Tell me more about the School Board election process
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Anonymous
Oh, please. You're casting these issues in the most inflammatory way possible. I, personally, don't mind my DD having combined classes in MS. Sorry, I hear what she's hearing already and FLE is the least offensive things. My DD is not competing with boys. She's a high-performing athlete in her own right and we are not concerned about this. "Troubling" is in the eye of the beholder. You behold for your kid; leave me to mine. I"m fine with them. I grew up in a union family. And while I often am on the other (litigation) side of them now, they are valuable and I support them. The last point . . . is not a thing. It's just not. And FTR, I'm not asking for your validation, permission, or approval. I will be dead in the ground before I would check the box/pull a button/lever for anyone with an "R" after their name again (I have in the past, never will again). Posts like yours -deliberately misleading, if not outright lies- are one reason why. |
Anonymous
This is the very opposite of regulation, dumba$$. It is leaving YOU to decide for your kid; and me to mine. God, you're a moron. |
Anonymous
Blah, blah, blah. I am not part of the "D" establishment. I don't know who these people are. I know the issues. And I know I would never vote for an "R" and I can at least articulate why more than "Dems are too far to the left" trope. |
Anonymous
] The only people that benefit from the teachers' unions are the union leaders. I learned this as a very young teacher and have seen nothing to change my mind, but have become more and more convinced that this is true. They make far more than the teachers they represent and use the dues to forward their own agendas. This is not just Randi Weingarten--but she is a prime example. |
Anonymous
It must be tough constantly having to harangue people when they just want high academic standards and some basic decency in the schools, all to keep the fringes of your coalition happy. But it's hard to feel sorry for you when you're so obviously a complete and utter jerk. |
Anonymous
I mean, that's a nice word salad to say nothing at all. My kid has high academics: all honors and APs and all As. Sorry your kid isn't doing so well. Maybe it's not the schools. In terms of "smut", does your kid have a phone? Will they? If so, then you lose any credibility with re: to this issue. WAY worse on the phones. If you're legit that you won't give your kid a phone until older HS age, then you may at least have some moral high ground. Still doesn't give you the right to decide what my kid has access to. |
Anonymous
Now you're just tossing out unverifiable claims about your kid's brilliance to make yourself look better. Giant fail. Community members absolutely have a right to weigh in on what belongs in the libraries of schools they support with their taxpayer dollars. You just want them to be others who, like you, turn a blind eye to smut to curry favor with LWNJs. |
Anonymous
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People here keep saying that Saundra Davis is "not a Republican." But her campaign is being managed by far-right nuts who want to completely dismantle public education.
Just look at who her treasurer is - he also worked for Republican Nick Freitas, who was the only Delegate who voted against health insurance coverage for kids with autism. Woodfin is also managing several other Republican school board campaigns in Fairfax. https://cfreports.elections.virginia.gov/Committee/Index/b87ece74-c5fa-4a4f-ab57-ac3fd64f2a36 https://www.vpap.org/vendors/289018-woodfin-law-offices/?page=1 |
Anonymous
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Davis has said she’s a former Democrat who is now an independent. I’m just as inclined to believe her as to believe McDaniel when he says he is a former Republican who is now a Democrat.
Political alignments change. Just because some Republicans back a particular candidate as an alternative to the FCDC-endorsed candidates, who tend to be extremely to the left, doesn’t mean the candidate is herself a Republican. There’s next to no way the Republicans are going to gain a majority on the next School Board. What’s important to many of us is putting an end to the crazy echo chamber we got with a 12-0 Democratic board. The lack of any meaningful checks and balances turned out to be a complete disaster - so bad, in fact, that most of the current members are walking away from the sh*t show that they themselves created. |
Anonymous
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I just want some people with common sense who will be considerate of students and parents of all types--not just those with special needs and wants.
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Anonymous
Davis is probably your best bet. She is right down the middle moderate who strongly supports parents and students. Like a poster said above, there is a snowballs chance in hell that Rs and moderates win a majority on the school board. There is a miniscule chance that Rs and moderates win a tiny handful of 2 to 4 seats on the school board. But even one moderate like Davis gives a voice to the centrist and right leaning parents in FCPS. She is the best hope for moderates to have at least one person represent their voice on the school board. If you care about education, do not vote straight D endorsed candidates. We have to have discussion and debate so perhaps some of their worst fringe ideas can at least be challenged. We cannot have 4 more years of unfettered political radicals from one party who are using the school board as a stepping stone for higher office and to push a fringe agenda. |
Anonymous
+1000. |
Anonymous
Hi Saundra! You don’t seem like a moderate to me. Still looking for my third at large but still researching, too. Glad there are so many choices this year. |
Anonymous
| As a Republican, I say let the Democrats continue to own the disaster that FCPS has become. No saving it at this point. |