FCPS NEW SUPERINTENDENT : Michelle Reid

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Anonymous wrote:Youngkin changed the election cycle for Loudoun SB on his own whim. How is this okay? And if it is, can we change the election date for Governor, too?

It turns out the moderate is actually authoritarian

Many of us already knew that. But the shiny objects (CRT! OMG!) were waved around and a distraction from that fact. Now we're stuck with him. And make no mistake, he and the VA House have already tried to reverse many things and make it harder to vote in VA. Luckily those went nowhere. Yet.

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I don’t know why so many people on here keep responding to republican trolls. The people on DCUM represent maybe 5% of the total county’s population. They’re just the loud ones. You all need to calm down.

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Anonymous wrote:Stacy Langton in 2023!

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Hell. No. “Mama Bears” need not apply. Although at this point, they may be the only willing candidates.

Would one of the “Mama Bears” focus on academics and facilities rather than the woke nonsense that’s defined the last two years of Brabrand’s tenure?

If so, sign her up!

Literally, the only things "woke" related the last two years that have even remotely affected me are from the right. They are the ones banning books, focusing time/energy/money removing teaching of a concept in the schools that was never taught, and frothing at the mouth like rabid raccoons at SB meetings.

You have your head in the sand. The FCSB sides with the teachers unions over parents and kids. The FCSB is a national embarrassment.

“Mama Bears” are hysterical loons pulling resources AWAY from academics.

Yes, “Mama Bear” psychos hate teachers and “teachers unions”.

Mama Bears are the least of our problems.

Mama Bears scare away decent candidates. And pull away resources from academics.

Their hysteria hurts our kids.

It also scares good teachers away. I know many who are leaving.

Yep, who wants to deal with those frothing, rabid psychos? I wouldn't.

Well it hurts your kids too - if they don't have teachers. So I would figure out ways to get along rather than blaming others and calling them frothing psychos.

Nah. Just calling a spade a spade. Not "going high" anymore with people who cannot have a discussion without disrupting public meetings and making a scene.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why so many people on here keep responding to republican trolls. The people on DCUM represent maybe 5% of the total county’s population. They’re just the loud ones. You all need to calm down.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if the school board is regretting their decision a year ago to let Brabrand go. They probably thought FCPS was so wonderful they'd have their pick of excellent candidates...and now they see what we knew (nobody with any sense would want to come into the mess they created). Superintendents across the country are burned out and not looking for a job that has a lot of conflict. Much better to stay in a smaller district where people accept the decisions you make, you are given authority to make decisions, and people don't file lawsuits for everything.

If I remember correctly, he did them a favor by agreeing to stay one more year so they didn’t have to do the search while trying to reopen during the pandemic. They didn’t let him go. They asked him to extend by a year.

They didn't renew his contract. Giving him a "one year contract" was just a convenience for the school board since they knew they couldn't search for someone during a pandemic. They chose not to renew him for a real contract -- which is the same as letting him go. Yes, he did them a favor by taking a one year contract. But, THEY LET HIM GO, thinking they could find someone better... and look where they are now.

Sloan would be better. Not the dream candidate. But better.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been in a position to work with NAACP leadership, or should I say try to work with them, on a variety of educational issues. My experience has been there is no reasonable discussion, as they have their mind set on perceptions and not realities. And whatever the national trend is that is how everything is perceived, without any real exploration of what is in front of them. There are many adjustments to policies I favor, and wanted to explore real data and develop plans. They wanted nothing to do with it. They have all the answers on hiring, school discipline, adjustments to funding, etc. Ad hominem attacks are what they offered when a real conversation and collaboration were offered. They force themselves into the room, but marginalize themselves because if one does not agree with every premise, they are dismissed. And I was a dues paying member of the NAACP for many years, so my goals were not disimilar to theirs.

I'm just saying, it sounds like you had your mind set on certain end results or positions too. So that goes both ways.

+1000. She definitely has a strong bias towards appointing Reid and declaring "mission accomplished."

