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Anonymous wrote:They SHOULD tighten standards. I hate Youngkin and I think his policies are awful, but our children deserve a better education.

You don’t get it. No one is arguing against better standards in itself. The problem is when schools don’t meet them, it impacts funding which makes the issue worse. And then charters and vouchers come in to save the day! He wants to undermine public education. He could give two poops about poor kids’ education.

Neither do you.

Great, then explain it.

Explain that you don’t give two poops about poor kids’ education? You explain that.

Troll.

Youngkin is MAGA trash trying to hurt our schools.

You’re trash trying to hurt everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:They SHOULD tighten standards. I hate Youngkin and I think his policies are awful, but our children deserve a better education.

You don’t get it. No one is arguing against better standards in itself. The problem is when schools don’t meet them, it impacts funding which makes the issue worse. And then charters and vouchers come in to save the day! He wants to undermine public education. He could give two poops about poor kids’ education.

Neither do you.

Great, then explain it.

Explain that you don’t give two poops about poor kids’ education? You explain that.

Troll.

Youngkin is MAGA trash trying to hurt our schools.

If het gets the gangs and blacks to stop stabbing and shooting kids I don't care.

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Anonymous wrote:They SHOULD tighten standards. I hate Youngkin and I think his policies are awful, but our children deserve a better education.

You don’t get it. No one is arguing against better standards in itself. The problem is when schools don’t meet them, it impacts funding which makes the issue worse. And then charters and vouchers come in to save the day! He wants to undermine public education. He could give two poops about poor kids’ education.

Neither do you.

Great, then explain it.

Explain that you don’t give two poops about poor kids’ education? You explain that.

Troll.

Youngkin is MAGA trash trying to hurt our schools.

Can they get worse? Serious question? What is ACPS as a larger organization doing well? (Most of the teachers and school staff are fantastic). Look at the top down grading policy they just tried to implement. Maybe if there was more scrutiny there wouldn’t be 25 admini assistants working at central office, with the superintendent’s admin assistant make $96k a year.

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Anonymous wrote:They SHOULD tighten standards. I hate Youngkin and I think his policies are awful, but our children deserve a better education.

You don’t get it. No one is arguing against better standards in itself. The problem is when schools don’t meet them, it impacts funding which makes the issue worse. And then charters and vouchers come in to save the day! He wants to undermine public education. He could give two poops about poor kids’ education.

Neither do you.

Great, then explain it.

Explain that you don’t give two poops about poor kids’ education? You explain that.

Troll.

Youngkin is MAGA trash trying to hurt our schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They SHOULD tighten standards. I hate Youngkin and I think his policies are awful, but our children deserve a better education.

You don’t get it. No one is arguing against better standards in itself. The problem is when schools don’t meet them, it impacts funding which makes the issue worse. And then charters and vouchers come in to save the day! He wants to undermine public education. He could give two poops about poor kids’ education.

Neither do you.

Great, then explain it.

Explain that you don’t give two poops about poor kids’ education? You explain that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They SHOULD tighten standards. I hate Youngkin and I think his policies are awful, but our children deserve a better education.

You don’t get it. No one is arguing against better standards in itself. The problem is when schools don’t meet them, it impacts funding which makes the issue worse. And then charters and vouchers come in to save the day! He wants to undermine public education. He could give two poops about poor kids’ education.

Neither do you.

Great, then explain it.

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Anonymous wrote:They SHOULD tighten standards. I hate Youngkin and I think his policies are awful, but our children deserve a better education.

You don’t get it. No one is arguing against better standards in itself. The problem is when schools don’t meet them, it impacts funding which makes the issue worse. And then charters and vouchers come in to save the day! He wants to undermine public education. He could give two poops about poor kids’ education.

Exactly. Defunding schools is the death knell to public schools.

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Anonymous wrote:They SHOULD tighten standards. I hate Youngkin and I think his policies are awful, but our children deserve a better education.

You don’t get it. No one is arguing against better standards in itself. The problem is when schools don’t meet them, it impacts funding which makes the issue worse. And then charters and vouchers come in to save the day! He wants to undermine public education. He could give two poops about poor kids’ education.

Neither do you.

This should have nothing to do with Youngkin or politics - ACPS is incapable of educating children, but would rather focus on Equity for All. Every person in this community should demand so much more for the $350 million it spends every year. The PP is correct about data and charter schools for the most part, but the few studies on where they are successful would lend to them being a possible solution in Alexandria, as ACPS cannot, despite funding, educate underprivileged and minority students. Charter schools could give that population a chance.

Anonymous wrote:They SHOULD tighten standards. I hate Youngkin and I think his policies are awful, but our children deserve a better education.

You don’t get it. No one is arguing against better standards in itself. The problem is when schools don’t meet them, it impacts funding which makes the issue worse. And then charters and vouchers come in to save the day! He wants to undermine public education. He could give two poops about poor kids’ education.

Anonymous wrote:He may if he's interested in ACPS at all. I would bet there are both poor and UMC parents interested in charter schools rather than the low ranked publics. Gives a nice escape mechanism for the parents and students ignored by Alexandria government.

Ah, this old chestnut. There’s no evidence—credible evidence, that is, not written by pro-charter orgs— that charter schools improve much of anything except the pockets of the orgs running the charter schools.

This post is hilarious in regards to ACPS. Jefferson Houston was literally the lowest performing school *in the entire state* .

What did the Ds do to 'improve it? They redistricted the boundaries to flood it with wealthy white kids to boost scores and give the appearance of high performing and they lowered the metrics for accreditation.

Who would willfully send their kid to a school like that?

He may if he's interested in ACPS at all. I would bet there are both poor and UMC parents interested in charter schools rather than the low ranked publics. Gives a nice escape mechanism for the parents and students ignored by Alexandria government.

They SHOULD tighten standards. I hate Youngkin and I think his policies are awful, but our children deserve a better education.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents and kids will always be the pawns in the political battles waged over public schools. The Democrats will bend over backwards to do the bidding of public school employees and the Republicans will wage holy war to demonize them. It’s all about which tactic will get the most votes; kids and families are just collateral damage.

Nope.

Democrats were managing risk with limited resources during a deadly pandemic, not trying to “get the most votes”.

The damage the Democrats did to kids’ educations due to a low-risk strategy intended to demonstrate their fidelity to the wishes of teachers’ organizations won’t soon be forgotten, no matter how much Randi Weingarten and her cronies invite us to engage in collective amnesia.

How was it Democrats’ fault what happened during the pandemic? Which Democrats specifically made the decisions you complain of?

It's useless to point out facts to PP. They are so brain-washed by the massive right wing propaganda push to make it seem like democrats and republicans are somehow both guilty of the things that republicans are doing that it's useless to point out facts. People like that absorb information from the media without actually analyzing anything or looking for facts.

Democrats didn’t want kids in school the past few years.

Thanks for demonstrating PP’s point.

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