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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a shame of TJ, FCPS Board, and Dem. Let's go back to the traditional valuation to focus on education instead of on politics. [/quote]

Rs have decided to make “education” a wedge issue. They DGAF about kids. They will say whatever they think will get them elected. And some idiots believed them. 
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Only an idiot will believe that republicans have anything to do with the sad state of affairs at FCPS.  But try to keep deflecting.  Voters are not fools as was apparent in the last gubernatorial election.  [/quote]

Youngkin shows us we have too many fools. Rs aren’t going to help with public education. Quite the opposite. They want to push to privatize and defund our schools. 
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Your use of “we” and “us” betrays your pomposity and an inherent sense of superiority.  If you look beyond your echo chamber, you will find that there are many who have no use for those that weaponize equity.  Youngkin won an election - by definition thag means that more people thought differently than you.  Call them fools but really the joke is on you.

Many of us are invested in education and not necessarily public education.  If the progressives take FCPS down the gutter, I am all for vouchers.  I hope it does not happen by  TV like many citizens I care for students’ welfare and big entrenched political positions.  It will be an honor to be listed as a “fool” k. Your list.  [/quote]

I strongly believe in public education. We are only as “educated” as our most vulnerable in our community.

Defunding public education to subsidize private school only for rich and/or talented kids will drive our schools into the ground and create even more inequalities. It will hurt our community.

Fools think that the GOP will help our schools. 
A-holes hope that the GOP destroy our schools. 
 
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Your beliefs are your beliefs.  They work for you.  Others use yardsticks which may be very different from your beliefs.  And democracy has a way of working out who prevails. You can rant and call people names (very Trump-like ironically) but it does not really matter.

Good public education is the best alternative.  But in a democracy, we should always have alternatives.  Bad public education - and I hope FCPS is not headed that way - implies we trigger those alternatives.  [b]Vouchers included. [/b]

Many of us are moderates and independents.  We would like common sense reform across the board - be it guns, public education (including fixing TJ’s broken admission system).  There is no interest in partisan ideologues who don’t allow any space for compromise.  The democrats on public education are exactly there and there has already been blowback in other states (California for one).

And if you poll Asians they will probably put Education at par with guns and abortion in terms of issues that matter to them.  Whether the Asian vote moves the needle in local elections in NoVa is moot - they can absolutely impact national elections in Va. And the Democrats are losing Asian-American support with their narrative on Education issues.  
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For what amount and who has open seats? Would school be required to accept anyone, or could they choose and poach the brightest and best behaved. Most voucher systems result in crappy for profit (or non-profit with enormous administrative overhead) schools getting results that are worse than public schools. The best case scenario would be a large enough voucher to cover parochial school at the catholic tuition rate which seems more than a little problematic. [/quote]

No, that’s a terrible outcome - look at Indiana. I’m not paying for kids to go to private school while public schools suffer. [/quote]

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