School board results?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS will now circle the drain.

Looking for a decent private school is now the only option for local families.

And just watch property values plummet over the next decade.

Thanks, voters.

I bought a few years ago at the beginning of this School Board's term and the value of my condo (based on neighborhood comps of units with my exact same floor plan and specs) has increased by about 32% in that time period. My precinct voted overwhelmingly for the Democrat in both elections.

Maybe you're just wrong and don't understand what the real world is like outside of your bubble.

Maybe you don't understand that the government is taking away citizen's money with increased taxes and giving jobs to people here and it has nothing to do with the schools and everything to do with jobs available

Why do the businesses move here?

Because of the schools!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was assured that republicans were going to win because of school closures during covid, and TJ and boundaries. Where the trolls wrong?

Me too. Man, I’m confused. Three years of foot stomping about distance learning in a pandemic and endless shrieks that they were OMG LIFELONG DEMS BUT THIS WILL MAKE ME INTO A ONE-ISSUE VOTER!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The new school board will still continue the policies of skill-based grading and E3 math, while also continuing to encourage

the practice of no homework and no novels. Enjoy.

It’s called paying for tutoring, enrichment camps and having your children do Great Books.

Jeez stop whining.

Thats right. Why would I expect the school to educate my children beyond the lowest common denominator. Equity does not allow this.

The good news is I can and do provide those opportunities for my kids. The bad news is many can't provide those things. Enjoy.

So you don't support reading intervention for my dyslexic kid? You don't support special education at all?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care about whether they are R or D but hate that the trajectory seems to be dumbing down education for "equity," and forcing teachers to deal with untenable classroom situations. We'll do the best we can to support our kids's education by providing them with as much supplemental education as we can. Sadly, we can't afford "private" as we're trying to save for four college educations, nor can we move as our jobs are based in Fairfax Mk. We'll survive, but it would be nice to see the schools start focus on educating again instead of spending money on wasteful renaming projects, consultants, etc.

^!My thoughts exactly. Im liberal BUT I just don’t like the trajectory our schools are going. HOW can we change that?

Lol You should have voted differently yesterday. That was your chance.

DP. Do you seriously think Republicans would have focused on education? I didn’t get the impression that they would care about getting all kids the education they need. They made me feel that they would spend all of their time focusing on how to not support LGBTQ+ kids, take away support for immigrant kids, and make sure no one learns about history that isn’t white American.

Because you want to think that. Deep down its about you feeling "moral" about your vote rather than actually thinking about what would happen. Any intelligent person would understand that one or two people would have no influence on these items in the same way a couple of democrats on a republican board might not be able to have much influence on these same topics. Zero Republicans got elected. Zero. The vote was to try to stop all the changes which Fairfax I guess decided they were just fine with.

Nope. “Deep down,” the PP was correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new school board will still continue the policies of skill-based grading and E3 math, while also continuing to encourage

the practice of no homework and no novels. Enjoy.

It’s called paying for tutoring, enrichment camps and having your children do Great Books.

Jeez stop whining.

Thats right. Why would I expect the school to educate my children beyond the lowest common denominator. Equity does not allow this.

The good news is I can and do provide those opportunities for my kids. The bad news is many can't provide those things. Enjoy.

So you don't support reading intervention for my dyslexic kid? You don't support special education at all?

They also probably loathe all EL kids too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't care about whether they are R or D but hate that the trajectory seems to be dumbing down education for "equity," and forcing teachers to deal with untenable classroom situations. We'll do the best we can to support our kids's education by providing them with as much supplemental education as we can. Sadly, we can't afford "private" as we're trying to save for four college educations, nor can we move as our jobs are based in Fairfax Mk. We'll survive, but it would be nice to see the schools start focus on educating again instead of spending money on wasteful renaming projects, consultants, etc.

^!My thoughts exactly. Im liberal BUT I just don’t like the trajectory our schools are going. HOW can we change that?

Lol You should have voted differently yesterday. That was your chance.

DP. Do you seriously think Republicans would have focused on education? I didn’t get the impression that they would care about getting all kids the education they need. They made me feel that they would spend all of their time focusing on how to not support LGBTQ+ kids, take away support for immigrant kids, and make sure no one learns about history that isn’t white American.

Because you want to think that. Deep down its about you feeling "moral" about your vote rather than actually thinking about what would happen. Any intelligent person would understand that one or two people would have no influence on these items in the same way a couple of democrats on a republican board might not be able to have much influence on these same topics. Zero Republicans got elected. Zero. The vote was to try to stop all the changes which Fairfax I guess decided they were just fine with.

If you want an alternate voice on the SB then scrape up someone normal next time.

Maybe FCPS doesn’t need as much change as you think it does.

Don't worry. The democratic board will make sure there is change. That's their main purpose in life.

