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Recent Posts: Local, Virginia, and Perspective
FCTA Wonders: (1) Is it worse to not learn because gov't schools are closed, or to not learn reading, math, and 1776 history when gov't schools are open? (2) Will Va. adopt destructive and expensive green energy policies like California? (3) Can U.S. citizens' trust be restored in government, corporate, and educational institutions? (4) Will the U.S. return to equal justice under the law?

2025-03-28 (Tax) FCTA: Fairfax County Advertised Budget for FY2026 -- from Washington Times B5

2025-03-27 (Nat) FCTA: The Left's Indoctrination Conundrum, by David Swink
Big Media, the Democrat Party, and the Education Blob have work to do. They've dug themselves into a massive hole. Will they get out now or continue digging?

2025-03-24 (Nat) Axios: Top Democrats ponder party's dark, deep hole, by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen
Top Democrats tell us their party is in its deepest hole in nearly 50 years. But they carefully avoid admitting that after 16 years of wokeness (aka Obama-style Fascism), voters have plainly said NO MORE.

2025-03-16 (Sch) Daily Signal: Shocking Transgender Agenda at West Springfield HS
Leftist educators at West Springfield HS in Fairfax County are using your tax dollars to push their abortion agenda, celebrate Democrat politicians, and force transgender ideology on impressionable teenagers.

2025-03-06 (Nat) AMAC: A Reckoning for Teachers Unions, by Frederick M. Hess
During the pandemic, America's schools failed our students and families. Pandemic-era schooling was a study in putting self-serving adult interests first and the needs of students second. The political forces upending education today are a direct consequence of that ugly, instructive experience.

2025-03-05 (Nat) EdChoice: The EdChoice 2025 Friedman Index, by Ben Scafidi and Colyn Ritter
This index measures how well each state enables families to direct education funding toward the best options for their children, whether public or private. (Virginia ranks dead last.)

2025-01-21 (Sch) Fx Times: Opinions not welcome at Fx Co School Board -- letter
The School Board distributed a survey/questionnaire about teaching sex education in elementary schools. The Board always claims they want feedback, and they got it: 85% of the respondents said, "No, not a good idea." A second survey got similar results. Ignoring the surveys, they moved forward with mixed-sex-ed classes in fifth grade rather than fourth.

2025-01-13 (Wrd) UnHerd.com: Why Europe fears free speech, by Wolfgang Munchau
We all know the old joke: when a European referendum delivers the "wrong" outcome, the country votes again until they get it "right". The EU thought this would be the case after Brexit. But so far, no one's laughing. Just like in America, the elites fear the people.

2025-01-10 (SVa) Fx Times: Citizens raise concerns to county’s General Assembly delegation
This past weekend, about 80 residents including FCTA president Arthur Purves streamed into the Board Auditorium of the Fairfax County Government Center to voice their concerns to the Fairfax County delegation to the General Assembly, days before the start of the 2025 legislative session.

2025-01-07 (Nat) Brownstone: The Cost of Facebook's Now-Repudiated Censorship, by Jeffrey Tucker
While tech platforms maintained the facade of private enterprise, their synchronized actions with government agencies revealed a more troubling reality: the emergence of exactly the kind of state-corporate fusion (aka: Fascism) they were trying to prevent us from discussing.

2025-01-04 (SVa) FCTA Speaks at Pre-2025 General Assembly Public Hearing -- 2 speakers
... on schools, transportation, energy, health, election integrity

2025-01-02 (Msc) NottheBee.com: Fairfax County planning to build a COVID memorial, by Peter Heck
You might be thinking: Surely the county supervisors of the uber-wealthy and progressive Fairfax County aren't really so foolish that they're going to spend the money on a monstrosity like this?

Of Interest:
News Today: ZeroHedge, plus front pages of WaPo and Wash Times
Weekly Vid: AMAC Weekly News -- Ben Ferguson's video summaries, updated every Friday
For Wisdom: Victor Davis Hanson ... Dennis Prager ... Jeffrey A Tucker
Migrat Dat: IRS Migration Data: State-to-State, County-to-County, Virginia, Fairfax Co
Public Edu: Epoch Times: Examining Education in the United States -- a series by Alex Newman
FCPS Watch: Fairfax Schools Monitor, -- tracking the latest "wokeness" from FCPS
Good Reads: Full Text of Classics in Western Literature, by FCTA's David Swink
Edison 78s: Selected Oldies from the UCSB Gramophone Audio Archive, by FCTA's David Swink
Environmt: The History and Future of Climate Change -- video (5:31) w/transcript by Peter Temple
Poli-Toons: Mallard Fillmore -- latest political satire by Bruce Tinsley

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