FCPS Boundary Review Updates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I made the BIG effin mistake of voting for
some of these people school board people and I have major buyers remorse. I thought they would be sane, thoughtful, and fair. I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views. BUT this boundary situation is an expensive mess and I've lost complete faith in Reid's ability to handle this with care. She has made so many missteps on other matters. The school board continues to be less than transparent while spending a ton of money to appear transparent. The smart thing to do right now is to table it until we figure out how Fairfax is going to fare with all of these upcoming federal changes. Instead the FCPS leadership is hell bent on creating more chaos and uncertainty. Did they forget that actual
kids lives are at stake here? You're upending their lives in the middle of an already turbulent time for our country and county.

You get the school district you vote for. One-party rule in Fairfax County.

"I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views." That's your problem. You shouldn't be looking at the School Board elections like a political election. The job of the public schools is to run an efficient education system that focuses on educating children and leaves politics out of it. FCPS has been failing for years now.

The political hacks on the FCPS school board toss some red meat to their "I'm a Democrat" voter base, rile people up about Trump and woke political issues, the drones go and reflexively "Vote Blue" year after year for the FCPS School Board, and here we are.

We tried to warn you all as far back as 2019 during the last FCPS School Board election I paid attention to. The writing on the wall for school rezoning and bussing was clear to see to anyone who was interested. Anyone who spoke out against it was derided as a secret Trumpster intent on taking over Fairfax County lol.

We left for private school and never looked back. My property values are still tied to FCPS so I maintain a mild interest, but it's so ironic to see people talking about this issue now, six years later.

The opposition was busily discussing when Trans kids are an abomination, the candidate in my area had a truck covered with poster boards focused on Trans issues and only Trans issues and why Trans kids are bad, book banning and other such issues. When you asked them for a position on any type of educational issue, they waffled. If you want me to vote for someone who is more invested in education, run someone who is not a hate monger.

This should not be hard. But when you run a right-wing nut job whose only interest are on the fringe cases then you are not going to get my vote. I would rather vote for the person who is at least embracing treating people with kindness and inclusiveness over the fire and brimstone candidate.

I voted for moderates where I could. Run real moderates, not Mothers of Liberty who say one thing and then you do a google search and you read what they are posting and run the other way. Not the person who is openly discussing hating young people who are different than them.

The local Republican party needs to learn to read the room and run candidates that are less reactive and Evangelical, and they would win some seats. There are plenty of Independents and Moderate Democrats who are not happy with the school board, but I am not handing it over to people who actively hate other people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I made the BIG effin mistake of voting for
some of these people school board people and I have major buyers remorse. I thought they would be sane, thoughtful, and fair. I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views. BUT this boundary situation is an expensive mess and I've lost complete faith in Reid's ability to handle this with care. She has made so many missteps on other matters. The school board continues to be less than transparent while spending a ton of money to appear transparent. The smart thing to do right now is to table it until we figure out how Fairfax is going to fare with all of these upcoming federal changes. Instead the FCPS leadership is hell bent on creating more chaos and uncertainty. Did they forget that actual
kids lives are at stake here? You're upending their lives in the middle of an already turbulent time for our country and county.

You get the school district you vote for. One-party rule in Fairfax County.

"I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views." That's your problem. You shouldn't be looking at the School Board elections like a political election. The job of the public schools is to run an efficient education system that focuses on educating children and leaves politics out of it. FCPS has been failing for years now.

The political hacks on the FCPS school board toss some red meat to their "I'm a Democrat" voter base, rile people up about Trump and woke political issues, the drones go and reflexively "Vote Blue" year after year for the FCPS School Board, and here we are.

We tried to warn you all as far back as 2019 during the last FCPS School Board election I paid attention to. The writing on the wall for school rezoning and bussing was clear to see to anyone who was interested. Anyone who spoke out against it was derided as a secret Trumpster intent on taking over Fairfax County lol.

We left for private school and never looked back. My property values are still tied to FCPS so I maintain a mild interest, but it's so ironic to see people talking about this issue now, six years later.

The opposition was busily discussing when Trans kids are an abomination, the candidate in my area had a truck covered with poster boards focused on Trans issues and only Trans issues and why Trans kids are bad, book banning and other such issues. When you asked them for a position on any type of educational issue, they waffled. If you want me to vote for someone who is more invested in education, run someone who is not a hate monger.

