{"1":{"name":"Your Name","value":"Michele Leffler","id":1,"type":"name","first":"Michele","middle":"","last":"Leffler"},"3":{"name":"Email Address","value":"Mherseyleffler@gmail.com","id":3,"type":"email"},"2":{"name":"Phone","value":"+17033275330","id":2,"type":"phone"},"5":{"name":"I am a:","value":"Other","value_raw":"Other","id":5,"type":"checkbox"},"6":{"name":"School division:","value":"Loudoun County Public Schools","id":6,"type":"text"},"4":{"name":"Message","value":"As a member of Military Children Education Coalition as well as Disabled American Veterans and a member of LCPS Equity Committee, I would like to know how many Virginia schools are closed to observe the federal holiday \"Veterans Day\".  I am also a Virginia Woman Veteran and served as a Navy yeoman for 10 years.  \r\n\r\nRecently I was asked to be on the Women Veterans Committee for Virginia and will be coordinating efforts with the governor and legislators about civil rights for female, minority, and disabled veterans in Virginia.  What uniform standards does VSBA offer to support military children and families throughout the commonwealth?  What does the public school system do to support veterans that work for them as well as their children?\r\n\r\nOn Tuesday our school board will be voting on Veterans Day and 2 school board members have politicized the staff request of adding Veterans Day to the student calendar.  I would like to see how many other school districts are doing this as well.  What do we do about schools that do nothing on Veterans Day?  That happens too.  This seems to be a civil rights issue of public school employees whose employers are not respecting their service and discriminating against their veteran-status in defiance of the equal opportunity employer policies.\r\n\r\nI look forward to your prompt reply.  Thank you.  And by the way -- both of my elementary school aged children did not pass their SOLs and will not retake them.  This has happened to many in LCPS and most of us are not going to have our children stress out to retake the SOLs.  Both of my daughters received a 388 on their Math SOL and in secondary schools 350 was passing, but the elementary SOL scores were not modified due to Covid and that is inequitable too.  It has placed a burden on the parents to know what to do, and since the school system has already failed our children repeatedly by politicizing Covid school closures and prioritizing teacher unions that didn't want to return to the classroom, our children did not do well on their SOLs.  Now there is proof that VDOE and LCPS has not acted in good faith towards our children.  Elementary SOL scores should have been modified the way that secondary SOL scores were.  Now many elementary school students did not pass their SOLs and there is a record of that.  I feel that was a significant failure on VSBA's obligation to the students.","id":4,"type":"textarea"}}