GOP endorsed school board candidates

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Anonymous wrote:Why do the Republican endorsed candidates not tell us they’re Republican? Are they ashamed?

Do the Democrats announce they're Democrats? If so, it would certainly make it easier to know who not to vote for.

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Anonymous wrote:Echoing some PPs, I am open to voting for any candidate, no matter the party endorsement.

Issue that I care the most about: the quality of academics at FCPS. (Doing something about the lack of quality.)

Caveats:
*I do not care about punishing people who closed the schools during the pandemic. Move on.
*I will NOT vote for someone who makes a priority of creating a hostile environment for LGBTQ kids.
(And for those who make assumptions about me based on this statement: I have ordered the two books mentioned and will read them with an open mind. But even if I find them wholly inappropriate, I cannot imagine making two books in high school library shelves into a catalyst issue. I haven't read every post but, from what I have, this thread has covered: a couple controversial books, a proposed but not implemented plan to refer to kids by their "gender assigned at birth," and the notion that referring to gay people at all might be considered in elementary school as reference to sex and therefore inappropriate. I am by no means a political activist nor a nutty liberal, but any candidate who underlines these three points as their big identifying issues has lost me.)

Please tell me which candidates are genuinely invested in working to raise academic standards without emphasizing those particular gender/sexuality points.

Other books banned by activists that are worth reading to understand the genuine concern of parents at FCPS about gender ideology activism at our schools, particularly because of its effect on kids who identify as experiencing body dysmorphia:

1. Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness by Miriam Grossman, MD.
2. Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids by Josie A. and Dina S.
3. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier.

This book isn't based on data -- it's an opinion piece by someone who is anti-trans.

Meet Abigail Shrier and the real motivation behind Irreversible Damage before you pass judgment on the validity of her book, her background, or what drives her to do what she does:

https://www.thefp.com/p/abigail-shrier-on-freedom-in-an-age

I have no interest in meeting bigots.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Echoing some PPs, I am open to voting for any candidate, no matter the party endorsement.

Issue that I care the most about: the quality of academics at FCPS. (Doing something about the lack of quality.)

Caveats:
*I do not care about punishing people who closed the schools during the pandemic. Move on.
*I will NOT vote for someone who makes a priority of creating a hostile environment for LGBTQ kids.
(And for those who make assumptions about me based on this statement: I have ordered the two books mentioned and will read them with an open mind. But even if I find them wholly inappropriate, I cannot imagine making two books in high school library shelves into a catalyst issue. I haven't read every post but, from what I have, this thread has covered: a couple controversial books, a proposed but not implemented plan to refer to kids by their "gender assigned at birth," and the notion that referring to gay people at all might be considered in elementary school as reference to sex and therefore inappropriate. I am by no means a political activist nor a nutty liberal, but any candidate who underlines these three points as their big identifying issues has lost me.)

Please tell me which candidates are genuinely invested in working to raise academic standards without emphasizing those particular gender/sexuality points.

We have at least one boy at our FCPS high school who now use both the boys and girls bathrooms in the same day, because his gender changes by the minute depending on who know what, probably to follow specific girls into the bathroom.

Girls parents have complained and other boys have spoken up, but the principals hands are tied.

It is not "punishing" transgender kids when schools communicate with parents. If the parents are informed and signed off on their kids trans status, then we will finally have reasonable gatekeeping to protect the actual trans kids and to prevent other kids, possibly predator kids, from exploiting the current open door bathroom and locker room policy.

Trans kids as a group are particularly at risk for exploitation, abuse, trafficking or worse by strangers on the internet, far more than from their parents. Getting their parents informed should be the priority of FCPS, as should following the very reasonable governor's policy.

Instead, FCPS actively hides the information from parents, and pushes them towards unvetted, unsupervised, adult internet strangers via sanctioned forums like the trevor project, or towards that ffx lunatic who has been publicly telling minor children to run away from their families to live with him and his friends if their parents don't "affirm" their new gender or if they don't want to share their trans status with their parents. With open predators like him, why would FCPS not want to get the parents informed as quickly as possible?

Well said ^^.

