all of you who are like "we were just surviving a pandemic" you are missing that schools in many places were open last year without causing huge spread. Data supports this. School was safe. Private schools in Arlington were open without major outbreaks, while APS was basically closed for business. Kids suffered. I didn't vote for Youngkin, and Terry's horrible campaign and huge school gaffe are also reasons he lost, but I get why enough people did to cause this outcome.

Seems like lots of overlap with Trump voters (22k) and Youngkin voters (21k).

Youngkin didn’t win in Arlington. He won VA by spinning up voters across the state with GOP lies. McAuliffe had a bad campaign and didn’t energize D voters.

Yes, we know you’re SO MAD at APS. But it’s been a year+. Time to drop the irrational nonsense and focus on learning loss. Time to move forward.

Gubernatorial year electorate is completely different so you can't look at raw vote #s. % spread in Arlington shifted 10% R from 2020, and 7% from 2017. And we know many left-leaning parents, especially in Northern Virginia and other metro areas with school closures, voted R for the first time for Youngkin.

We're actually going to have a governor who will make sure school systems focus on learning loss. Many of them seemed to be not focused up to try to cover up the results of their incompetence from last year.

No, not in Arlington.

Youngkin is not going to do anything to help our schools. He may harm schools by depleting budgets for “school choice”.

And don't forget his pledge to end state income and grocery taxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And no one is “eliminating advanced curricula”

well that’s true for APS for sure - because you can’t eliminate something that doesn’t exist