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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][THIS ^^^ at 10:42 is the problem with this board.  Someone tries to do something nice - take a big chunk of time during a bout of insomnia - and writes something that might be useful, perhaps not for the immediate poster, but to someone else reading DCUrban  or someone coming across the thread much later, while reading the archives.  Then, instead of thanking the poster, or adding any additional useful information to the debate as set up by OP, the nasties and the haters appear and start slinging mud and attempt to rip up the Poster's helpful essay by correcting grammar, spelling,  vilifying him or her, making fun of being a red-neck, etc.  Really, who wins or who benefits when you all do this?  Are you getting kicks out releasing  the anger that has welled up inside you during the weekday, so you can go and find someone smart on DCUrban moms and try to bring her down.  Do you enjoy doing this.  Is it therapeutic?

When these types of angry posts appear and people start calling each other nasty names, I simply leave such threads because I don't want to take part in nasty discussions like this.  So I am taking leave of all of you and giving up DCUrban moms for Lent :-).  Maybe ice cream too.

Also, I am not going to participate in thoughtful discussions and debates when a poster tries to hijack the theme of the thread via political screed.  The bold material above  (in case another reader doesn't know about it [I didn't - and I know the Governor - I had to look it up]) comes from a decades-old essay which the Governor allegedly wrote in 1989 while working towards his Masters Degree.  Even if McDonnell thought women in 1989 should all be SAHM (which I cannot believe he did - while he may not have binders of women,  he certainly has positioned many many women into high spots in the state,  the very act of bringing it up now to correlate with percentages of in-state v. out-of-state tuition issues is just not helpful to anyone.  Besides, even if it were true:  assume you are a 49-51 year old man -  what were you doing in 1989?  How many times did you change your major?  your philosophy of life?  your politics?   How much have you changed as a person since 1989?  And why does the press get to unearth McDonnell's thesis but Obama won't allow us to see his grades or application to Occidental College; his thesis at Columbia; at Harvard, etc., and also his wife's supposedly very angry undergraduate thesis?  To raise this minute matter in a thread about a D.C. move to VA to get into a VA school; is totally inappropriate for the topic of this board - which started out nicely as a way to help someone decide if it was worth contemplating a move to VA to take advantage of its terrific state school system.  Parents do need venues to compare notes and to get information on a tough issue (college application process) that affects the parents of all college-bound kids.  When the mud starts slinging - and in this thread  we even have political attack - the moms and dads vote with their feet and leave.

As for the allegation about that McDonnell "does not make education a priority" - HOW on earth can say that?  Do you read?  Don't you know what he is doing to promote great STEM educations (Science. Tech. Engineering and Mathematics), both at the county school level and at the VA universities?  Do you know about the STEM scholarships he is funding for women?  Do you know about the pending bill to allot another 1,000 VA seats for IS?  Do you know anything about what is really happening over here in "Hicksville"?  I do, because I know him personally and am on one of his education boards.

Further to address the issue that PP claims:  "McDonnell does not make Education a priority," for starters, lets Google  McDonnell's name and Education Priorities, Education goals, STEM, etc.  Wow, list after list, page after page, laying out McConnell initiatives in education.   https://www.google.com/search?Bob+McDonnell+STEM&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS509US509&oq=Bob+McDonnell+STEM&aqs=chrome.0.57.14203&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF. I sit on one of those education boards that McDonnell created to help improve education in Virginia - many of those boards are filled with very competent women, so again, nay nay, again, to the allegation that he thought in 1986 that moms should stay home.

And why do say " . . .[A]pparently, McDonnell only received a shallow mockery of an education himself?  Do you not thing Notre Dame is good?

So with that, I hereby sign off DCUrbanmoms for Lent.  You may now argue amongst yourselves and say what you want because I am not coming back. .  This attempt to help is a complete waste of my time.  Bye![/quote]

Good to see Governor transvaginal ultrasound, whose belief that working women are detrimental to the family, has enough time to post on DCUM. It'd be a shame if he died. In a fire.  :) [/quote]

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