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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you realize that parents think different things and have different opinions?  Or do you only value the ones who hear about nonsense from Tucker Carlson and scream at school boards about the assigned issues? [/quote]

You sound like Obama when he deigned to campaign for McAuliffe. Out of touch, willfully blind to what’s been happening in public schools, and ignored by the majority of voters. [/quote]

Nope,  I am a parent of 3 FCPS students who has paid close attention to the issues.  I disagree with some actions (tj admissions,calendar)  and will vote differently in 2023 but I do not agree with the book banning, anti crt bs, loss of civility, or voting for Governor based on my experience with a school board during a pandemic. It’s highly disturbing that you folks are so radicalized that you cannot understand that opinions differ among FCPS parents.

Try to watch the public comment section of the last school board meeting to see parents who support the school board and try to get out of your openfcps bubble.[/quote]

Meh.  You still want a seat at their table and think you're going to have more influence if you use your indoor voice and ask politely for their help, all as they continue to go about lowering standards, playing favorites, and neglecting their basic statutory duties and responsibilities.

That gets you nowhere with these people, who need to be held accountable or relieved of their positions. [/quote]

The leftists, especially those that subscribe to CRT, are radicals. We have to communicate with them in a manner that they understand. They will walk all over those who talk to them clamly. [/quote]
When you call people leftists because they disagree with you—you lose any credibility on communicating calmly and being anti-extremist.[/quote]

No dumbass. Not everyone who disagrees with me is a leftist. But people who push CRT, or policies rooted in CRT,[b] and make the radical argument that parents should not be involved in the education of their kids[/b], there is no doubt these are leftists. [/quote]

The quote was parents shouldn't decide what schools teach, do you disagree? If you disagree, what parents get to decide what schools teach? Surely it's not just the majority of parents because they elected the school board which already decides, so which parents get to decide what schools teach? [/quote]

Legally the most recent PP is right. Voters decide the elections that pick people who set statewide and local school standards and that's the most control we have.

However voters can decide to put into place a governor who will sign off on a bill allowing parents to pick an alternate book for one containing sexually explicit material. McAuliffe was clearly not that governor. Maybe Youngkin is. And maybe Virginia voters think parents should at least be able to do that. I can think of plenty of wonderful, valuable books that I personally think are great to read...but in college or later.[/quote]

Hopefully. I can't wait for parents to realize that they can make English classes unworkable by rejecting every book and choosing their own. I personally plan on rejecting every book when I get the power because why not?  Of course, everyone realizes how insane it would be to give parents that power so it will never happen. [/quote]

What an asinine example. Parents want to be heard and be able to influence how their kids are taught by schools. They are not asking for mob rule or individual power to veto book choices. The example you gave would be the other extreme of parental control, which no one is asking for. We are simply rejecting the extreme that McAuliffe and the leftists are pushing for: no parental control. We want something in the rational middle, a school board that responds to parents' demands instead of thinking that they know what's best and should therefore disregard what the parents want 100% of the time. [/quote]

They already are heard through the school board who they elect. The parents whose candidates lost school board election want to impose their views on the rest of the parents. Either parents get to decide and you end up with an asinine system, or the parents vote for representatives who then decide- which is the system that we have now. [/quote]

DP, but you really know how to double down on the stupid.  Small wonder you are now losing hearts and minds, and now elections.  [/quote]

Ok, so how do parents pick? It can't be collectively because we already have that. What is the mechanism for a parent, whose party can't win local elections, to decide what can be taught in schools? [/quote]

You teach your own kid critical thinking and that they will encounter people in the world who believe different things that them.  Use it as a teaching moment.  That's why I am against censorship on both side (right and left).  [/quote]

So there is no mechanism? Youngkin ran on parental control of education, now that he won asking how that control will work in practice is reasonable, but it seems like none of his supports actually has an answer [/quote]

I'm not a supporter of his.  But I'm telling you what I would do about what is being taught in schools.[/quote]

OK, if as a parent I don't like something, how do I change it? This isn't a trick question, it's literally what he ran on. [/quote]

I would run for school board myself if I didn't hate people.[/quote]

People is probably going too far. You just need to hate kids to be qualified. [/quote]

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