GOP endorsed school board candidates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maureen Brody, Cassandra Aucoin, and Saundra Davis are all stronger than Meren or any of the at large women on the school board. I don't know why you think the current school board is anything to admire that any new person has to overcome. The current board has very little substance beyond having a political background. These new people are running to replace absolute horrific destructive at large school board members like Omeish, Gamarra, and Heizer all who are not running because they did such a poor job. The new women are easily better than the current board and offer a new direction. That's all they need to be.

Maureen Brody was TEAR GASSED on January 6th during the riots. On what planet do you think that’s the type we need on the school board??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maureen Brody, Cassandra Aucoin, and Saundra Davis are all stronger than Meren or any of the at large women on the school board. I don't know why you think the current school board is anything to admire that any new person has to overcome. The current board has very little substance beyond having a political background. These new people are running to replace absolute horrific destructive at large school board members like Omeish, Gamarra, and Heizer all who are not running because they did such a poor job. The new women are easily better than the current board and offer a new direction. That's all they need to be.

Maureen Brody was TEAR GASSED on January 6th during the riots. On what planet do you think that’s the type we need on the school board??

Really? She was that brave? I want to know more about her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maureen Brody, Cassandra Aucoin, and Saundra Davis are all stronger than Meren or any of the at large women on the school board. I don't know why you think the current school board is anything to admire that any new person has to overcome. The current board has very little substance beyond having a political background. These new people are running to replace absolute horrific destructive at large school board members like Omeish, Gamarra, and Heizer all who are not running because they did such a poor job. The new women are easily better than the current board and offer a new direction. That's all they need to be.

Maureen Brody was TEAR GASSED on January 6th during the riots. On what planet do you think that’s the type we need on the school board??

And she ran for the House of Delegates and didn’t get that, so now she’s trying for SB. Seems just like another person hoping to use the SB spot as a their political “in”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maureen Brody, Cassandra Aucoin, and Saundra Davis are all stronger than Meren or any of the at large women on the school board. I don't know why you think the current school board is anything to admire that any new person has to overcome. The current board has very little substance beyond having a political background. These new people are running to replace absolute horrific destructive at large school board members like Omeish, Gamarra, and Heizer all who are not running because they did such a poor job. The new women are easily better than the current board and offer a new direction. That's all they need to be.

I agree that the Omeish, Gamarra, Cohen, and most of the school board were awful. I don't want to vote for any Dems. I'm over the perpetual gender ideologies, religious holidays, and virtue signaling. That said, I've read up on the R candidates listed and most appear to be hard core Trumpers who support school vouchers. In the case of Priscilla Destafano, she has her kids in private school and not FCPS, which rubs me the wrong way.

All the FCPS candidates are terrible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maureen Brody, Cassandra Aucoin, and Saundra Davis are all stronger than Meren or any of the at large women on the school board. I don't know why you think the current school board is anything to admire that any new person has to overcome. The current board has very little substance beyond having a political background. These new people are running to replace absolute horrific destructive at large school board members like Omeish, Gamarra, and Heizer all who are not running because they did such a poor job. The new women are easily better than the current board and offer a new direction. That's all they need to be.

Maureen Brody was TEAR GASSED on January 6th during the riots. On what planet do you think that’s the type we need on the school board??

Really? She was that brave? I want to know more about her.

“Brave”? Ok. Whatever.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmimms/jan-6-republicans-ballot-election-day

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maureen Brody, Cassandra Aucoin, and Saundra Davis are all stronger than Meren or any of the at large women on the school board. I don't know why you think the current school board is anything to admire that any new person has to overcome. The current board has very little substance beyond having a political background. These new people are running to replace absolute horrific destructive at large school board members like Omeish, Gamarra, and Heizer all who are not running because they did such a poor job. The new women are easily better than the current board and offer a new direction. That's all they need to be.

Maureen Brody was TEAR GASSED on January 6th during the riots. On what planet do you think that’s the type we need on the school board??

Really? She was that brave? I want to know more about her.

Go look at the white supremacist gatherings and chat groups. You might find her there.



“Maureen Brody, also attended the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally that turned into insurrection; she once posted on Gab, the white supremacist-friendly social media platform, that she got near enough to the Capitol that she and others were targeted with tear gas. Footage found by anti-fascist researchers also appears to show her on the building’s steps — a restricted area.

Months later, Maureen Brody was named as the Republican nominee for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. During her campaign — on June 21, 2021 — she posted a photo to Gab showing her standing behind a table draped with an America First flag. She was running in a heavily Democratic district and lost in the general election by 30 points.”