This should not be hard. But when you run a right-wing nut job whose only interest are on the fringe cases then you are not going to get my vote. I would rather vote for the person who is at least embracing treating people with kindness and inclusiveness over the fire and brimstone candidate.

I voted for moderates where I could. Run real moderates, not Mothers of Liberty who say one thing and then you do a google search and you read what they are posting and run the other way. Not the person who is openly discussing hating young people who are different than them.

The local Republican party needs to learn to read the room and run candidates that are less reactive and Evangelical, and they would win some seats. There are plenty of Independents and Moderate Democrats who are not happy with the school board, but I am not handing it over to people who actively hate other people.

FCRC would run more reasonable people if they could find them, I think. But why run when you're just going to lose?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How are people finding out specifically what schools are up for grabs? Is if conjecture or is there info somewhere?

Conjecture. An educated guess based on the School Boards comments. I can fully see some of the border shifts that are being discussed, they fit with what the school board has laid out as their reasoning for redistricting.

But there is a lot of fear mongering with the hope that if the groups raise the alarm and FOIAing documents and pointing out how awful the school board is people will place pressure on the school board. This is coming from the same schools with the same posters. I would love to see an analysis of what percent of posters are responsible for the conversation in this topic. I suspect that a relativly small number of posters are responsible for the lions share of the posts.

Anyone who sees pros, to go along with the cons, is shouted down by the people who are violently opposed to any changes that moves their kids. There have been some good suggestions made in the topics, but they are hard to find.

I fully expect there to be large shifts in the Herndon, Centerville, Chantilly, South Lakes, Oakton, Westfield area because of the issues with over crowding and space available in some of the schools. The ES situation is problematic, and those shifts will affect MS and HS. That has been touched on a bit but for the most part the loudest voices have been the Great Falls and WSHS families.

FCPS is too big and really should be broken into smaller districts, but I doubt that is going to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I made the BIG effin mistake of voting for
some of these people school board people and I have major buyers remorse. I thought they would be sane, thoughtful, and fair. I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views. BUT this boundary situation is an expensive mess and I've lost complete faith in Reid's ability to handle this with care. She has made so many missteps on other matters. The school board continues to be less than transparent while spending a ton of money to appear transparent. The smart thing to do right now is to table it until we figure out how Fairfax is going to fare with all of these upcoming federal changes. Instead the FCPS leadership is hell bent on creating more chaos and uncertainty. Did they forget that actual
kids lives are at stake here? You're upending their lives in the middle of an already turbulent time for our country and county.

You get the school district you vote for. One-party rule in Fairfax County.

"I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views." That's your problem. You shouldn't be looking at the School Board elections like a political election. The job of the public schools is to run an efficient education system that focuses on educating children and leaves politics out of it. FCPS has been failing for years now.

The political hacks on the FCPS school board toss some red meat to their "I'm a Democrat" voter base, rile people up about Trump and woke political issues, the drones go and reflexively "Vote Blue" year after year for the FCPS School Board, and here we are.

We tried to warn you all as far back as 2019 during the last FCPS School Board election I paid attention to. The writing on the wall for school rezoning and bussing was clear to see to anyone who was interested. Anyone who spoke out against it was derided as a secret Trumpster intent on taking over Fairfax County lol.

We left for private school and never looked back. My property values are still tied to FCPS so I maintain a mild interest, but it's so ironic to see people talking about this issue now, six years later.

The opposition was busily discussing when Trans kids are an abomination, the candidate in my area had a truck covered with poster boards focused on Trans issues and only Trans issues and why Trans kids are bad, book banning and other such issues. When you asked them for a position on any type of educational issue, they waffled. If you want me to vote for someone who is more invested in education, run someone who is not a hate monger.

This should not be hard. But when you run a right-wing nut job whose only interest are on the fringe cases then you are not going to get my vote. I would rather vote for the person who is at least embracing treating people with kindness and inclusiveness over the fire and brimstone candidate.

I voted for moderates where I could. Run real moderates, not Mothers of Liberty who say one thing and then you do a google search and you read what they are posting and run the other way. Not the person who is openly discussing hating young people who are different than them.