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Anonymous wrote:Besides Kyle McDaniel and Karl Frisch, Robyn Lady can be a good addition to FCPS school board. As a lesbian and retired FCPS school counselor, she has the expertise to help FCPS develop a strategy to guide students on exploring their gender preference and sexual orientation.

https://victoryfund.org/candidate/lady-robyn/

Karl Frisch does not even have children, let along children in FCPS. He is a lifelong political activist whose far-left, special-interest policies have been a disaster for learning in FCPS.

He is the last person who should be re-elected, because he obviously does not care about academics and will put learning last on his list of priorities.

If McDaniel and Lady are associated with Frisch, they just lost my vote too.

Explain

Pandemic in person school closure for one full year - no additional info needed.

How is virtual school during a global pandemic a "far-left, special-interest policy"?

Republicans think the public forgot about the 1.2 million people killed by Covid which would’ve been far worse without closures. No one liked closures, but most people weren’t so self centered about it. According to them, democrats just woke up one day and randomly said “hey let’s just close schools for sh%ts and giggles.”

I'm not sure what kind of psychopath you have to be to force teachers into schools prior to vaccines and prior to the peak of the pandemic (Jan 2021), but I guess psychopath and Republican are synonymous.

Nice that you called our Dem gov a psychopath - a LOTs of other places who were smart enough to go back to school with Ds - like Rhode Island.

We had vaccines by then, brainiac.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Besides Kyle McDaniel and Karl Frisch, Robyn Lady can be a good addition to FCPS school board. As a lesbian and retired FCPS school counselor, she has the expertise to help FCPS develop a strategy to guide students on exploring their gender preference and sexual orientation.

https://victoryfund.org/candidate/lady-robyn/

Karl Frisch does not even have children, let along children in FCPS. He is a lifelong political activist whose far-left, special-interest policies have been a disaster for learning in FCPS.

He is the last person who should be re-elected, because he obviously does not care about academics and will put learning last on his list of priorities.

If McDaniel and Lady are associated with Frisch, they just lost my vote too.

Explain

Pandemic in person school closure for one full year - no additional info needed.

How is virtual school during a global pandemic a "far-left, special-interest policy"?

Because the Democrat Gov allowed hybrid - we should have never been more restrictive than what our governor allowed.

It wasn’t a partisan decision. Republican governors and school districts also “allowed” hybrid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Echoing some PPs, I am open to voting for any candidate, no matter the party endorsement.

Issue that I care the most about: the quality of academics at FCPS. (Doing something about the lack of quality.)

Caveats:
*I do not care about punishing people who closed the schools during the pandemic. Move on.
*I will NOT vote for someone who makes a priority of creating a hostile environment for LGBTQ kids.
(And for those who make assumptions about me based on this statement: I have ordered the two books mentioned and will read them with an open mind. But even if I find them wholly inappropriate, I cannot imagine making two books in high school library shelves into a catalyst issue. I haven't read every post but, from what I have, this thread has covered: a couple controversial books, a proposed but not implemented plan to refer to kids by their "gender assigned at birth," and the notion that referring to gay people at all might be considered in elementary school as reference to sex and therefore inappropriate. I am by no means a political activist nor a nutty liberal, but any candidate who underlines these three points as their big identifying issues has lost me.)

Please tell me which candidates are genuinely invested in working to raise academic standards without emphasizing those particular gender/sexuality points.

Other books banned by activists that are worth reading to understand the genuine concern of parents at FCPS about gender ideology activism at our schools, particularly because of its effect on kids who identify as experiencing body dysmorphia:

1. Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness by Miriam Grossman, MD.
2. Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids by Josie A. and Dina S.
3. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier.

This book isn't based on data -- it's an opinion piece by someone who is anti-trans.

Meet Abigail Shrier and the real motivation behind Irreversible Damage before you pass judgment on the validity of her book, her background, or what drives her to do what she does:

https://www.thefp.com/p/abigail-shrier-on-freedom-in-an-age

I have no interest in meeting bigots.