And I get how Reid might seem qualified, depending on what boxes you think you need to check. I happen to think she'd be a disaster because she's clearly heavily invested in "equity" and "anti-racist" initiatives that rely heavily on babble and reject the idea of academic merit, and has no experience with a large school system that has the day-to-day operating challenges that FCPS faces (and Brabrand mostly ignored for the last five years).

If she were to step aside, and FCPS were to go back to the drawing board, that would be far preferable to hiring someone who's not right for the job simply because they have a timeline.

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If Michelle Reid becomes the new FCPS Superintendent, to stop the current school board atrocities and to bring some needed balance, Governor Youngqin ought to help us the same way he is with LCPS. We can’t afford another year of the same!

https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classroom/glenn-youngkin-amends-bill-puts-loudoun-county-school-board-members-ballot-november

It's a hell of a precedent he set. I wonder what republicans will think with a democratic governor uses it against republican elected officials down the road.

+1 You have no understanding of what kind of pushback there would be to this sort of authoritarian "help" here. We are a democracy.

In a democracy, women have the right to feel safe and to be protected. Furthermore, when a crime against them was committed, for justice to prevail.

Governor Youngqin’s action was based on the mishandling of sexual assaults against students (girls) at school grounds and the cover up that followed by the LCPS School Board and Superintendent.
Women advocates, parents, school staff, students, and other members of the community who stand in support of female students’ safety at schools - regardless of what their political affiliation is - do support this measure. This is a safety and security issue, not a partisan one; and to label it as such, one must either not be a parent themselves, or if they are, their political stance overrides their parental obligation to protect their children.

Wrong. They are processes for addressing these issues and he did not follow them. Due process you know... Try again to get your agenda going.

Rest assured that due process is on the works. Meanwhile, he is giving parents the chance to select a new school board since the current one will be too busy involved in criminal litigation - if it isn’t already.

And, no political agenda here, except to advocate for women’s rights (young girls in this case) to safety and equality under the law.

I want a new election for Governor.

Feel free to lobby for a new bill on how often the Gov is elected.

No, Youngkin just decided to move up the election date on a bill that contained nothing about that.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been in a position to work with NAACP leadership, or should I say try to work with them, on a variety of educational issues. My experience has been there is no reasonable discussion, as they have their mind set on perceptions and not realities. And whatever the national trend is that is how everything is perceived, without any real exploration of what is in front of them. There are many adjustments to policies I favor, and wanted to explore real data and develop plans. They wanted nothing to do with it. They have all the answers on hiring, school discipline, adjustments to funding, etc. Ad hominem attacks are what they offered when a real conversation and collaboration were offered. They force themselves into the room, but marginalize themselves because if one does not agree with every premise, they are dismissed. And I was a dues paying member of the NAACP for many years, so my goals were not disimilar to theirs.

I'm just saying, it sounds like you had your mind set on certain end results or positions too. So that goes both ways.

+1000. She definitely has a strong bias towards appointing Reid and declaring "mission accomplished."

And I get how Reid might seem qualified, depending on what boxes you think you need to check. I happen to think she'd be a disaster because she's clearly heavily invested in "equity" and "anti-racist" initiatives that rely heavily on babble and reject the idea of academic merit, and has no experience with a large school system that has the day-to-day operating challenges that FCPS faces (and Brabrand mostly ignored for the last five years).

If she were to step aside, and FCPS were to go back to the drawing board, that would be far preferable to hiring someone who's not right for the job simply because they have a timeline.

You took one page from the district's overall site and have decided that because they mention equity, there are no academics and that she has no experience because North Shore is smaller?
Okay--there is another way to look at it. Virginia and Washington state are on par for student's academic achievements and educational rankings (10 and 11). Her district is top 5% in her state, #13 overall of 300+and Fairfax is #6 of 200+. So very close..

Her school district is an amalgamation of two counties, so she knows how to deal with varying needs and differences of a widespread, if not super populous, district.
She was also national superintendent of the year.
All you have presented in your argument so far is "equity babble."

