Keep Mike Webb Away from Our Schools: We Don't NEED NO Education

JUST 45 YEARS AGO, EVEN JIMMY CARTER ASKED WHY NOT THE BEST AND JUST 45 YEARS AGO THE QUESTION WAS WHY NOT DIVEST?

The rising tide raises all ships, but some say if you can't raise the bridge, lower the water, and with the 1,000 National Merit Scholarship Corporate Awards announcements, an Arlington that boasts in hashtag that Arlington Reads, it was in was not on the list of 28 Virginia municipalities that could boast of having a National Merit Scholarship Corporate Award winner, but in 2021, Fairfax County Public Schools could boast of 13, and this year the competition was actually easier because COVID-19 prevented almost half from even taking the test. And, even though over half of the 8.4 million residents of Virginia, 4.2 million exercised their duty to vote in a pandemic with a nanoparticle pathogen bigger than God that could close their churches, businesses and schools, it is a fact that every year only about 1.5 million sophomores from only 21,000 high schools even take the PSAT/NMSQT to qualify for those renewable for four years scholarship grants, which may include a stipend. Further, in Virginia, if you are just named as a finalist, and fail to receive the Scholarship, you could be qualified for the Presidential Scholarship at VCU. But to win it, ya gotta be in it.

A smaller category, the National African American, Hispanic, Indigenous or Rural & Small Town Recognition Program will provide not just an announcement to add to resume fodder, but also, on application, will open the door at some colleges, including the University of Alabama, a four year scholarship, with an annual stipend of about a thousand dollars, and a special rate on first year housing. And, Arlington Democrats vying for transparency on the achievement gap, in light of the failures in the National Merit Scholarship Corporate awards may find themselves even more embarrassed about speculating on how many of the plurality children of color school system, over 26% Latino, even gained a score to qualify for that commendation, the number of which I can't even recall that were awarded to sophomores at my "inner city" high school, on what Arlington County Board Member Matt de Ferranti, of McClean, would describe, pretty accurately, as the "mean streets," the name of the movie that earned the father of my primary school "girlfriend" to a league bigger than our small, private elite grammar school.

And, tragically, just a few years ago, the focus of the school board was equitable access to restroom and locker facilities, while they performed cosmetic repairs to schools that might better produce cosmetology school drop outs than students to boast that the went TO college at a 23% four year graduation HBCU, while actually removing the words "high standards" from the mission statement, because according, surprisingly, to the DoD employee Chairman Reid Goldstein, mission statements are just creative writing exercises, and they don't need to say "high standards" because they are already doing it.