Abigail Shrier has something in common with you in that she is interested in debunking bigoted attitudes and approaches destroying our youth, particularly those who identify as experiencing gender dysphoria:

https://www.thefp.com/p/top-trans-doctors-blow-the-whistle

As a parent with children in FCPS I find it imperative that if the current School Board and Superintendent continue to make gender ideology a priority, the least they can do is abandon their biased approach on the issue to keep up with informed voters.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Besides Kyle McDaniel and Karl Frisch, Robyn Lady can be a good addition to FCPS school board. As a lesbian and retired FCPS school counselor, she has the expertise to help FCPS develop a strategy to guide students on exploring their gender preference and sexual orientation.

https://victoryfund.org/candidate/lady-robyn/

Karl Frisch does not even have children, let along children in FCPS. He is a lifelong political activist whose far-left, special-interest policies have been a disaster for learning in FCPS.

He is the last person who should be re-elected, because he obviously does not care about academics and will put learning last on his list of priorities.

If McDaniel and Lady are associated with Frisch, they just lost my vote too.

Explain

Pandemic in person school closure for one full year - no additional info needed.

How is virtual school during a global pandemic a "far-left, special-interest policy"?

Republicans think the public forgot about the 1.2 million people killed by Covid which would’ve been far worse without closures. No one liked closures, but most people weren’t so self centered about it. According to them, democrats just woke up one day and randomly said “hey let’s just close schools for sh%ts and giggles.”

I'm not sure what kind of psychopath you have to be to force teachers into schools prior to vaccines and prior to the peak of the pandemic (Jan 2021), but I guess psychopath and Republican are synonymous.

Nice that you called our Dem gov a psychopath - a LOTs of other places who were smart enough to go back to school with Ds - like Rhode Island.

We had vaccines by then, brainiac.

Why thank you - I am a brainiac and I have receipts to support me unlike you - Northam said we could go back to hybrid in fall 2020 before vaccines. And here is Providence, Rhode Island in person before vaccines too:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/us/coronavirus-schools-rhode-island-providence.html

In Providence, more than 70 percent of the district’s roughly 22,600 students have returned to their classrooms. The district is 68 percent Latino, 15 percent Black, 6.5 percent white and 4 percent Asian. Eighty-five percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

A key part of what has made Providence different has been Rhode Island’s governor, Gina Raimondo, who pushed strongly for schools to reopen for in-person instruction, saying that remote learning was leaving disadvantaged students behind.

Raimondo is a D, like I was saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Echoing some PPs, I am open to voting for any candidate, no matter the party endorsement.

Issue that I care the most about: the quality of academics at FCPS. (Doing something about the lack of quality.)

Caveats:
*I do not care about punishing people who closed the schools during the pandemic. Move on.
*I will NOT vote for someone who makes a priority of creating a hostile environment for LGBTQ kids.
(And for those who make assumptions about me based on this statement: I have ordered the two books mentioned and will read them with an open mind. But even if I find them wholly inappropriate, I cannot imagine making two books in high school library shelves into a catalyst issue. I haven't read every post but, from what I have, this thread has covered: a couple controversial books, a proposed but not implemented plan to refer to kids by their "gender assigned at birth," and the notion that referring to gay people at all might be considered in elementary school as reference to sex and therefore inappropriate. I am by no means a political activist nor a nutty liberal, but any candidate who underlines these three points as their big identifying issues has lost me.)

Please tell me which candidates are genuinely invested in working to raise academic standards without emphasizing those particular gender/sexuality points.

Other books banned by activists that are worth reading to understand the genuine concern of parents at FCPS about gender ideology activism at our schools, particularly because of its effect on kids who identify as experiencing body dysmorphia:

1. Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness by Miriam Grossman, MD.
2. Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids by Josie A. and Dina S.
3. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier.

This book isn't based on data -- it's an opinion piece by someone who is anti-trans.

Meet Abigail Shrier and the real motivation behind Irreversible Damage before you pass judgment on the validity of her book, her background, or what drives her to do what she does:

https://www.thefp.com/p/abigail-shrier-on-freedom-in-an-age

Everyone knows you can glue on a functional penis / breasts or anything else you had sliced off your body if you change your mind later.

“Irreversible Damage”—- what a completely inaccurate title for a book.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Besides Kyle McDaniel and Karl Frisch, Robyn Lady can be a good addition to FCPS school board. As a lesbian and retired FCPS school counselor, she has the expertise to help FCPS develop a strategy to guide students on exploring their gender preference and sexual orientation.

https://victoryfund.org/candidate/lady-robyn/

Karl Frisch does not even have children, let along children in FCPS. He is a lifelong political activist whose far-left, special-interest policies have been a disaster for learning in FCPS.