Nice deflection. Now go back and read the post you responded to, slower this time, until you understand it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new school board will still continue the policies of skill-based grading and E3 math, while also continuing to encourage

the practice of no homework and no novels. Enjoy.

It’s called paying for tutoring, enrichment camps and having your children do Great Books.

Jeez stop whining.

Thats right. Why would I expect the school to educate my children beyond the lowest common denominator. Equity does not allow this.

The good news is I can and do provide those opportunities for my kids. The bad news is many can't provide those things. Enjoy.

So you don't support reading intervention for my dyslexic kid? You don't support special education at all?

They also probably loathe all EL kids too

Probably not as much as they hate poor kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All around the country voters found their brains

Maga and Moms 4 Liberty out.

Book banners out.

If you voted republican you are literally a Nazi supporter and stupid.

You are actually the one brainwashed. There was no reason to worry about any of these issues coming forward through FCPS. It was the democratic machine that helped make you feel this way. They are in complete power at the school board level and in the state legislator. It was their job to make you think this is what you were voting against. It is called propaganda.

Every conservative accusation is projection.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is a shame that the Demo party even backed Rachna Sizemore Heizer. She was a HUGE part of the school closure issue with COVID and is only politically driven and does not care about the children at all. I am still in shock that she won.

Most people understand people were making tough decisions with limited knowledge in an unprecedented situation during Covid. As a parent at that time I didn't want my kids going to school, getting Covid, bringing it back home to more vulnerable family members etc. It was a scary time that was disruptive whether schools were virtual or in person. Most of us know people who died and even more who were hospitalized. I don't blame any school board member for that--and I imagine many others feel the same.

I preferred McLaughlin, but I don't see Sizemore Heizer through the same lens as you.

+1 million

The crazy Open Schools Now! people were very vocal, but not representative of most parents.

That’s not true. Or, it’s a significant re-write of history. When parents were given an option in summer. 2020 between virtual and in person for 2020-2021, a significant majority chose in person. And people who wanted more caution in fall 2020 were over it by spring when FCPS failed again and again to reopen because (in one instance), they couldn’t figure out lunch logistics. FCPS was one of the last school districts to reopen. And they would not have in Spring 2021 if the State Senate hadn’t voted almost unanimously to make them. And even then, any teacher with with any medical condition, including a BMI of 26, didn’t have to come back, and we got Monitors and virtual learning for kids in school. Even though they were first in line for vaccines and had the option to be fully vaccines when they returned.

Heck, Youngkin won BA based label on suburban moms pissed about the failure to schools to reopen. Without that (and McAwful being a crap candidate), he never would ha won.

Crazy was teachers standing outside school board meetings carrying small coffins.

No, crazy was the 20-ish moms (bump it to 30 if you include the husbands and kids they dragged along to pad their pitiful numbers) “protesting” outside closed buildings on a Saturday to whine about distance learning during a pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a shame that the Demo party even backed Rachna Sizemore Heizer. She was a HUGE part of the school closure issue with COVID and is only politically driven and does not care about the children at all. I am still in shock that she won.

Most people understand people were making tough decisions with limited knowledge in an unprecedented situation during Covid. As a parent at that time I didn't want my kids going to school, getting Covid, bringing it back home to more vulnerable family members etc. It was a scary time that was disruptive whether schools were virtual or in person. Most of us know people who died and even more who were hospitalized. I don't blame any school board member for that--and I imagine many others feel the same.

I preferred McLaughlin, but I don't see Sizemore Heizer through the same lens as you.

+1 million

The crazy Open Schools Now! people were very vocal, but not representative of most parents.

That’s not true. Or, it’s a significant re-write of history. When parents were given an option in summer. 2020 between virtual and in person for 2020-2021, a significant majority chose in person. And people who wanted more caution in fall 2020 were over it by spring when FCPS failed again and again to reopen because (in one instance), they couldn’t figure out lunch logistics. FCPS was one of the last school districts to reopen. And they would not have in Spring 2021 if the State Senate hadn’t voted almost unanimously to make them. And even then, any teacher with with any medical condition, including a BMI of 26, didn’t have to come back, and we got Monitors and virtual learning for kids in school. Even though they were first in line for vaccines and had the option to be fully vaccines when they returned.

Heck, Youngkin won BA based label on suburban moms pissed about the failure to schools to reopen. Without that (and McAwful being a crap candidate), he never would ha won.

Crazy was teachers standing outside school board meetings carrying small coffins.

Repeat this to yourself as needed: You have no entitlement to dictate the health risks for other people. None. ZERO.

I'm not a teacher. But I've been in the schools a lot in various capacities. And those places, esp the lunch rooms in our HS, are petri dishes in GOOD years. If they did not want that exposure for themselves, or to bring home to vulnerable family members, that is their right. And you should have absolutely ZERO say in that.

