Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dear Conservatives,
If you want schools to join common core, I’m a dem and I’m in.
BUT you have get rid of the rifles and enact legislation for back ground checks and have licenses for gun owners.
I don’t want to die on my job, I don’t want the kids to teach to die at school.
Frankly charter schools vs common core vs sol’s don’t matter much to me today.


Thanks,
A VA teacher

Background checks and licenses would not have prevented what happened. We need better school security.

FOUR OFFICERS TRIED TO STOP THIS KID IN TEXAS. FOUR OF THEM. HOW MUCH F'ING SECURITY DO YOU WANT AT SCHOOLS????

Clearly we need overlapping kill zones with officers manning automatic riffles from behind prepared positions

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dear Conservatives,
If you want schools to join common core, I’m a dem and I’m in.
BUT you have get rid of the rifles and enact legislation for back ground checks and have licenses for gun owners.
I don’t want to die on my job, I don’t want the kids to teach to die at school.
Frankly charter schools vs common core vs sol’s don’t matter much to me today.


Thanks,
A VA teacher

Background checks and licenses would not have prevented what happened. We need better school security.

FOUR OFFICERS TRIED TO STOP THIS KID IN TEXAS. FOUR OF THEM. HOW MUCH F'ING SECURITY DO YOU WANT AT SCHOOLS????

Anonymous wrote:
Dear Conservatives,
If you want schools to join common core, I’m a dem and I’m in.
BUT you have get rid of the rifles and enact legislation for back ground checks and have licenses for gun owners.
I don’t want to die on my job, I don’t want the kids to teach to die at school.
Frankly charter schools vs common core vs sol’s don’t matter much to me today.


Thanks,
A VA teacher



Background checks and licenses would not have prevented what happened. We need better school security.

Not true. That kid wouldn't have been allowed to buy guns on their 18th birthday if they had had to get a license first, and if the legal age for owning such a gun was 21.

Anonymous wrote:Dear Conservatives,
If you want schools to join common core, I’m a dem and I’m in.
BUT you have get rid of the rifles and enact legislation for back ground checks and have licenses for gun owners.
I don’t want to die on my job, I don’t want the kids to teach to die at school.
Frankly charter schools vs common core vs sol’s don’t matter much to me today.


Thanks,
A VA teacher

Background checks and licenses would not have prevented what happened. We need better school security.

Dear Conservatives,
If you want schools to join common core, I’m a dem and I’m in.
BUT you have get rid of the rifles and enact legislation for back ground checks and have licenses for gun owners.
I don’t want to die on my job, I don’t want the kids to teach to die at school.
Frankly charter schools vs common core vs sol’s don’t matter much to me today.


Thanks,
A VA teacher

Anonymous wrote:If you look at the report, it cites concerning data regarding the performance of public schools, like how the Virginia Board of Education lowered SOL cut scores in 2019 and 2020.

But the reactions on this board opposed to the report don't tackle any of the data - they just say "Fake News!" and "I didn't vote for him so I won't believe any piece of data from that administration unless it fits my views!" Interesting how people on the far left and far right have so much in common.

Yes, the score cut offs were lowered but I thought itwas a couple years before that even. But a lot of people don't know anything about that because they had no failing schools in the county. We lived in Alexandria and the year the cut offs were lowered, ACPS heralded it as a major achievement because Jefferson-Houston was finally accredited [with warning]. It was the first time in like 10 years that it had managed to be accredited and it had been very close to going into state receivership. I still think they should have let it. The school isn't doing much better these days either.

If you have a kid in a school that it is not overwhelming upper middle class kids, you already know that this report is true. I don't even need to read it to know kids can barely read or do math. I see it every day. Our teachers talk about it. The PTAs talk about it. It's real. It happens. Doesn't matter who sponsored the report, there are way too many kids who are not even learning the basics at their public school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a liberal democrat and I ask you: Why does this have to be a political issue? Don't we pretty much all agree that our children aren't being taught with the same academic rigor that we were taught with before No Child Left Behind? I'm sick and tired of having to try to re-teach everything to my 3rd grader and spending hundreds on tutors every month because teachers are told to spend two weeks glossing over subjects and then coming back to them a couple months later instead of spending time on teaching them in depth the first time around. In speaking with friends and family in other states, it appears their children are much further ahead than mine are in the same grade. This isn't a political issue to me, it's an academic issue - TEACH MY KIDS TO READ AND TEACH THEM TO DO MATH.

