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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you don't like how your public school is run, why can't you just send your kids to private schools? Are you poor?[/quote]

To date, I'm still OK with APS public schools, but I live in a nice area and our schools are close and pretty well rated.  But we know we will never get financial aid for our kids, so we are super-funding our VA529 accounts to give each kid about $400K for college and graduate school.  I teach them my morals and they let me know when their teachers are indoctrinating them with politics, they recognize it, keep quiet, and appreciate hearing a different point of view (but usually not well thought out).  For example when a former Swanson teacher (now elsewhere but with APS) was very pro-Obama and played his political ads in the classroom or had the kids debate why the electoral college was racist.  The teacher never once mentioned that it was an agreement between the states to protect small states' rights - my kid realized that was pretty bad.  That is the main reason for the electoral college, and the teacher never brought it up as an explanation.  We supplement with tutors as needed.  We like most parents, just not the overly progressive ones (people don't know our politics,) who wear theirs on their sleeve or their very active virtue-signaling yard sign.[/quote]

Yeah, there is an insane amount of political bias in our schools.  I’m fine with it if they teach opposing viewpoints, but it is very heavily skewed in one direction.

Last year, our school didn’t have enough time to cover the entire Algebra curriculum due to virtual learning.  I think they did about 70% of the material.  Yet, somehow, they managed to fit in lessons that discussed the ‘Guiding Principles of BLM’ and they read Stamped by Kendi.  
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Algebra and (I presume) English are two different classes, so how does this equivocate?  Unless you wanted your child's English teacher to somehow cede class time to the Math teacher?[/quote]

They didn’t read Stamped in English.  Rather, they read it during an open period that is supposed to be for kids to get help in additional subjects that they need.  Instead of reading Kendi, the time would have been MUCH better spent having kids get help in the actual subjects that they needed.

So, yes.  Reading Kendi meant that the kids didn’t used that time to get help in Algebra or Science or whatever subject.

If the school system tells me that my kid didn’t get a year of Algebra because they didn’t have enough ‘instructional time’ to cover the material due to Virual Learning (imposed by the Dems), then I find it strange that they had enough ‘instructional time’ to hold lessons on BLM principles and reading Stamped.  
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