Tell me more about the School Board election process
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Anonymous
Those personnel who were killed were victims of a bad US policy response to 9/11, not 9/11 itself. Every sensible person acknowledges that the war in Iraq was an indefensible mistake and that the war in Afghanistan was at best an expensive but defensible boondoggle. |
Anonymous
The issue was that the money was originally earmarked in a bond for a "Fairfax/Oakton elementary school." I'm sure Frisch had John Foster jump through some hoops to make the case that an elementary school in Dunn Loring was still a "Fairfax" elementary school. In comparing, while re-allocating the money to McLean and Chantilly (assuming there is no need to build another ES in Fairfax/Oakton, though Mosaic sure is awfully big for an ES) would have made far more sense, it probably would have required more work on the part of county staff to justify. And they'd rather throw $60M in taxpayer money at a school that isn't needed at that site than actually work through how to adjust their plans and build more sensibly. This is primarily on Frisch, but every other Board member who went along with his nonsense deserves to be voted out as well. These people are total nitwits and anything but good stewards of county resources. |
Anonymous
+1000 |
Anonymous
yes, the wars were a mistake--and a direct result of reaciton to 9/11. Fought in error, but a reaction, just the same. |
Anonymous
The deaths can and should be attributed to the error, not the event. The casualties of the event can be attributed to the event. That's the point. |
Anonymous
And, there are thousands more than those killed that day who were exposed to bad air. |
Anonymous
I'm new to this thread, but I'll answer: because it's true. Local Republicans are the same as national Republicans, Trump trash to the core. Davis is a Republican, period, who is just in disguise. When local Republicans en masse dump Trump and Trumpism, and stop as their primary agenda attacking LGBTQ+ kids and racial and religious minorities, and focus instead on issues most voters actually care about, THEN they will start competing seriously again. This election will end with another 12-0 Democratic school board because voters from all walks of life uniformly reject the local GOP every time now, in every election. There are over 260 precincts in Fairfax County, and Republicans can't win even a couple dozen of them. They few they win are scattered and isolated. The books in the schools are just fine, including the ones the local GOP theocrats complain are "sexually explicit." I have 3 kids long in FCPS, 2 in high school and 1 in 5th grade, and I don't want conservatives touching my kids' schools. They are vile. |
Anonymous
New to the thread but posting the same trash talk on the forum for years, no doubt. The people who try to DQ all the GOP-endorsed candidates right off the bat are often the same ones most frustrated when the all-Democrat School Board does one stupid thing after another, in part because the board is an echo chamber with no serious debate and no members really willing to challenge each other’s worst ideas. And if their ideas weren’t so consistently stupid, they wouldn’t be so afraid of having at least a few members with different perspectives willing to challenge them. |
Anonymous
+1. I don't want any right-wingers in charge of FCPS. Not a single one. |
Anonymous
Have you ever been to a school board meeting? There is very serious debate and disagreement between all the 12 members and the student member. But those disagreements are about specific policies and things that will actually make a difference in the community. The only thing Republican members of the board used to do were spew homophobic remarks and skip most meetings. She provided no actual substance to the conversations at all and she was a terrible advocate for her district. I don't see any reason to indicate any of these other Republicans will be any different. The same local Republican party that just nominated a wife-beater also nominated Davis. |
Anonymous
Give it a rest. These clowns gave Karl Frisch a blank check to waste $60 million on a new school in Vienna that isn’t needed and is surrounded by under-enrolled schools. There was no real debate. They let Karen Keys Gamarra push ahead with the “Lewis Academy” that has no clear purpose, again with no real debate. They changed TJ admissions with no real probing as to the impact in would have on other schools. They let Karen Corbett Sanders get her way with a $50 million addition to West Potomac even though Mount Vernon has excess capacity. And so on. The only time they ever really went at each other was over a largely meaningless resolution on supporting equity in education, where three or so members lit into the others because they didn’t think a competing resolution proposed by McLaughlin and Tholen was laden with enough progressive buzzwords. Meanwhile, academic performance suffers, teachers continue to struggle under the excessive demands placed on them by Gatehouse, and overcrowding in some parts of the county goes largely ignored. This isn’t the product of a board that focuses on the toughest challenges facing FCPS and engages in healthy, thoughtful debate. It’s the product of a self-indulgent bunch of virtue-signaling lightweights who have the attention span of gnats, and value sound bites pitched to special-interest groups over hard work. And your canned response will always be to contend that others who might compete for their jobs aren’t sufficiently committed to supporting trans rights or the like, every single time. So bad mouth Saundra Davis all you want, but she was right in anticipating the negative impact that shuttered schools would have on kids’ academic and social development, and plenty of us want an alternative to the likes of Omeish and Keys Gamarra, who have accomplished nothing of value to FCPS during their terms. |
Anonymous
Exactly. Have you seen his latest posts about his upcoming fundraiser? He says it’s going to be “The Funnest!” No college degree, no kids, and doesn’t know simple grammar. I can’t believe a serious Dem challenger couldn’t be found in Providence. Holly just trounced him, so people in the district obviously don’t like him! |
Anonymous
+ 1,000,000. |
Anonymous
Your passion for book banning in FCPS is one sided. If you were serious about it, then you would advocate to include Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier in our school libraries. Unless, of course, you don’t want your high school kids to educate themselves about the collateral damage inflicted by the radical movement taking over our schools. |
Anonymous
+2,000,000 |