Who passed NCLB? Hmmm? Of course it’s a political issue. No Republican is going to improve anything having to do with public schools. And they don’t want to, they just want you to think they give two sh**s. They give exactly ZERO. They used Common Core in states that have it as a wedge issue, now they blather on about CRT and Covid learning loss. But they don’t have any sort of actual plan to fix it, or desire to fix it, only to distract and tile up parents for votes. The fox is in charge of the hen house.

NCLB was a bipartisan measure. It passed 87-10 in the Senate, and 381-41 in the House. Ted Kennedy introduced it in the Senate and voted for the final bill. Interestingly, the law that repealed most of NCLB also passed with broad bipartisan majorities in 2015. Complain all you want about the GOP, but NCLB was a bipartisan mania.

Anonymous wrote:I am a liberal democrat and I ask you: Why does this have to be a political issue? Don't we pretty much all agree that our children aren't being taught with the same academic rigor that we were taught with before No Child Left Behind? I'm sick and tired of having to try to re-teach everything to my 3rd grader and spending hundreds on tutors every month because teachers are told to spend two weeks glossing over subjects and then coming back to them a couple months later instead of spending time on teaching them in depth the first time around. In speaking with friends and family in other states, it appears their children are much further ahead than mine are in the same grade. This isn't a political issue to me, it's an academic issue - TEACH MY KIDS TO READ AND TEACH THEM TO DO MATH.

Who passed NCLB? Hmmm? Of course it’s a political issue. No Republican is going to improve anything having to do with public schools. And they don’t want to, they just want you to think they give two sh**s. They give exactly ZERO. They used Common Core in states that have it as a wedge issue, now they blather on about CRT and Covid learning loss. But they don’t have any sort of actual plan to fix it, or desire to fix it, only to distract and tile up parents for votes. The fox is in charge of the hen house.

I am a liberal democrat and I ask you: Why does this have to be a political issue? Don't we pretty much all agree that our children aren't being taught with the same academic rigor that we were taught with before No Child Left Behind? I'm sick and tired of having to try to re-teach everything to my 3rd grader and spending hundreds on tutors every month because teachers are told to spend two weeks glossing over subjects and then coming back to them a couple months later instead of spending time on teaching them in depth the first time around. In speaking with friends and family in other states, it appears their children are much further ahead than mine are in the same grade. This isn't a political issue to me, it's an academic issue - TEACH MY KIDS TO READ AND TEACH THEM TO DO MATH.

Anonymous wrote:


I smell troll. Do you honestly think that Common Core is going to result in better writing instruction? Show me the proof that Common Core emphasizes writing instruction. I'll wait.



+1- I think it is time we get a troll emoji on the emoticons list so we can call them out easily. This post is very trolly

How is the above post trolly?

Anonymous wrote:

I don't like the current governor, but I sure hope that he LISTENS to the parents he wooed and switches VA from their stupid standards to Common Core so we can get our kids caught up. My kid's last two teachers have been FCPS high school graduates and George Mason University teaching graduates and neither of them could write with proper grammar. It was embarrassing.

I smell troll. Do you honestly think that Common Core is going to result in better writing instruction? Show me the proof that Common Core emphasizes writing instruction. I'll wait.

+1- I think it is time we get a troll emoji on the emoticons list so we can call them out easily. This post is very trolly

Anonymous wrote:Um, weren't Republicans the ones that were most strongly against going with Common Core?

Yes. It’s all hand-waving BS to distract from the man behind the curtain. They don’t want to switch to CC, or anything else. They want to use tax dollars to open a bunch of new private charter schools and Christian Academies. They want to dismantle public education, pure and simple.

I don't like the current governor, but I sure hope that he LISTENS to the parents he wooed and switches VA from their stupid standards to Common Core so we can get our kids caught up. My kid's last two teachers have been FCPS high school graduates and George Mason University teaching graduates and neither of them could write with proper grammar. It was embarrassing.

I smell troll. Do you honestly think that Common Core is going to result in better writing instruction? Show me the proof that Common Core emphasizes writing instruction. I'll wait.

I don't like the current governor, but I sure hope that he LISTENS to the parents he wooed and switches VA from their stupid standards to Common Core so we can get our kids caught up. My kid's last two teachers have been FCPS high school graduates and George Mason University teaching graduates and neither of them could write with proper grammar. It was embarrassing.

Um, weren't Republicans the ones that were most strongly against going with Common Core?