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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone please summarize? If not school then what[/quote]

It was school but it wasn't vaccine mandates in school or CRT.

It was school closures and learning loss. They said McAuliffe had no plans to address the school failures and their kids academic challenges. [/quote]

His whole “parents shouldn’t have a say in schools” after a year and a half of having to literally manage their kids education at home was incredibly dismissive and tone-deaf.   And when called on it, he just doubled down.  He needed open ears and a closed mouth, not the other way around.  [/quote]

Just wondering, [b]were his kids private schools open all last year?[/b] (I voted for him but not with enthusiasm for the exact reason)[/quote]

[b]McAuliffe's kids are all adults and out of secondary school[/b]. Youngkin's were in private school and yes they were all open.[/quote]

Not true.  McAuliffe's youngest son, Peter, was a senior last year at Gonzaga College High School in DC.  My DS was in his class.  Gonzaga was virtual the 1st quarter last year.  In October 2020, they went into a hybrid mode: divided the school into thirds and 1/3 of the entire school was able to attend school in person each day, or every third day, you could go in.  The senior parents really pushed for the seniors to be able to attend school as an entire class, as opposed to the alphabetical manner they were doing.  If I remember correctly, in January, the seniors were able to go in two times, every third day.  By the last quarter, they were going in every single day.

Gonzaga had in person graduation in the church on June 6, 2021 - you could have 6 guests: 2 in the church, 2 in the theatre and 2 in the gymnasium.  The boys had an indoor "prom."  It was actually more like an indoor carnival - no dancing, but carnival games like "wack-a-mole."  They had a Baccalaureate Mass.  Terry and family sat right across from us in the church.  When we walked into the school building for the reception, he loudly declared that he didn't have to wear a mask because "weren't we all vaccinated?"   Gonzaga went on with their retreat programs and even had the boys spend the night in the school!  This all happened in Washington, DC which had some of the strictest COVID protocols around.

Why am I telling you all this?  Because I have another child who is in high school in Fairfax County.  Virginia was much more relaxed with COVID protocols.  For example, once indoor dining came back, it never was restricted again.  But my DS didn't step into school until 365 days after he left school in March 2020.  365 days.  I watched numerous school board meetings.  I wrote to my school board members, to members of the Virginia legislature beggging them to allow the students to attend school.  I signed a recall petition for one of our school board members.  I donated money to the OpenFCPS group.  But no, in person school wasn't safe!  Even now, his high school had virtual Back to School Night, outdoor Homecoming, our PTA meetings have to be virtual.  But yet, across the river, in super strict DC, the private school was doing everything it could to have as normal a school year as possible.

Yeah, so I definitely felt like Terry and the democrats are super dismissive of keeping the schools closed for in-person learning as long as they did, and still being super strict with virtual meetings, etc.[/quote]

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