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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’ll just end up with more assessments. Sounds great when you are a parent and not a teacher. But all of that data collection and testing ends up on the teacher and takes away from classroom instruction. And we’ll have charter schools. Which doesn’t actually improve anything. They kick out the behavior problems and kick them back to the neighborhood school. Just more taxpayer money in corporate pockets.[/quote]

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No one cares that we are teaching your kid because we assess them constantly, but that is what is happening.  
Charter schools sound good to parents who need control over the uncontrollable and need to “protect” their child from the real world, but in reality they will suck the whole system dry. [/quote]

Youngkin got elected displaying some remarkably savvy political instincts for a political newcomer.

That suggests to me that he's not really going to impose charter schools on communities against their will, so much as try and facilitate their formation where there is community support for such schools but roadblocks created by local school boards.

FCPS is just one school system among many in the state.  There may be other areas where the desire for charter schools is stronger.  Perhaps people in FCPS will look at some of the crowded, but low performing high schools like Justice and West Potomac and consider whether a charter could be particularly helpful for some students.  As far as I know, the furthest anyone ever got to opening a charter in Fairfax was an initiative by a social studies teacher at then-Stuart HS who thought a more intense program would be beneficial for some of the low-income kids at that school.  [/quote]

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