Do Local Republicans Want to Gut or Reform FCPS?

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Anonymous wrote:I think we're at a point where the one-party rule of the Democratic party has poised a negative effect on our county. It seems like Fairfax County was the most propitious under a bipartisan rule where the best non-partisan rule would help us succeed.

In total agreement. The county and FCPS in particular functioned much better when there wasn’t total dominance by preening, hypocritical, incompetent buffoons like the current all-D School Board. And they need to stop using Covid as an excuse for all their malfeasance - people see through that nonsense.

So you’d prefer more Rs focusing on making it illegal to be trans, arresting women who have abortions and re-rewriting history to make it look like white people are the victims. Yeah, that’ll fix everything.

The school board can do these things?

It's bizarre how some Ds absolve the Democrats on the FCPS School Board of responsibility for failing to do necessary things that are clearly within their authority, while ascribing powers to R candidates for School Board that they would never possess.

This word salad is a bunch of BS. And lbh, authority and norms are not things the current GOP party and supporters adheres to in any way. The last few years are replete with examples of that. So just b/c it isn't in their "authority" doesn't mean the GOP candidates wouldn't try. And you know it.

Right now - I haven't seen the Rs do anything worse than literally bar my kids from in person school for one full year.

It is okay- you are safe now. Your kids have been in school for 2 years in person. Take deep breaths. Let go of the anger, it will only hurt you if you decide to dwell on it.Let go of your past trauma you continue to be triggered from. You can’t even read a post without getting upset.

No - I will not forget - and I’ll try to make sure most people remember this for the next school board election.

We do remember we just have moved on and are focued on the future

In what I believe is germane to a school topical post - I don’t believe people who didn’t know enough about education to know one full year of virtual is not developmentally appropriate - especially when allowed by the state to offer some in person - know enough about education to fix the problems they caused.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we're at a point where the one-party rule of the Democratic party has poised a negative effect on our county. It seems like Fairfax County was the most propitious under a bipartisan rule where the best non-partisan rule would help us succeed.

In total agreement. The county and FCPS in particular functioned much better when there wasn’t total dominance by preening, hypocritical, incompetent buffoons like the current all-D School Board. And they need to stop using Covid as an excuse for all their malfeasance - people see through that nonsense.

So you’d prefer more Rs focusing on making it illegal to be trans, arresting women who have abortions and re-rewriting history to make it look like white people are the victims. Yeah, that’ll fix everything.

The school board can do these things?

It's bizarre how some Ds absolve the Democrats on the FCPS School Board of responsibility for failing to do necessary things that are clearly within their authority, while ascribing powers to R candidates for School Board that they would never possess.

This word salad is a bunch of BS. And lbh, authority and norms are not things the current GOP party and supporters adheres to in any way. The last few years are replete with examples of that. So just b/c it isn't in their "authority" doesn't mean the GOP candidates wouldn't try. And you know it.

Right now - I haven't seen the Rs do anything worse than literally bar my kids from in person school for one full year.

It is okay- you are safe now. Your kids have been in school for 2 years in person. Take deep breaths. Let go of the anger, it will only hurt you if you decide to dwell on it.Let go of your past trauma you continue to be triggered from. You can’t even read a post without getting upset.

No - I will not forget - and I’ll try to make sure most people remember this for the next school board election.

We do remember we just have moved on and are focued on the future

In what I believe is germane to a school topical post - I don’t believe people who didn’t know enough about education to know one full year of virtual is not developmentally appropriate - especially when allowed by the state to offer some in person - know enough about education to fix the problems they caused.

It was reasonable to wait for teacher vaccines.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we're at a point where the one-party rule of the Democratic party has poised a negative effect on our county. It seems like Fairfax County was the most propitious under a bipartisan rule where the best non-partisan rule would help us succeed.

In total agreement. The county and FCPS in particular functioned much better when there wasn’t total dominance by preening, hypocritical, incompetent buffoons like the current all-D School Board. And they need to stop using Covid as an excuse for all their malfeasance - people see through that nonsense.

