Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL, during Covid you all were convinced that teachers did nothing and that anyone could do it. Now you're complaining when the governor agrees with you and is allowing anyone to do it. Huh. Some people are never happy.

Nice straw man you've got there.

Who is "you all"? I never heard a single ACPS parent say this during COVID.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All Youngkin wants to do is destroy Virginia's schools. He's not interested in improving them. His end goal is to privatize and voucher the public schools. Just look at his policies so far. He's set up hotlines to report teachers, he's gutted the VDOE and relaxed hiring standards for teachers.

My kid's ACPS elementary class doesn't have a teacher. A schoolmate's mom is subbing, potentially for the whole school year, so I don't have a problem with relaxing hiring standards for teachers if it could get a teacher in my kid's classroom.

So you just want a babysitter, not a qualified teacher. Thanks for finally admitting it.

What does a bachelor's degree in education teach that actually "qualifies" a teacher? A bunch of Ed. D's pontificating on anti-racist school systems (a la American hiring Hutchings to "teach"), does not make one "qualified."

Alderton writing the op-ed is the perfect reflection of everything wrong with ACPS as she is the ultimate politician - why else would she chair a SB for a school system that she does not utilize, but for her own political clout? She is not in it at all for students, but it does allow her to satisfy some need for power. Disgusting.

Thank you for re-confirming that you just want a babysitter and not an actual teacher.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All Youngkin wants to do is destroy Virginia's schools. He's not interested in improving them. His end goal is to privatize and voucher the public schools. Just look at his policies so far. He's set up hotlines to report teachers, he's gutted the VDOE and relaxed hiring standards for teachers.

My kid's ACPS elementary class doesn't have a teacher. A schoolmate's mom is subbing, potentially for the whole school year, so I don't have a problem with relaxing hiring standards for teachers if it could get a teacher in my kid's classroom.

So you just want a babysitter, not a qualified teacher. Thanks for finally admitting it.

What does a bachelor's degree in education teach that actually "qualifies" a teacher? A bunch of Ed. D's pontificating on anti-racist school systems (a la American hiring Hutchings to "teach"), does not make one "qualified."

Alderton writing the op-ed is the perfect reflection of everything wrong with ACPS as she is the ultimate politician - why else would she chair a SB for a school system that she does not utilize, but for her own political clout? She is not in it at all for students, but it does allow her to satisfy some need for power. Disgusting.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All Youngkin wants to do is destroy Virginia's schools. He's not interested in improving them. His end goal is to privatize and voucher the public schools. Just look at his policies so far. He's set up hotlines to report teachers, he's gutted the VDOE and relaxed hiring standards for teachers.

My kid's ACPS elementary class doesn't have a teacher. A schoolmate's mom is subbing, potentially for the whole school year, so I don't have a problem with relaxing hiring standards for teachers if it could get a teacher in my kid's classroom.

So you just want a babysitter, not a qualified teacher. Thanks for finally admitting it.

Anonymous wrote:LOL, during Covid you all were convinced that teachers did nothing and that anyone could do it. Now you're complaining when the governor agrees with you and is allowing anyone to do it. Huh. Some people are never happy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All Youngkin wants to do is destroy Virginia's schools. He's not interested in improving them. His end goal is to privatize and voucher the public schools. Just look at his policies so far. He's set up hotlines to report teachers, he's gutted the VDOE and relaxed hiring standards for teachers.

My kid's ACPS elementary class doesn't have a teacher. A schoolmate's mom is subbing, potentially for the whole school year, so I don't have a problem with relaxing hiring standards for teachers if it could get a teacher in my kid's classroom.

Anonymous wrote:LOL, during Covid you all were convinced that teachers did nothing and that anyone could do it. Now you're complaining when the governor agrees with you and is allowing anyone to do it. Huh. Some people are never happy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All Youngkin wants to do is destroy Virginia's schools. He's not interested in improving them. His end goal is to privatize and voucher the public schools. Just look at his policies so far. He's set up hotlines to report teachers, he's gutted the VDOE and relaxed hiring standards for teachers.

My kid's ACPS elementary class doesn't have a teacher. A schoolmate's mom is subbing, potentially for the whole school year, so I don't have a problem with relaxing hiring standards for teachers if it could get a teacher in my kid's classroom.

Anonymous wrote:All Youngkin wants to do is destroy Virginia's schools. He's not interested in improving them. His end goal is to privatize and voucher the public schools. Just look at his policies so far. He's set up hotlines to report teachers, he's gutted the VDOE and relaxed hiring standards for teachers.

Anonymous wrote:https://vimeo.com/751756956/b9a34ac7b4

When this is the strategy, vice educating and learning, I think we’ve entered the realm of hopeless and unfixable. When that strategy is presented by the SB Chair who sends her kids to private school, it is clear is parents and our children are being played. It is no wonder ACPS schools will lose accreditation.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Youngkin actually wanted to help ACPS, and probably most failing schools, he'd mandate a science backed reading and math curriculum. And immediately mandate remedial reading and writing services for all of those kids "taught" to read with the terrible balanced literacy/Lucy Cawkins curriculum ACPS only recently, partially and reluctantly got rid of. But I seriously doubt he actually cares about the outcomes, so agree that he's just using this to push charters.

OR ..

ACPS could decide to do it without a mandate and actually teach reading and math. But sure, make it all Youngkin's fault. The guy who showed up a few months ago and will be gone in 3 years vs. ACPS who has known for 20+ years that kids weren't learning reading or math.

I'm the poster you're responding to and I 100% agree. ACPS could have done a million things differently, but chose not to. They've had the data showing how badly they are failing kids for years. I'm not blaming Youngkin for ACPS sucking, they earn that every day of every year all on their own. I'm just saying that if he actually wanted to make a difference, make a real change in kids lives, that would be the way to do it. Because ACPS is just not going to do it without a mandate.

I do doubt Youngkin's sincerity in improving the educational situation in Virginia. Which is why I don't think he'll take concrete steps, and instead focus on divisive social issues, which will prove to be as effective as ACPSs singular focus on talking about "equity for all", while ignoring the inequities inherent in a school system that abandons their core mission of teaching children, and instead relies on parents to teach kids to read, write, spell, etc. Only parents with resources (time or money) can make that happen.

So he will do no different than the previous Governor who similarly wasted his years and the Governor before him did as well on implementing social issues insisting that doing so would magically fix education issues. So I guess neither Democrats nor Republicans in VA care all that much about education.