The local Republican party needs to learn to read the room and run candidates that are less reactive and Evangelical, and they would win some seats. There are plenty of Independents and Moderate Democrats who are not happy with the school board, but I am not handing it over to people who actively hate other people.

FCRC would run more reasonable people if they could find them, I think. But why run when you're just going to lose?

Try running and you might win. Run the nut jobs and you are guarenteed to lose. I have no idea how many different people have posted but no one seems to listen. Many people are fed up with the school board but I am not voting for a MAGA candidate even if I am holding my nose to vote for their opponent. The Democrats have yet to learn that Moderates make more sense in any election, even when they lose the independents at the National and State level. I don't get it and I don't like it but I am not voting for the Mom's of Liberty or the Ban books that scare me crowd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I made the BIG effin mistake of voting for
some of these people school board people and I have major buyers remorse. I thought they would be sane, thoughtful, and fair. I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views. BUT this boundary situation is an expensive mess and I've lost complete faith in Reid's ability to handle this with care. She has made so many missteps on other matters. The school board continues to be less than transparent while spending a ton of money to appear transparent. The smart thing to do right now is to table it until we figure out how Fairfax is going to fare with all of these upcoming federal changes. Instead the FCPS leadership is hell bent on creating more chaos and uncertainty. Did they forget that actual
kids lives are at stake here? You're upending their lives in the middle of an already turbulent time for our country and county.

You get the school district you vote for. One-party rule in Fairfax County.

"I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views." That's your problem. You shouldn't be looking at the School Board elections like a political election. The job of the public schools is to run an efficient education system that focuses on educating children and leaves politics out of it. FCPS has been failing for years now.

The political hacks on the FCPS school board toss some red meat to their "I'm a Democrat" voter base, rile people up about Trump and woke political issues, the drones go and reflexively "Vote Blue" year after year for the FCPS School Board, and here we are.

We tried to warn you all as far back as 2019 during the last FCPS School Board election I paid attention to. The writing on the wall for school rezoning and bussing was clear to see to anyone who was interested. Anyone who spoke out against it was derided as a secret Trumpster intent on taking over Fairfax County lol.

We left for private school and never looked back. My property values are still tied to FCPS so I maintain a mild interest, but it's so ironic to see people talking about this issue now, six years later.

The opposition was busily discussing when Trans kids are an abomination, the candidate in my area had a truck covered with poster boards focused on Trans issues and only Trans issues and why Trans kids are bad, book banning and other such issues. When you asked them for a position on any type of educational issue, they waffled. If you want me to vote for someone who is more invested in education, run someone who is not a hate monger.

This should not be hard. But when you run a right-wing nut job whose only interest are on the fringe cases then you are not going to get my vote. I would rather vote for the person who is at least embracing treating people with kindness and inclusiveness over the fire and brimstone candidate.

I voted for moderates where I could. Run real moderates, not Mothers of Liberty who say one thing and then you do a google search and you read what they are posting and run the other way. Not the person who is openly discussing hating young people who are different than them.

The local Republican party needs to learn to read the room and run candidates that are less reactive and Evangelical, and they would win some seats. There are plenty of Independents and Moderate Democrats who are not happy with the school board, but I am not handing it over to people who actively hate other people.

FCRC would run more reasonable people if they could find them, I think. But why run when you're just going to lose?

Try running and you might win. Run the nut jobs and you are guarenteed to lose. I have no idea how many different people have posted but no one seems to listen. Many people are fed up with the school board but I am not voting for a MAGA candidate even if I am holding my nose to vote for their opponent. The Democrats have yet to learn that Moderates make more sense in any election, even when they lose the independents at the National and State level. I don't get it and I don't like it but I am not voting for the Mom's of Liberty or the Ban books that scare me crowd.

I don’t know what part of the county you’re in but the GOP-endorsed candidate in our district and some of the at-large candidates, while more conservative than their opponents, were not nut jobs.

I think a lot of people are trying to make themselves feel better about having voted for SB candidates who are now implementing policies they intensely dislike. The natural inclination is to let themselves off the hook by saying they simply voted for the lesser of two evils.

