Places to Sign Recall Petitions - Tholen/Omeish/Cohen

[Anonymous]

Tholen’s failure to secure meaningful funding for MHS won’t be the only thing that will hurt the Democrats in the 2023 Dranesville SB/BOS elections, but it will be up there. It’s been a problem for over a decade under the Democrats who control the SB, she ran campaigning to make an addition at MHS a priority, and she’s failed. MHS families weren’t the primary ones behind her recall petition, but we want her replaced next year.

[Anonymous]

If Elaine gets McLean on the que and focuses her attention on quality academics, I actually probably would vote for her.

I didn’t last time but actions count with me, including fixing past mistakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Elaine gets McLean on the que and focuses her attention on quality academics, I actually probably would vote for her.

I didn’t last time but actions count with me, including fixing past mistakes.

It's not enough for me. She needs to come to the community and explain convincingly why it's OK to build additions at other, less crowded high schools outside the queue, but McLean is supposed to wait for a new queue to emerge. It will take years for them to generate a new queue and who knows what the actual schedule would be. Instead, all we get from her is weak action and lame excuses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Elaine gets McLean on the que and focuses her attention on quality academics, I actually probably would vote for her.

I didn’t last time but actions count with me, including fixing past mistakes.

No one on the SB seems to focus their attention on academics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Elaine gets McLean on the que and focuses her attention on quality academics, I actually probably would vote for her.

I didn’t last time but actions count with me, including fixing past mistakes.

No one on the SB seems to focus their attention on academics.

It’s frustrating to see the likes of the FCPS school board deliver state government to the Republicans. The Rs will do as much as they can to privatize public education, which could wreak further havoc on the public schools, but then the lack of attention to the basics (academics, facilities, civics) by people like Tholen and her ilk is what helped Youngkin cut into the margins in NoVa and win. What a shame the Democrats on the SB haven’t managed to do the simple jobs they were elected to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Elaine gets McLean on the que and focuses her attention on quality academics, I actually probably would vote for her.

I didn’t last time but actions count with me, including fixing past mistakes.

It's not enough for me. She needs to come to the community and explain convincingly why it's OK to build additions at other, less crowded high schools outside the queue, but McLean is supposed to wait for a new queue to emerge. It will take years for them to generate a new queue and who knows what the actual schedule would be. Instead, all we get from her is weak action and lame excuses.

I’m not here to change your mind, I’m not invested in a second term.

I do hope you will get on board to help McLean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Elaine gets McLean on the que and focuses her attention on quality academics, I actually probably would vote for her.

I didn’t last time but actions count with me, including fixing past mistakes.

No one on the SB seems to focus their attention on academics.

It’s frustrating to see the likes of the FCPS school board deliver state government to the Republicans. The Rs will do as much as they can to privatize public education, which could wreak further havoc on the public schools, but then the lack of attention to the basics (academics, facilities, civics) by people like Tholen and her ilk is what helped Youngkin cut into the margins in NoVa and win. What a shame the Democrats on the SB haven’t managed to do the simple jobs they were elected to do.

Well I am sure the Republicans appreciate all the help they got from Fairfax and Loudoun Democrat-run school boards.

They sure as hell were celebrating after Youngkin won.

[Anonymous]

It’s frustrating to see the likes of the FCPS school board deliver state government to the Republicans. The Rs will do as much as they can to privatize public education, which could wreak further havoc on the public schools, but then the lack of attention to the basics (academics, facilities, civics) by people like Tholen and her ilk is what helped Youngkin cut into the margins in NoVa and win. What a shame the Democrats on the SB haven’t managed to do the simple jobs they were elected to do.


Well I am sure the Republicans appreciate all the help they got from Fairfax and Loudoun Democrat-run school boards.

They sure as hell were celebrating after Youngkin won.

I attended all public schools--state university for undergrad and a university in a different state for grad school.
I taught in public schools.
My kids graduated from public schools.
My DH is a product of public schools. His mom worked in public schools.
I never wanted or thought i would consider private schools for my kids.

I hope that public schools will once again turn into places where the emphasis is on the students and academics--and not as social petri dishes.
This School Board encourages me to consider that private schools are a better route.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

It’s frustrating to see the likes of the FCPS school board deliver state government to the Republicans. The Rs will do as much as they can to privatize public education, which could wreak further havoc on the public schools, but then the lack of attention to the basics (academics, facilities, civics) by people like Tholen and her ilk is what helped Youngkin cut into the margins in NoVa and win. What a shame the Democrats on the SB haven’t managed to do the simple jobs they were elected to do.


