Paul Bartkowski School Board Candidate Forum

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paulforfcsb wrote:re homeschooling this year - just based on past experience homeschooling during the covid shutdowns. She needed some more attention and rigor - and she's getting it. We use an online program through Well Trained Mind Academy - great curriculum.

OK, so public school during Covid wasn't good enough for your kid, public school last year after Covid wasn't good enough for your kid, and now regular non-Covid 6th grade isn't good enough for your kid? When you live in one of the best public school areas in Fairfax?

Sorry, SB candidates need to put their money where their mouth is. I wouldn't vote for Karl or Melanie for similar reasons.

It does look like a great curriculum. Will FCPS pay so parents can send their child with similar needs to WTMA too?

https://www.wtmacademy.com/

I would be interested in your candidacy if you were talking more about bringing in rigorous curriculum like Well Trained Mind into FCPS, and a whole lot less about weird Republican fixations on YA books.

Yes! My whole platform is to improve the quality of education FCPS provides and stop pushing political agendas. The fixation comment works both ways - rest assured that I believe our time, and the Board's time, would be far better spent on improving the education our schools provide. If you've attended a Board meeting, there is precious little time spent on that fundamental topic and much more spent on sex and sexuality, etc. I've already said I find much of it inappropriate, the books, the discussions with the kids, etc. Again, call me old-fashioned, but I think most of those sensitive topics are better left outside the schools and the schools should focus on education. And bear in mind that all of it takes energy, class-time, and resources away from reversing the losses we've seen in English, math, science, etc.

So maybe the Republicans should stop targeting LGBTQ kids.

No one is targeting LGBTQ kids in FCPS.

False.
https://www.thenvaproject.org/blog

And if Youngkin had his way...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/29/virginia-schools-transgender-policies-youngkin/

Supporting parents isn’t normally considered “targeting” LBGTQ kids.

The Moms for Liberty nutters are anti-trans. (and anti-"CRT" and a bunch of other crazy)
https://twitter.com/ShellyArnoldi

This is who is pushing Paul Bartkowski.

Talk about fake news. Paul is a local parent who has a lot more invested in the future state of FCPS than Robyn Lady, a FCPS retiree who is going to get her pension no matter what. We have no connection to “Moms for Liberty” but reject your phony narratives.

Nothing phony at all.

If you click on the Twitter link on their website it takes you to Shelly's twitter account.

They are pretty clearly "Moms for Liberty":


And they very clearly support Paul:
https://www.thenvaproject.org/general-4

And are very clearly anti-trans:
https://www.thenvaproject.org/post/speak-up-in-richmond

"We can't let the Soros funded LGBTQ and “transgender” activists be the only voice at the next Virginia Board of Education Meeting in two days (July 27th).

We need you to show your support for the Department of Education’s finalized version of the 2023 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia’s Public Schools.

The LGBTQ activists are planning coordinated efforts in opposition to Governor Youngkin’s Department of Education’s finalized version of the 2023 Model Policies, which restores parental rights and prohibits schools from hiding information from parents. "

I see this often and always wonder what information the schools hide from parents.

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4. On your website, you say:
"racial discrimination in the name of diversity at the revered Thomas Jefferson High School"

Can you please explain what you mean by "racial discrimination" at TJ?

He probably meant that FCPS was racist because they changed their admissions policies and as a result allowed too many Black and Hispanic students were allowed into TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t vote for someone who bans books. Parental choice should be not allowing YOUR child to read something you deem as inappropriate not telling someone else’s child that they can not just because you find it offensive.

Change your stance on this and I would actually consider voting for you as your stance on other issues makes sense to me

Agree. Jumping in to critiquing the professional librarians' decisions IS literally the definition of being a Culture Wars candidate. Let the professionals do their jobs. If people don't like that information is available, they can send their kid to private school like you chose to do.

So librarians are a special public servant that can never be critiqued by taxpayers?

We know "I pay their salaries"

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, there's a traitor School Board candidate?

Not a candidate, already a representative. Her name is Abrar Omeish

Abrar stormed the Capitol to overturn the election?

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That feeling when you try to present yourself as a moderate, reasonable person, but someone snaps a photo with you and the Moms for Liberty extremists. Serious YIKES.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, there's a traitor School Board candidate?

Not a candidate, already a representative. Her name is Abrar Omeish

Abrar stormed the Capitol to overturn the election?

Someone much worse:
https://asrainvestigates.substack.com/p/exclusive-abrar-omeish-at-fundraiser

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Anonymous wrote:That feeling when you try to present yourself as a moderate, reasonable person, but someone snaps a photo with you and the Moms for Liberty extremists. Serious YIKES.

Just to be clear - the guy in the photo isn't Paul B. The woman on the right is the one who leads the Fairfax Moms for Liberty group.

- not a fan of Paul, but don't want the photo to be misunderstood

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Paul, do you disavow moms for liberty?

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, there's a traitor School Board candidate?

Not a candidate, already a representative. Her name is Abrar Omeish

Abrar stormed the Capitol to overturn the election?

Someone much worse:
https://asrainvestigates.substack.com/p/exclusive-abrar-omeish-at-fundraiser

Yes, Asra is much worse. Major Trumper.

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If you’re in the McLean HS and Marshall HS districts, know now that Robyn Lady isn’t going to lift a finger to do anything about the current and future overcrowding at those two schools. Her “solution” is to suggest you schlep your kid to Herndon HS.

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Anonymous wrote:That feeling when you try to present yourself as a moderate, reasonable person, but someone snaps a photo with you and the Moms for Liberty extremists. Serious YIKES.

They are fairly mainstream moms who care about education. Some are left of center and some are right of center, just like most moms in ffx.

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Anonymous wrote:That feeling when you try to present yourself as a moderate, reasonable person, but someone snaps a photo with you and the Moms for Liberty extremists. Serious YIKES.

They are fairly mainstream moms who care about education. Some are left of center and some are right of center, just like most moms in ffx.

This is not "mainstream".
https://twitter.com/ShellyArnoldi

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Anonymous wrote:That feeling when you try to present yourself as a moderate, reasonable person, but someone snaps a photo with you and the Moms for Liberty extremists. Serious YIKES.

They are fairly mainstream moms who care about education. Some are left of center and some are right of center, just like most moms in ffx.

This is not "mainstream".
https://twitter.com/ShellyArnoldi

Nor is this.

https://www.tgea.org/?page_id=275

Fortunately Willow Woycke isn’t running for the office, either.

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Anonymous wrote:That feeling when you try to present yourself as a moderate, reasonable person, but someone snaps a photo with you and the Moms for Liberty extremists. Serious YIKES.

They are fairly mainstream moms who care about education. Some are left of center and some are right of center, just like most moms in ffx.

There is nothing moderate about Moms for Liberty, are you insane? They are ultra-fringe religious crazies who are far, far to the right of mainstream. Fairfax is pretty moderate, they are not.

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Is there really a school board candidate who was part of the january 6th anti-democracy riot?