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.

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.

"Get over" the election because APS decisions about the pandemic last year did not elect Youngkin.

"Get over" the spite so you can focus on actual change you want to see in APS moving forward. Definitely push for reading & math remediation. Definitely push for things that will move us in the right direction.

Redirect that anger towards positive change.

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APS' "stay closed forever" approach last year absolutely did swing some people in Arlington toward Youngkin. Multiply that across all of N. Virginia (where all the districts followed the same crappy model) and that's absolutely a difference maker in an election with a 2% margin of victory.

And I'm not spiteful, I'm sad. And I fear stupid one-party Arlington will not learn from its errors. It would help for APS to acknowledge that it was too conservative in its response to the pandemic last year, but I'm not holding my breath.

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Anonymous wrote:APS' "stay closed forever" approach last year absolutely did swing some people in Arlington toward Youngkin. Multiply that across all of N. Virginia (where all the districts followed the same crappy model) and that's absolutely a difference maker in an election with a 2% margin of victory.

And I'm not spiteful, I'm sad. And I fear stupid one-party Arlington will not learn from its errors. It would help for APS to acknowledge that it was too conservative in its response to the pandemic last year, but I'm not holding my breath.

The country’s dumbest “smart” county.

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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.

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.

"Get over" the election because APS decisions about the pandemic last year did not elect Youngkin.

"Get over" the spite so you can focus on actual change you want to see in APS moving forward. Definitely push for reading & math remediation. Definitely push for things that will move us in the right direction.

Redirect that anger towards positive change.

But APE can't. They are stuck in a loop. Positive change is not their thing. APE is currently attacking the poor VLP kids.

But that didn't go how they wanted over on AEM this week.

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It was HILARIOUS watching the NAACP lady smack down APEr CG.

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Anonymous wrote:But why be proud that the creator is an endorser? What is its reputation? Is it essentially just a bunch of entitled N Arlington parents?

No… while there are nuts, there’s representation from all over the county. Most seem to be “central Arl” like ATS, ashlawn, glebe, old McKinley, but there are Many parents from Drew and Fleet too. Frankly, I live in N Arl and see more of my neighbors post on APE.

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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.

Too late for that. Last time I checked, every school board member we had was selected in a partisan democratic primary, despite school boards being nominally non-partisan in the state of VA

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Anonymous wrote:APS' "stay closed forever" approach last year absolutely did swing some people in Arlington toward Youngkin. Multiply that across all of N. Virginia (where all the districts followed the same crappy model) and that's absolutely a difference maker in an election with a 2% margin of victory.

And I'm not spiteful, I'm sad. And I fear stupid one-party Arlington will not learn from its errors. It would help for APS to acknowledge that it was too conservative in its response to the pandemic last year, but I'm not holding my breath.

Of course not. Masking, openings, closings, these things became immediately polarized. Wearing a mask (or not!), insisting on closures (or openings!) these are all symbolic of ones political tribe. It’s why you see middle aged white moms wearing masks outside with no one within a hundred yards of them, or in a car with the windows rolled up. It’s not about COVID. It’s just a signal to others: “I’m a good white person/democrat, not a crazy Trumpy antimasker”. Like a yard sign, these kind of policies sound like armchair public health role playing, but really it’s just partisanship.

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Arlington has had a very weird pandemic.

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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.

Too late for that. Last time I checked, every school board member we had was selected in a partisan democratic primary, despite school boards being nominally non-partisan in the state of VA

They are hyper local issues and not related to D vs R.

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Anonymous wrote:APS' "stay closed forever" approach last year absolutely did swing some people in Arlington toward Youngkin. Multiply that across all of N. Virginia (where all the districts followed the same crappy model) and that's absolutely a difference maker in an election with a 2% margin of victory.

And I'm not spiteful, I'm sad. And I fear stupid one-party Arlington will not learn from its errors. It would help for APS to acknowledge that it was too conservative in its response to the pandemic last year, but I'm not holding my breath.

The country’s dumbest “smart” county.

