Places to Sign Recall Petitions - Tholen/Omeish/Cohen
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Anonymous
You just described me - Life long Dem, voted for Elaine before, parent of current FCPS student, not likely to vote for a Rep, but ZERO chance Im voting for Elaine. |
Anonymous
Probably not. Ultimately a school is about the school-based administrators, and the teachers, students, and parents, not the physical plant. Sometimes that's hard to remember when you get screwed over by FCPS central administration and have a do-nothing representative like Tholen. |
Anonymous
| It's not quite right to say Tholen has done nothing. She cherry-picked some McLean single-family neighborhoods for Langley and is committed to delivering some dividers between the urinals in the boys' bathrooms by 2023. |
Anonymous
Great Falls didn't "win" - Langley received a long-awaited and much-needed renovation. I agree that McLean needs an addition, but there is no need to drag Langley into your fight. |
Anonymous
+ a million Absolutely this. Let's not forget, Great Falls (and McLean) put forth some non-status quo candidates in 2019 - and were promptly labeled "racists" because of it. And look at the outcome from that disastrous election. Will these people EVER LEARN? One might think they actually enjoy being outraged and whining all the time, instead of actually voting in a way that will change things - for the better. |
Anonymous
Um, just FYI - if you would stop voting mindlessly for Democrats all the time, perhaps you wouldn't be ridiculed. I guarantee you - if there were more Republicans on the SB right now, McLean would be getting its addition. Blame yourselves, not everyone else. |
Anonymous
DP. And perhaps if you had *listened* to what One Great Falls was saying, instead of calling them "racists" and ridiculing anyone who supported them, you'd be in a better position today. Too bad it's taken you this long to wake up. |
Anonymous
+1. The notion that Langley somehow “won” the Dranesville rights to renovation funding is also belied by the fact that the Herndon HS renovation started shortly after Langley’s. However, it is indisputable that FCPS spent far more on the Langley and Herndon renovations (well over twice as much on each) than it did on the earlier McLean renovation and that, regardless of when McLean next comes up for a full renovation, it needs a permanent addition now. And, whether it’s due to a lack of political skills or indifference to MHS, Elaine Tholen simply is not up to task of fighting for the school. |
Anonymous
| After the last two years, Elaine was pretty much unelectable. But after last week, it is a done deal - no way she'll be re-elected. |
Anonymous
To what are you referring? The approval of a CIP that does nothing for McLean HS and leaves Cooper MS with a modest addition that still puts Langley pyramid families at risk of rezoning? Her nonchalance when presented with information last week by the MCA indicating that FCPS isn’t planning appropriately for the residential growth in Tysons? |
Anonymous
I’ll never understand why the local Great Falls Republicans are more interested in screaming “I told you so” than figuring out how to be part of a coalition that wins the next election. It’s obvious so many people want Tholen replaced, but you’re more interested in making assumptions about how other people vote. A cynic might say you’re actually quite happy she’s your girl. |
Anonymous
Yes, that is what Im referring to. And that she is a liar, manipulator, flip-flopper, untrustworthy, that she speaks of out both sides of her mouth, is disingenuous, and has failed fantastically on issues that matter to me. I think we are in agreement? |
Anonymous
We all expect Great Falls to be better because….. I dunno they are just supposed to be better than everyone else? and not rub our noses in it after we turned up our noses and called them all racist. Any way, there were people in McLean trying to call attention to the issues (and one or more candidates were from McLean) but let’s pretend they don’t exist so we can focus on Great Falls. No one is stopping anyone from McLean from contacting the school board with concerns. I don’t know what the GFCA or MCA are up to these days but wouldn’t assume they aren’t doing anything. Have they posted anything to their members? |
Anonymous
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GFCA and MCA have both done and shared a lot of analysis with Tholen about future growth in the Langley pyramid and in Tysons (which feeds into McLean and Marshall).
FCPS admits its enrollment projections are based on a simplistic methodology that only takes into account new developments if the developer has broken ground, regardless of whether the county has approved the developments or paid the county proffer money. The Tysons development in particular is going to add hundreds more kids to Marshall and McLean. Tholen listens but is incredibly passive as if it’s all out of her hands. When an MCA member asked her point blank why FCPS isn’t planning now for an addition to McLean, she just smirked and talked about the 37-year renovation cycle, ignoring the other high schools like Justice or Madison where FCPS has built or is building additions outside the renovation cycle. Great Falls and McLean and the Langley/McLean pyramids have a common interest in replacing Tholen with someone who will fight for fair funding and adequate seats at their pyramid schools, whether it’s Kent Gardens ES, Cooper MS, or McLean HS. Tholen doesn’t have it in her to challenge Jeff Platenberg or other School Board members. The main point of contention between them is that, when push comes to shove, Great Falls would rather see McLean remain overcrowded than risk overcrowding Cooper or Langley to the point where others would push to move Cooper/Langley kids into the Herndon pyramid. But Herndon doesn’t have much excess capacity of its own and it’s only due to the negligence of FCPS and the School Board that the communities at times get pitted against each other. If someone can get that message out, whether Republican, Democratic, or Independent, we can get rid of ineffective School Board members like Tholen and start to make some progress. |
Anonymous
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Other board members obsessed with school demographics ( Omeish in particular but others too) would like a scenario that pushes GF into Herndon. For one, they won’t be doing anything extra for a “rich” school with an out of cycle expansion and two, they get to distribute some well off kids out of Langley.
Given their recent boundary work session it’s clear that many if not most of them still want to go “nuclear” on the boundaries and recompose school populations across the county. |