Do Local Republicans Want to Gut or Reform FCPS?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The candidates that are running support.

1. An appropriate school calendar without as many disruptions, which are harmful to children. Fairfax County has the least amount of 5-day school weeks than any other school district in the nation.
2. The use of actual textbooks, and not laptops, in early education.
3. Allocating resources for more robust vocational education opportunities.
4. Reforming Special Education
5. Professionalizing the Principal Pipeline, and have recruitment and vetting handled by Human Relations, and not an outside firm.
6. Increase pay to teachers
7. Supporting teachers with discipline issues they encounter in the classroom

Who supports this? All these things sound good to me.
- moderate D

The candidates running at Large, in Springfield, and in Hunter Mill.

Are you trying to portray crazy Harry Jackson as a moderate?

Not voting for Harry Jackson. He retweets Asra too much and she’s plain nuts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You do know Fairfax was a pretty red county until fairly recently. Privatization of public schools sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory. Up there with flat earth and reptilians.

Storming the capital sounded like a conspiracy theory as did taking away health care for pregnant women (see Texas lawsuit) but it all happened. I’m not risking it even though I disagree with some measures currently in place from the current school board.

This makes no sense.

Unrelated court cases and historical events - that have nothing to do with FCPS, or even education for that matter - do not tend to indicate FCPS will be "privatized."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The candidates that are running support.

1. An appropriate school calendar without as many disruptions, which are harmful to children. Fairfax County has the least amount of 5-day school weeks than any other school district in the nation.
2. The use of actual textbooks, and not laptops, in early education.
3. Allocating resources for more robust vocational education opportunities.
4. Reforming Special Education
5. Professionalizing the Principal Pipeline, and have recruitment and vetting handled by Human Relations, and not an outside firm.
6. Increase pay to teachers
7. Supporting teachers with discipline issues they encounter in the classroom

Do they support banning books in school libraries or do they allow our professional librarians to make choices pursuant to the checks and balances of the current regulations?

So you support graphic novels showing sexual acts?

It doesn't matter if I, or the PP, do. What does matter is YOU not decided that for me.

As YOU and others do not get to decide to show that to my child without my permission and knowledge of said items. Not np.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The candidates that are running support.

1. An appropriate school calendar without as many disruptions, which are harmful to children. Fairfax County has the least amount of 5-day school weeks than any other school district in the nation.
2. The use of actual textbooks, and not laptops, in early education.
3. Allocating resources for more robust vocational education opportunities.
4. Reforming Special Education
5. Professionalizing the Principal Pipeline, and have recruitment and vetting handled by Human Relations, and not an outside firm.
6. Increase pay to teachers
7. Supporting teachers with discipline issues they encounter in the classroom

Do they support banning books in school libraries or do they allow our professional librarians to make choices pursuant to the checks and balances of the current regulations?

So you support graphic novels showing sexual acts?

It doesn't matter if I, or the PP, do. What does matter is YOU not decided that for me.

As YOU and others do not get to decide to show that to my child without my permission and knowledge of said items. Not np.

Why can’t you supervise your child and know what books they’re checking out if the library if you want to restrict their access to books?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The candidates that are running support.

1. An appropriate school calendar without as many disruptions, which are harmful to children. Fairfax County has the least amount of 5-day school weeks than any other school district in the nation.
2. The use of actual textbooks, and not laptops, in early education.
3. Allocating resources for more robust vocational education opportunities.
4. Reforming Special Education
5. Professionalizing the Principal Pipeline, and have recruitment and vetting handled by Human Relations, and not an outside firm.
6. Increase pay to teachers
7. Supporting teachers with discipline issues they encounter in the classroom

Do they support banning books in school libraries or do they allow our professional librarians to make choices pursuant to the checks and balances of the current regulations?

So you support graphic novels showing sexual acts?

It doesn't matter if I, or the PP, do. What does matter is YOU not decided that for me.

As YOU and others do not get to decide to show that to my child without my permission and knowledge of said items. Not np.

If you really cared about your kid, you would get off the internet and interact with her. I don’t have kids, but I teach them, and I think a lot of you suffer from the same addiction as they do - cell phone and social media addiction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The candidates that are running support.

1. An appropriate school calendar without as many disruptions, which are harmful to children. Fairfax County has the least amount of 5-day school weeks than any other school district in the nation.
2. The use of actual textbooks, and not laptops, in early education.
3. Allocating resources for more robust vocational education opportunities.
4. Reforming Special Education
5. Professionalizing the Principal Pipeline, and have recruitment and vetting handled by Human Relations, and not an outside firm.
6. Increase pay to teachers
7. Supporting teachers with discipline issues they encounter in the classroom

Do they support banning books in school libraries or do they allow our professional librarians to make choices pursuant to the checks and balances of the current regulations?

So you support graphic novels showing sexual acts?

It doesn't matter if I, or the PP, do. What does matter is YOU not decided that for me.

As YOU and others do not get to decide to show that to my child without my permission and knowledge of said items. Not np.

Why can’t you supervise your child and know what books they’re checking out if the library if you want to restrict their access to books?

Why should parents need to go to their kids school library to police whether their kids can will see graphic visual depictions of sex provided there? This is the dumbest response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The candidates that are running support.

