GOP candidates for school board laugh at kid singing national anthem at school board meeting

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Anonymous wrote:I guess we're just going to have to keep reposting this since you all have your narrative and refuse to actually acknowledge that the Fairfax GOP has no affiliation with these candidates. None.

7News reached out to the Chairman of the Fairfax County Republican Committee Steve Knotts regarding this incident:

"The 'Shadow Board' on YouTube is not run by, nor affiliated with, the Fairfax GOP. We do not condone the laughter seen on that video. It was offensive, as those involved have acknowledged. The Fairfax GOP does not yet have any endorsed candidates for next year's nonpartisan elections. Candidates are of course welcome to seek our endorsement, however, our members will not vote on those endorsements until a later date — most likely not until next year. As chairman, I am committed to a fair process for all potential 2023 endorsees. Meanwhile, our committee is focused on this year's all-important midterm elections — it is vital that we elect Karina Lipsman, Hung Cao and Jim Myles in Virginia's 8th, 10th and 11th Congressional Districts."

No affiliation? None? Well...

But 7News obtained an email from Virginia’s 11th Congressional District Republican Party which promoted Jackson’s Shadow Board YouTube channel two weeks after Jackson and Lundquist Arora laughed at the autistic student when he was singing the national anthem. "Watch the shadow school board during the school board meeting" and “They will be covering important issues in some real depth - you don’t want to miss it!” the GOP’s email said.

As of 5 p.m. on Thursday, Jackson and Lundquist Arora were still featured on the Fairfax County GOP website.

https://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-county-public-schools-shadow-board-show-youtube-autistic-student-governor-glenn-youngkin-gop-candidates-laughed-video-national-anthem-harry-jackson-stephanie-lundquist-arora-autism

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess we're just going to have to keep reposting this since you all have your narrative and refuse to actually acknowledge that the Fairfax GOP has no affiliation with these candidates. None.

7News reached out to the Chairman of the Fairfax County Republican Committee Steve Knotts regarding this incident:

"The 'Shadow Board' on YouTube is not run by, nor affiliated with, the Fairfax GOP. We do not condone the laughter seen on that video. It was offensive, as those involved have acknowledged. The Fairfax GOP does not yet have any endorsed candidates for next year's nonpartisan elections. Candidates are of course welcome to seek our endorsement, however, our members will not vote on those endorsements until a later date — most likely not until next year. As chairman, I am committed to a fair process for all potential 2023 endorsees. Meanwhile, our committee is focused on this year's all-important midterm elections — it is vital that we elect Karina Lipsman, Hung Cao and Jim Myles in Virginia's 8th, 10th and 11th Congressional Districts."

No affiliation? None? Well...

But 7News obtained an email from Virginia’s 11th Congressional District Republican Party which promoted Jackson’s Shadow Board YouTube channel two weeks after Jackson and Lundquist Arora laughed at the autistic student when he was singing the national anthem. "Watch the shadow school board during the school board meeting" and “They will be covering important issues in some real depth - you don’t want to miss it!” the GOP’s email said.

As of 5 p.m. on Thursday, Jackson and Lundquist Arora were still featured on the Fairfax County GOP website.

https://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-county-public-schools-shadow-board-show-youtube-autistic-student-governor-glenn-youngkin-gop-candidates-laughed-video-national-anthem-harry-jackson-stephanie-lundquist-arora-autism

Yea I'm not sure why people are expecting moderates to appear from the VA GOP.

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The moderates who sought endorsements from the FCDC in 2019 ended up rejected in favor of party hacks like Cohen and Frisch, or inexperienced poseurs like Omeish. They’ll have to look somewhere next year if they want an endorsement, or run as independents.

[Anonymous]

I wish this wasn’t such a political thing. I want parents and educators filling this role. Not political cronies that see this role as a stepping stone for their respective parties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish this wasn’t such a political thing. I want parents and educators filling this role. Not political cronies that see this role as a stepping stone for their respective parties.

I guess we could go back to the appointed school boards like we used to have.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish this wasn’t such a political thing. I want parents and educators filling this role. Not political cronies that see this role as a stepping stone for their respective parties.

