FCPS School Board and Brabrand Must Go

[Anonymous]

I understand the need to keep bus drivers and food services employees working. What I don’t understand is that all initial (post Gov-mandated closure ) communication from FCPS to parents seemed to be focused upon a theme; meal distro.

That’s great. Happy that families are fed and basic needs met and indeed part of living in a caring community. It would have been nice to have a message of two about I don’t know...education...learning...or grab and go worksheets or packets or class notes.

If you can tell the character of someone by how they react in an emergency, what does FCPS media messaging and email communication to parents say about their corporate character?

Let the food services and social workers and transportation and social services pros do their jobs and have our school board and administrators do theirs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I understand the need to keep bus drivers and food services employees working. What I don’t understand is that all initial (post Gov-mandated closure ) communication from FCPS to parents seemed to be focused upon a theme; meal distro.

That’s great. Happy that families are fed and basic needs met and indeed part of living in a caring community. It would have been nice to have a message of two about I don’t know...education...learning...or grab and go worksheets or packets or class notes.

If you can tell the character of someone by how they react in an emergency, what does FCPS media messaging and email communication to parents say about their corporate character?

Let the food services and social workers and transportation and social services pros do their jobs and have our school board and administrators do theirs.

My opinion is that we receievd so much communication on food and distribution because the food service and transportation people are on top of things and proactive, while the "education" side of Gatehouse is bloated and inefficient.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS spent their time and resources focusing on the wrong priorities. As a school system, they should focus on education. It took FCPS 4 weeks to get distance learning up and running, poorly, but only a few days to get their meal distribution up and running. I have received infinitely more communication regarding meal distribution than distance learning. Let the food banks feed the kids. The school system needs to focus on educating the kids.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand the need to keep bus drivers and food services employees working. What I don’t understand is that all initial (post Gov-mandated closure ) communication from FCPS to parents seemed to be focused upon a theme; meal distro.

That’s great. Happy that families are fed and basic needs met and indeed part of living in a caring community. It would have been nice to have a message of two about I don’t know...education...learning...or grab and go worksheets or packets or class notes.

If you can tell the character of someone by how they react in an emergency, what does FCPS media messaging and email communication to parents say about their corporate character?

Let the food services and social workers and transportation and social services pros do their jobs and have our school board and administrators do theirs.

My opinion is that we receievd so much communication on food and distribution because the food service and transportation people are on top of things and proactive, while the "education" side of Gatehouse is bloated and inefficient.

+1

[Anonymous]

Once again, FCPS embarrasses themselves in front of the entire country.

[Anonymous]

My opinion is that we receievd so much communication on food and distribution because the food service and transportation people are on top of things and proactive, while the "education" side of Gatehouse is bloated and inefficient.

+1 It's also measurable and visual.

[Anonymous]

11:08 PP and I want to congratulate the food services and transportation employees! They were quick to respond, acted and provided essential help and sent clear messages and frequent updates to families. They even added more sites within days and kept us all aware. I didn’t need these resources (and am grateful or this) but it was reassuring to know that our most vulnerable students were not being ignored.

Gatehouse admin; this is how it’s done! Learn from their example.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brabrand has been doing his best and there is room for improvement. Some board members, Asst. Superintendents, Principals (even the new ones), and Asst. Ppals. must go.

Brabrand has totally bungled distance learning.

Academic performance hasn't improved.

He has been a complete failure when it comes to facilities.

He lucked into a good economy from 2017 to early 2020, which allowed FCPS to pay teachers more.

What exactly has he done well? If anyone should pay the price for the mess here, it's Brabrand and some others at Gatehouse, along with long-time SB members, not principals or assistant principals. They raise issues and get ignored.

Parents raised different issues and have been ignored or told bs by Ppals and Asst. Ppals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:11:08 PP and I want to congratulate the food services and transportation employees! They were quick to respond, acted and provided essential help and sent clear messages and frequent updates to families. They even added more sites within days and kept us all aware. I didn’t need these resources (and am grateful or this) but it was reassuring to know that our most vulnerable students were not being ignored.

Gatehouse admin; this is how it’s done! Learn from their example.

We should fire all the others and put the food services and bus people in charge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brabrand has been doing his best and there is room for improvement. Some board members, Asst. Superintendents, Principals (even the new ones), and Asst. Ppals. must go.

Brabrand has totally bungled distance learning.

Academic performance hasn't improved.

He has been a complete failure when it comes to facilities.

He lucked into a good economy from 2017 to early 2020, which allowed FCPS to pay teachers more.

What exactly has he done well? If anyone should pay the price for the mess here, it's Brabrand and some others at Gatehouse, along with long-time SB members, not principals or assistant principals. They raise issues and get ignored.

Parents raised different issues and have been ignored or told bs by Ppals and Asst. Ppals.

Gatehouse has the information. School based staff have to wait until they tell us what to do. Things changed every hour, and if these people didn’t give you the satisfaction you wanted that’s why. Teachers, Principals, Asst. Principals, Teachers, etc. have been given mixed messaging from the beginning. If parents done understand that by this point than you made up your mind day 1 that this was your schools fault.

[Anonymous]

I have never met a group more resistant to constituents than local government--both the county and the school board. It is beyond bizarre. There is open hostility toward constituent input. I've never seen anything like it. It's time we did something. I'm done with "leaders" who want executive salaries, but don't believe they should be held accountable for execution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS spent their time and resources focusing on the wrong priorities. As a school system, they should focus on education. It took FCPS 4 weeks to get distance learning up and running, poorly, but only a few days to get their meal distribution up and running. I have received infinitely more communication regarding meal distribution than distance learning. Let the food banks feed the kids. The school system needs to focus on educating the kids.

+1 - at the very least this should could be run through the county government, not the schools!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS spent their time and resources focusing on the wrong priorities. As a school system, they should focus on education. It took FCPS 4 weeks to get distance learning up and running, poorly, but only a few days to get their meal distribution up and running. I have received infinitely more communication regarding meal distribution than distance learning. Let the food banks feed the kids. The school system needs to focus on educating the kids.

That's a very misguided comment. It's not an either/or situation. Kudos to them for getting the food distribution up and running. That's important for a lot of families and it is their responsibility. Getting that right has nothing to do with the horrible execution of distance learning.

For you to say, "let the kids starve...just get the online education working" is selfish and quite idiotic. Also, you need to take some initiative to provide educational resources to your own kids. I hope you weren't waiting over a month for the distance learning to start before engaging your kids in educational activities.

[Anonymous]

I'm in APS which isn't even trying to provide instruction on new topics. Our kids are just getting review. The school system gave up.

So not that what you're getting is perfect, but at least your people are trying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Once again, FCPS embarrasses themselves in front of the entire country.

I keep saying "in spite of what they do, Fairfax is still a highly rated school system."