Fairfax County: McLean Citizens Association demands smaller class sizes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

seems unfair to kids coming in as well to have to reach such a high level. You think they'd give the kids and schools some leeway like making 1 1/2-2 years of progress each year to catch up instead of trying to cover 3 years of education in a year.

Sadly, it doesn't work that way. Far more likely that they will make far less progress. So many things operating against them.

Well if they come in to kindergarten not knowing their basic colors in their native language, I'd say even being able to get some of the questions right on an SOL is a great deal of progress.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Perhaps it's time to get this country's immigration issue under control. There are SOOOO many schools nationwide that are severely overcrowded and failing miserably at educating ESOL students that then it brings down the whole school system for everyone. Miami, Phoenix, LA, NYC and Boston suburbs etc... for example

Perhaps we need to close the border for those not being able to speak English at a certain proficiency until the schools have dug itself out of these holes.

Agree--but I suspect there is another group at Bucknell that is not making the scores they should.

Don't be shy.

[Anonymous]

Well if they come in to kindergarten not knowing their basic colors in their native language,

The above post was not about ESOL kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Well if they come in to kindergarten not knowing their basic colors in their native language,

The above post was not about ESOL kids.

Whatever their race or ethnicity, if poor kids come in not knowing their colors and by 3rd grade can get a 60% on a 3rd grade SOL, I consider that success.

[Anonymous]

Whatever their race or ethnicity, if poor kids come in not knowing their colors and by 3rd grade can get a 60% on a 3rd grade SOL, I consider that success.

Agree. Unfortunately, the politicians don't agree with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am at a point where Epstein is a more palatable alternative than Straus and I am a bleeding heart tree hugging liberal. Run someone ELSE and I will vote for them.

If that is true, you need to get educated about who you're voting for, and this thread ought to scare you away from voting for Epstein... This is a person who (as someone else pointed out) has always supported LOWER funding for our schools in order to please her Tea Party friends who don't like taxes (Who likes taxes anyway? But I digress...) Then because she can't say she's going to raise taxes, she will promise she'll deliver stuff for her community by taking it from those who, in her view, have too much -- e.g. those in the poorer parts of the County.

If you are really a bleeding-heart liberal, you should not vote for this person. Be frustrated with Straus, but this is really making a deal with the devil. And she won't be able to deliver any better than anybody else, especially given her apparently abrasive politics of personal destruction. Read any number of posts from the last election and you'll see people talk about this...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Well if they come in to kindergarten not knowing their basic colors in their native language,

The above post was not about ESOL kids.

Whatever their race or ethnicity, if poor kids come in not knowing their colors and by 3rd grade can get a 60% on a 3rd grade SOL, I consider that success.

That's an f

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am at a point where Epstein is a more palatable alternative than Straus and I am a bleeding heart tree hugging liberal. Run someone ELSE and I will vote for them.

If that is true, you need to get educated about who you're voting for, and this thread ought to scare you away from voting for Epstein... This is a person who (as someone else pointed out) has always supported LOWER funding for our schools in order to please her Tea Party friends who don't like taxes (Who likes taxes anyway? But I digress...) Then because she can't say she's going to raise taxes, she will promise she'll deliver stuff for her community by taking it from those who, in her view, have too much -- e.g. those in the poorer parts of the County.

If you are really a bleeding-heart liberal, you should not vote for this person. Be frustrated with Straus, but this is really making a deal with the devil. And she won't be able to deliver any better than anybody else, especially given her apparently abrasive politics of personal destruction. Read any number of posts from the last election and you'll see people talk about this...

Hmmm...seems a similar strain of thought always pops up on the IB threads, too. Complaining about the costs and the fact that it is in so many of the poorer high schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am at a point where Epstein is a more palatable alternative than Straus and I am a bleeding heart tree hugging liberal. Run someone ELSE and I will vote for them.

If that is true, you need to get educated about who you're voting for, and this thread ought to scare you away from voting for Epstein... This is a person who (as someone else pointed out) has always supported LOWER funding for our schools in order to please her Tea Party friends who don't like taxes (Who likes taxes anyway? But I digress...) Then because she can't say she's going to raise taxes, she will promise she'll deliver stuff for her community by taking it from those who, in her view, have too much -- e.g. those in the poorer parts of the County.

If you are really a bleeding-heart liberal, you should not vote for this person. Be frustrated with Straus, but this is really making a deal with the devil. And she won't be able to deliver any better than anybody else, especially given her apparently abrasive politics of personal destruction. Read any number of posts from the last election and you'll see people talk about this...

Part of the reason Epstein lost in 2011 was that people doubted she could work with those on the Board at the time, and they didn't know who'd be elected that fall. And, of course, there was the Catherine Lorenze factor. Even so, she just lost by a few percentage points.

She wouldn't be so isolated now. She probably could work with McLaughlin, Reed, and Schultz on most issues, and possibly with Pat Hynes on this particular issue, since Hunter Mill has lots of large classes . I doubt she'd get along with Strauss (if she or Janie won as an at-large candidate), Moon, McElveen, Evans, Kaufax or Velkoff. Smith and Storck are seeking BOS seats so they should be gone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am at a point where Epstein is a more palatable alternative than Straus and I am a bleeding heart tree hugging liberal. Run someone ELSE and I will vote for them.

If that is true, you need to get educated about who you're voting for, and this thread ought to scare you away from voting for Epstein... This is a person who (as someone else pointed out) has always supported LOWER funding for our schools in order to please her Tea Party friends who don't like taxes (Who likes taxes anyway? But I digress...) Then because she can't say she's going to raise taxes, she will promise she'll deliver stuff for her community by taking it from those who, in her view, have too much -- e.g. those in the poorer parts of the County.

If you are really a bleeding-heart liberal, you should not vote for this person. Be frustrated with Straus, but this is really making a deal with the devil. And she won't be able to deliver any better than anybody else, especially given her apparently abrasive politics of personal destruction. Read any number of posts from the last election and you'll see people talk about this...

You have obviously never had to deal with Ms Strauss. She needs to go, she has overstayed her welcome. I will never vote for her.

[Anonymous]

Strauss has protected her constituency from boundary issues and she thinks she has done her job.

[Anonymous]

Strauss also got lucky when she connected with the full day K people. LUCKY because she had years to do something about it. Had she not been running, she would have voted against it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Strauss has protected her constituency from boundary issues and she thinks she has done her job.

Part of her constituency not all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am at a point where Epstein is a more palatable alternative than Straus and I am a bleeding heart tree hugging liberal. Run someone ELSE and I will vote for them.

If that is true, you need to get educated about who you're voting for, and this thread ought to scare you away from voting for Epstein... This is a person who (as someone else pointed out) has always supported LOWER funding for our schools in order to please her Tea Party friends who don't like taxes (Who likes taxes anyway? But I digress...) Then because she can't say she's going to raise taxes, she will promise she'll deliver stuff for her community by taking it from those who, in her view, have too much -- e.g. those in the poorer parts of the County.

If you are really a bleeding-heart liberal, you should not vote for this person. Be frustrated with Straus, but this is really making a deal with the devil. And she won't be able to deliver any better than anybody else, especially given her apparently abrasive politics of personal destruction. Read any number of posts from the last election and you'll see people talk about this...

There is an easy solution. Run someone else and I (and others) will vote for her/him. Either way, Strauss will not longer be on the the SB.

[Anonymous]

Is Strauss running again for sure?