I guess we could go back to the appointed school boards like we used to have.

Of course you’d have to look at who is making the appointments, but the members might be less overtly political. This current school board is terrible.

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Anonymous wrote:Can't we get some "normal" candidates who don't aspire to higher office? I feel like my baseline is so low: believes schools should be open and doesn't mock the disabled.

The schools have been open a long time now. There were varying views at the time on how to handle the pandemic and anyone who expressed that there was certainty was wrong.

I don't think issues around opening or not are relevant now. I want to know how the SB will help handle the teacher and principal shortage, ensure that teaching candidates hired through alternative means have the kinds of support that will make them excellent teachers (maybe partnering with GMU rather than just having all internal support?), ensure strong equitable education across the schools, resist calls to ban books/teach history but also honor the diverse parent perspectives that make up this school district through workable solutions.

The decision to keep school buildings closed for a full year, and the subsequent harm to children, will sadly be relevant for a very, very long time.

Yes, but they made that decision in an very uncertain environment, with guidance from parents and others who all had varying opinions. I was a parent who wanted virtual in Spring 2020 and thought I wanted it in Fall 2020, but started to change my mind over the course of the fall as more data came in and by winter thought we should be going back. Which is what we did. Other parents wanted virtual to continue and so they did. Not everyone in FCPS thought the same and the SB had to consider all that.

The impacts of the pandemic (whether deaths and illnesses of parents and family members, lost income, virtual schooling) are going to be with us a long time. My brother is a Catholic HS teacher in a school that never closed--in a part of the country where public schools closed for a shorter time than FCPS-- and the mental health concerns and behavioral problems in their students are through the roof. I want SB people who understand the complexity of all that students experienced, not those who are just so sure others "got it wrong" and they know how to solve it. (Especially when they also reveal themselves to be ignorant, biased, and full of hubris!)

The made a decision that, in retrospect, was very wrong and harmful. They should be held accountable.

+1 They faced a very difficult and consequential choice and they chose wrong. I'm not going to forget that come election day.

Yeah, you can't know that without understanding the counterfactual. Keeping schools open when the more dangerous early variants of COVID were running rampant might have had an even more devastating effect on the students who were forced to go to school. the adults who were forced to run the schools, and the multi-generational households that all of these people go home to every day.

It is any school or school system's most sacred duty to protect its students' safety to the fullest extent possible. And yes, this is an even more important duty than educating those students. Nearly as important is protecting their employees, especially for a public school system.

Unless you have the ability to produce a simulation that reliably confirms that close to zero additional student, staff, or family deaths would have taken place if schools had been open as fully as they've been for over a year at the beginning of the pandemic, you have no basis to make your assertion.

Be glad your kids are alive.

I am just glad I am not as paranoid and dumb as you. I have totally stopped pandering to idiots like you and when I even hear this kind of nonsense in conversation I loudly tell them the truth please get help for your severe anxiety, It’s a real problem

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GOP is gonna have to do better than this in the school board elections:

https://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-county-gop-school-board-candidates-laugh-at-student-singing-the-national-anthem-youtube-fcps-harry-jackson-stephanie-lunquist-arora-republican-school-board-shadow-board-show-coping-with-gender-fluidity

Do people not actually attend virtual meetings in their everyday work life? I assumed these two people were messaging each other and laughing at that. It happens all the time.

And if people automatically assumed they were laughing at the kid singing, then ask why was that the assumption? If the kid is such a poor singer than he/she shouldn’t have been performing. Having autism doesn’t automatically mean everyone should fawn all over them bc they showed up.

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Anonymous wrote:Can't we get some "normal" candidates who don't aspire to higher office? I feel like my baseline is so low: believes schools should be open and doesn't mock the disabled.

The schools have been open a long time now. There were varying views at the time on how to handle the pandemic and anyone who expressed that there was certainty was wrong.

I don't think issues around opening or not are relevant now. I want to know how the SB will help handle the teacher and principal shortage, ensure that teaching candidates hired through alternative means have the kinds of support that will make them excellent teachers (maybe partnering with GMU rather than just having all internal support?), ensure strong equitable education across the schools, resist calls to ban books/teach history but also honor the diverse parent perspectives that make up this school district through workable solutions.