I think you have to own your decisions. You voted for one-party rule where any opposition to what the likes of Karl Frisch want to do is muted, and now they feel they have a green light to move forward with divisive and disruptive county-wide boundary changes, described back in 2018 or 2019 as the “nuclear option.” Enjoy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I made the BIG effin mistake of voting for
some of these people school board people and I have major buyers remorse. I thought they would be sane, thoughtful, and fair. I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views. BUT this boundary situation is an expensive mess and I've lost complete faith in Reid's ability to handle this with care. She has made so many missteps on other matters. The school board continues to be less than transparent while spending a ton of money to appear transparent. The smart thing to do right now is to table it until we figure out how Fairfax is going to fare with all of these upcoming federal changes. Instead the FCPS leadership is hell bent on creating more chaos and uncertainty. Did they forget that actual
kids lives are at stake here? You're upending their lives in the middle of an already turbulent time for our country and county.

You get the school district you vote for. One-party rule in Fairfax County.

"I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views." That's your problem. You shouldn't be looking at the School Board elections like a political election. The job of the public schools is to run an efficient education system that focuses on educating children and leaves politics out of it. FCPS has been failing for years now.

The political hacks on the FCPS school board toss some red meat to their "I'm a Democrat" voter base, rile people up about Trump and woke political issues, the drones go and reflexively "Vote Blue" year after year for the FCPS School Board, and here we are.

We tried to warn you all as far back as 2019 during the last FCPS School Board election I paid attention to. The writing on the wall for school rezoning and bussing was clear to see to anyone who was interested. Anyone who spoke out against it was derided as a secret Trumpster intent on taking over Fairfax County lol.

We left for private school and never looked back. My property values are still tied to FCPS so I maintain a mild interest, but it's so ironic to see people talking about this issue now, six years later.

The opposition was busily discussing when Trans kids are an abomination, the candidate in my area had a truck covered with poster boards focused on Trans issues and only Trans issues and why Trans kids are bad, book banning and other such issues. When you asked them for a position on any type of educational issue, they waffled. If you want me to vote for someone who is more invested in education, run someone who is not a hate monger.

This should not be hard. But when you run a right-wing nut job whose only interest are on the fringe cases then you are not going to get my vote. I would rather vote for the person who is at least embracing treating people with kindness and inclusiveness over the fire and brimstone candidate.

I voted for moderates where I could. Run real moderates, not Mothers of Liberty who say one thing and then you do a google search and you read what they are posting and run the other way. Not the person who is openly discussing hating young people who are different than them.

The local Republican party needs to learn to read the room and run candidates that are less reactive and Evangelical, and they would win some seats. There are plenty of Independents and Moderate Democrats who are not happy with the school board, but I am not handing it over to people who actively hate other people.

FCRC would run more reasonable people if they could find them, I think. But why run when you're just going to lose?

Try running and you might win. Run the nut jobs and you are guarenteed to lose. I have no idea how many different people have posted but no one seems to listen. Many people are fed up with the school board but I am not voting for a MAGA candidate even if I am holding my nose to vote for their opponent. The Democrats have yet to learn that Moderates make more sense in any election, even when they lose the independents at the National and State level. I don't get it and I don't like it but I am not voting for the Mom's of Liberty or the Ban books that scare me crowd.

I don’t know what part of the county you’re in but the GOP-endorsed candidate in our district and some of the at-large candidates, while more conservative than their opponents, were not nut jobs.

I think a lot of people are trying to make themselves feel better about having voted for SB candidates who are now implementing policies they intensely dislike. The natural inclination is to let themselves off the hook by saying they simply voted for the lesser of two evils.

I think you have to own your decisions. You voted for one-party rule where any opposition to what the likes of Karl Frisch want to do is muted, and now they feel they have a green light to move forward with divisive and disruptive county-wide boundary changes, described back in 2018 or 2019 as the “nuclear option.” Enjoy.

PP who said FCRC would run moderates if they can, and where I live in 2019 for example they ran an utter nut job against - of all people - Megan McLaughlin. As a conservative (PP wouldn't vote for me because I don't think asking for explicit books to be removed from MS libraries constitutes a book ban. Kids can get them in the public library or parents can purchase them if they chose), McLaughlin was definitely the superior candidate as she was about as moderate D as they come around here. But from what I heard - and I don't have time to join any county level political committees - he was just literally the only option who was willing to run.