So you’d prefer more Rs focusing on making it illegal to be trans, arresting women who have abortions and re-rewriting history to make it look like white people are the victims. Yeah, that’ll fix everything.

The school board can do these things?

It's bizarre how some Ds absolve the Democrats on the FCPS School Board of responsibility for failing to do necessary things that are clearly within their authority, while ascribing powers to R candidates for School Board that they would never possess.

This word salad is a bunch of BS. And lbh, authority and norms are not things the current GOP party and supporters adheres to in any way. The last few years are replete with examples of that. So just b/c it isn't in their "authority" doesn't mean the GOP candidates wouldn't try. And you know it.

Right now - I haven't seen the Rs do anything worse than literally bar my kids from in person school for one full year.

Well, actually the state, not the local SB, had something to do with that timeline. But nice try.

The state - March 2020 to June 2020. The FCPS school board was responsible for August 2020 to April 2021. Nice try back at ya. You can’t gaslight me - I was there.

So which counties in VA were fully open for in-person learning in 2020-21? Since you were “there,” tell us when districts opened their classrooms for all students for in-person learning. Would love to know.
This shows where schools were opened across the country. VA doesn’t seem to be high on that list. But I’m guessing you know where in VA they were open.
https://about.burbio.com/school-opening-tracker

For sure everywhere in VA wasn’t all virtual for a full year - check VA beach area. I think they were back 4 days at least in 2020 IIRC. Plus LET THIS SINK IN: in summer 2020 the D Gov said schools could have in person education with distancing and FCPS didn’t even do what they were allowed to do. They kept everyone all virtual and did less in person than allowed by the state starting in Fall 2020. You are NOT going to get me on the facts. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Falls church city, entirely surrounded by FCPS managed to go back long before FCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we're at a point where the one-party rule of the Democratic party has poised a negative effect on our county. It seems like Fairfax County was the most propitious under a bipartisan rule where the best non-partisan rule would help us succeed.

In total agreement. The county and FCPS in particular functioned much better when there wasn’t total dominance by preening, hypocritical, incompetent buffoons like the current all-D School Board. And they need to stop using Covid as an excuse for all their malfeasance - people see through that nonsense.

So you’d prefer more Rs focusing on making it illegal to be trans, arresting women who have abortions and re-rewriting history to make it look like white people are the victims. Yeah, that’ll fix everything.

The school board can do these things?

It's bizarre how some Ds absolve the Democrats on the FCPS School Board of responsibility for failing to do necessary things that are clearly within their authority, while ascribing powers to R candidates for School Board that they would never possess.

This word salad is a bunch of BS. And lbh, authority and norms are not things the current GOP party and supporters adheres to in any way. The last few years are replete with examples of that. So just b/c it isn't in their "authority" doesn't mean the GOP candidates wouldn't try. And you know it.

Right now - I haven't seen the Rs do anything worse than literally bar my kids from in person school for one full year.

Which was the right thing to do.

The declining enrollments and test scores, the learning loss, and the developmental delays that have done a number on many kids all suggest otherwise.

No, lots of deaths and medical complications would have proved otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we're at a point where the one-party rule of the Democratic party has poised a negative effect on our county. It seems like Fairfax County was the most propitious under a bipartisan rule where the best non-partisan rule would help us succeed.

In total agreement. The county and FCPS in particular functioned much better when there wasn’t total dominance by preening, hypocritical, incompetent buffoons like the current all-D School Board. And they need to stop using Covid as an excuse for all their malfeasance - people see through that nonsense.

So you’d prefer more Rs focusing on making it illegal to be trans, arresting women who have abortions and re-rewriting history to make it look like white people are the victims. Yeah, that’ll fix everything.

The school board can do these things?

It's bizarre how some Ds absolve the Democrats on the FCPS School Board of responsibility for failing to do necessary things that are clearly within their authority, while ascribing powers to R candidates for School Board that they would never possess.

This word salad is a bunch of BS. And lbh, authority and norms are not things the current GOP party and supporters adheres to in any way. The last few years are replete with examples of that. So just b/c it isn't in their "authority" doesn't mean the GOP candidates wouldn't try. And you know it.