I'm in APE's FB group and I've heard they've been getting interview requests from all over the world since the election on the school closing issue and how it was fundamental in the election, including from the New York Times. The UK's version of the WSJ even had an article with them in it this weekend about this topic.
https://www.ft.com/content/1ee19c87-7f3d-417b-8b21-a3c68517c835

Meanwhile, Smart Restart and the whackos in AEM are still in denial.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:APS' "stay closed forever" approach last year absolutely did swing some people in Arlington toward Youngkin. Multiply that across all of N. Virginia (where all the districts followed the same crappy model) and that's absolutely a difference maker in an election with a 2% margin of victory.

And I'm not spiteful, I'm sad. And I fear stupid one-party Arlington will not learn from its errors. It would help for APS to acknowledge that it was too conservative in its response to the pandemic last year, but I'm not holding my breath.

Of course not. Masking, openings, closings, these things became immediately polarized. Wearing a mask (or not!), insisting on closures (or openings!) these are all symbolic of ones political tribe. It’s why you see middle aged white moms wearing masks outside with no one within a hundred yards of them, or in a car with the windows rolled up. It’s not about COVID. It’s just a signal to others: “I’m a good white person/democrat, not a crazy Trumpy antimasker”. Like a yard sign, these kind of policies sound like armchair public health role playing, but really it’s just partisanship.

Yeah, nobody wears a mask just because they don't want to catch or pass-along a disease.
Everybody isn't making a statement when they do or don't wear a mask. Other people, like you, turn every individual's choices and values and beliefs into a political statement and judge.
I'm not making a statement when I go somewhere without my mask because I forgot to bring it. And I'm not making a political statement when I wear one in a store where it's optional.

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Anonymous wrote:APS' "stay closed forever" approach last year absolutely did swing some people in Arlington toward Youngkin. Multiply that across all of N. Virginia (where all the districts followed the same crappy model) and that's absolutely a difference maker in an election with a 2% margin of victory.

And I'm not spiteful, I'm sad. And I fear stupid one-party Arlington will not learn from its errors. It would help for APS to acknowledge that it was too conservative in its response to the pandemic last year, but I'm not holding my breath.

The country’s dumbest “smart” county.

I'm in APE's FB group and I've heard they've been getting interview requests from all over the world since the election on the school closing issue and how it was fundamental in the election, including from the New York Times. The UK's version of the WSJ even had an article with them in it this weekend about this topic.
https://www.ft.com/content/1ee19c87-7f3d-417b-8b21-a3c68517c835

Meanwhile, Smart Restart and the whackos in AEM are still in denial.

Thanks for confirming that APE is Republican/right wing. Not bipartisan or Dems.

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I wear a mask when inside stores, etc. because I don't want to get Covid or pass along Covid. It's a health decision, there's nothing political about it. I am high risk so I try to stay away from anyone who isn't masked indoors.

I don't wear a mask in my car, not sure how that could be a virtue signal since who's going to really notice? My spouse does sometimes, she says it's just easier to keep it on. So I imagine the people you see with masks in cars just find it easier to put it on and forget about it.

Outside it depends. If I'm in a crowd or close to someone else, I'll wear it. But usually I don't.

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Anonymous wrote:APS' "stay closed forever" approach last year absolutely did swing some people in Arlington toward Youngkin. Multiply that across all of N. Virginia (where all the districts followed the same crappy model) and that's absolutely a difference maker in an election with a 2% margin of victory.

And I'm not spiteful, I'm sad. And I fear stupid one-party Arlington will not learn from its errors. It would help for APS to acknowledge that it was too conservative in its response to the pandemic last year, but I'm not holding my breath.

The country’s dumbest “smart” county.

I'm in APE's FB group and I've heard they've been getting interview requests from all over the world since the election on the school closing issue and how it was fundamental in the election, including from the New York Times. The UK's version of the WSJ even had an article with them in it this weekend about this topic.
https://www.ft.com/content/1ee19c87-7f3d-417b-8b21-a3c68517c835

Meanwhile, Smart Restart and the whackos in AEM are still in denial.

Thanks for confirming that APE is Republican/right wing. Not bipartisan or Dems.

LOL, McAuliffe won Arlington 76-23.