As your experience demonstrates, where they have options they do try to chose the best ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How are people finding out specifically what schools are up for grabs? Is if conjecture or is there info somewhere?

Conjecture. An educated guess based on the School Boards comments. I can fully see some of the border shifts that are being discussed, they fit with what the school board has laid out as their reasoning for redistricting.

But there is a lot of fear mongering with the hope that if the groups raise the alarm and FOIAing documents and pointing out how awful the school board is people will place pressure on the school board. This is coming from the same schools with the same posters. I would love to see an analysis of what percent of posters are responsible for the conversation in this topic. I suspect that a relativly small number of posters are responsible for the lions share of the posts.

Anyone who sees pros, to go along with the cons, is shouted down by the people who are violently opposed to any changes that moves their kids. There have been some good suggestions made in the topics, but they are hard to find.

I fully expect there to be large shifts in the Herndon, Centerville, Chantilly, South Lakes, Oakton, Westfield area because of the issues with over crowding and space available in some of the schools. The ES situation is problematic, and those shifts will affect MS and HS. That has been touched on a bit but for the most part the loudest voices have been the Great Falls and WSHS families.

FCPS is too big and really should be broken into smaller districts, but I doubt that is going to happen.

How many boundary change proponents really stop and think about the impact that this will have on moved kids?
That the school board glosses over this repeatedly while also claiming to be all about mental health is infuriating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I made the BIG effin mistake of voting for
some of these people school board people and I have major buyers remorse. I thought they would be sane, thoughtful, and fair. I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views. BUT this boundary situation is an expensive mess and I've lost complete faith in Reid's ability to handle this with care. She has made so many missteps on other matters. The school board continues to be less than transparent while spending a ton of money to appear transparent. The smart thing to do right now is to table it until we figure out how Fairfax is going to fare with all of these upcoming federal changes. Instead the FCPS leadership is hell bent on creating more chaos and uncertainty. Did they forget that actual
kids lives are at stake here? You're upending their lives in the middle of an already turbulent time for our country and county.

You get the school district you vote for. One-party rule in Fairfax County.

"I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views." That's your problem. You shouldn't be looking at the School Board elections like a political election. The job of the public schools is to run an efficient education system that focuses on educating children and leaves politics out of it. FCPS has been failing for years now.

The political hacks on the FCPS school board toss some red meat to their "I'm a Democrat" voter base, rile people up about Trump and woke political issues, the drones go and reflexively "Vote Blue" year after year for the FCPS School Board, and here we are.

We tried to warn you all as far back as 2019 during the last FCPS School Board election I paid attention to. The writing on the wall for school rezoning and bussing was clear to see to anyone who was interested. Anyone who spoke out against it was derided as a secret Trumpster intent on taking over Fairfax County lol.

We left for private school and never looked back. My property values are still tied to FCPS so I maintain a mild interest, but it's so ironic to see people talking about this issue now, six years later.

The opposition was busily discussing when Trans kids are an abomination, the candidate in my area had a truck covered with poster boards focused on Trans issues and only Trans issues and why Trans kids are bad, book banning and other such issues. When you asked them for a position on any type of educational issue, they waffled. If you want me to vote for someone who is more invested in education, run someone who is not a hate monger.

This should not be hard. But when you run a right-wing nut job whose only interest are on the fringe cases then you are not going to get my vote. I would rather vote for the person who is at least embracing treating people with kindness and inclusiveness over the fire and brimstone candidate.

I voted for moderates where I could. Run real moderates, not Mothers of Liberty who say one thing and then you do a google search and you read what they are posting and run the other way. Not the person who is openly discussing hating young people who are different than them.

The local Republican party needs to learn to read the room and run candidates that are less reactive and Evangelical, and they would win some seats. There are plenty of Independents and Moderate Democrats who are not happy with the school board, but I am not handing it over to people who actively hate other people.

FCRC would run more reasonable people if they could find them, I think. But why run when you're just going to lose?

