FCPS NEW SUPERINTENDENT : Michelle Reid

[Anonymous]

A group of local Black educators has now sent a letter to FCPS that, reading between the lines, also expresses grave reservations about Michelle Reid as the next Superintendent.

https://fabse.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/FABSE%20Open%20Letter.pdf

Given Reid's commitment to social justice and equity, one can only assume it's a short amount of time before she withdraws or her withdrawal is also made public.

[Anonymous]

I assume those black educators are supportive of being outed whenever they apply for a job considering they have jumped on the NAACP’s deplorable acts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A group of local Black educators has now sent a letter to FCPS that, reading between the lines, also expresses grave reservations about Michelle Reid as the next Superintendent.

https://fabse.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/FABSE%20Open%20Letter.pdf

Given Reid's commitment to social justice and equity, one can only assume it's a short amount of time before she withdraws or her withdrawal is also made public.

So we want to ensure that no one wants to be a school board member or a superintendent. Great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A group of local Black educators has now sent a letter to FCPS that, reading between the lines, also expresses grave reservations about Michelle Reid as the next Superintendent.

https://fabse.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/FABSE%20Open%20Letter.pdf

Given Reid's commitment to social justice and equity, one can only assume it's a short amount of time before she withdraws or her withdrawal is also made public.

So we want to ensure that no one wants to be a school board member or a superintendent. Great.

It would be great if we had a brand-new School Board and a qualified new superintendent. Unfortunately, Youngkin only proposed to move up the election for the Loudoun County School Board. Such a shame he didn't do the same thing for FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A group of local Black educators has now sent a letter to FCPS that, reading between the lines, also expresses grave reservations about Michelle Reid as the next Superintendent.

https://fabse.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/FABSE%20Open%20Letter.pdf

Given Reid's commitment to social justice and equity, one can only assume it's a short amount of time before she withdraws or her withdrawal is also made public.

The superintendent is one person. How can one person possibly please all these different interest groups? I saw an article about some other group criticizing the process and wanting more input. One person is never going to please anyone. I hope the School Board ignores this and just keeps going with their process. I am not a huge fan of the current board but we can't get bogged down trying to cater to every single interest group in a very large county. These groups should be advocating for diversity on the School Board, or among assistant superintendents, or principals, or teachers, or whatever other positions are comprised of more than one person. This is just ridiculous. Is this how other superintendent searches are in other areas? I don't know because I've never followed the process. I imagine this kind of stuff happens in a lot of places and at some point it just needs to be handled with a "we hear you, but..."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A group of local Black educators has now sent a letter to FCPS that, reading between the lines, also expresses grave reservations about Michelle Reid as the next Superintendent.

https://fabse.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/FABSE%20Open%20Letter.pdf

Given Reid's commitment to social justice and equity, one can only assume it's a short amount of time before she withdraws or her withdrawal is also made public.

So we want to ensure that no one wants to be a school board member or a superintendent. Great.

It would be great if we had a brand-new School Board and a qualified new superintendent. Unfortunately, Youngkin only proposed to move up the election for the Loudoun County School Board. Such a shame he didn't do the same thing for FCPS.

+1
Governor Youngqin is attempting to give the LCPS constituents the option to replace earlier the people who covered up the unthinkable: sexual crimes committed against minors at school grounds, and by so doing, committing a crime themselves. Shall the FCPS School Board be involved in any crime against the most vulnerable, either by commission or by omission, by all means, they
shall contemplate the same faith.

The fact remains that this is about protecting the vulnerable: girls and boys at school grounds (state property).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Enrollment is already back to pre-pandemic levels and anxiety and learning gaps for students shot up everywhere due to the pandemic. It’s not just the FCPS response to the pandemic.

You may not like the candidates but they are qualified.

Enrollment is down >10,000 students.
Most of the SB is far from qualified. Try watching a few meetings in their entirety. They ran unopposed. LJC was elected because she's not Schultz. There was a highly qualified alternative.