The decision to keep school buildings closed for a full year, and the subsequent harm to children, will sadly be relevant for a very, very long time.

Yes, but they made that decision in an very uncertain environment, with guidance from parents and others who all had varying opinions. I was a parent who wanted virtual in Spring 2020 and thought I wanted it in Fall 2020, but started to change my mind over the course of the fall as more data came in and by winter thought we should be going back. Which is what we did. Other parents wanted virtual to continue and so they did. Not everyone in FCPS thought the same and the SB had to consider all that.

The impacts of the pandemic (whether deaths and illnesses of parents and family members, lost income, virtual schooling) are going to be with us a long time. My brother is a Catholic HS teacher in a school that never closed--in a part of the country where public schools closed for a shorter time than FCPS-- and the mental health concerns and behavioral problems in their students are through the roof. I want SB people who understand the complexity of all that students experienced, not those who are just so sure others "got it wrong" and they know how to solve it. (Especially when they also reveal themselves to be ignorant, biased, and full of hubris!)

The made a decision that, in retrospect, was very wrong and harmful. They should be held accountable.

+1 They faced a very difficult and consequential choice and they chose wrong. I'm not going to forget that come election day.

Yeah, you can't know that without understanding the counterfactual. Keeping schools open when the more dangerous early variants of COVID were running rampant might have had an even more devastating effect on the students who were forced to go to school. the adults who were forced to run the schools, and the multi-generational households that all of these people go home to every day.

It is any school or school system's most sacred duty to protect its students' safety to the fullest extent possible. And yes, this is an even more important duty than educating those students. Nearly as important is protecting their employees, especially for a public school system.

Unless you have the ability to produce a simulation that reliably confirms that close to zero additional student, staff, or family deaths would have taken place if schools had been open as fully as they've been for over a year at the beginning of the pandemic, you have no basis to make your assertion.

Be glad your kids are alive.

I am just glad I am not as paranoid and dumb as you. I have totally stopped pandering to idiots like you and when I even hear this kind of nonsense in conversation I loudly tell them the truth please get help for your severe anxiety, It’s a real problem

What? The PP just pointed out there’s no way to know what the alternate reality outcomes would have been, and you jump to throwing around “paranoid, dumb, severe anxiety, etc.”? I don’t think PP is the one struggling with “nonsense” here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:GOP is gonna have to do better than this in the school board elections:

https://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-county-gop-school-board-candidates-laugh-at-student-singing-the-national-anthem-youtube-fcps-harry-jackson-stephanie-lunquist-arora-republican-school-board-shadow-board-show-coping-with-gender-fluidity

Do people not actually attend virtual meetings in their everyday work life? I assumed these two people were messaging each other and laughing at that. It happens all the time.

And if people automatically assumed they were laughing at the kid singing, then ask why was that the assumption? If the kid is such a poor singer than he/she shouldn’t have been performing. Having autism doesn’t automatically mean everyone should fawn all over them bc they showed up.

Only a POS adult would laugh during a kid’s performance - especially a special needs kids. Or try to rationalize it.

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Anonymous wrote:GOP is gonna have to do better than this in the school board elections:

https://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-county-gop-school-board-candidates-laugh-at-student-singing-the-national-anthem-youtube-fcps-harry-jackson-stephanie-lunquist-arora-republican-school-board-shadow-board-show-coping-with-gender-fluidity

Do people not actually attend virtual meetings in their everyday work life? I assumed these two people were messaging each other and laughing at that. It happens all the time.

And if people automatically assumed they were laughing at the kid singing, then ask why was that the assumption? If the kid is such a poor singer than he/she shouldn’t have been performing. Having autism doesn’t automatically mean everyone should fawn all over them bc they showed up.

Your comment is very similar to Virginia SGP’s comments on a Washington Post article. People are saying Virginia SGP is in the video.

