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Anonymous
Hi Paul, do you reject Moms for Liberty? |
Anonymous
LMAO! 
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Anonymous
| Mainstream for 17th century New England. |
Anonymous
Yes. Maureen Brody. Google her. Her son is a good little Nazi (literally takes selfies with Nazi flags) who was also arrested. Wonder where he learned all his principles and values? |
Anonymous
WOW! Is this person endorsed by Fairfax County Republican party? That's completely insane. |
Anonymous
| Paul, have you ever voted for Trump? |
Anonymous
Have you googled Abrar Omeish, endorsed by the Democrats? In her current position as an At-Latge member of the SB she has been way more dangerous to our schools and kids than an alleged teenager who has nothing to do with the SB elections. |
Anonymous
DP. Paul has raised three kids so he is skilled on the art of dealing with infantile behavior. Think very hard and come up with a valid and mature question to elicit an answer from him. |
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DP, but many school districts have policies that allow the student to change their pronoun and name without notice to the parents. That's not a big deal to me personally, but the policies also allow for the student to request a meeting with staff members (teachers, admin, counselors) to develop a written plan for accommodation and supportive measures, again without notice to parents of the meeting or the plan. I don't think schools should be holding meetings like that and a parent is in the dark. I would hope my relationship with my DCs is strong enough that they would come to me and it wouldn't be an issue. But the message policies like that send to vulnerable kids is that they need to be protected from their parents. While there are obviously some parents out there who are abusive, that's not the majority. |
Anonymous
Where is your data on that? Separately, the issue has to do with mental health, and teens are afforded confidentiality (from their parents) in this regard — it’s the law. If your child sees a mental health counselor (which includes school counselors), you (the parent) are not permitted the details. It allows the child to be open with the counselor. Parents are included if the counselor believes the parent can assist with care. |
paulforfcsb
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Catching up on the forum - it seems we may have moved from the "interested voter" phase and into the "let's all argue with each other phase"  .
But there were some questions that I thought I could answer, and I also need to find the link to the debate a week or so ago, which people could watch to get an idea of where Robyn and I stand. There was a question about the SEL data - if SEL is included in the curriculum (I happen to think the time would be better spent teaching the kids), and if data is collected, it should certainly be anonymized. The more I learn about the innocuous-sounding SEL, the less I like it. Focus on education. But absolutely yes to anonymizing the collection and maintenance of data regarding these kids' private lives. There was also a question about whether I really saw questions directed to students about how many sex partners they had, etc. The answer is yes, a concerned parent gave me the list of questions that were asked in school at McLean Day last spring. It was from last school year. It is conceivable it was part of the FLE curriculum and not SEL. But I'm pretty sure it was the latter. I know kids are being kids, etc. I disagree that that means the school should be asking these questions. Questions like the ones I saw normalize behavior that at least some parents want to discourage. Again, let's just focus on education and get this stuff out of the schools. I'll do a separate post on some other questions I saw. |
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Is that FCPS policy? |
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Interesting that the question about rejecting "Moms for Liberty" continues to be ignored....super telling.
Also, Paul....if you want to take sex education completely out of the schools where would you like it taught? I know your answer will be in the home, and in a utopian society that would be perfect, but the reality is that Fairfax County is huge and diverse and unfortunately not all kids live in a household with open communication or support. I was mildly intrigued by you and do not love Lady Bird but your answers so far put you so far right that I can't in good conscious vote for you. You clearly are only interested in serving upper middle class white kids from conservative Christain families.... |
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I didn’t see those questions in the k-12 SEL Questionnaire link that someone provided earlier. You stated that there is an “effort to introduce age-inappropriate sexual concepts and ideas to our youngest students”. I’m still curious to know if “youngest” indeed means preschool, kindergarten, lower elementary…what those concepts are and how they are being introduced. Thanks, Lower Grade ES Teacher |
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Someone asked what I meant by the discrimination in the admissions at TJ. Recently, the Board and (past) Superintendent moved away from a purely merit-based admissions standard and toward a different standard. Discovery in a court case showed that the goal of the policies was to have fewer Asian-American students at TJ - they previously made up approximately 72% of the students there. There were even Board members joking about it. The discrimination against that group is, of course, improper. But it also had the effect of not accepting students that would have qualified on a merit-based process, which harms TJ.
I think the same person also asked about what madness I'm referring to. We have a number of examples in the chat but, as an example, the policies surrounding allowing biological males/females who say they identify as female/male on that particular day in female bathrooms and locker rooms are a good example (and we all know allowing them to play on sports teams is the next step, which is both unfair and dangerous). Madness. Same goes for the policy not to tell parents if a child is experiencing what was, until very recently, known as gender dysphoria. I saw some debate about whether it is appropriate to not inform parents if their child declares that he or she identifies as a different gender. I disagree with the policy that prevents schools from telling parents. Common-sense position, but the issue is that the parents need to know that information. The heartbreaking story behind Sage's Law demonstrates the consequences of the school hiding this type of information from parents. Assuming abusive parents is unwarranted, as it would be unwarranted to assume mal-intent on behalf of the schools. There are already laws governing abusive parents in analogous situations. |