FCPS comprehensive boundary review

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is the problem with the posters from "that" part of the county. They don't check their facts because they are so sure that everything is a conspiracy to stick it to *their* school.

That person should not have been given a committee spot.

He only got it because he is a vocal democrat donor.

Apointing him to the committee reeks of coruption.

Your head would really explode if you looked at the composition of their other advisory committees.

They won’t pay much attention to the committee and they won’t pay any attention to you. Convince others in the county to replace the SB if you want change. Otherwise you’re just wasting your time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are other parents hearing this?

A big FCPS political activist just outed himself as being one of the people "randomly selected" for the parents advisory committee on rezoning.

The activist is a publicly open political activist for lbgtq causes and school board donor, with no children in FCPS. He is one of the people who seems to get a public speaking spot at nearly every school board meeting, in spite of those also designated as "random" selection. He was given one of the limited committee spots on the parent committee, in spite of not being a parent.

This is while FCPS, Reid and the school board are claiming the spots were "randomly" selected from the 1600 parent volunteers.

If the committee is so limited, why was one of the precious spots given to a non parent, political activist with no skin in the game?

Were the rest of the spots given to FCPS school board members' friends, favored activists and donors as a way to rubber stamp the county wide rezoning?

Where is the transparency of this committee?

Where are the meeting minutes and videos of their work?

Why are childless political activists getting spots on the committee, when the spots are so limited?

Does anyone have information to share on the committee and its appointments?

I think you need to read the description of the BRAC more carefully.

It suggests there were 48 randomly selected members, two from each pyramid, and then a number of additional appointed members composed of teachers, staff, and members of other FCPS committees. The total size of the BRAC wasn’t specified.

At the end of the day Reid and the School Board will do what they want to do regardless of the input from the BRAC. Of course, the more easily manipulated the BRAC is, the better for them.

None of that will keep the parents who want to sue from suing. They will still have standing; it’s just very hard to challenge a School Board decision in court successfully. The courts are usually very deferential.

This person is not any of those things.

He is a political activist and donor.

He is currently listed in the staff directory of Herndon HS as a Latin teacher and he may be on other standing FCPS advisory committees.

So you are wrong about his qualifications to be on the committee. Whether he brings much to the table other than support for the current SB is a different issue.

Funny. Herndon doesn’t offer Latin.

You can check the staff directory for Herndon High. That is how he is listed, so perhaps he's a substitute but they acknowledged that he used to teach Latin at West Potomac.

I don't disagree that, if he's on the committee, he was appointed because they viewed him as a supporter of whatever they want to do with boundaries. He supports the School Board because they advocate for LBGTQ students, and in return he'll rubber-stamp what they want to do with boundaries.

I’ll have to give the school a call, because Latin was dropped there a few years ago.

[Anonymous]

Herndon HS currently World Languages staff only includes French and Spanish teachers. There is no Latin taught there and hasn’t been for several years.

https://herndonhs.fcps.edu/department/world-languages

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Herndon HS currently World Languages staff only includes French and Spanish teachers. There is no Latin taught there and hasn’t been for several years.

https://herndonhs.fcps.edu/department/world-languages

The course catalog for Herndon HS for 2024-25 lists Latin and the Latin teacher is identified as such in the Herndon course catalog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are other parents hearing this?

A big FCPS political activist just outed himself as being one of the people "randomly selected" for the parents advisory committee on rezoning.

The activist is a publicly open political activist for lbgtq causes and school board donor, with no children in FCPS. He is one of the people who seems to get a public speaking spot at nearly every school board meeting, in spite of those also designated as "random" selection. He was given one of the limited committee spots on the parent committee, in spite of not being a parent.

This is while FCPS, Reid and the school board are claiming the spots were "randomly" selected from the 1600 parent volunteers.

If the committee is so limited, why was one of the precious spots given to a non parent, political activist with no skin in the game?

Were the rest of the spots given to FCPS school board members' friends, favored activists and donors as a way to rubber stamp the county wide rezoning?

Where is the transparency of this committee?

Where are the meeting minutes and videos of their work?

Why are childless political activists getting spots on the committee, when the spots are so limited?

