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I agree with you to a point. Where we differ is that I do not believe that at the end of the day we're all working for the same thing, a quality education for all children. I've attended enough Spotsylvania School Board meetings the past year and a half to know that there is a group of extremists, locally and nationwide, who are not interested in quality education for all children. They're interested in their perception of a quality eductation that is partisan, political, and most important, only for some children. They're for parents' rights, but only for some parents. Their goal is to destroy public education and to do so from the bottom up, beginning with local school boards. Those of us who have been watching the circus that takes place at almost every Spotsylvania School Board meeting have a clear picture of what's happening. What we don't have is a path to rectify the damage being done because that's been removed by this board's majority. The only thing that most of us see as saving our Spotsyvania Public Schools is November's election. If this board's majority doesn't flip in November I fear greatly for the future of our local public school division. As for Youngkin? He cares nothing for the students, families, or educators in the commonwealth. He sees the destruction of our public schools as a ticket to the White House, nothing more and nothing less.

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