Try running and you might win. Run the nut jobs and you are guarenteed to lose. I have no idea how many different people have posted but no one seems to listen. Many people are fed up with the school board but I am not voting for a MAGA candidate even if I am holding my nose to vote for their opponent. The Democrats have yet to learn that Moderates make more sense in any election, even when they lose the independents at the National and State level. I don't get it and I don't like it but I am not voting for the Mom's of Liberty or the Ban books that scare me crowd.

I don’t know what part of the county you’re in but the GOP-endorsed candidate in our district and some of the at-large candidates, while more conservative than their opponents, were not nut jobs.

I think a lot of people are trying to make themselves feel better about having voted for SB candidates who are now implementing policies they intensely dislike. The natural inclination is to let themselves off the hook by saying they simply voted for the lesser of two evils.

I think you have to own your decisions. You voted for one-party rule where any opposition to what the likes of Karl Frisch want to do is muted, and now they feel they have a green light to move forward with divisive and disruptive county-wide boundary changes, described back in 2018 or 2019 as the “nuclear option.” Enjoy.

PP who said FCRC would run moderates if they can, and where I live in 2019 for example they ran an utter nut job against - of all people - Megan McLaughlin. As a conservative (PP wouldn't vote for me because I don't think asking for explicit books to be removed from MS libraries constitutes a book ban. Kids can get them in the public library or parents can purchase them if they chose), McLaughlin was definitely the superior candidate as she was about as moderate D as they come around here. But from what I heard - and I don't have time to join any county level political committees - he was just literally the only option who was willing to run.

As your experience demonstrates, where they have options they do try to chose the best ones.

I guess where I’ve been for a while is that I would vote for one or two “nut jobs” if necessary just to try and disrupt the complete dominance of a one-party SB. As it turns out, there were some more conservative candidates running in 2023 that I didn’t even think were “nut jobs” but of course they lost anyway.

As for “nut jobs,” I’m not sure that label couldn’t be applied just as readily to someone like Frisch, who got sworn in on a stack of smutty, explicit books; applauds a collective bargaining agreement with FCPS employees that resulted in a proposed raise the county neither has the ability or intent to fund fully; is supporting county-wide boundary changes that his constituents never requested; made promises to get elected that he then promptly disavowed once in office; and is committed to waste tens of millions of taxpayer money on an unnecessary new ES in Dunn Loring that almost certainly will have to be repurposed at some point in the future because there is so clearly no need for another traditional ES at that location.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of reasons for boundary changes. They have been stated repeatedly. You don’t agree with them but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. The bullying from anti change people who immediately insult people to shut down discussion is aggressive and ugly.

And fair facts matter sent its members to community meetings throughout county (and spread them at different tables) even though they lived in great falls to make it seem there was opposition everywhere.

The need for some boundary changes are obvious (over and undercrowding, islands, split feeders, long commutes) like you say.
The fair facts matters people have made pests of themselves everywhere. People are sick of their bullying and lies.

What lies? Because without any you are crossing the libel line here.

NP.

It appears to be a lie that the BRAC meetings are closed to the public.

Wasn’t that revealed through the FOIA documents?

Are you saying these meetings are open to the public? You might want to check your source on that.

That begs the question:

- why such secrecy around the BRAC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of reasons for boundary changes. They have been stated repeatedly. You don’t agree with them but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. The bullying from anti change people who immediately insult people to shut down discussion is aggressive and ugly.

And fair facts matter sent its members to community meetings throughout county (and spread them at different tables) even though they lived in great falls to make it seem there was opposition everywhere.

The need for some boundary changes are obvious (over and undercrowding, islands, split feeders, long commutes) like you say.
The fair facts matters people have made pests of themselves everywhere. People are sick of their bullying and lies.

What lies? Because without any you are crossing the libel line here.

NP.

It appears to be a lie that the BRAC meetings are closed to the public.

Wasn’t that revealed through the FOIA documents?

Are you saying these meetings are open to the public? You might want to check your source on that.

That begs the question:

- why such secrecy around the BRAC?