Right now - I haven't seen the Rs do anything worse than literally bar my kids from in person school for one full year.

It is okay- you are safe now. Your kids have been in school for 2 years in person. Take deep breaths. Let go of the anger, it will only hurt you if you decide to dwell on it.Let go of your past trauma you continue to be triggered from. You can’t even read a post without getting upset.

No - I will not forget - and I’ll try to make sure most people remember this for the next school board election.

We do remember we just have moved on and are focued on the future

In what I believe is germane to a school topical post - I don’t believe people who didn’t know enough about education to know one full year of virtual is not developmentally appropriate - especially when allowed by the state to offer some in person - know enough about education to fix the problems they caused.

It was reasonable to wait for teacher vaccines.

That's the line. I personally don't want people who think virtual schooling for longer than the rest of the state was reasonable to serve on the school board. Our local state representatives were having to push bills in the general assembly to force the school board's hand in order to get kids back into the classroom.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we're at a point where the one-party rule of the Democratic party has poised a negative effect on our county. It seems like Fairfax County was the most propitious under a bipartisan rule where the best non-partisan rule would help us succeed.

In total agreement. The county and FCPS in particular functioned much better when there wasn’t total dominance by preening, hypocritical, incompetent buffoons like the current all-D School Board. And they need to stop using Covid as an excuse for all their malfeasance - people see through that nonsense.

So you’d prefer more Rs focusing on making it illegal to be trans, arresting women who have abortions and re-rewriting history to make it look like white people are the victims. Yeah, that’ll fix everything.

The school board can do these things?

It's bizarre how some Ds absolve the Democrats on the FCPS School Board of responsibility for failing to do necessary things that are clearly within their authority, while ascribing powers to R candidates for School Board that they would never possess.

This word salad is a bunch of BS. And lbh, authority and norms are not things the current GOP party and supporters adheres to in any way. The last few years are replete with examples of that. So just b/c it isn't in their "authority" doesn't mean the GOP candidates wouldn't try. And you know it.

Right now - I haven't seen the Rs do anything worse than literally bar my kids from in person school for one full year.

I think there was a reason... let me think hard,,, oh yeah, a global pandemic causing over 50% of the schools in the US to close for the same time period.

Exactly. This wasn’t a FCPS thing. It was many schools with higher density and vulnerable populations. Plus many waited on teacher vaccinations.

It was a reasonable, common approach. We were all there. We remember how crazy and irrational the open school people were. The same people who are still crazy and irrational about other topics (transgender! CRT!).

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Anonymous wrote:I think we're at a point where the one-party rule of the Democratic party has poised a negative effect on our county. It seems like Fairfax County was the most propitious under a bipartisan rule where the best non-partisan rule would help us succeed.

In total agreement. The county and FCPS in particular functioned much better when there wasn’t total dominance by preening, hypocritical, incompetent buffoons like the current all-D School Board. And they need to stop using Covid as an excuse for all their malfeasance - people see through that nonsense.

So you’d prefer more Rs focusing on making it illegal to be trans, arresting women who have abortions and re-rewriting history to make it look like white people are the victims. Yeah, that’ll fix everything.

The school board can do these things?

It's bizarre how some Ds absolve the Democrats on the FCPS School Board of responsibility for failing to do necessary things that are clearly within their authority, while ascribing powers to R candidates for School Board that they would never possess.

This word salad is a bunch of BS. And lbh, authority and norms are not things the current GOP party and supporters adheres to in any way. The last few years are replete with examples of that. So just b/c it isn't in their "authority" doesn't mean the GOP candidates wouldn't try. And you know it.

Right now - I haven't seen the Rs do anything worse than literally bar my kids from in person school for one full year.

It is okay- you are safe now. Your kids have been in school for 2 years in person. Take deep breaths. Let go of the anger, it will only hurt you if you decide to dwell on it.Let go of your past trauma you continue to be triggered from. You can’t even read a post without getting upset.

