VA Teachers: which gubernatorial candidate would be better for education (single policy opinion)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Answer to question: Youngkin would be better for education.
McAuliffe would be better for teachers' unions.

Exactly. Youngkin will let parents dictate curriculum and we need creationism back in the classroom

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Anecdotally I find people who consider themselves liberal and vote for Democratic PArty candidates talk like conservatives when it comes to their kids’ schools. Locally we can see that played out in threads about certain FCPS school boundaries. It will be fascinating to see what happens in the next few years when decisions on the new western school start coming more into focus. It will even be interesting if the decision is killed.

People live in the whitest place they can afford. Can you explain the western school and what the issues are, for those of us who don't understand the demographics of Fairfax?

Unless you consider Asian white, you are very wrong when it comes to Fairfax schools and the demographics associated with what people consider to be good schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Youngkin would ensure no matter what happens with the pandemic - schools stay open going forward.

Kids & teachers probably safer in school with McAuliffe likely continue to encourage masking.

The current Democratic trifecta already did ensure that schools stay open. And Youngkin wants to get rid of all masking.

And Youngkin is actively encouraging people from getting vaccinated. WTH?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Anecdotally I find people who consider themselves liberal and vote for Democratic PArty candidates talk like conservatives when it comes to their kids’ schools. Locally we can see that played out in threads about certain FCPS school boundaries. It will be fascinating to see what happens in the next few years when decisions on the new western school start coming more into focus. It will even be interesting if the decision is killed.

People live in the whitest place they can afford. Can you explain the western school and what the issues are, for those of us who don't understand the demographics of Fairfax?

Unless you consider Asian white, you are very wrong when it comes to Fairfax schools and the demographics associated with what people consider to be good schools.

Dp - part of the issue was ensuring apartments were excluded from the boundary of a school in a well to do school. Arguments over wealthy kids driving milesto another well to do school rather than one closer but with much higher FARMS rates. Then there’s typical bickering about where a new school could go and whether some students might have to reshuffled and possibly put into a high FARMS school(s) — never mind that these schools are also good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Answer to question: Youngkin would be better for education.
McAuliffe would be better for teachers' unions.

Exactly. Youngkin will let parents dictate curriculum and we need creationism back in the classroom

Do you have a source for this claim?

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I feel like the Democrats have added a lot to the already full plate for teachers. The math initiative puts the onus on teachers to differentiate (or at least that was the initial plan in the video I watched last spring). They added cultural competence as an evaluation area, require training in cultural competence, and in African American history. It's just training after training for teachers now - no wonder there is a staff shortage.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like the Democrats have added a lot to the already full plate for teachers. The math initiative puts the onus on teachers to differentiate (or at least that was the initial plan in the video I watched last spring). They added cultural competence as an evaluation area, require training in cultural competence, and in African American history. It's just training after training for teachers now - no wonder there is a staff shortage.

+1

And, the big question is "why?"

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Anonymous wrote:The VEA put out a candidate comparison chart, so that may give you a pretty good sense of how teachers view the election.

https://va.candidatecomparison.org/governor/?utm_source=veafund.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=topnav

Lots of pay issues. Mcauliffe on STEM https://terrymcauliffe.com/issues/stem-h/
How does any of that intersect with Qarni? Mr. how to turn the objective into the subjective. I don't see removing 5 SOL tests as a good thing. FCPS is so large it has valid longitudinal studies on prek and full day k for comparable demographic groups. Staggering diminished returns by mid elementary school.

Clearly what parents do in afterschooling has major impacts on learning to read and the followup learning to read to learn. It took the NAACP how many decades to realize why ...poor language arts instruction. Pedagogues win over the practical. If Republicans wrote that NAACP statement would they be called racist? FCPS school board used to debate the merits of using phonics with it's whole language.

50k STEM prospects annually is great but imagine the impact on worker import to the USA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Answer to question: Youngkin would be better for education.
McAuliffe would be better for teachers' unions.

Exactly. Youngkin will let parents dictate curriculum and we need creationism back in the classroom

Do you have a source for this claim?

Parents want their kids in effective reading programs, spelling in context, solid math. FCPS school board v NAACP is long overdue. https://twitter.com/SujathaHampton/status/1445551099260248067

NAACP is parents/aunts/uncles/grandparents , concerned citizens, taxpayers. Allowed to take on the BS instruction and maybe even Qarni. When principals, asst supts, supt, school board members don't even realize the students cannot read well. And why? Children's work is school. They are there all day and get homework.

[Anonymous]

Youngkin 100%. Terry is what kicked off the educational crap show we see today. We are living in the second democratic governor in a row, first being under Terry. So many of the plans and policies we see today were started under Terry. And they stink.

[Anonymous]

Republican led states have the worst public schools in the country.
Youngkin LOL NO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Answer to question: Youngkin would be better for education.
McAuliffe would be better for teachers' unions.

Exactly. Youngkin will let parents dictate curriculum and we need creationism back in the classroom

Do you have a source for this claim?

Youngkin is running adds bashing McAuliffe for saying parents shouldn't decide curriculum. Clearly that means he takes the opposing view. Time to bring the Bible back into the classroom

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The discussion would be more useful if we avoided the hyperboles about both major candidates. (There are others BTW.)

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Pp here. Look at your link. It says age 12-18. Elementary is 5-11. My view about the appropriateness of this book in elementary comports with the views of the publisher.

[Anonymous]

I am otherwise fairly liberal but support vouchers and charter schools. I will probably end up voting for McAuliffe because of other issues, but I am lot happy about it. It’s one thing to reflexively support public schools, but I do wish both candidates would be questioned on how they would react if their kids were one of 30 students crammed into a trailer, or an advanced student in a differentiated classroom who spends the year in the corner doing math worksheets while the teacher helps other students, or the quiet girl who is seated next to boys with behavioral problems whom the school refuses to discipline. All of these things happened to my kid in FCPS long before COVID. McAuliffe’s kids went to private school, and I’m pretty sure none of them ever had to deal with any of this.

(Not a teacher, but my mom was.)