Does anyone have information to share on the committee and its appointments?

I think you need to read the description of the BRAC more carefully.

It suggests there were 48 randomly selected members, two from each pyramid, and then a number of additional appointed members composed of teachers, staff, and members of other FCPS committees. The total size of the BRAC wasn’t specified.

At the end of the day Reid and the School Board will do what they want to do regardless of the input from the BRAC. Of course, the more easily manipulated the BRAC is, the better for them.

None of that will keep the parents who want to sue from suing. They will still have standing; it’s just very hard to challenge a School Board decision in court successfully. The courts are usually very deferential.

This stinks. We straddle two pyramids - ES in one pyramid but HS is in another pyramid. I’m sure we will not be appropriately represented and likely offered up as sacrificial lambs. We never wanted to be part of a split feeder, and while hopefully the realignment will fix this, I have a feeling we’ll be re-boundaried to our disadvantage but to the advantage of the rest of the HS pyramid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the problem with the posters from "that" part of the county. They don't check their facts because they are so sure that everything is a conspiracy to stick it to *their* school.

That person should not have been given a committee spot.

He only got it because he is a vocal democrat donor.

Apointing him to the committee reeks of coruption.

And this right here, is why they renewed Reid’s contact early. They knew she/ they were going to face backlash for shady choices that parents would be against. Absolutely ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the problem with the posters from "that" part of the county. They don't check their facts because they are so sure that everything is a conspiracy to stick it to *their* school.

That person should not have been given a committee spot.

He only got it because he is a vocal democrat donor.

Apointing him to the committee reeks of coruption.

Was he appointed as one of the 2-from-each-pyramid randomly selected, or as a representative of a community group? I don't know all the groups who got spots assigned, but NAACP and other groups in that category had a representative that doesn't count as part of the random selection (for obvious reasons).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the problem with the posters from "that" part of the county. They don't check their facts because they are so sure that everything is a conspiracy to stick it to *their* school.

That person should not have been given a committee spot.

He only got it because he is a vocal democrat donor.

Apointing him to the committee reeks of coruption.

Was he appointed as one of the 2-from-each-pyramid randomly selected, or as a representative of a community group? I don't know all the groups who got spots assigned, but NAACP and other groups in that category had a representative that doesn't count as part of the random selection (for obvious reasons).

I don’t know but FYI he is currently Karl Frisch’s appointee to the Minority Student Achievement Oversight Committee, which is one of FCPS’s standing advisory committees. And they said this boundary committee would have representatives from other committees.

[Anonymous]

So disappointed in myself for believing this BRAC would have a grassroots, municipal level democracy feel to it. This is somewhere between "democracy dies in the darkness" and straight up corruption. How do we get the state to step in when FCPS fails to police itself? Just like with Hayfield football.

[Anonymous]

I detest how FCOS keeps using “community members” on committees as a way to get people who will agree to whatever they want to do. Committee reps should be parents and full time instructional staff. Period.

[Anonymous]

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And I am a Dem BTW but it is ridiculous how this “community members” option is used constantly. They are not parents and not teachers. These people should not have an active voice in the shaping of school policy just for existing in the county.

[Anonymous]

Pretend to have community involvement and listen, then do what they had planned to do. Same old playbook.

[Anonymous]

Pathetic that they hand select these committee members. Also pathetic that the public input at the pyramid meetings are so limited.

It’s almost like they don’t care about public opinion at all and are just going to do what they want to do.

Such a lame echo chamber they live in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pathetic that they hand select these committee members. Also pathetic that the public input at the pyramid meetings are so limited.

It’s almost like they don’t care about public opinion at all and are just going to do what they want to do.

Such a lame echo chamber they live in.

+1- I don’t think they see their jobs as representatives of their constituents, just as board members of a corporation. They are steamrolling this through with the power of their positions rather than representing the people who elected them. It is sad to see Machiavellian principles leading local politics as well.

[Anonymous]

And once they push through immensely unpopular boundary changes with the threat of more every five years, it’ll secure vouchers for our state.

The school board and FCPS deserves all of the consequences for the ill-advised movesthat they are about to wreak on the county. They can’t say they weren’t warned.