You sound like a headhunter who won't get paid unless one of your candidates gets the job.

And obviously the number of schools and students matters more when it comes to the demands of the job than whether she's currently in a district that covers a widespread geographical area with only a small fraction of the students.

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Anonymous wrote:Youngkin is appointing a DeVos staffer to be deputy secretary of education. We don’t need his “help” in Fairfax as we value our public schools and aren’t trying to destroy them.

Yet it was under the 12-0 Democratic School Board that:

* Schools were closed for extended period-happened in many red states, too, my friend.
* Test scores declined-declined everywhere
* Depression among students shot up-happened everywhere
* Parents pulled over 10,000 kids out of FCPS-yep.
* Upending TJ admissions during a pandemic became a top priority and resulted in litigation all the way to the Supreme Court-this was on the drawing board before the pandemic and the county can do things at once, you know.
* Foolish decisions with FCPS's limited capital funds were made-don't agree.
* Overcrowding at numerous schools went largely or wholly unaddressed-because how exactly do you expect to fix this? Teacher shortages and tax funding make redistricting and building new schools extremely difficult.
* IB programs with only 2-5% of seniors on track to receive IB diplomas go unexamined--I would have to look into this.
* No candidates truly qualified to lead FCPS emerged to become the next Superintendent-just wrong.

You don't have to like DeVos or agree with everything Youngkin does to conclude this School Board is a dumpster fire.

Here is your problem-while all of this is true to some extent, not everyone, not even the majority, agrees that the SB was responsible, or thinks these are all bad things. Or look at these bullet points without context.

Feel free to disagree and know that many of us will be heading to the polls next year and actively campaigning for candidates to replace this group of buffoons.

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Anonymous wrote:Youngkin is appointing a DeVos staffer to be deputy secretary of education. We don’t need his “help” in Fairfax as we value our public schools and aren’t trying to destroy them.

Yet it was under the 12-0 Democratic School Board that:

* Schools were closed for extended period-happened in many red states, too, my friend.
* Test scores declined-declined everywhere
* Depression among students shot up-happened everywhere
* Parents pulled over 10,000 kids out of FCPS-yep.
* Upending TJ admissions during a pandemic became a top priority and resulted in litigation all the way to the Supreme Court-this was on the drawing board before the pandemic and the county can do things at once, you know.
* Foolish decisions with FCPS's limited capital funds were made-don't agree.
* Overcrowding at numerous schools went largely or wholly unaddressed-because how exactly do you expect to fix this? Teacher shortages and tax funding make redistricting and building new schools extremely difficult.
* IB programs with only 2-5% of seniors on track to receive IB diplomas go unexamined--I would have to look into this.
* No candidates truly qualified to lead FCPS emerged to become the next Superintendent-just wrong.

You don't have to like DeVos or agree with everything Youngkin does to conclude this School Board is a dumpster fire.

Here is your problem-while all of this is true to some extent, not everyone, not even the majority, agrees that the SB was responsible, or thinks these are all bad things. Or look at these bullet points without context.

Feel free to disagree and know that many of us will be heading to the polls next year and actively campaigning for candidates to replace this group of buffoons.

And know that if you continue to put forth candidates like Elizabeth Schultz you will lose.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been in a position to work with NAACP leadership, or should I say try to work with them, on a variety of educational issues. My experience has been there is no reasonable discussion, as they have their mind set on perceptions and not realities. And whatever the national trend is that is how everything is perceived, without any real exploration of what is in front of them. There are many adjustments to policies I favor, and wanted to explore real data and develop plans. They wanted nothing to do with it. They have all the answers on hiring, school discipline, adjustments to funding, etc. Ad hominem attacks are what they offered when a real conversation and collaboration were offered. They force themselves into the room, but marginalize themselves because if one does not agree with every premise, they are dismissed. And I was a dues paying member of the NAACP for many years, so my goals were not disimilar to theirs.

I'm just saying, it sounds like you had your mind set on certain end results or positions too. So that goes both ways.

