FCPS is hiring an executive protection agent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am no expert. However, it seems to me that our Superintendent and School Board are more concerned about themselves than the students.

I would think that hiring four people for round the clock security for our Superintendent is a little obsessive. But, then so is our School Board hiring addition executive staff for each member. Meanwhile, cutting school based staff.

Perhaps, the voters should look for people who actually understand that the purpose of our schools is to safely educate our children.

The dumb voters of Ffx county did this to themselves. So many awful leaders in Ffx county and FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well just seeing how crazy some of the parents are on this board, it does not surprise me at all.

Parents who do things like speak out at school board meetings are domestic terrorists and should be treated as such.

I thought that only applied to Loudoun County.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well just seeing how crazy some of the parents are on this board, it does not surprise me at all.

Parents who do things like speak out at school board meetings are domestic terrorists and should be treated as such.

I thought that only applied to Loudoun County.

Hahaha

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am no expert. However, it seems to me that our Superintendent and School Board are more concerned about themselves than the students.

I would think that hiring four people for round the clock security for our Superintendent is a little obsessive. But, then so is our School Board hiring addition executive staff for each member. Meanwhile, cutting school based staff.

Perhaps, the voters should look for people who actually understand that the purpose of our schools is to safely educate our children.

I agree with this.

Scott Brabrand was Superintendent during Covid and there were a lot of folks unhappy with closed schools, online learning that often tearned out to be "learning" in name only, and their kids' loss of both academic and social skills. People felt strongly about it, enough so to try and recall several School Board members.

Even so, Brabrand never treated it as a pretext to demand a full-fledged security detail. Absent a persuasive confirmation of a real threat against Reid that can't be handled through the normal processes, this all feels highly performative and intended to chill parents from vocally opposing decisions by Reid and/or the School Board in the months leading up to the fall elections in Virginia.

Agree. It was much more dangerous during Covid. People were so angry about school closures and schools were used as a political target. Reid is not even the most important person in the county. No one else is asking for security details- not even board members who are much more targeted than Reid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dr Reid thinks she is an important person. The truth is that she isn’t. It’s great that she thinks so highly of herself but no one needs her or cares for her. Her decision to close schools during Covid should have sent her packing, instead FCPS have her a promotion and a raise. Now she’s costing us big time. She needs to be gone as she is imposing her own disillusionment on the employees, students, families and tax payers of FFX.

Was this written by AI? By a bot? Someone stirring up trouble from afar?

Reid wasn’t in Fairfax when the decision to close schools was made during the pandemic. She was three time zones away in a different state and a different school district.

We have enough to discuss without this noise. Garbage in, garbage out. Use your mind, not AI. If you don’t have anything genuine to add to the discussion, don’t spam the thread. These type of “generated” arguments cheapen the real concerns raised by families who live here. We don’t need your AI generated pot stirring. Our reality is much spicier than your fiction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am no expert. However, it seems to me that our Superintendent and School Board are more concerned about themselves than the students.

I would think that hiring four people for round the clock security for our Superintendent is a little obsessive. But, then so is our School Board hiring addition executive staff for each member. Meanwhile, cutting school based staff.

Perhaps, the voters should look for people who actually understand that the purpose of our schools is to safely educate our children.

I agree with this.

Scott Brabrand was Superintendent during Covid and there were a lot of folks unhappy with closed schools, online learning that often tearned out to be "learning" in name only, and their kids' loss of both academic and social skills. People felt strongly about it, enough so to try and recall several School Board members.

Even so, Brabrand never treated it as a pretext to demand a full-fledged security detail. Absent a persuasive confirmation of a real threat against Reid that can't be handled through the normal processes, this all feels highly performative and intended to chill parents from vocally opposing decisions by Reid and/or the School Board in the months leading up to the fall elections in Virginia.

Agree. It was much more dangerous during Covid. People were so angry about school closures and schools were used as a political target. Reid is not even the most important person in the county. No one else is asking for security details- not even board members who are much more targeted than Reid.

You have no idea what possible threats are being made and to who.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well just seeing how crazy some of the parents are on this board, it does not surprise me at all.

Parents who do things like speak out at school board meetings are domestic terrorists and should be treated as such.

Sadly it used to be “normal” like that. Ah, just some public discourse. Trump has given “permission” to threaten violence and be violent. Civility has gone out the window.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am no expert. However, it seems to me that our Superintendent and School Board are more concerned about themselves than the students.

I would think that hiring four people for round the clock security for our Superintendent is a little obsessive. But, then so is our School Board hiring addition executive staff for each member. Meanwhile, cutting school based staff.

Perhaps, the voters should look for people who actually understand that the purpose of our schools is to safely educate our children.

I agree with this.

Scott Brabrand was Superintendent during Covid and there were a lot of folks unhappy with closed schools, online learning that often tearned out to be "learning" in name only, and their kids' loss of both academic and social skills. People felt strongly about it, enough so to try and recall several School Board members.