No - I will not forget - and I’ll try to make sure most people remember this for the next school board election.

We do remember we just have moved on and are focued on the future

In what I believe is germane to a school topical post - I don’t believe people who didn’t know enough about education to know one full year of virtual is not developmentally appropriate - especially when allowed by the state to offer some in person - know enough about education to fix the problems they caused.

It was reasonable to wait for teacher vaccines.

That's the line. I personally don't want people who think virtual schooling for longer than the rest of the state was reasonable to serve on the school board. Our local state representatives were having to push bills in the general assembly to force the school board's hand in order to get kids back into the classroom.

Which bills?

Northam’s mandate came after FCPS decided to have students return to school.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we're at a point where the one-party rule of the Democratic party has poised a negative effect on our county. It seems like Fairfax County was the most propitious under a bipartisan rule where the best non-partisan rule would help us succeed.

In total agreement. The county and FCPS in particular functioned much better when there wasn’t total dominance by preening, hypocritical, incompetent buffoons like the current all-D School Board. And they need to stop using Covid as an excuse for all their malfeasance - people see through that nonsense.

So you’d prefer more Rs focusing on making it illegal to be trans, arresting women who have abortions and re-rewriting history to make it look like white people are the victims. Yeah, that’ll fix everything.

The school board can do these things?

It's bizarre how some Ds absolve the Democrats on the FCPS School Board of responsibility for failing to do necessary things that are clearly within their authority, while ascribing powers to R candidates for School Board that they would never possess.

This word salad is a bunch of BS. And lbh, authority and norms are not things the current GOP party and supporters adheres to in any way. The last few years are replete with examples of that. So just b/c it isn't in their "authority" doesn't mean the GOP candidates wouldn't try. And you know it.

Right now - I haven't seen the Rs do anything worse than literally bar my kids from in person school for one full year.

It is okay- you are safe now. Your kids have been in school for 2 years in person. Take deep breaths. Let go of the anger, it will only hurt you if you decide to dwell on it.Let go of your past trauma you continue to be triggered from. You can’t even read a post without getting upset.

No - I will not forget - and I’ll try to make sure most people remember this for the next school board election.

We do remember we just have moved on and are focued on the future

In what I believe is germane to a school topical post - I don’t believe people who didn’t know enough about education to know one full year of virtual is not developmentally appropriate - especially when allowed by the state to offer some in person - know enough about education to fix the problems they caused.

It was reasonable to wait for teacher vaccines.

That's the line. I personally don't want people who think virtual schooling for longer than the rest of the state was reasonable to serve on the school board. Our local state representatives were having to push bills in the general assembly to force the school board's hand in order to get kids back into the classroom.

The School Board was composed of a bunch of people who hadn't had real jobs for years; had no sense of urgency; either didn't have kids in FCPS or were financially secure enough to place their kids in learning pods; and were deathly afraid of upsetting one of the core constituencies of the local Democrats - the teachers' organizations like FCFT and FEA. It was a bad confluence of factors that led many to lose any confidence in FCPS and we are still dealing with the fallout in 2023.

So rather than focus on getting kids back in buildings and ensuring that, in the interim, remote learning was the best it could possibly be, these folks took up a host of pet projects that they wanted to ram through when they could do it on Zoom. Just some truly slimy behavior by a group of party hacks who should never hold public office again.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we're at a point where the one-party rule of the Democratic party has poised a negative effect on our county. It seems like Fairfax County was the most propitious under a bipartisan rule where the best non-partisan rule would help us succeed.

In total agreement. The county and FCPS in particular functioned much better when there wasn’t total dominance by preening, hypocritical, incompetent buffoons like the current all-D School Board. And they need to stop using Covid as an excuse for all their malfeasance - people see through that nonsense.

So you’d prefer more Rs focusing on making it illegal to be trans, arresting women who have abortions and re-rewriting history to make it look like white people are the victims. Yeah, that’ll fix everything.

The school board can do these things?

It's bizarre how some Ds absolve the Democrats on the FCPS School Board of responsibility for failing to do necessary things that are clearly within their authority, while ascribing powers to R candidates for School Board that they would never possess.

