Fairfax county middle school ranks dropped
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Anonymous
Parents are lit screaming for change and you boil it down to "darn trolls." What would it take for you to believe that some parents and teachers aren't happy? Bigger question - why is this hard to believe? |
Anonymous
And when they criticize “equity,” what they really mean is that public schools should only focus on kids exactly like their own. |
Anonymous
If equity is so great, why stop at academics? Let's apply the same rules to public school athletics and see how that works out. |
Anonymous
Care to expound on that? What exactly are these rules? |
Anonymous
One more week and then the pace of the threads will slow down. |
Anonymous
Game Rules for Equitable Athletics 1) Each team member will be selected at random despite interest in, knowledge of, or demonstrated success playing the game. 2) Practice is optional. 3) Any team that wins too often WILL be dismantled. |
Anonymous
Valuing literacy, math achievement, scientific inquiry, critical thinking, consistent discipline, merit focus and parental involvement is the new maga according to dcum dem trolls now. Didn't you notice? |
Anonymous
You can always tell when it's election time 
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Anonymous
Most teachers are literally screaming they are unhappy and no one cares....so it's all relevant. No one cares. I'm personally tired of hearing political BS from the trolls though. |
Anonymous
Exactly. And only their kids are entitled to certain privileges. |
Anonymous
Irrational parents don’t fix anything. They just cause more discourse and chaos. When you are ready to stop screaming we can attempt to have a real conversation. |
Anonymous
This ridiculous reply encapsulates everything about the current right-wing opposition to the board. The board’s interest in equity is in no way in opposition to any of those topics. You know what my daughter deals with on a daily basis? Math, reading, writing, social studies (mostly history). She gets pulled into another class for advanced math. It is all academics. You know what she doesn’t experience? Any of the insane crap that right-wingers imagine is going on in schools. |
Anonymous
NP. It's not hard to believe that parents and teachers are not happy. What is difficult, is to believe that the explosion in threads about declining quality of FCPS as we near elections, and the reason for it being attributed to woke SB, equity, DEI, CRT, trans athletes, and other left wing faults, is not politically motivated. What I would like is this. I would like each SB candidate to address the actual issue that teachers and parents are unhappy, and that we're failing our students. What policies would they implement, to stop the bleeding of teachers? What are they planning to do to close achievement gap? What are they planning to do, to bring scores back up? What policies would be implemented, to hold students accountable for their behavior, without penalizing POC for their skin color? When we do hear about schools in Republican run states, it's always something negative, about banning books, and other culture war issues. Banning books, or burning them, or keeping trans kids from using bathrooms of the gender they identify with, is not going to make teachers happy, it's not going to bring test scores up, it's not going to get kids with less support to achieve. So, what IS the plan if we change the composition of the SB? The problem is that no one actually talks about what they will actually do. It's always about how they're not like <insert bad guy here>. It is not helpful to the Republican cause that by and large, they cannot point to red states, or cities, or school districts with a large and diverse population like ours, where they have been successful in addressing problems. |
Anonymous
On DCUM, it is standard practice to label anyone who disagrees with you a “troll.” I do not believe many of you understand what the word “troll” means. |
Anonymous
DP. I agree. |