Even so, Brabrand never treated it as a pretext to demand a full-fledged security detail. Absent a persuasive confirmation of a real threat against Reid that can't be handled through the normal processes, this all feels highly performative and intended to chill parents from vocally opposing decisions by Reid and/or the School Board in the months leading up to the fall elections in Virginia.

Agree. It was much more dangerous during Covid. People were so angry about school closures and schools were used as a political target. Reid is not even the most important person in the county. No one else is asking for security details- not even board members who are much more targeted than Reid.

You have no idea what possible threats are being made and to who.

DP. Right. The public that’s expected to foot the bill for this entourage is kept largely in the dark as to the actual need. We’re just expected to agree the expense is warranted.

In case you haven’t noticed, that’s a repeated pattern with FCPS these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am no expert. However, it seems to me that our Superintendent and School Board are more concerned about themselves than the students.

I would think that hiring four people for round the clock security for our Superintendent is a little obsessive. But, then so is our School Board hiring addition executive staff for each member. Meanwhile, cutting school based staff.

Perhaps, the voters should look for people who actually understand that the purpose of our schools is to safely educate our children.

I agree with this.

Scott Brabrand was Superintendent during Covid and there were a lot of folks unhappy with closed schools, online learning that often tearned out to be "learning" in name only, and their kids' loss of both academic and social skills. People felt strongly about it, enough so to try and recall several School Board members.

Even so, Brabrand never treated it as a pretext to demand a full-fledged security detail. Absent a persuasive confirmation of a real threat against Reid that can't be handled through the normal processes, this all feels highly performative and intended to chill parents from vocally opposing decisions by Reid and/or the School Board in the months leading up to the fall elections in Virginia.

Agree. It was much more dangerous during Covid. People were so angry about school closures and schools were used as a political target. Reid is not even the most important person in the county. No one else is asking for security details- not even board members who are much more targeted than Reid.

You have no idea what possible threats are being made and to who.

The police have reviewed the threats and said their Threat Assessment Management Unit can handle them. Just as they do for all high profile people in the county. An expenditure like this which has no parallel in other schools systems or among other high profile county figures needs a lot more justification than some new school security chief’s say so.

[Anonymous]

It's not ridiculous at all. There have been threats from the extreme-right, and it's only going to get worse, with some manufactured scandals coming down the pipe, right at a sensitive political time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

It's not ridiculous at all. There have been threats from the extreme-right, and it's only going to get worse, with some manufactured scandals coming down the pipe, right at a sensitive political time.

What is your source that “There have been threats from the extreme-right.” I have not seen that anywhere. Can you cite a source, or are you just making inflammatory allegations and passing it off as facts.

What do you mean by “some manufactured scandals coming down the pipe”? Are you referring to the Centreville thing? That came out the past few days. The security ask was made starting in June.

Are you saying that the girls and the teacher in the Centreville thing in 2021 made it up?

What other “manufactured scandals” are aware of? This all sounds very false flag or justification after the fact to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

It's not ridiculous at all. There have been threats from the extreme-right, and it's only going to get worse, with some manufactured scandals coming down the pipe, right at a sensitive political time.

What is your source that “There have been threats from the extreme-right.” I have not seen that anywhere. Can you cite a source, or are you just making inflammatory allegations and passing it off as facts.

What do you mean by “some manufactured scandals coming down the pipe”? Are you referring to the Centreville thing? That came out the past few days. The security ask was made starting in June.

Are you saying that the girls and the teacher in the Centreville thing in 2021 made it up?

What other “manufactured scandals” are aware of? This all sounds very false flag or justification after the fact to me.

This.

[Anonymous]

It was not right wing people chanting for people to "die" outside the SB meeting last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was not right wing people chanting for people to "die" outside the SB meeting last year.

if the right wing truly did not support violence or threats of violence then the current president and all others who hold leadership in the Republican Party should make strong statements saying just that. We are all waiting….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am no expert. However, it seems to me that our Superintendent and School Board are more concerned about themselves than the students.

I would think that hiring four people for round the clock security for our Superintendent is a little obsessive. But, then so is our School Board hiring addition executive staff for each member. Meanwhile, cutting school based staff.

Perhaps, the voters should look for people who actually understand that the purpose of our schools is to safely educate our children.

I agree with this.

Scott Brabrand was Superintendent during Covid and there were a lot of folks unhappy with closed schools, online learning that often tearned out to be "learning" in name only, and their kids' loss of both academic and social skills. People felt strongly about it, enough so to try and recall several School Board members.

Even so, Brabrand never treated it as a pretext to demand a full-fledged security detail. Absent a persuasive confirmation of a real threat against Reid that can't be handled through the normal processes, this all feels highly performative and intended to chill parents from vocally opposing decisions by Reid and/or the School Board in the months leading up to the fall elections in Virginia.

Agree. It was much more dangerous during Covid. People were so angry about school closures and schools were used as a political target. Reid is not even the most important person in the county. No one else is asking for security details- not even board members who are much more targeted than Reid.

You have no idea what possible threats are being made and to who.

Zero. Otherwise, someone would be in lock-up. Or was there an anonymous note paper on her door that the media missed?