1. An appropriate school calendar without as many disruptions, which are harmful to children. Fairfax County has the least amount of 5-day school weeks than any other school district in the nation.
2. The use of actual textbooks, and not laptops, in early education.
3. Allocating resources for more robust vocational education opportunities.
4. Reforming Special Education
5. Professionalizing the Principal Pipeline, and have recruitment and vetting handled by Human Relations, and not an outside firm.
6. Increase pay to teachers
7. Supporting teachers with discipline issues they encounter in the classroom

Do they support banning books in school libraries or do they allow our professional librarians to make choices pursuant to the checks and balances of the current regulations?

So you support graphic novels showing sexual acts?

It doesn't matter if I, or the PP, do. What does matter is YOU not decided that for me.

As YOU and others do not get to decide to show that to my child without my permission and knowledge of said items. Not np.

If you really cared about your kid, you would get off the internet and interact with her. I don’t have kids, but I teach them, and I think a lot of you suffer from the same addiction as they do - cell phone and social media addiction.

So much deflection to defend the indefensible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The candidates that are running support.

1. An appropriate school calendar without as many disruptions, which are harmful to children. Fairfax County has the least amount of 5-day school weeks than any other school district in the nation.
2. The use of actual textbooks, and not laptops, in early education.
3. Allocating resources for more robust vocational education opportunities.
4. Reforming Special Education
5. Professionalizing the Principal Pipeline, and have recruitment and vetting handled by Human Relations, and not an outside firm.
6. Increase pay to teachers
7. Supporting teachers with discipline issues they encounter in the classroom

Do they support banning books in school libraries or do they allow our professional librarians to make choices pursuant to the checks and balances of the current regulations?

So you support graphic novels showing sexual acts?

It doesn't matter if I, or the PP, do. What does matter is YOU not decided that for me.

As YOU and others do not get to decide to show that to my child without my permission and knowledge of said items. Not np.

Why can’t you supervise your child and know what books they’re checking out if the library if you want to restrict their access to books?

Why should parents need to go to their kids school library to police whether their kids can will see graphic visual depictions of sex provided there? This is the dumbest response.

Because most of us trust our librarians to choose good books for the school libraries. Those who don’t shouldn’t get to limit the rights of others but should step up and do the work to parent their own kids the way they prefer. Which, I assume, means no phones or internet for your kids because there is way more troubling content there than in any school library. Is that right, pp, do you prevent your kids from accessing the Internet?

[Anonymous]

I've never seen anyone running for FCPS school board talking about "gutting" or privatizing FCPS.

Dropping all the woke trash divisive distractions; refocusing on academics; and enforcing uniform behavior standards based on equal application of the rules to ALL students (regardless of how the statistics look at the end of the day)? Yes.

We bailed on FCPS for private school because it's out of control. But I still support reform that bring the district out of the tailspin that it's in -- both because it's the right thing to do and because it directly affects my property value.

[Anonymous]

Appoint an impartial IG to do a review every three years of FCPS:
1) student achievement
2) teacher quality
3) budget (bldg ops in particular)
4) student discipline
5) Gatehouse. Also, employees must be placed on a rota for sub duty
6) curricula (other than “pacing guides” or TPT, is there curricula anywhere?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Appoint an impartial IG to do a review every three years of FCPS:
1) student achievement
2) teacher quality
3) budget (bldg ops in particular)
4) student discipline
5) Gatehouse. Also, employees must be placed on a rota for sub duty
6) curricula (other than “pacing guides” or TPT, is there curricula anywhere?)

I've been saying that for years.

[Anonymous]

No idea what either party thinks, thought school board was not partisan…

As an independent moderate, I plan to vote against every FCPS board incumbent at the next election.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No idea what either party thinks, thought school board was not partisan…

As an independent moderate, I plan to vote against every FCPS board incumbent at the next election.

You’ll only be voting against 2 of Anderson, Frisch, Meren, Omeish, and Sizemore Heizer. If all of the at-large members were running for those seats again you could cast 4 protest votes, but Keys Gamarra is running for HOD and Sizemore Heizer is running for Braddock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The candidates that are running support.

1. An appropriate school calendar without as many disruptions, which are harmful to children. Fairfax County has the least amount of 5-day school weeks than any other school district in the nation.
2. The use of actual textbooks, and not laptops, in early education.
3. Allocating resources for more robust vocational education opportunities.
4. Reforming Special Education
5. Professionalizing the Principal Pipeline, and have recruitment and vetting handled by Human Relations, and not an outside firm.
6. Increase pay to teachers
7. Supporting teachers with discipline issues they encounter in the classroom

Do they support banning books in school libraries or do they allow our professional librarians to make choices pursuant to the checks and balances of the current regulations?

So you support graphic novels showing sexual acts?

It doesn't matter if I, or the PP, do. What does matter is YOU not decided that for me.

As YOU and others do not get to decide to show that to my child without my permission and knowledge of said items. Not np.

Why can’t you supervise your child and know what books they’re checking out if the library if you want to restrict their access to books?

Why should parents need to go to their kids school library to police whether their kids can will see graphic visual depictions of sex provided there? This is the dumbest response.

Because most of us trust our librarians to choose good books for the school libraries. Those who don’t shouldn’t get to limit the rights of others but should step up and do the work to parent their own kids the way they prefer. Which, I assume, means no phones or internet for your kids because there is way more troubling content there than in any school library. Is that right, pp, do you prevent your kids from accessing the Internet?

There's a thing called "settings" in YouTube that blocks sexually explicit content.

And there's things called "parental control" in apps. I use Verizon's and Cox Cable's.

So yes, I do block my tween from viewing sexually graphic content on the internet.

[Anonymous]

We switched to a private from FCPS where I *know* viewing of pornographic material, or even taling about porn, is not allowed.