What’s the process for removing FCPS board members?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The school board was complicit in the hayfield football recruiting scandal accept the ones who didn't sign the letter about the investigation

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Who cares about HS football? This isn’t rural Texas.

They had 31 transfers this season alone. Text messages reveal the homeless loophole was used for said transfers. FCPS had these text messages last week, the superintendent sent two emails that there was no wrongdoing, and police were called on journalists asking questions about these texts. The superintendent sent an email tonight acknowledging the texts exist. It's not rural Texas but call me crazy, I care that these people are making decisions about what my kid reads or where they are going to go to school next year due to a boundary review.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What makes you think that whoever replaces these people in this thankless job will somehow be better?

Soon after schools reopened I was approached about running for school board by someone connected with the local democratic party. I know why they approached me and since this is an anonymous forum I'll skip being humble and say that I would make a good candidate based on a number factors. I didn't consider it for a second, I didn't even go through the exercise of thinking it over. Watching how the current school board members and their families are and have been treated by the larger community, regardless of what I think about their politics or policies, makes running the last thing I would ever consider doing. Which is sad, because I genuinely believe that serving in public office at the most local level is something that I would be proud to do and do well. But I will not put myself or my family through the nightmare of the personal attacks I have seen over the last few years. If we want qualified people to run for office to truly serve our students with the best of intentions, then we all need to show a hell of a lot more respect for those people as human beings.

Have you met some of them or do you know some of them? They are entirely narcissistic and were before running. They knew the stakes too. I don't feel sorry for them at all. They don't step down. They keep trying to run again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What makes you think that whoever replaces these people in this thankless job will somehow be better?

Soon after schools reopened I was approached about running for school board by someone connected with the local democratic party. I know why they approached me and since this is an anonymous forum I'll skip being humble and say that I would make a good candidate based on a number factors. I didn't consider it for a second, I didn't even go through the exercise of thinking it over. Watching how the current school board members and their families are and have been treated by the larger community, regardless of what I think about their politics or policies, makes running the last thing I would ever consider doing. Which is sad, because I genuinely believe that serving in public office at the most local level is something that I would be proud to do and do well. But I will not put myself or my family through the nightmare of the personal attacks I have seen over the last few years. If we want qualified people to run for office to truly serve our students with the best of intentions, then we all need to show a hell of a lot more respect for those people as human beings.

these SB members know the stakes and still decide to enter the arena. It's a combination of cluster B personality disorders, and most typically narcissistic personality disorder. It's really sad, but more often than not individuals who aspire for political office and elected positions are not who they portray themselves to be in public. They often have childhood trauma and other experiences that have molded them into self-serving narcissists.

[Anonymous]

Bottom line is they gave Reid an extension in the midst of this football fiasco, they have shown their judgement to be suspect and deserve whatever they get.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bottom line is they gave Reid an extension in the midst of this football fiasco, they have shown their judgement to be suspect and deserve whatever they get.

Exactly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bottom line is they gave Reid an extension in the midst of this football fiasco, they have shown their judgement to be suspect and deserve whatever they get.

7 of them supported fraud... in writing.

Could they be recalled successfully over the letter that Frisch drafted and organized.

The previous recall drive was over incompetence and dereliction of duty. It failed after getting assigned to a very partisan judge.

In this case, over half of the FCPS school board openly supported fraud by so publicly throwing their support behind Hayfield. There is no way that the school board and Reid did not know about the homeless texts before writing the email and renewing Reid's contract. The smart reps (Dunne, Ricardy Anderson. Moon, McElvan) refused to sign on. That must have been for a reason. I would love to see Asra and the Fairfax Times FOIA the school board communications on this scandal.

Are there any #openfcps parents on here who would be willing to chime in?

Could the open homeless fraud supported by 2/3 of the school board be the thing that gets them successfully recalled?

[Anonymous]

I am a Democrat. I am appalled by this fiasco. Unbelievable.

We live in one of the wealthiest counties in the nation and we can't seem to get anything right.

Reid and others MUST be held accountable. I thought the white supremacy and racism accusations were out of left field but if the only ones who end up punished here are the Hayfield coaches--while the athletic director, principal, SB and others knew... or actively decided not to know... what was going on--then that will be deeply unfair. Especially when it seems, at least according to many others on the long thread, that kids ineligible kids transferring into schools seems to be common practice. Yes, Hayfield went ridiculously overboard and OF COURSE they should be punished for cheating. But so should everyone who knew about it and let it happen. And when I say "deeply unfair," I don't mean for the extended Overton family (they knew what they were doing was worng) or for the kids (their parents failed them but the lesson has to be learned), but for all of us. We can't just let the lower level people take all the blame!

And while I am at it, part of the problem here is the our investment in high school sports. what is wrong with everyone that we are allowing all this cheating for football?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We can start getting the signatures at football games, then go to all the retired people in our neighborhoods and read passages from 1 of the 5 book Frisch swore on.

You know, you just lost me here. I am totally ready to join up with you in the good fight and you have to make this remark (let's trigger people's homophobia to get signatures!). This is why we can't be on the same team. Ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What makes you think that whoever replaces these people in this thankless job will somehow be better?

Soon after schools reopened I was approached about running for school board by someone connected with the local democratic party. I know why they approached me and since this is an anonymous forum I'll skip being humble and say that I would make a good candidate based on a number factors. I didn't consider it for a second, I didn't even go through the exercise of thinking it over. Watching how the current school board members and their families are and have been treated by the larger community, regardless of what I think about their politics or policies, makes running the last thing I would ever consider doing. Which is sad, because I genuinely believe that serving in public office at the most local level is something that I would be proud to do and do well. But I will not put myself or my family through the nightmare of the personal attacks I have seen over the last few years. If we want qualified people to run for office to truly serve our students with the best of intentions, then we all need to show a hell of a lot more respect for those people as human beings.

I can't respect a guy that swears on those 5 books. My kid is seriously disturbed by what he read in "Homegoing." It is being used as a text this quarter by a teacher. The majority of these kids have never even kissed someone, and now they have to read very explicit sex scenes. I don't even care if these books are in the school library, but kids shouldn't be forced to read them.

Which classes read Homegoiing?

[Anonymous]

Which classes read Homegoiing?

10th grade honors English class. I don't know if every 10th grade teacher has their class read it, but this one is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Which classes read Homegoiing?

10th grade honors English class. I don't know if every 10th grade teacher has their class read it, but this one is.

I'm by no means a prude, but this book has some gratuitous and explicit sexual content that is inappropriate for required public school reading. Is this common reading across the rest of America or is this one of those fringe fairfax things?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Which classes read Homegoiing?

10th grade honors English class. I don't know if every 10th grade teacher has their class read it, but this one is.

I am sure you don't want to share the school, but could you share the region?

[Anonymous]

Madison high school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We can start getting the signatures at football games, then go to all the retired people in our neighborhoods and read passages from 1 of the 5 book Frisch swore on.

You know, you just lost me here. I am totally ready to join up with you in the good fight and you have to make this remark (let's trigger people's homophobia to get signatures!). This is why we can't be on the same team. Ever.

I’d like to clarify something. I don’t have an issue with the books being in the library. And I have only seen an excerpt from 1 of the books. It bothers me that Frisch swore on the books. I’m an atheist so it’s not that he didn’t swear on the Bible. But it was definitely a controversial and unnecessary thing to do.

[Anonymous]

https://www.change.org/p/hold-fcps-accountable-taxpayers-demand-investigation-transparency-and-reparations?signed=true