This word salad is a bunch of BS. And lbh, authority and norms are not things the current GOP party and supporters adheres to in any way. The last few years are replete with examples of that. So just b/c it isn't in their "authority" doesn't mean the GOP candidates wouldn't try. And you know it.

Right now - I haven't seen the Rs do anything worse than literally bar my kids from in person school for one full year.

Well, actually the state, not the local SB, had something to do with that timeline. But nice try.

The state - March 2020 to June 2020. The FCPS school board was responsible for August 2020 to April 2021. Nice try back at ya. You can’t gaslight me - I was there.

So which counties in VA were fully open for in-person learning in 2020-21? Since you were “there,” tell us when districts opened their classrooms for all students for in-person learning. Would love to know.
This shows where schools were opened across the country. VA doesn’t seem to be high on that list. But I’m guessing you know where in VA they were open.
https://about.burbio.com/school-opening-tracker

For sure everywhere in VA wasn’t all virtual for a full year - check VA beach area. I think they were back 4 days at least in 2020 IIRC. Plus LET THIS SINK IN: in summer 2020 the D Gov said schools could have in person education with distancing and FCPS didn’t even do what they were allowed to do. They kept everyone all virtual and did less in person than allowed by the state starting in Fall 2020. You are NOT going to get me on the facts. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Falls church city, entirely surrounded by FCPS managed to go back long before FCPS.

A few weeks before?

Schools in the area were all going back around the same time after vaccines were rolled out. Some were a little before FCPS and some were a little after.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we're at a point where the one-party rule of the Democratic party has poised a negative effect on our county. It seems like Fairfax County was the most propitious under a bipartisan rule where the best non-partisan rule would help us succeed.

In total agreement. The county and FCPS in particular functioned much better when there wasn’t total dominance by preening, hypocritical, incompetent buffoons like the current all-D School Board. And they need to stop using Covid as an excuse for all their malfeasance - people see through that nonsense.

So you’d prefer more Rs focusing on making it illegal to be trans, arresting women who have abortions and re-rewriting history to make it look like white people are the victims. Yeah, that’ll fix everything.

The school board can do these things?

It's bizarre how some Ds absolve the Democrats on the FCPS School Board of responsibility for failing to do necessary things that are clearly within their authority, while ascribing powers to R candidates for School Board that they would never possess.

This word salad is a bunch of BS. And lbh, authority and norms are not things the current GOP party and supporters adheres to in any way. The last few years are replete with examples of that. So just b/c it isn't in their "authority" doesn't mean the GOP candidates wouldn't try. And you know it.

Right now - I haven't seen the Rs do anything worse than literally bar my kids from in person school for one full year.

It is okay- you are safe now. Your kids have been in school for 2 years in person. Take deep breaths. Let go of the anger, it will only hurt you if you decide to dwell on it.Let go of your past trauma you continue to be triggered from. You can’t even read a post without getting upset.

No - I will not forget - and I’ll try to make sure most people remember this for the next school board election.

We do remember we just have moved on and are focued on the future

In what I believe is germane to a school topical post - I don’t believe people who didn’t know enough about education to know one full year of virtual is not developmentally appropriate - especially when allowed by the state to offer some in person - know enough about education to fix the problems they caused.

It was reasonable to wait for teacher vaccines.

That's the line. I personally don't want people who think virtual schooling for longer than the rest of the state was reasonable to serve on the school board. Our local state representatives were having to push bills in the general assembly to force the school board's hand in order to get kids back into the classroom.

The School Board was composed of a bunch of people who hadn't had real jobs for years; had no sense of urgency; either didn't have kids in FCPS or were financially secure enough to place their kids in learning pods; and were deathly afraid of upsetting one of the core constituencies of the local Democrats - the teachers' organizations like FCFT and FEA. It was a bad confluence of factors that led many to lose any confidence in FCPS and we are still dealing with the fallout in 2023.