+1000. She definitely has a strong bias towards appointing Reid and declaring "mission accomplished."

And I get how Reid might seem qualified, depending on what boxes you think you need to check. I happen to think she'd be a disaster because she's clearly heavily invested in "equity" and "anti-racist" initiatives that rely heavily on babble and reject the idea of academic merit, and has no experience with a large school system that has the day-to-day operating challenges that FCPS faces (and Brabrand mostly ignored for the last five years).

If she were to step aside, and FCPS were to go back to the drawing board, that would be far preferable to hiring someone who's not right for the job simply because they have a timeline.

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If Michelle Reid becomes the new FCPS Superintendent, to stop the current school board atrocities and to bring some needed balance, Governor Youngqin ought to help us the same way he is with LCPS. We can’t afford another year of the same!

https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classroom/glenn-youngkin-amends-bill-puts-loudoun-county-school-board-members-ballot-november

What Youngkin is doing in Loudoun bothers me a lot. This is our local SB. I don’t support many of them and will stand in line to vote them out. But it is not the job of the Governor to try to replace local representive with people he likes more. Same deal as the masks. By now, FCPS should have made them voluntary, but it should have been out choice. Youngkin is overreaching again.

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Anonymous wrote:Youngkin is appointing a DeVos staffer to be deputy secretary of education. We don’t need his “help” in Fairfax as we value our public schools and aren’t trying to destroy them.

Yet it was under the 12-0 Democratic School Board that:

* Schools were closed for extended period
* Test scores declined
* Depression among students shot up
* Parents pulled over 10,000 kids out of FCPS
* Upending TJ admissions during a pandemic became a top priority and resulted in litigation all the way to the Supreme Court
* Foolish decisions with FCPS's limited capital funds were made
* Overcrowding at numerous schools went largely or wholly unaddressed
* IB programs with only 2-5% of seniors on track to receive IB diplomas go unexamined
* No candidates truly qualified to lead FCPS emerged to become the next Superintendent

You don't have to like DeVos or agree with everything Youngkin does to conclude this School Board is a dumpster fire.

I agree. But it’s local representatives and a local problem. And we will vote them out and can try to recall. The Governor needs to butt out.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been in a position to work with NAACP leadership, or should I say try to work with them, on a variety of educational issues. My experience has been there is no reasonable discussion, as they have their mind set on perceptions and not realities. And whatever the national trend is that is how everything is perceived, without any real exploration of what is in front of them. There are many adjustments to policies I favor, and wanted to explore real data and develop plans. They wanted nothing to do with it. They have all the answers on hiring, school discipline, adjustments to funding, etc. Ad hominem attacks are what they offered when a real conversation and collaboration were offered. They force themselves into the room, but marginalize themselves because if one does not agree with every premise, they are dismissed. And I was a dues paying member of the NAACP for many years, so my goals were not disimilar to theirs.

I'm just saying, it sounds like you had your mind set on certain end results or positions too. So that goes both ways.

+1000. She definitely has a strong bias towards appointing Reid and declaring "mission accomplished."

And I get how Reid might seem qualified, depending on what boxes you think you need to check. I happen to think she'd be a disaster because she's clearly heavily invested in "equity" and "anti-racist" initiatives that rely heavily on babble and reject the idea of academic merit, and has no experience with a large school system that has the day-to-day operating challenges that FCPS faces (and Brabrand mostly ignored for the last five years).

If she were to step aside, and FCPS were to go back to the drawing board, that would be far preferable to hiring someone who's not right for the job simply because they have a timeline.

+1.
If Michelle Reid becomes the new FCPS Superintendent, to stop the current school board atrocities and to bring some needed balance, Governor Youngqin ought to help us the same way he is with LCPS. We can’t afford another year of the same!

https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classroom/glenn-youngkin-amends-bill-puts-loudoun-county-school-board-members-ballot-november

It's a hell of a precedent he set. I wonder what republicans will think with a democratic governor uses it against republican elected officials down the road.