Mic drop.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here we go again! The Republicans lost and now were not going to hear the rest of it for the next four years.

Cry more!

What??? Also, “cry more” a horrible right wing saying.

DP. What? Are you 80?

“Cry more” is not a “Right Wing saying.” It’s a common nonpartisan internet clapback to people whining online because they didn’t get their way — you know, like the “election was rigged!” people still foaming at the mouth three years after the election and people moaning on DCUM because they didn’t get the hateful R slate of school board members they dreamed of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a shame that the Demo party even backed Rachna Sizemore Heizer. She was a HUGE part of the school closure issue with COVID and is only politically driven and does not care about the children at all. I am still in shock that she won.

Most people understand people were making tough decisions with limited knowledge in an unprecedented situation during Covid. As a parent at that time I didn't want my kids going to school, getting Covid, bringing it back home to more vulnerable family members etc. It was a scary time that was disruptive whether schools were virtual or in person. Most of us know people who died and even more who were hospitalized. I don't blame any school board member for that--and I imagine many others feel the same.

I preferred McLaughlin, but I don't see Sizemore Heizer through the same lens as you.

+1 million

The crazy Open Schools Now! people were very vocal, but not representative of most parents.

I think they were representative of most parents by late Spring of 2021. By then private schools had been back in person as well as public’s all over the country. The schools lost my support when the teachers got put ahead of the general public for vaccines and still wouldn’t consider going back. There was a shift during COVID. I supported teachers very much at the beginning. Not so much by the end and by the end many teachers wanted to go back because remote and Hybrid was so bad. At that point, it was the school board who was really the problem. And by then we had a much better understanding about COVID and had treatments.

You mean, when kids were already back in the building?

Around the time the State legislature— not the school board— forced schools to reopen despite FCPS showing no indication they actually would for most students (non- SPED) in 2020-2021. Schools didn’t reopen because the San listened. They reopened because Chap Peterson forced the issue with the legislature. And, even then, fully vaxxed teachers were allowed to teach from home— to kids sitting in a classroom.

This is how one of my kids "returned to school" that Spring. It was absolutely horrible! And his teacher announced to everyone in the class when she got vaccinated. Meanwhile all the kids' parents were still waiting, despite several of them working in person.

I'm wondering exactly how long people will bleat on about covid... It's been years. Move on.

They are convince their COVID card never expires.

They are wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When one party holds all seats, you aren't being represented, you are being ruled. Enjoy!

Nope. Elections have consequences. Enjoy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a shame that the Demo party even backed Rachna Sizemore Heizer. She was a HUGE part of the school closure issue with COVID and is only politically driven and does not care about the children at all. I am still in shock that she won.

Most people understand people were making tough decisions with limited knowledge in an unprecedented situation during Covid. As a parent at that time I didn't want my kids going to school, getting Covid, bringing it back home to more vulnerable family members etc. It was a scary time that was disruptive whether schools were virtual or in person. Most of us know people who died and even more who were hospitalized. I don't blame any school board member for that--and I imagine many others feel the same.

I preferred McLaughlin, but I don't see Sizemore Heizer through the same lens as you.

+1 million

The crazy Open Schools Now! people were very vocal, but not representative of most parents.

That’s not true. Or, it’s a significant re-write of history. When parents were given an option in summer. 2020 between virtual and in person for 2020-2021, a significant majority chose in person. And people who wanted more caution in fall 2020 were over it by spring when FCPS failed again and again to reopen because (in one instance), they couldn’t figure out lunch logistics. FCPS was one of the last school districts to reopen. And they would not have in Spring 2021 if the State Senate hadn’t voted almost unanimously to make them. And even then, any teacher with with any medical condition, including a BMI of 26, didn’t have to come back, and we got Monitors and virtual learning for kids in school. Even though they were first in line for vaccines and had the option to be fully vaccines when they returned.

Heck, Youngkin won BA based label on suburban moms pissed about the failure to schools to reopen. Without that (and McAwful being a crap candidate), he never would ha won.

Crazy was teachers standing outside school board meetings carrying small coffins.

Repeat this to yourself as needed: You have no entitlement to dictate the health risks for other people. None. ZERO.

I'm not a teacher. But I've been in the schools a lot in various capacities. And those places, esp the lunch rooms in our HS, are petri dishes in GOOD years. If they did not want that exposure for themselves, or to bring home to vulnerable family members, that is their right. And you should have absolutely ZERO say in that.

Mic drop.

Nope, if you have an issue with germ exposure, maybe don't choose a job that exposes you to 100s of other people daily.

[Anonymous]

It’s great to just let it go and know the election results were what they were and you’ll be done with FCPS soon.

No more responding with facts or trading insults when you get called a “MAGA troll” for questioning any prior FCPS decisions, even if you’re a long-time Democrat.

It may not be a tropical island but it’s relative bliss.

Enjoy, all!