So rather than focus on getting kids back in buildings and ensuring that, in the interim, remote learning was the best it could possibly be, these folks took up a host of pet projects that they wanted to ram through when they could do it on Zoom. Just some truly slimy behavior by a group of party hacks who should never hold public office again.

BS. After vaccines became available for teachers, they started planning to get kids back asap. It’s a massive school system so it took a little longer than the tiny school systems (FCCPS).

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Anonymous wrote:I think we're at a point where the one-party rule of the Democratic party has poised a negative effect on our county. It seems like Fairfax County was the most propitious under a bipartisan rule where the best non-partisan rule would help us succeed.

In total agreement. The county and FCPS in particular functioned much better when there wasn’t total dominance by preening, hypocritical, incompetent buffoons like the current all-D School Board. And they need to stop using Covid as an excuse for all their malfeasance - people see through that nonsense.

So you’d prefer more Rs focusing on making it illegal to be trans, arresting women who have abortions and re-rewriting history to make it look like white people are the victims. Yeah, that’ll fix everything.

The school board can do these things?

It's bizarre how some Ds absolve the Democrats on the FCPS School Board of responsibility for failing to do necessary things that are clearly within their authority, while ascribing powers to R candidates for School Board that they would never possess.

This word salad is a bunch of BS. And lbh, authority and norms are not things the current GOP party and supporters adheres to in any way. The last few years are replete with examples of that. So just b/c it isn't in their "authority" doesn't mean the GOP candidates wouldn't try. And you know it.

Right now - I haven't seen the Rs do anything worse than literally bar my kids from in person school for one full year.

It is okay- you are safe now. Your kids have been in school for 2 years in person. Take deep breaths. Let go of the anger, it will only hurt you if you decide to dwell on it.Let go of your past trauma you continue to be triggered from. You can’t even read a post without getting upset.

No - I will not forget - and I’ll try to make sure most people remember this for the next school board election.

We do remember we just have moved on and are focued on the future

In what I believe is germane to a school topical post - I don’t believe people who didn’t know enough about education to know one full year of virtual is not developmentally appropriate - especially when allowed by the state to offer some in person - know enough about education to fix the problems they caused.

It was reasonable to wait for teacher vaccines.

That's the line. I personally don't want people who think virtual schooling for longer than the rest of the state was reasonable to serve on the school board. Our local state representatives were having to push bills in the general assembly to force the school board's hand in order to get kids back into the classroom.

The School Board was composed of a bunch of people who hadn't had real jobs for years; had no sense of urgency; either didn't have kids in FCPS or were financially secure enough to place their kids in learning pods; and were deathly afraid of upsetting one of the core constituencies of the local Democrats - the teachers' organizations like FCFT and FEA. It was a bad confluence of factors that led many to lose any confidence in FCPS and we are still dealing with the fallout in 2023.

So rather than focus on getting kids back in buildings and ensuring that, in the interim, remote learning was the best it could possibly be, these folks took up a host of pet projects that they wanted to ram through when they could do it on Zoom. Just some truly slimy behavior by a group of party hacks who should never hold public office again.

BS. After vaccines became available for teachers, they started planning to get kids back asap. It’s a massive school system so it took a little longer than the tiny school systems (FCCPS).

They dragged their heels and had to have their hand forced.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we're at a point where the one-party rule of the Democratic party has poised a negative effect on our county. It seems like Fairfax County was the most propitious under a bipartisan rule where the best non-partisan rule would help us succeed.

In total agreement. The county and FCPS in particular functioned much better when there wasn’t total dominance by preening, hypocritical, incompetent buffoons like the current all-D School Board. And they need to stop using Covid as an excuse for all their malfeasance - people see through that nonsense.

So you’d prefer more Rs focusing on making it illegal to be trans, arresting women who have abortions and re-rewriting history to make it look like white people are the victims. Yeah, that’ll fix everything.

It’s the Democrats who have made trans rights the only issue that anyone can ever discuss. Case in point.

And history is far more complicated than a simple narrative about good (minorities) and bad (white) people, although you (and others like Frisch, Meren, and Omeish) appear to believe otherwise. Opposing that simplistic narrative in favor of teaching both the good and the bad about our nation’s history is a good thing.

