2027 School Board Candidates
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Anonymous
That is helpful and fascinating. I always wondered how she was able to get onto the board given that she had zero qualifications or common sense. |
Anonymous
She’s also an example of a sitting member who appears to have been told by others in the FCDC she shouldn’t run again. Sometimes the FCDC is like a little clique or a private school where kids are “counseled out.” But the situation with Moon in 2019 was bad. It deeply offended some Asian Democrats. Moon initially was going to run as an independent and the FCDC had to get people like Gerry Connolly to lean on him not to run again. He reluctantly agreed. Not saying there was a quid pro quo but a couple of years later the TJ gym got renamed after him. And then they pushed Omeish out in 2023 and he got elected again. |
Anonymous
She did find creative ways to work the FCDC endorsement process, but that’s how elections work. Moon was also a lazy campaigner and just got out hustled. |
Anonymous
Not sure if it's the process or the voters, but it says something that a teenage ideologue beat a guy who had successfully done the job before. |
Anonymous
Omeish wasn’t a teenager when she was elected. She’d graduated from Yale and was in her early 20s. What she did do was enlist a slew of local teenagers to join the FCDC and vote for her. Many were too young to vote in the general election but the FCDC let them vote in their internal endorsement “primary.” Moon is old school. He thinks he’s owed respect based on his age and experience, and that it’s unseemly to campaign too hard. Those running the FCDC now are happy to have him on the SB as an alternative to a Republican, but they will always find someone else to throw their weight behind when he tries to run for any higher office. They are looking for people they can catapult into successively more senior positions, and Moon ain’t it. |
Anonymous
This. It would be better if we went back to an appointed school board. |
Anonymous
| I will not vote for a candidate that doesn't promote a return to classical education, which emphasizes logic, rhetoric, and grammar. |
Anonymous
Those memories do linger. I remember Great Falls trying to goad Lady into saying she would have sent her own kids to Langley over Herndon if she could, and she said she still would have sent them to Herndon. Context matters. All of this to say, I dislike Lady because she doesn’t seem to realize she has constituents inside the Beltway. |
Anonymous
She only represents Herndon and, weirdly, Chantilly (where she used to work, but which is outside her district). She's as vulnerable as any Dranesville official has been in some time. As for her comments to Great Falls, any elected official with an ounce of savvy would have said it depends on the kid and Herndon might be better for some kids and Langley better for others. Instead, she just said she'd favor sending a kid to Herndon. |
Anonymous
She was asked about where she would send HER children. That is as “depends on the kid” you could get. She said she would send them to their assigned school, which was Herndon. Langley families were trying to get her to admit that Langley was the better school, which would have been inappropriate for her to say as an elected official. It was not a good look for them. |
Anonymous
Was that the same meeting where Lady said Hispanics have more children? |
Anonymous
There was no context provided to suggest the answer meant she'd send them to Herndon based simply on living within the district. Again, it was a softball question answered in a manner that was understood to suggest she was asserting Herndon was a better environment. And criticizing Langley families, whom Lady is also supposed to represent, is not a good look. |
Anonymous
No, it was an earlier meeting in the spring of 2024. |
Anonymous
Moon is utterly useless in the job. He adds no value. |
Anonymous
No. She certainly does not represent Chantilly or she would not have allowed the Skyview boundary issue to be put off. Remember, after saying Chantilly desperately needed relief and praising the purchase, she changed her tune and said Skyview should be a magnet. She changed her tune after meeting with Great Falls parents. The Great Falls/Herndon area had the dream of increasing Herndon enrollment from Oak Hill. The purchase of Skyview squashed that. Never mind that the people in Oak Hill (20171) are much further from Herndon High than Great Falls. Also, ignoring the fact that no Chantilly kids would be sent to Herndon. Great Falls led the charge against the purchase of Skyview. |