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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These posts and opinion pieces do no one any good.  Good teachers are working hard, if not harder and doing their best.  What we see is students and parents not doing their part.  Today is the last day of the marking period.   My kids have been dismissed from all their classes as their work is done to allow other kids to get their outstanding work done vs. failing them like they should.  It takes parents teaming with teachers to make DL work.  Everyone expects teachers to do everything but they cannot and as a parent you are either part of the problem or solution.[/quote]

It's almost like...parents have JOBS.  That they also have to do.  To feed, clothe, and shelter children.
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Ok, so you NEED child care.  Pay or it or apply for a voucher or other low cost child care.  The school is there to educate, not for child care.  Child care has been an added bonus but not during a pandemic.  You paid for day care when your kids were 0-5, so you pay for it now.[/quote]

Disclaimer: I am a parent who emailed our school board and superintendent asking them to delay the start of hybrid school, even though I want to send my 6 year old in person because he has lost ALL motivation for DL whatsoever and it's turned into a daily struggle,  ecause I want to support our teacher's association and their safety concerns.

But at the point where you're saying parents need childcare for school aged children to help with DL, you are basically telling people to enroll in private school. Which exists to provide in person help with education, unlike day care with a desk for DL but little to no oversight of how the kids are doing. Do you really want to say that people should be leaving the public school system? What are the implications? I GET the safety issues, but saying any educational deficiencies are the fault of parents is not honest. [/quote]m

I don’t want schools to open right now (cases are too high, we missed the window in the fall) but I do not understand the argument I keep seeing that completely devalues public education. Here us a prime opportunity for people to really see and understand the value of public schools, all the things the do for families and for the community. Even people who don’t have kids are seeing how vital they are, as they watch colleagues and neighbors struggle to keep up with this.

What a great opportunity to say look what we do! Look how important we are! Let’s invest in this, not just with money but with the kind of commitment we currently devote to, say, sports teams or attracting development?

Instead I keep seeing the argument that ACTUALLY public school can easily be done from home if parents just provide all the other stuff, which is a great argument for... less money for teachers? Closing schools? Funneling money away from schools to parents?

It is so weird and counterproductive.[/quote]

Parents have heard this loud and clear. Our children can be adequately educated by Virtual VA.  Parents who want the in person small class joy of learning experience pay for private.

I love the idea of money following kids.  I’m fine with teachers teaching DL from home forever. Give me my kids per pupil allotment and I’ll add some money and get a great private in person.  FCPS teachers go to virtual VA, and everyone’s happy. Teachers don’t have to teach in person. They don’t have to deal with my whiny brat or my awful self. I won’t have to pay so god awful much to live in a good school zone. Win-win.  I’m seeing so much excitement over this concept and I love it!  Why do we fund school the way be did a century ago?  So much has changed.  We don’t have to do things the way we always did.

If there an upside to the pandemic it’s they way things have been shaken up.  I hope schools never look the same because there a better way. [/quote]

The fact that you think you're getting vouchers is just so amusing.   :lol:  There are 1 million students in the DMV and nowhere near enough private schools to take even 10% of them.

Private school applications in the area have already gone up 200% in the 2021 school year for parents who can full pay. Sorry you're just a cog in a wheel. Enjoy.[/quote]

I think I support vouchers now, and my vote supports vouchers now.  And I think there is a real demand for good privates in Fairfax county and money. So they will be here by HS.   And that should concern you because I would have never considered vouchers or private before. [/quote]

Your vote? You think you get a vote? That's cute. [/quote]

As an adult over 18 I do get to vote for people who support vouchers.   Did you take AP Gov DL or something?  Because that’s a pretty basic piece of civics. Don’t worry. My kid hasn’t learned anything either. [/quote]

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