Virginia is
an interesting educational and political study in how to destroy a formerly
well-off state with tolerance and multi-culturalism dictated by politicians
from Richmond and Washington, D.C. It is a microcosm of the civilization
suicide that is taking place in Europe.
Virginia is
not very far behind the Seattle School District that sent a letter recently to
teachers asking them to bless Muslim students in Arabic during Ramadan. Virginia
obsesses over accommodating those who will not give an inch in their quest to
be a specially protected class.
The Guardian
wrote that “Virginia students learn in trailers while the state offers Amazon
huge tax breaks.” And the unhappy teachers went on strike in January 2019 to
express their dissatisfaction with what they saw as low pay, $9,000 less than
the national average, while the state of Virginia was so generous to Amazon. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/27/virginia-teachers-strike-amazon-tax-breaks?CMP=share_btn_fb
The Washington Post published data from the National Education Association that
the average K-12 teacher earned $58,353 in 2016-2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/03/05/how-much-or-little-teachers-earn-state-by-state/?noredirect=on
According to
the Guardian, “more than 22,000 students in Fairfax county [the third richest
county in America] receive their education in cheaply constructed plywood trailers,
often with visible signs of green mold, like those parked next to the baseball
fields next to McClean High School.”
McClean is a
rich area in NOVA where the average homes cost over a million dollars. The property
tax base to help fund public schools is thus very large.
Quoting
school board member Ryan McElveen, the Guardian wrote, “Our staff often likes
to say that Fairfax Public schools is the largest trailer dealer on the east
coast. We own 820 trailers, more than any other entity on the entire east coast.”
Gov. Ralph Northam
proposed to increase the education budget by approximately $270 million. Teachers
objected to Northam’s proposed $750 million expenditure to lure Amazon to build
its second HQ in Virginia, while classrooms were overcrowded, necessitating the
use of trailers.
Why is there
such an overcrowding in northern Virginia’s schools? It is certainly not because Americans are
having more babies, far from it, it is because illegal aliens have so many anchor
babies that we are educating for free.
Educators
are the first to push the liberal agenda of flooding the country with illegals whose
children must be educated in their own native language, often dialects that
require financial investing in specialized translators, teachers, textbooks, classes,
and special tutoring, at the expense of American children who must learn in
trailers and make do with less.
These new illegal
arrivals must be also be fed at taxpayers’ expense and illegal families must be
sheltered in welfare housing and provided with everything they may need to
survive, including free and expensive healthcare.
Some teachers
believe that giving tax breaks to Amazon is wrong when they could teach so many
more illegal aliens’ children instead and house their families at the expense
of the Virginian taxpayers.
Local and
very vocal liberals in Fairfax county, who push for more school funding, argue
that “building new schools could actually create more jobs than bringing in
Amazon.” More schools mean more teachers and a lower teacher-to-student ratio
argues Lee Carter, a Democrat Socialist state delegate from Manassas.
Northern
Virginia (NOVA) with its progressive and corrupt political atmosphere is the
reason why the entire state of Virginia is turning socialist. Republicans barely
control the House of Delegates by only one delegate and the Senate by two
Senators.
The NOVA population
is composed mostly of federal government workers from Washington, D.C. and an
ever-growing and very large contingent of illegal and legal aliens who vote Democrat
as a block because they want to turn Virginia into the socialist paradise they’ve
fled from.
Fairfax
County Public School has adopted highly controversial curricula on sex
education, sidestepping the important role of parents to teach their own children
about human sexuality. FCPS agenda was transgenderism
and co-ed bathrooms.
The state education
budget and local property taxes fund the public schools but is the money being
used judiciously?
FCPS, with
its budget of $3 billion annually, focuses more on globalism, with graduates
who have “…attributes of Communicator, Collaborator, Ethical and Global
Citizen, Creative and Critical Thinker, and Goal-Directed and Resilient Individual.”
Next year’s
proposed budget increase of $117 million will “provide excellence and equity, hiring
more staff to teach 1,000 fewer students.” According to Arthur Purves, “FCPS has
a Chief Equity Officer but not much equity.” https://thebullelephant.com/Fairfax-county-public-schools-excellence-for-a-few/
Thank you for sharing your experiences.
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome, Bobby.
DeleteAstutely said, Ileana. We have lived in Fairfax County for 25 years. Our property tax has increased 400%! Needless to say our salary has not, specially now that we are retired. You have to be nearly destitute to qualify for any reduction in property taxes.
ReplyDeleteOur granddaughter's private school spent at least a million dollars for a large, modular trailer, which the county says can only be used for 8 years! How old do you think some of the FCPS trailers are?
Some of them look pretty old. I called to ask but nobody returned my call to comment.
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