+1 You have no understanding of what kind of pushback there would be to this sort of authoritarian "help" here. We are a democracy.

In a democracy, women have the right to feel safe and to be protected. Furthermore, when a crime against them was committed, for justice to prevail.

Governor Youngqin’s action was based on the mishandling of sexual assaults against students (girls) at school grounds and the cover up that followed by the LCPS School Board and Superintendent.
Women advocates, parents, school staff, students, and other members of the community who stand in support of female students’ safety at schools - regardless of what their political affiliation is - do support this measure. This is a safety and security issue, not a partisan one; and to label it as such, one must either not be a parent themselves, or if they are, their political stance overrides their parental obligation to protect their children.

Then it’s time to recall, fire and vote people out. Not time for Youngkin to play dictator.

And give me a break. What is Youngkin doing for women besides trying to restrict abortion?

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Anonymous wrote:I have been in a position to work with NAACP leadership, or should I say try to work with them, on a variety of educational issues. My experience has been there is no reasonable discussion, as they have their mind set on perceptions and not realities. And whatever the national trend is that is how everything is perceived, without any real exploration of what is in front of them. There are many adjustments to policies I favor, and wanted to explore real data and develop plans. They wanted nothing to do with it. They have all the answers on hiring, school discipline, adjustments to funding, etc. Ad hominem attacks are what they offered when a real conversation and collaboration were offered. They force themselves into the room, but marginalize themselves because if one does not agree with every premise, they are dismissed. And I was a dues paying member of the NAACP for many years, so my goals were not disimilar to theirs.

I'm just saying, it sounds like you had your mind set on certain end results or positions too. So that goes both ways.

+1000. She definitely has a strong bias towards appointing Reid and declaring "mission accomplished."

And I get how Reid might seem qualified, depending on what boxes you think you need to check. I happen to think she'd be a disaster because she's clearly heavily invested in "equity" and "anti-racist" initiatives that rely heavily on babble and reject the idea of academic merit, and has no experience with a large school system that has the day-to-day operating challenges that FCPS faces (and Brabrand mostly ignored for the last five years).

If she were to step aside, and FCPS were to go back to the drawing board, that would be far preferable to hiring someone who's not right for the job simply because they have a timeline.

+1.
If Michelle Reid becomes the new FCPS Superintendent, to stop the current school board atrocities and to bring some needed balance, Governor Youngqin ought to help us the same way he is with LCPS. We can’t afford another year of the same!

https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classroom/glenn-youngkin-amends-bill-puts-loudoun-county-school-board-members-ballot-november

What Youngkin is doing in Loudoun bothers me a lot. This is our local SB. I don’t support many of them and will stand in line to vote them out. But it is not the job of the Governor to try to replace local representive with people he likes more. Same deal as the masks. By now, FCPS should have made them voluntary, but it should have been out choice. Youngkin is overreaching again.

Have you read the press? He's not changing it unilaterally despite what is being said here. He inserted a suggestion into a bill - if it's an over-reach the rest of the VA legislature is free to not approve it.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been in a position to work with NAACP leadership, or should I say try to work with them, on a variety of educational issues. My experience has been there is no reasonable discussion, as they have their mind set on perceptions and not realities. And whatever the national trend is that is how everything is perceived, without any real exploration of what is in front of them. There are many adjustments to policies I favor, and wanted to explore real data and develop plans. They wanted nothing to do with it. They have all the answers on hiring, school discipline, adjustments to funding, etc. Ad hominem attacks are what they offered when a real conversation and collaboration were offered. They force themselves into the room, but marginalize themselves because if one does not agree with every premise, they are dismissed. And I was a dues paying member of the NAACP for many years, so my goals were not disimilar to theirs.

I'm just saying, it sounds like you had your mind set on certain end results or positions too. So that goes both ways.

+1000. She definitely has a strong bias towards appointing Reid and declaring "mission accomplished."

