Do Local Republicans Want to Gut or Reform FCPS?

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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

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?

+1, no one is showing it to them.

[Anonymous]

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

Literally, the only people talking about it is parents - no one else is.

[Anonymous]

Remember the creepy bike shop pedophile episode of Different Strokes? He showed kids pornographic magazines and cartoons.

https://youtu.be/hdBjll62XHs

This pedo tactic was covered in my training to volunteer at my child's school. We have to do several hours of training to protect kids from pedophiles. It included interviews with pedophiles, who explain how they prime kids by leaving out graphic books or magazines. This is literally what pedophiles are known to do!!!

[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?)

Curriculum means many different things to different people (especially on this forum). FCPS does have standards, objectives, pacing, assessments, and materials for use. It may not be great, but it is out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remember the creepy bike shop pedophile episode of Different Strokes? He showed kids pornographic magazines and cartoons.

https://youtu.be/hdBjll62XHs

This pedo tactic was covered in my training to volunteer at my child's school. We have to do several hours of training to protect kids from pedophiles. It included interviews with pedophiles, who explain how they prime kids by leaving out graphic books or magazines. This is literally what pedophiles are known to do!!!

I pretty much vote D but this dispute about what is appropriate or not baffles me. I believe these books are inappropriate for a school library and don't understand why it isn't just common sense. This along with the whittling away of expectations makes me happy my kids are almost done with FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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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.

Hahaha

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remember the creepy bike shop pedophile episode of Different Strokes? He showed kids pornographic magazines and cartoons.

https://youtu.be/hdBjll62XHs

This pedo tactic was covered in my training to volunteer at my child's school. We have to do several hours of training to protect kids from pedophiles. It included interviews with pedophiles, who explain how they prime kids by leaving out graphic books or magazines. This is literally what pedophiles are known to do!!!

Holy crap. Do you also believe people are lacing Halloween candy with weed? You want to protect your kids from pedos? You realize most of them are known to you (family, coaches, religious leaders) and not lurking in libraries leaving porn out for kids? And this is why I can’t take Rs seriously no matter how unhappy I am with the status quo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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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.

LOL. Your kid could VERY easily get around those.

The only way to avoid it is to say no to the phone.

[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.

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.

Most teens in HS are old enough to read those books. Most are sexually active and there really is nothing shocking in those books. They have seen much, much worse for years.

[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.

+1

We are two VA Senate seats away from The Handmaiden’s Tale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+1

We are two VA Senate seats away from The Handmaiden’s Tale.

This thread is about Republican candidates for the FCPS school board, not the state senate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+1

We are two VA Senate seats away from The Handmaiden’s Tale.

This thread is about Republican candidates for the FCPS school board, not the state senate.

The point is we are in unprecedented times politically.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+1

We are two VA Senate seats away from The Handmaiden’s Tale.

This thread is about Republican candidates for the FCPS school board, not the state senate.

The point is we are in unprecedented times politically.

Staying on topic, the only thing that’s really unprecedented is having a School Board composed entirely of Democrats, and it hasn’t worked out very well. Even so, it’s fair to ask what specific Republican-endorsed candidates might prioritize, if elected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Remember the creepy bike shop pedophile episode of Different Strokes? He showed kids pornographic magazines and cartoons.

https://youtu.be/hdBjll62XHs

This pedo tactic was covered in my training to volunteer at my child's school. We have to do several hours of training to protect kids from pedophiles. It included interviews with pedophiles, who explain how they prime kids by leaving out graphic books or magazines. This is literally what pedophiles are known to do!!!

I pretty much vote D but this dispute about what is appropriate or not baffles me. I believe these books are inappropriate for a school library and don't understand why it isn't just common sense. This along with the whittling away of expectations makes me happy my kids are almost done with FCPS.

The books are part of their grooming process to normalize sex with kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Remember the creepy bike shop pedophile episode of Different Strokes? He showed kids pornographic magazines and cartoons.

https://youtu.be/hdBjll62XHs

This pedo tactic was covered in my training to volunteer at my child's school. We have to do several hours of training to protect kids from pedophiles. It included interviews with pedophiles, who explain how they prime kids by leaving out graphic books or magazines. This is literally what pedophiles are known to do!!!

I pretty much vote D but this dispute about what is appropriate or not baffles me. I believe these books are inappropriate for a school library and don't understand why it isn't just common sense. This along with the whittling away of expectations makes me happy my kids are almost done with FCPS.

The books are part of their grooming process to normalize sex with kids.

You don’t think sex is normalized for HS kids?

Do you even have kids? You sound totally clueless.