It doesn’t matter if the person was an adult or child. It doesn’t matter if they knew he was autistic. It is not ok to treat others that way. Throughout the entire video they belittle and mock others. They never stop to listen. It’s constant smart-a$$ mode and they don’t get a pass for laughing at the end.

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Anonymous wrote:Can't we get some "normal" candidates who don't aspire to higher office? I feel like my baseline is so low: believes schools should be open and doesn't mock the disabled.

The schools have been open a long time now. There were varying views at the time on how to handle the pandemic and anyone who expressed that there was certainty was wrong.

I don't think issues around opening or not are relevant now. I want to know how the SB will help handle the teacher and principal shortage, ensure that teaching candidates hired through alternative means have the kinds of support that will make them excellent teachers (maybe partnering with GMU rather than just having all internal support?), ensure strong equitable education across the schools, resist calls to ban books/teach history but also honor the diverse parent perspectives that make up this school district through workable solutions.

The decision to keep school buildings closed for a full year, and the subsequent harm to children, will sadly be relevant for a very, very long time.

Yes, but they made that decision in an very uncertain environment, with guidance from parents and others who all had varying opinions. I was a parent who wanted virtual in Spring 2020 and thought I wanted it in Fall 2020, but started to change my mind over the course of the fall as more data came in and by winter thought we should be going back. Which is what we did. Other parents wanted virtual to continue and so they did. Not everyone in FCPS thought the same and the SB had to consider all that.

The impacts of the pandemic (whether deaths and illnesses of parents and family members, lost income, virtual schooling) are going to be with us a long time. My brother is a Catholic HS teacher in a school that never closed--in a part of the country where public schools closed for a shorter time than FCPS-- and the mental health concerns and behavioral problems in their students are through the roof. I want SB people who understand the complexity of all that students experienced, not those who are just so sure others "got it wrong" and they know how to solve it. (Especially when they also reveal themselves to be ignorant, biased, and full of hubris!)

The made a decision that, in retrospect, was very wrong and harmful. They should be held accountable.

+1 They faced a very difficult and consequential choice and they chose wrong. I'm not going to forget that come election day.

Yeah, you can't know that without understanding the counterfactual. Keeping schools open when the more dangerous early variants of COVID were running rampant might have had an even more devastating effect on the students who were forced to go to school. the adults who were forced to run the schools, and the multi-generational households that all of these people go home to every day.

It is any school or school system's most sacred duty to protect its students' safety to the fullest extent possible. And yes, this is an even more important duty than educating those students. Nearly as important is protecting their employees, especially for a public school system.

Unless you have the ability to produce a simulation that reliably confirms that close to zero additional student, staff, or family deaths would have taken place if schools had been open as fully as they've been for over a year at the beginning of the pandemic, you have no basis to make your assertion.

Be glad your kids are alive.

I am just glad I am not as paranoid and dumb as you. I have totally stopped pandering to idiots like you and when I even hear this kind of nonsense in conversation I loudly tell them the truth please get help for your severe anxiety, It’s a real problem

What? The PP just pointed out there’s no way to know what the alternate reality outcomes would have been, and you jump to throwing around “paranoid, dumb, severe anxiety, etc.”? I don’t think PP is the one struggling with “nonsense” here.

What were the outcomes in areas that reopened in the fall of 2020?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:GOP is gonna have to do better than this in the school board elections:

https://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-county-gop-school-board-candidates-laugh-at-student-singing-the-national-anthem-youtube-fcps-harry-jackson-stephanie-lunquist-arora-republican-school-board-shadow-board-show-coping-with-gender-fluidity

Do people not actually attend virtual meetings in their everyday work life? I assumed these two people were messaging each other and laughing at that. It happens all the time.

And if people automatically assumed they were laughing at the kid singing, then ask why was that the assumption? If the kid is such a poor singer than he/she shouldn’t have been performing. Having autism doesn’t automatically mean everyone should fawn all over them bc they showed up.

OMG what is wrong with you!

[Anonymous]

It’s not a waste, especially if they get to the next level politically.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not a waste, especially if they get to the next level politically.

It’s a waste of their time on the School Board, even if some utterly incompetent, worthless hack like Karl Frisch replaces Mark Keam in the House of Delegates.