And I get how Reid might seem qualified, depending on what boxes you think you need to check. I happen to think she'd be a disaster because she's clearly heavily invested in "equity" and "anti-racist" initiatives that rely heavily on babble and reject the idea of academic merit, and has no experience with a large school system that has the day-to-day operating challenges that FCPS faces (and Brabrand mostly ignored for the last five years).

If she were to step aside, and FCPS were to go back to the drawing board, that would be far preferable to hiring someone who's not right for the job simply because they have a timeline.

+1.
If Michelle Reid becomes the new FCPS Superintendent, to stop the current school board atrocities and to bring some needed balance, Governor Youngqin ought to help us the same way he is with LCPS. We can’t afford another year of the same!

https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classroom/glenn-youngkin-amends-bill-puts-loudoun-county-school-board-members-ballot-november

It's a hell of a precedent he set. I wonder what republicans will think with a democratic governor uses it against republican elected officials down the road.

+1 You have no understanding of what kind of pushback there would be to this sort of authoritarian "help" here. We are a democracy.

In a democracy, women have the right to feel safe and to be protected. Furthermore, when a crime against them was committed, for justice to prevail.

Governor Youngqin’s action was based on the mishandling of sexual assaults against students (girls) at school grounds and the cover up that followed by the LCPS School Board and Superintendent.
Women advocates, parents, school staff, students, and other members of the community who stand in support of female students’ safety at schools - regardless of what their political affiliation is - do support this measure. This is a safety and security issue, not a partisan one; and to label it as such, one must either not be a parent themselves, or if they are, their political stance overrides their parental obligation to protect their children.

Then it’s time to recall, fire and vote people out. Not time for Youngkin to play dictator.

And give me a break. What is Youngkin doing for women besides trying to restrict abortion?

Do you know what a dictator is? Not someone who inserts a suggestion into a bill for wider approval.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been in a position to work with NAACP leadership, or should I say try to work with them, on a variety of educational issues. My experience has been there is no reasonable discussion, as they have their mind set on perceptions and not realities. And whatever the national trend is that is how everything is perceived, without any real exploration of what is in front of them. There are many adjustments to policies I favor, and wanted to explore real data and develop plans. They wanted nothing to do with it. They have all the answers on hiring, school discipline, adjustments to funding, etc. Ad hominem attacks are what they offered when a real conversation and collaboration were offered. They force themselves into the room, but marginalize themselves because if one does not agree with every premise, they are dismissed. And I was a dues paying member of the NAACP for many years, so my goals were not disimilar to theirs.

I'm just saying, it sounds like you had your mind set on certain end results or positions too. So that goes both ways.

+1000. She definitely has a strong bias towards appointing Reid and declaring "mission accomplished."

And I get how Reid might seem qualified, depending on what boxes you think you need to check. I happen to think she'd be a disaster because she's clearly heavily invested in "equity" and "anti-racist" initiatives that rely heavily on babble and reject the idea of academic merit, and has no experience with a large school system that has the day-to-day operating challenges that FCPS faces (and Brabrand mostly ignored for the last five years).

If she were to step aside, and FCPS were to go back to the drawing board, that would be far preferable to hiring someone who's not right for the job simply because they have a timeline.

+1.
If Michelle Reid becomes the new FCPS Superintendent, to stop the current school board atrocities and to bring some needed balance, Governor Youngqin ought to help us the same way he is with LCPS. We can’t afford another year of the same!

https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classroom/glenn-youngkin-amends-bill-puts-loudoun-county-school-board-members-ballot-november

What Youngkin is doing in Loudoun bothers me a lot. This is our local SB. I don’t support many of them and will stand in line to vote them out. But it is not the job of the Governor to try to replace local representive with people he likes more. Same deal as the masks. By now, FCPS should have made them voluntary, but it should have been out choice. Youngkin is overreaching again.

Have you read the press? He's not changing it unilaterally despite what is being said here. He inserted a suggestion into a bill - if it's an over-reach the rest of the VA legislature is free to not approve it.

He torpedoed a bipartisan plan to reform the Loudon board through staggered terms by pushing the election date forward by a year and he did it at the 11th hour out of nowhere