Well I am sure the Republicans appreciate all the help they got from Fairfax and Loudoun Democrat-run school boards.

They sure as hell were celebrating after Youngkin won.

I attended all public schools--state university for undergrad and a university in a different state for grad school.
I taught in public schools.
My kids graduated from public schools.
My DH is a product of public schools. His mom worked in public schools.
I never wanted or thought i would consider private schools for my kids.

I hope that public schools will once again turn into places where the emphasis is on the students and academics--and not as social petri dishes.
This School Board encourages me to consider that private schools are a better route.

The school board is a mix of freaks and flakes. Tholen may be more of a flake than a freak but FCPS is still going down the toilet.

[Anonymous]

According to the boards social media their greatest accomplishment is adding religious holidays to our public school calendar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Elaine gets McLean on the que and focuses her attention on quality academics, I actually probably would vote for her.

I didn’t last time but actions count with me, including fixing past mistakes.

It's not enough for me. She needs to come to the community and explain convincingly why it's OK to build additions at other, less crowded high schools outside the queue, but McLean is supposed to wait for a new queue to emerge. It will take years for them to generate a new queue and who knows what the actual schedule would be. Instead, all we get from her is weak action and lame excuses.

I’m not here to change your mind, I’m not invested in a second term.

I do hope you will get on board to help McLean.

I hope MHS gets what it needs -- thinking back to the 'info sessions' held at MHS and LHS in December 2019, we had a lot of people at each meeting, all whom were motivated to do something and all whom had a stake in helping MHS. What a shame it was that FCPS divided the room and turned us against each other.

[Anonymous]

So don’t let them.

An expanded McLean means the school community gets to stay together comfortably.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Elaine gets McLean on the que and focuses her attention on quality academics, I actually probably would vote for her.

I didn’t last time but actions count with me, including fixing past mistakes.

No one on the SB seems to focus their attention on academics.

It’s frustrating to see the likes of the FCPS school board deliver state government to the Republicans. The Rs will do as much as they can to privatize public education, which could wreak further havoc on the public schools, but then the lack of attention to the basics (academics, facilities, civics) by people like Tholen and her ilk is what helped Youngkin cut into the margins in NoVa and win. What a shame the Democrats on the SB haven’t managed to do the simple jobs they were elected to do.

You say that Rs are going to ruin schools, but when Rs ran the entire government, we had great schools and sensible policies focues on academics.

When we had a split government (D governor/R legislators) we had gread schools and sensible policies focused on education.


When we had a government run entirely by dems, we got segregation and JIm Crow.

We now have a government entirely run by dems and we have chaotic schools focused on everything except for education.

I suggest giving the R government a chance.

If history is any indication, the worst government for education in Virginia is one run entirely by dems.

The best governments for education in Virginia is a republican government or a government split between parties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

It’s frustrating to see the likes of the FCPS school board deliver state government to the Republicans. The Rs will do as much as they can to privatize public education, which could wreak further havoc on the public schools, but then the lack of attention to the basics (academics, facilities, civics) by people like Tholen and her ilk is what helped Youngkin cut into the margins in NoVa and win. What a shame the Democrats on the SB haven’t managed to do the simple jobs they were elected to do.


Well I am sure the Republicans appreciate all the help they got from Fairfax and Loudoun Democrat-run school boards.

They sure as hell were celebrating after Youngkin won.

I attended all public schools--state university for undergrad and a university in a different state for grad school.
I taught in public schools.
My kids graduated from public schools.
My DH is a product of public schools. His mom worked in public schools.
I never wanted or thought i would consider private schools for my kids.

I hope that public schools will once again turn into places where the emphasis is on the students and academics--and not as social petri dishes.
This School Board encourages me to consider that private schools are a better route.

I went public k-12 and had no reason to think I would regret putting my kids in FCPS. I wish I had insisted on private for Fall 2020 but mu kid trusted FCPS (I did too) when they promised kids could go two days a week and it was a disaster when they yanked the rug out from under him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So don’t let them.

An expanded McLean means the school community gets to stay together comfortably.

You are so wrong: the McLean "Community" was already ripped apart through the boundary change. Elaine, mcspaces, and McLean parents kicked kids out of the "Community." Please acknowledge that.