- especially since this is a matter which will deeply impact the public, who are barred from observing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I made the BIG effin mistake of voting for
some of these people school board people and I have major buyers remorse. I thought they would be sane, thoughtful, and fair. I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views. BUT this boundary situation is an expensive mess and I've lost complete faith in Reid's ability to handle this with care. She has made so many missteps on other matters. The school board continues to be less than transparent while spending a ton of money to appear transparent. The smart thing to do right now is to table it until we figure out how Fairfax is going to fare with all of these upcoming federal changes. Instead the FCPS leadership is hell bent on creating more chaos and uncertainty. Did they forget that actual
kids lives are at stake here? You're upending their lives in the middle of an already turbulent time for our country and county.

You get the school district you vote for. One-party rule in Fairfax County.

"I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views." That's your problem. You shouldn't be looking at the School Board elections like a political election. The job of the public schools is to run an efficient education system that focuses on educating children and leaves politics out of it. FCPS has been failing for years now.

The political hacks on the FCPS school board toss some red meat to their "I'm a Democrat" voter base, rile people up about Trump and woke political issues, the drones go and reflexively "Vote Blue" year after year for the FCPS School Board, and here we are.

We tried to warn you all as far back as 2019 during the last FCPS School Board election I paid attention to. The writing on the wall for school rezoning and bussing was clear to see to anyone who was interested. Anyone who spoke out against it was derided as a secret Trumpster intent on taking over Fairfax County lol.

We left for private school and never looked back. My property values are still tied to FCPS so I maintain a mild interest, but it's so ironic to see people talking about this issue now, six years later.

The opposition was busily discussing when Trans kids are an abomination, the candidate in my area had a truck covered with poster boards focused on Trans issues and only Trans issues and why Trans kids are bad, book banning and other such issues. When you asked them for a position on any type of educational issue, they waffled. If you want me to vote for someone who is more invested in education, run someone who is not a hate monger.

This should not be hard. But when you run a right-wing nut job whose only interest are on the fringe cases then you are not going to get my vote. I would rather vote for the person who is at least embracing treating people with kindness and inclusiveness over the fire and brimstone candidate.

I voted for moderates where I could. Run real moderates, not Mothers of Liberty who say one thing and then you do a google search and you read what they are posting and run the other way. Not the person who is openly discussing hating young people who are different than them.

The local Republican party needs to learn to read the room and run candidates that are less reactive and Evangelical, and they would win some seats. There are plenty of Independents and Moderate Democrats who are not happy with the school board, but I am not handing it over to people who actively hate other people.

FCRC would run more reasonable people if they could find them, I think. But why run when you're just going to lose?

I know personally one very reasonable person who was going to run, but decided not yo when the far left activists got wind of it and started going after that person's kids.

The moderate would have won.

The far left activists doxxing families and attacking people personally is why moderates don't run. No one sane will put their families through the Blue VA hell.

Unfortunately, your fringe leftist activists are chasing away the reasonable people on the left and right.

[Anonymous]

Wow a lot of effort to accomplish Reid’s pet project of moving 6th grade to middle school and moving enough solid test takers to underperforming schools so FCPS has no failing schools under the new Virginia Board of Education standards.

[Anonymous]

Anyone who sees pros, to go along with the cons, is shouted down by the people who are violently opposed to any changes that moves their kids. There have been some good suggestions made in the topics, but they are hard to find.

Okay. I'll bite. Please give us the "pros."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How are people finding out specifically what schools are up for grabs? Is if conjecture or is there info somewhere?

"Comprehensive Boundary Review" is what they are doing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I made the BIG effin mistake of voting for
some of these people school board people and I have major buyers remorse. I thought they would be sane, thoughtful, and fair. I'm a Democrat and much of what they said aligns with my views. BUT this boundary situation is an expensive mess and I've lost complete faith in Reid's ability to handle this with care. She has made so many missteps on other matters. The school board continues to be less than transparent while spending a ton of money to appear transparent. The smart thing to do right now is to table it until we figure out how Fairfax is going to fare with all of these upcoming federal changes. Instead the FCPS leadership is hell bent on creating more chaos and uncertainty. Did they forget that actual
kids lives are at stake here? You're upending their lives in the middle of an already turbulent time for our country and county.

Lemme guess. You live in Great Falls.

Yeah, because clearly the only people who don't want to be booted out of their pyramid are Langley parents. The rest of the schools are interchangeable and none of those parents care at all.