[Anonymous]

There’s something deeply revolting, yet utterly predictable, about the fact that this School Board would go out and recruit a woman who is basically a carbon copy of themselves, rather than look for someone who brings something different to the table in terms of their skills and disciplines. So we’ll basically end up with a 13-0 Democratic School Board that’s an even more inept echo chamber than the current situation with Brabrand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s something deeply revolting, yet utterly predictable, about the fact that this School Board would go out and recruit a woman who is basically a carbon copy of themselves, rather than look for someone who brings something different to the table in terms of their skills and disciplines. So we’ll basically end up with a 13-0 Democratic School Board that’s an even more inept echo chamber than the current situation with Brabrand.

Yeah, they should have looked for someone who wanted to ban books in school libraries and who regularly screamed “groomer!” at school boards!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Enrollment is already back to pre-pandemic levels and anxiety and learning gaps for students shot up everywhere due to the pandemic. It’s not just the FCPS response to the pandemic.

You may not like the candidates but they are qualified.

Enrollment is down >10,000 students.
Most of the SB is far from qualified. Try watching a few meetings in their entirety. They ran unopposed. LJC was elected because she's not Schultz. There was a highly qualified alternative.

They were all wholly unqualified to lead the school board during a pandemic, with the exception of McLaughlin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s something deeply revolting, yet utterly predictable, about the fact that this School Board would go out and recruit a woman who is basically a carbon copy of themselves, rather than look for someone who brings something different to the table in terms of their skills and disciplines. So we’ll basically end up with a 13-0 Democratic School Board that’s an even more inept echo chamber than the current situation with Brabrand.

Yeah, they should have looked for someone who wanted to ban books in school libraries and who regularly screamed “groomer!” at school boards!

What a truly idiotic response. No wonder FCPS is tanking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A group of local Black educators has now sent a letter to FCPS that, reading between the lines, also expresses grave reservations about Michelle Reid as the next Superintendent.

https://fabse.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/FABSE%20Open%20Letter.pdf

Given Reid's commitment to social justice and equity, one can only assume it's a short amount of time before she withdraws or her withdrawal is also made public.

The black educators FABSE are making a fool out of themselves. Way to get bad blood with the incoming superintendent, by badmouthing her in the letter, it’s one thing for a third party not directly involved with FCPS to weigh in but another for direct subordinates to shame someone like this publicly. But then again they are the ones promoting people like Nardos King/Tony Copeland and doing everything to protect incompetents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A group of local Black educators has now sent a letter to FCPS that, reading between the lines, also expresses grave reservations about Michelle Reid as the next Superintendent.

https://fabse.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/FABSE%20Open%20Letter.pdf

Given Reid's commitment to social justice and equity, one can only assume it's a short amount of time before she withdraws or her withdrawal is also made public.

I am not really sure what their letter is intended to do. They do say they like Logan better than Reid, that the board misses an opportunity to hire the first black woman superintendent for Fairfax, and that they were not allowed "in the room" for the panel. I imagine the asian-american educators association and the hispanic educators association were not there as well, along with many others who would have wanted to be there. The letter meanders and basically only asks for the hiring criteria and process. Everything else is pseudo implied. If they want to take a stand, especially stating they are aware of possible repercussions, they should make a solid claim/request.

And then there is a link to their eight priorities, which are fine, though they need an editor - many typos in what I assume is a document they worked over at some length. And surprising for a group of education leaders.

This just seems poorly done in my view and comes off as a complaint without a focus or real intent. Maybe it is clearer or more persuasive to others.

[Anonymous]

I don't really think it's cool what the NAACP did here. The two candidates had to make public comments about it after.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am glad they were enlightening and useful to you. Your thoughts on Michelle Reid are irrelevant since you aren’t in charge of hiring the superintendent.

No. But we do hire— or fire in 2023– the people who hire the Superintendent. If she’s a mess, the Board gets voted out (which will probably happen anyway), we buy out her contract and we do this again.

Democracy.