(America First is a white supremacy group)

https://news.yahoo.com/jan-6-rioter-arrested-assaulting-173103273.html

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/political-minds/202012/new-book-irreversible-damage-is-full-misinformation?amp

New Book “Irreversible Damage” Is Full of Misinformation

Shrier did not interview most of the transgender adolescents she wrote about.
The author’s note points out that she only interviewed their parents, who uniformly did not accept their children’s transgender identities. Many of them were estranged from their kids because the children were so hurt by their parents' rejection. To actually understand the psychology of these young people, one would need to talk to them, not simply rely on stories from parents with whom they do not speak.

Further arguing against Shrier’s objectivity is her crass and offensive language throughout the book.

Shrier claims that “in most cases—nearly 70 percent—gender dysphoria resolves," and thus youth should not be provided gender-affirming medical care. That statistic is false.

Shrier claims that a large number of kids who say they are transgender are actually LGB and afraid to say so because transgender identity carries less stigma than being LGB. Actual data suggest otherwise.

Shrier states there is evidence that providing adolescents with puberty blockers makes them more likely to continue to identify as transgender. That’s false.

Shrier ignores all of the data showing that gender-affirming medical care results in improved mental health outcomes for transgender youth.


It’s anti-trans political propaganda.

Since your posting is based on a piece by Jack Turban MD MHS, allow me to share a different perspective about his input:

…In a field known for its weak methodologies and even weaker scientific conclusions, Turban’s study sets a new low. Even trans activists in the academy who detest the ROGD hypothesis wrote a letter in which they take Turban to task. While the Turban study’s intentions are “admirable,” these authors write, its “results were overinterpreted and . . . the theoretical and methodological shortcomings of the article run the risk of being more harmful than supportive.

That a study like this can pass the peer-review process unscathed, especially at a time when European countries are shutting down or putting severe restrictions on pediatric transition, is a sorry statement about the quality of knowledge gatekeeping in the medical research community. American journalists tout its findings without giving readers relevant information about its flaws, while left-of-center journalists in Britain have been busy blowing the whistle on the pediatric gender-medicine scandal. The U.S. has a long way to go to bring medical practice in line with scientific knowledge and common sense.

Full text:
https://www.city-journal.org/article/a-new-low

Furthermore, allow me to share a more reliable source that references the work of Abigail Shrier by experts on the field. You may really want to take your time to read it :
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/09/71296/

Deflection. Her book is full of misinformation. It's not based on data or even accurate case studies. If you actually checked her sources you'd realize that it's not based on peer-review scientific journals, it's based on partisan op-eds. If you actually look to the science and medical community, she's wrong on almost everything.

She's an anti-trans political hack pushing conservative propaganda.

Doctor Jack Turban, the person you are basing your accusation on, is personally invested in debunking Abigail Shrier’s work, which represents a deep conflict of interest. If I were you, I would take anything he says with a grain of salt:

….In many of Turban’s published papers, the sources of the funding for his research reveal conflicts of interest. Particularly, his past work was made possible by a grant from the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), where Turban is a member of its media committee and where “it’s hard to get any contrary opinions on the symposia,” according to Levine.
Most notably, AACAP is financially supported by pharmaceutical companies Arbor and Pfizer. Both produce off-label puberty blockers that inhibit the onset of physical changes aligning with a person’s sex.
Given that even progressive European nations, such as England, France, Finland, and Sweden, have started to adopt an increasingly cautious approach towards minor gender transitioning, the relationship between Turban’s funding and his conclusions has come under scrutiny.

Full text:
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/advocate-rather-than-a-scientist-the-compromised-research-of-child-gender-transition-doctor-jack-turban/

Unfortunately the activists at the FCPS School Board seem to believe that our students are more interested in drawings of strap-on dildos than information that will help them develop critical thinking skills, such is the case of the work of Abigail Shrier.

Specifically which point did he get wrong. Oh right, he didn’t. Have you checked her sources yet?

He’s just one of many people who called out her book for what it is: anti-trans propaganda devoid of real data or analysis.

The Rs are the people fixated on LGBTQ books. Who keeps bringing them up? Not the Ds. Not the school board.

You want to stop talking about sexuality/gender so much? Then stop the R’s relentless attack on LGBTQ youth.

Ds and school board created the school LGBTQ book issue. This forces parents point out the issue.

No. The Ds aren’t in charge or publishing books and the school board doesn’t pick out each individual book in the HS libraries.

You want to stop talking about sexuality/gender so much? Then stop the R’s relentless attack on LGBTQ youth.

