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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here are all of the VOUCHER activists that Youngkin has selected for his team:

Lindsey Burke - wants to defund public schools with a voucher plan similar to WV 
https://www.heritage.org/staff/lindsey-burke
https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/virginia-election-outcome-was-about-education-here-are-4-actions-youngkin

Kay James - mega conservative/religious and also wants school choice 
https://www.heritage.org/staff/kay-c-james
https://www.heritage.org/press/gov-elect-youngkin-appoints-heritage-foundations-kay-james-co-chairman-transition

And Nate Bailey was DeVos’ freakin’ chief of staff.
https://conferences.shrm.org/presenter/nate-bailey

You do know how that has played out in other states, right?

All of the wealthy parents will use vouchers to subsidize their private education. It will do little to support lower-income students. So the rich kids will be off to privates/religious schools while the poor kids are left behind in schools with significantly less funding. It will be a death spiral for public schools.

That is bad news for public schools. Good news for private schools.
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I’m a Democrat and I agree that we could see the beginning of a public school death spiral, but it didn’t start with Youngkin. It started when most of the schools in this state and around here stayed closed for a year, and never addressed the closures in SB meetings, didn’t talk about learning loss, cried to the Washington Post about how teachers were going to die … it made people really mad. All you need is to pick off 5-10% of voters and get them to go to the other side and you get a totally different result. This started with the people on the local SB’s in Northern VA. We faced/are facing right now an educational crisis in this area and in a lot of the US as a whole and the SB dithered about with renaming schools and doing God knows what else for a year. [/quote]

There you go. Parents making that leap from "cautious approach to handling global crisis" to "let's flush public schools down the toilet". All because they were "mad". Totally irrational.

Youngkin also can't change the SBs - they are locally elected. Also irrational. 
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