slur during last nights FCPS Board mtg

[Anonymous]

Exactly. Black students are only 10% of FCPS student population. Can’t we work to address these needs along with the needs of other students? There are many students of color in FCPS but many in power only care about black students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:KKG has no interest beyond black administrators, staff and students. She needs to apologize for this slur. As someone who is supposed to care for all students, it is beyond inappropriate. The board wven did a resolution last year or the year before about how this word is a slur! She knows better even if she grew up with this term like many of us did in the 70s and 80s.

The PP who described the speaker situation above was wrong. John Foster said it wild be a speaker substitution despite the power of attorney and it would require a vote to suspend the rules. The parlimentarian agreed. Why didn’t that speaker identify herself as a substitute up front? Rachna read the rules very clearly that said no speaker substitution. They needed to follow the process and that’s whay they did.

Exactly, that's why she's racist.

I don't think that makes her "racist." It makes her race-focused.

And I do agree with the PP's statement. That is her focus. Disappointment. I voted for her to expand the racial make up of the SB... but I assumed she was more well-rounded. I was wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:KKG has no interest beyond black administrators, staff and students. She needs to apologize for this slur. As someone who is supposed to care for all students, it is beyond inappropriate. The board wven did a resolution last year or the year before about how this word is a slur! She knows better even if she grew up with this term like many of us did in the 70s and 80s.

The PP who described the speaker situation above was wrong. John Foster said it wild be a speaker substitution despite the power of attorney and it would require a vote to suspend the rules. The parlimentarian agreed. Why didn’t that speaker identify herself as a substitute up front? Rachna read the rules very clearly that said no speaker substitution. They needed to follow the process and that’s whay they did.

Exactly, that's why she's racist.

I don't think that makes her "racist." It makes her race-focused.

And I do agree with the PP's statement. That is her focus. Disappointment. I voted for her to expand the racial make up of the SB... but I assumed she was more well-rounded. I was wrong.

"race-focused" implies she, as an elected school board member, skews her work based on skin color, which is by definition racist.

[Anonymous]

As a black woman in education, she needs to be honest that her frustration led to the usage of a slur word to those with special needs, she was wrong, she apologizes and then step down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:KKG has no interest beyond black administrators, staff and students. She needs to apologize for this slur. As someone who is supposed to care for all students, it is beyond inappropriate. The board wven did a resolution last year or the year before about how this word is a slur! She knows better even if she grew up with this term like many of us did in the 70s and 80s.

The PP who described the speaker situation above was wrong. John Foster said it wild be a speaker substitution despite the power of attorney and it would require a vote to suspend the rules. The parlimentarian agreed. Why didn’t that speaker identify herself as a substitute up front? Rachna read the rules very clearly that said no speaker substitution. They needed to follow the process and that’s whay they did.

Exactly, that's why she's racist.

I don't think that makes her "racist." It makes her race-focused.

And I do agree with the PP's statement. That is her focus. Disappointment. I voted for her to expand the racial make up of the SB... but I assumed she was more well-rounded. I was wrong.

"race-focused" implies she, as an elected school board member, skews her work based on skin color, which is by definition racist.

That is not even remotely close to what race-focused means. Just stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:KKG has no interest beyond black administrators, staff and students. She needs to apologize for this slur. As someone who is supposed to care for all students, it is beyond inappropriate. The board wven did a resolution last year or the year before about how this word is a slur! She knows better even if she grew up with this term like many of us did in the 70s and 80s.

The PP who described the speaker situation above was wrong. John Foster said it wild be a speaker substitution despite the power of attorney and it would require a vote to suspend the rules. The parlimentarian agreed. Why didn’t that speaker identify herself as a substitute up front? Rachna read the rules very clearly that said no speaker substitution. They needed to follow the process and that’s whay they did.

Exactly, that's why she's racist.

I don't think that makes her "racist." It makes her race-focused.

And I do agree with the PP's statement. That is her focus. Disappointment. I voted for her to expand the racial make up of the SB... but I assumed she was more well-rounded. I was wrong.

"race-focused" implies she, as an elected school board member, skews her work based on skin color, which is by definition racist.

That is not even remotely close to what race-focused means. Just stop.

No I won't stop because she's the most racist person in the SB.
But you are welcome to provide your definition of "race-focused" so we can discuss.

[Anonymous]

I graduated like a decade after her and my kids taught me, you are never allowed to use the r word. They don't even accept it in medical lingo (relative has mental r.)

She should know better.

[Anonymous]

It's now being suggested that it may have been another Board member, not Keys Gamarra, who uttered the slur.

Whoever did needs to step up, admit their mistake, and seriously consider resigning.

[Anonymous]

Suggested by KKG.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't like KKG because her planning for the Lewis Academy has been atrocious. However, I'm almost cetain she meant "retarded" in the real definition of the word, meaning delayed. Like fire retardant. Due to taking so much time for a trivial matter.

The only people who use that term in a derogatory sense are people like me who grew up in the 80s and 90s where that was a common insult in middle and high school. She's way too old to have picked up on that lingo.

I graduated from HS in 1982 and it was definitely a slur when I was in HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Suggested by KKG.

Unless KKG changed her name to Asra Nomani, no.

[Anonymous]

The school board meeting last night was just a total embarrassment.

The only good decision Karl Frisch has made on the School Board since taking office was finding a way to be absent last night.

[Anonymous]

Keys Gamarra issued a statement admitting it was her and apologizing.

The question is whether the apology will be enough or whether she'll be pressured to step down.

It's hard to hold yourself out as a champion for diversity, equity and inclusion and then call your colleagues the r-word when annoyed. Especially when most of the anger was directed at a Board member who has an autistic child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:KKG has no interest beyond black administrators, staff and students. She needs to apologize for this slur. As someone who is supposed to care for all students, it is beyond inappropriate. The board wven did a resolution last year or the year before about how this word is a slur! She knows better even if she grew up with this term like many of us did in the 70s and 80s.

The PP who described the speaker situation above was wrong. John Foster said it wild be a speaker substitution despite the power of attorney and it would require a vote to suspend the rules. The parlimentarian agreed. Why didn’t that speaker identify herself as a substitute up front? Rachna read the rules very clearly that said no speaker substitution. They needed to follow the process and that’s whay they did.

Exactly, that's why she's racist.

I don't think that makes her "racist." It makes her race-focused.

And I do agree with the PP's statement. That is her focus. Disappointment. I voted for her to expand the racial make up of the SB... but I assumed she was more well-rounded. I was wrong.

There you go. You voted for her just because of one of her immutable characteristic, not because of her qualifications as a SB candidate compared to others. (personally I don't know who the other candidates were, I was not even in VA that time)

Please don't do that again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't like KKG because her planning for the Lewis Academy has been atrocious. However, I'm almost cetain she meant "retarded" in the real definition of the word, meaning delayed. Like fire retardant. Due to taking so much time for a trivial matter.

The only people who use that term in a derogatory sense are people like me who grew up in the 80s and 90s where that was a common insult in middle and high school. She's way too old to have picked up on that lingo.

Irrespective of when someone grew up, one would typically use “delayed” to describe something being delayed (for a trivial reason or otherwise). Almost no one would use “retarded” — it’s not a common word and the primary meaning is offensive.

Per Merriam-Webster, there is no appropriate use of the word (as every definition is offensive): https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retarded

It's used with respect to engine timing. Never hear the engine timing is slowed.

https://www.uti.edu/blog/automotive/ignition-timing#:~:text=Retard%20Timing%20causes%20the%20spark,also%20known%20as%20engine%20knocking.