He is the last person who should be re-elected, because he obviously does not care about academics and will put learning last on his list of priorities.

If McDaniel and Lady are associated with Frisch, they just lost my vote too.

Explain

Pandemic in person school closure for one full year - no additional info needed.

How is virtual school during a global pandemic a "far-left, special-interest policy"?

Republicans think the public forgot about the 1.2 million people killed by Covid which would’ve been far worse without closures. No one liked closures, but most people weren’t so self centered about it. According to them, democrats just woke up one day and randomly said “hey let’s just close schools for sh%ts and giggles.”

I'm not sure what kind of psychopath you have to be to force teachers into schools prior to vaccines and prior to the peak of the pandemic (Jan 2021), but I guess psychopath and Republican are synonymous.

Nice that you called our Dem gov a psychopath - a LOTs of other places who were smart enough to go back to school with Ds - like Rhode Island.

We had vaccines by then, brainiac.

Why thank you - I am a brainiac and I have receipts to support me unlike you - Northam said we could go back to hybrid in fall 2020 before vaccines. And here is Providence, Rhode Island in person before vaccines too:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/us/coronavirus-schools-rhode-island-providence.html

In Providence, more than 70 percent of the district’s roughly 22,600 students have returned to their classrooms. The district is 68 percent Latino, 15 percent Black, 6.5 percent white and 4 percent Asian. Eighty-five percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

A key part of what has made Providence different has been Rhode Island’s governor, Gina Raimondo, who pushed strongly for schools to reopen for in-person instruction, saying that remote learning was leaving disadvantaged students behind.

Raimondo is a D, like I was saying.

It was obvious from the beginning that closing schools would hurt the poorest students the most.

The dems (leadership) didn’t care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Echoing some PPs, I am open to voting for any candidate, no matter the party endorsement.

Issue that I care the most about: the quality of academics at FCPS. (Doing something about the lack of quality.)

Caveats:
*I do not care about punishing people who closed the schools during the pandemic. Move on.
*I will NOT vote for someone who makes a priority of creating a hostile environment for LGBTQ kids.
(And for those who make assumptions about me based on this statement: I have ordered the two books mentioned and will read them with an open mind. But even if I find them wholly inappropriate, I cannot imagine making two books in high school library shelves into a catalyst issue. I haven't read every post but, from what I have, this thread has covered: a couple controversial books, a proposed but not implemented plan to refer to kids by their "gender assigned at birth," and the notion that referring to gay people at all might be considered in elementary school as reference to sex and therefore inappropriate. I am by no means a political activist nor a nutty liberal, but any candidate who underlines these three points as their big identifying issues has lost me.)

Please tell me which candidates are genuinely invested in working to raise academic standards without emphasizing those particular gender/sexuality points.

Other books banned by activists that are worth reading to understand the genuine concern of parents at FCPS about gender ideology activism at our schools, particularly because of its effect on kids who identify as experiencing body dysmorphia:

1. Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness by Miriam Grossman, MD.
2. Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids by Josie A. and Dina S.
3. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier.

I'm against book banning on both sides - so it just really irks me that the progressives do not also recognize this as book banning.

Completely agree. The irony and hypocrisy of some of the postings in this thread towards Abigail Shrier’s work prove such double standard. Shrier’s good friend, Bari Weiss - who, among many other things (a journalist, writer, and editor) happens to be a lesbian - expresses it best here:

https://www.thefp.com/p/the-books-are-already-burning

Unfortunately, so long books in the likes of Gender Queer are the only ones pushed by librarians in FCPS and the current School Board, our kids will be “educated” in complete ignorance.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why do the Republican endorsed candidates not tell us they’re Republican? Are they ashamed?

Do the Democrats announce they're Democrats? If so, it would certainly make it easier to know who not to vote for.

They do. I want the Republicans to do the same thing so I know not to vote for them! But they are too ashamed to announce they’re Republicans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Echoing some PPs, I am open to voting for any candidate, no matter the party endorsement.

