FCPS School Board and Superintendent Emails

[Anonymous]

Thank you. I sent an email to a couple of them.

[Anonymous]

Safety is a top priority.
And now, my complaints:
1. How much money have they set aside to do this? My kid is in a class with almost 35 kids. FCPS couldn't afford to fully staff elementary schools just a few months ago, but now they can afford to pay for a fingerprint background check for thousands of parents? When parents already scan their license for names to get checked against a sex offender registry. What other offenses is FCPS looking for, and what are they going to find that really prevents crimes against students? Basically, it seems like it will be a huge amount of money for not a lot of payoff.
2. How many volunteers will schools lose when people won't be willing or able to do this? Will schools get enough volunteers willing to do the process in order to do the regular things the school usually does, like book fair, field trips, etc., or will teachers and IAs have to fill in the gaps on those fun experiences?
3. What about parents who might not want someone taking their fingerprints and information in the current political climate?
4. FCPS emails are touting this as something that is going to enhance family-school partnerships or deepen relationships between schools and families. It's going to do the opposite.

1. I don't know.
2. Many. Too much trouble for a one time or occasional volunteer. This
3. Only the paranoid would be affected by that. That is BS.
4. More Reid spin.

[Anonymous]

Teacher here, met Michelle Reid recently. I am not someone to draw conclusions on someone from afar. I was actually excited to have Michelle Reid come to our school and spend time with our kids. Things were going well until an unplanned event occurred. Michelle Reid was extremely rude and so self entitled, it was nauseating. She was very late, left early. Maybe she was having a bad day, but she puts on a show for the kids but behind the scenes she was a nightmare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here, met Michelle Reid recently. I am not someone to draw conclusions on someone from afar. I was actually excited to have Michelle Reid come to our school and spend time with our kids. Things were going well until an unplanned event occurred. Michelle Reid was extremely rude and so self entitled, it was nauseating. She was very late, left early. Maybe she was having a bad day, but she puts on a show for the kids but behind the scenes she was a nightmare.

Get a life. You seriously took time to pull up a thread from a few months ago to share this? Do you need attention?

You gave no specifics about what she said or did nor did offer any grace because maybe she really was having a bad day and you could’ve kept this to yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here, met Michelle Reid recently. I am not someone to draw conclusions on someone from afar. I was actually excited to have Michelle Reid come to our school and spend time with our kids. Things were going well until an unplanned event occurred. Michelle Reid was extremely rude and so self entitled, it was nauseating. She was very late, left early. Maybe she was having a bad day, but she puts on a show for the kids but behind the scenes she was a nightmare.

Get a life. You seriously took time to pull up a thread from a few months ago to share this? Do you need attention?

You gave no specifics about what she said or did nor did offer any grace because maybe she really was having a bad day and you could’ve kept this to yourself.

This thread gets bumped all the time.

I’m curious about the specifics so hopefully the PP shares.

[Anonymous]

She attended our ES Back to School night and well, didn't make the best impression of herself. Came across as very severe.

Didn't know a thing about the school, enrollment, challenges, etc. Things that you'd think any person in that position would take 5 minutes to "review" prior to walking in the door - there's noone in all of FCPS writing a few facts on a notecard so she can at least cram and try to fake it?

I would think the head of such a large organization would have people prepping her prior to a school visit, event or speaking opportunity. How many of those awkward moments have we all sat through - but at least the people standing on stage have made an effort. She didn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She attended our ES Back to School night and well, didn't make the best impression of herself. Came across as very severe.

Didn't know a thing about the school, enrollment, challenges, etc. Things that you'd think any person in that position would take 5 minutes to "review" prior to walking in the door - there's noone in all of FCPS writing a few facts on a notecard so she can at least cram and try to fake it?

I would think the head of such a large organization would have people prepping her prior to a school visit, event or speaking opportunity. How many of those awkward moments have we all sat through - but at least the people standing on stage have made an effort. She didn't.

She hasn't done her homework on anything--boundary review is a great example.
What has she done? Built up a top heavy organization instead of building up our academic instruction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here, met Michelle Reid recently. I am not someone to draw conclusions on someone from afar. I was actually excited to have Michelle Reid come to our school and spend time with our kids. Things were going well until an unplanned event occurred. Michelle Reid was extremely rude and so self entitled, it was nauseating. She was very late, left early. Maybe she was having a bad day, but she puts on a show for the kids but behind the scenes she was a nightmare.

Get a life. You seriously took time to pull up a thread from a few months ago to share this? Do you need attention?

You gave no specifics about what she said or did nor did offer any grace because maybe she really was having a bad day and you could’ve kept this to yourself.

PP here, sorry I don’t want to give specifics bc I am worried she will come after our school in some way. I got extreme bully vibes. Maybe she was having a bad day but as I teacher I know how to hide mine without being rude. I expect many stories to come out on her one day. I doubt this is the first time she behaved this way and in no way was there anything that set her off.

[Anonymous]

Has any one had experience emailing school board reps and getting a response? I emailed the Franconia rep regarding her plan to help fix Lewis HS. It’s been a week now and I haven’t received a response.
Just curious if it’s normal for the reps to ignore emails

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has any one had experience emailing school board reps and getting a response? I emailed the Franconia rep regarding her plan to help fix Lewis HS. It’s been a week now and I haven’t received a response.
Just curious if it’s normal for the reps to ignore emails

Rachna replied within 8 hours to my email. I was concerned with how metal detectors were being handled at our school and wanted to escalate it to get additional supports. She just forwarded my email to the principal and told the principal to fix it...despite my email saying the principal had run out of resources

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You understand the webpage submission also reaches them, right? And it feeds into a system where they can track each message to make sure it gets responded to and not lost in an inbox?

I thought it reached their personal assistants, not them.

It does, but they also don't seem to read their own inboxes. From experience.

Don’t their personal assistants also have personal assistants now? How many layers/positions are devoted to the FCPS school board & support OF the school board?

(Rhetorical: Too many.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has any one had experience emailing school board reps and getting a response? I emailed the Franconia rep regarding her plan to help fix Lewis HS. It’s been a week now and I haven’t received a response.
Just curious if it’s normal for the reps to ignore emails

. I emailed the Franconia rep about a week ago as well and…crickets.

I also emailed our BRAC reps (both of them) weeks ago and neither responded or even acknowledged my message.

Seems the SB and others are ignoring messages related to Lewis HS.

[Anonymous]

I’ve emailed my SB rep. Zero response.