It’s time to restore some balance to FCPS.

BS. It’s an issue aggressively being fueled by the Rs. It’s an admitted campaign strategy to whip up the base.

And PP also mentioned abortion and whitewashing history. Funny how you missed those.

It’s clear if you look at recent discussions that it’s exactly the opposite and has been for some period of time. The constant hysteria when it comes to trans issues by the D activists is tiring, but given what a poor job the current school board has done the efforts to deflect come as no surprise.

BS. The GOP has been aggressively push transgender “issues” as campaign messaging to spin up the base.

Who has been pushing anti-trans legislature across the country? GOP.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we're at a point where the one-party rule of the Democratic party has poised a negative effect on our county. It seems like Fairfax County was the most propitious under a bipartisan rule where the best non-partisan rule would help us succeed.

In total agreement. The county and FCPS in particular functioned much better when there wasn’t total dominance by preening, hypocritical, incompetent buffoons like the current all-D School Board. And they need to stop using Covid as an excuse for all their malfeasance - people see through that nonsense.

So you’d prefer more Rs focusing on making it illegal to be trans, arresting women who have abortions and re-rewriting history to make it look like white people are the victims. Yeah, that’ll fix everything.

The school board can do these things?

It's bizarre how some Ds absolve the Democrats on the FCPS School Board of responsibility for failing to do necessary things that are clearly within their authority, while ascribing powers to R candidates for School Board that they would never possess.

This word salad is a bunch of BS. And lbh, authority and norms are not things the current GOP party and supporters adheres to in any way. The last few years are replete with examples of that. So just b/c it isn't in their "authority" doesn't mean the GOP candidates wouldn't try. And you know it.

Right now - I haven't seen the Rs do anything worse than literally bar my kids from in person school for one full year.

It is okay- you are safe now. Your kids have been in school for 2 years in person. Take deep breaths. Let go of the anger, it will only hurt you if you decide to dwell on it.Let go of your past trauma you continue to be triggered from. You can’t even read a post without getting upset.

No - I will not forget - and I’ll try to make sure most people remember this for the next school board election.

We do remember we just have moved on and are focued on the future

In what I believe is germane to a school topical post - I don’t believe people who didn’t know enough about education to know one full year of virtual is not developmentally appropriate - especially when allowed by the state to offer some in person - know enough about education to fix the problems they caused.

It was reasonable to wait for teacher vaccines.

That's the line. I personally don't want people who think virtual schooling for longer than the rest of the state was reasonable to serve on the school board. Our local state representatives were having to push bills in the general assembly to force the school board's hand in order to get kids back into the classroom.

The School Board was composed of a bunch of people who hadn't had real jobs for years; had no sense of urgency; either didn't have kids in FCPS or were financially secure enough to place their kids in learning pods; and were deathly afraid of upsetting one of the core constituencies of the local Democrats - the teachers' organizations like FCFT and FEA. It was a bad confluence of factors that led many to lose any confidence in FCPS and we are still dealing with the fallout in 2023.

So rather than focus on getting kids back in buildings and ensuring that, in the interim, remote learning was the best it could possibly be, these folks took up a host of pet projects that they wanted to ram through when they could do it on Zoom. Just some truly slimy behavior by a group of party hacks who should never hold public office again.

BS. After vaccines became available for teachers, they started planning to get kids back asap. It’s a massive school system so it took a little longer than the tiny school systems (FCCPS).

They dragged their heels and had to have their hand forced.

They did not. The SB already decided to return kids to school BEFORE the mandate.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe the average R voter wants to see reform, but the political party has directly said their goal is vouchers to private schools so I would say “gut”.

Voting R is saying you’re ok with vouchers.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we ignoring that a candidate was talking to America First Christian Nationalists? That is not normal. https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/harry-jackson-republican-running-for-fairfax-school-board-spends-hours-conversing-with-far-right-groypers/65-1b8fb3b1-2d96-4300-afd8-b83fdcec79a0

Yikes!