Issue that I care the most about: the quality of academics at FCPS. (Doing something about the lack of quality.)

Caveats:
*I do not care about punishing people who closed the schools during the pandemic. Move on.
*I will NOT vote for someone who makes a priority of creating a hostile environment for LGBTQ kids.
(And for those who make assumptions about me based on this statement: I have ordered the two books mentioned and will read them with an open mind. But even if I find them wholly inappropriate, I cannot imagine making two books in high school library shelves into a catalyst issue. I haven't read every post but, from what I have, this thread has covered: a couple controversial books, a proposed but not implemented plan to refer to kids by their "gender assigned at birth," and the notion that referring to gay people at all might be considered in elementary school as reference to sex and therefore inappropriate. I am by no means a political activist nor a nutty liberal, but any candidate who underlines these three points as their big identifying issues has lost me.)

Please tell me which candidates are genuinely invested in working to raise academic standards without emphasizing those particular gender/sexuality points.

Other books banned by activists that are worth reading to understand the genuine concern of parents at FCPS about gender ideology activism at our schools, particularly because of its effect on kids who identify as experiencing body dysmorphia:

1. Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness by Miriam Grossman, MD.
2. Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids by Josie A. and Dina S.
3. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier.

This book isn't based on data -- it's an opinion piece by someone who is anti-trans.

So it should be banned?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do the Republican endorsed candidates not tell us they’re Republican? Are they ashamed?

Do the Democrats announce they're Democrats? If so, it would certainly make it easier to know who not to vote for.

They do. I want the Republicans to do the same thing so I know not to vote for them! But they are too ashamed to announce they’re Republicans.

Every candidate on the ballot has “nonpartisan” next to their name.
https://ballotpedia.org/Fairfax_County_Public_Schools,_Virginia,_elections_(2023)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do the Republican endorsed candidates not tell us they’re Republican? Are they ashamed?

Do the Democrats announce they're Democrats? If so, it would certainly make it easier to know who not to vote for.

They do. I want the Republicans to do the same thing so I know not to vote for them! But they are too ashamed to announce they’re Republicans.

They’re all right here and none of them are “ashamed” of anything.
https://fairfaxgop.org/2023-fairfaxgop-endorsed-school-board-candidates-fairfax-county/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Echoing some PPs, I am open to voting for any candidate, no matter the party endorsement.

Issue that I care the most about: the quality of academics at FCPS. (Doing something about the lack of quality.)

Caveats:
*I do not care about punishing people who closed the schools during the pandemic. Move on.
*I will NOT vote for someone who makes a priority of creating a hostile environment for LGBTQ kids.
(And for those who make assumptions about me based on this statement: I have ordered the two books mentioned and will read them with an open mind. But even if I find them wholly inappropriate, I cannot imagine making two books in high school library shelves into a catalyst issue. I haven't read every post but, from what I have, this thread has covered: a couple controversial books, a proposed but not implemented plan to refer to kids by their "gender assigned at birth," and the notion that referring to gay people at all might be considered in elementary school as reference to sex and therefore inappropriate. I am by no means a political activist nor a nutty liberal, but any candidate who underlines these three points as their big identifying issues has lost me.)

Please tell me which candidates are genuinely invested in working to raise academic standards without emphasizing those particular gender/sexuality points.

Other books banned by activists that are worth reading to understand the genuine concern of parents at FCPS about gender ideology activism at our schools, particularly because of its effect on kids who identify as experiencing body dysmorphia:

1. Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness by Miriam Grossman, MD.
2. Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids by Josie A. and Dina S.
3. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier.

This book isn't based on data -- it's an opinion piece by someone who is anti-trans.

Meet Abigail Shrier and the real motivation behind Irreversible Damage before you pass judgment on the validity of her book, her background, or what drives her to do what she does:

https://www.thefp.com/p/abigail-shrier-on-freedom-in-an-age

Everyone knows you can glue on a functional penis / breasts or anything else you had sliced off your body if you change your mind later.

“Irreversible Damage”—- what a completely inaccurate title for a book.

Listen to this girl
https://youtube.com/shorts/nRg1VLXfWDo?si=fr0SMB-fx9wdLtXQ