TJHSST PTSA Election

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I take it then that your view is that the VA PTSA should do the honorable thing and disband rather than similarly descend into politics.

As far as I can tell the letter in question, anonymously sent, was authored by a PTA officer, but was not issued as an opinion of the PTA. Since when does being an officer of a PTA cause one to lose free speech rights? It also shouldn't matter who the author consulted before issuing the letter.

It is not politics to demand that a PTSA refrain from playing politics. It’s good governance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the school board hadn’t launched this rushed and half-baked admissions change (with no public hearing), none of this PTSA drama would have happened. I don’t condone the behavior of many of the parties but the PTSA has been a wonderful group of very committed parent volunteers who spend many more hours volunteering to support TJ and its students than the parents at our base school.

Completely false. The leaders of the Coalition 4 TJ will stop at nothing to fight any change that could possibly limit the number of Asian students at the school. It doesn't matter what change the admissions office would have made - and making no change in a COVID year was not an option.

Making a change in the midst of Covid came across as terribly opportunistic, as if the School Board wanted to take advantage of the circumstances to ram through changes in TJ admissions at a time when there could not be in-person meetings or public hearings.

The fact that they spent 4-5 months jerking everyone around last year when they should have focused on shoring up their inadequate IT systems, paying attention to their shitty facilities so that schools would be safe for students upon return, and mitigating the obvious negative impact of distance learning on the county's most vulnerable kids speaks volumes to how out of touch these clowns are.

They should all be replaced in 2023, if not sooner.

They would have spent far less time “jerking everyone around” had there been no lawsuits filed as a result of the admissions changes. And it was a non-starter to leave the status quo intact given that they had no way of assessing any exam fairly. At a bare minimum they would have had to come up with something for this year.

[Anonymous]

My 11th grader went in for the PTSA in the fall. Why couldn’t they have had a test? Covid was an excuse to make poorly thought out, secretive changes in the name of George Floyd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I take it then that your view is that the VA PTSA should do the honorable thing and disband rather than similarly descend into politics.

As far as I can tell the letter in question, anonymously sent, was authored by a PTA officer, but was not issued as an opinion of the PTA. Since when does being an officer of a PTA cause one to lose free speech rights? It also shouldn't matter who the author consulted before issuing the letter.

It is not politics to demand that a PTSA refrain from playing politics. It’s good governance.

Why is "good governance" not similarly appropriate for the VA PTSA?
Furthermore, the TJ PTSA did not play politics. Likely you claimed that the TJ PTSA itself published several articles criticizing the new admissions policy. What and where are they? Put up or shut up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I take it then that your view is that the VA PTSA should do the honorable thing and disband rather than similarly descend into politics.

As far as I can tell the letter in question, anonymously sent, was authored by a PTA officer, but was not issued as an opinion of the PTA. Since when does being an officer of a PTA cause one to lose free speech rights? It also shouldn't matter who the author consulted before issuing the letter.

It is not politics to demand that a PTSA refrain from playing politics. It’s good governance.

Why is "good governance" not similarly appropriate for the VA PTSA?
Furthermore, the TJ PTSA did not play politics. Likely you claimed that the TJ PTSA itself published several articles criticizing the new admissions policy. What and where are they? Put up or shut up.

I have not claimed that the TJ PTSA has published articles criticizing the admissions process.

The former corresponding secretary and the incoming president-elect both have. Very publicly.

[Anonymous]

Under the authority of the PTSA? If not, the PTSA is not playing politics.
On the other, the VA PTSA is, under it's name, playing politics by trying to get elected officials it doesn't like unelected.

And I thought the VA PTSA was accountable to it's member organizations, not the other way around.

Frankly, even as a TJ parent, I wish this dispute continues for a long time as it continues to demonstrate the unaccountable and authoritarian nature of the education establishment.

[Anonymous]

7/14 9:24 states
" the absolute LAST thing they need is a PTSA with an Executive Committee that has written and published multiple articles telling them that they don't belong at TJ."
The Executive Committee (not the Diversity Committee) has done no such thing.

[Anonymous]

I'm glad the state PTA has oversight and is holding them to the terms of their charter. All these backdoor sneaky dealings and backstabbing by the new board just sound wrong.

[Anonymous]

Meant to say "nor" in the parenthetical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm glad the state PTA has oversight and is holding them to the terms of their charter. All these backdoor sneaky dealings and backstabbing by the new board just sound wrong.

Facts simply don't matter to some people, do they?

[Anonymous]

so the admissions process is toxic, the pta is toxic, there have been reports that the culture is toxic- what isn't just closing the school on the table?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm glad the state PTA has oversight and is holding them to the terms of their charter. All these backdoor sneaky dealings and backstabbing by the new board just sound wrong.

Facts simply don't matter to some people, do they?

I know the new PTA just ignored the facts and broke their own rules!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:so the admissions process is toxic, the pta is toxic, there have been reports that the culture is toxic- what isn't just closing the school on the table?

at this point the best thing the BOE could do is shut the place down

[Anonymous]

VA PTA is playing dirty politics. The new board for TJ just got elected. They have not done anything yet.

The current president is part of the old board. If VA has issues with what TJ PTA board had done, then they need to go after the old board member including the president who is causing this rift among parents.

[Anonymous]

Um - yes the new TJ Board has - they voted out their President ....