FCPS has a book review committee. After reading FCPS book recommendation about Lawn Boy: A Novel, I finally understand the root cause of the disagreement between FCPS and conservative parents. On one side, the conservative parents, think school should focus on academic. On the other side, FCPS has a different focus.
"The book aligns with the FCPS priority to affirm individuals in their identity. " -- FCPS Book review committee.

https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/policies-regulations-and-notices/school-library-collections/library-books-challenge-0

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11604233/Author-banned-book-describes-sex-act-children-says-never-meant-children.html

https://thespringmagazine.com/2022/01/28/lawn-boy-is-pedophilic-heres-why-explicit/

So the Republicans want FCPS to push for conversion therapy now?

Is that why they keep bringing up sexuality and gender topics?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Finally the chicks are coming home to roost!

Do we want to elect candidates that will occupy our resources on defending the School Board from liability caused by them, or to do the job they were elected for, which is to educate our children?


https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/25/lawsuit-over-sex-trafficked-teen-could-stop-schools-from-hiding-kids-dysphoria/

ThE fEdERaLiSt.

Some posters in this thread seem to denigrate well educated women for a reason only known to them. Let me introduce you to the author of this article:

Laura Bryant Hanford is a mother of five and is actively involved in school policy and religious freedom issues in Virginia, where she lives with her family. She served from 2015 to 2018 on Fairfax County Public Schools' Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee. She was the lead congressional staff drafter of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. She also served at the U.S. Embassy in Romania as the officer in charge of human rights, focusing on ethnic minorities, women, and refugees. She is a graduate of Princeton University.

You may want to take your time to read what she has to say about FCPS in this article. If you have children in the system, it should really concern you.

[Anonymous]

Jan 6th is a historical myth. I'll keep an open mind for all claims/rumors/evidences.
But I do think Maureen Brody's points are good.

https://brodyforschoolboard.com/

Refocus curriculum on fundamentals

• Students will graduate ready to serve the country, earn a living wage, or get a degree.

• Phonics, math, coding, scientific method, and grammar will take priority.

Improve low-performing schools

• Add back languages, accelerated learning, and academic clubs and programs that have been systematically reduced.

• There will no longer be academic and extracurricular deserts in this county
Modernize school infrastructure

• Put high-speed internet, vocational technology, working HVAC, and accessible clean water in every school.

Get spending under control

• Fairfax County schools are tens of millions of dollars in the hole.

• End the waste and focus resources on academics and security.

• Conduct an independent audit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jan 6th is a historical myth.

So the people who support her are Jan 6th deniers?

That tracks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maureen Brody, Cassandra Aucoin, and Saundra Davis are all stronger than Meren or any of the at large women on the school board. I don't know why you think the current school board is anything to admire that any new person has to overcome. The current board has very little substance beyond having a political background. These new people are running to replace absolute horrific destructive at large school board members like Omeish, Gamarra, and Heizer all who are not running because they did such a poor job. The new women are easily better than the current board and offer a new direction. That's all they need to be.

Maureen Brody was TEAR GASSED on January 6th during the riots. On what planet do you think that’s the type we need on the school board??

The people who are on the board now aren't even running again, they are that unpopular. The bar is low. I don't think these are the greatest people, but unless we get more balance on the board, no one remotely logical will want to run. Who wants to sit on a board with reasonable thought and have a board think they are too far right for something like textbooks in the classroom? There has to be some balance in order for there to be divergence of thought. The people on the board now are extreme. The people running on the democratic side are extreme. It's not about each of them. it's about restoring some balance.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Jan 6th is a historical myth.

So the people who support her are Jan 6th deniers?

That tracks.

This lines up with every one of the Republican school board candidates. They’re doing their best to hide it as much as possible but it’s not going to work.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/political-minds/202012/new-book-irreversible-damage-is-full-misinformation?amp

New Book “Irreversible Damage” Is Full of Misinformation

Shrier did not interview most of the transgender adolescents she wrote about.
The author’s note points out that she only interviewed their parents, who uniformly did not accept their children’s transgender identities. Many of them were estranged from their kids because the children were so hurt by their parents' rejection. To actually understand the psychology of these young people, one would need to talk to them, not simply rely on stories from parents with whom they do not speak.

Further arguing against Shrier’s objectivity is her crass and offensive language throughout the book.

Shrier claims that “in most cases—nearly 70 percent—gender dysphoria resolves," and thus youth should not be provided gender-affirming medical care. That statistic is false.

Shrier claims that a large number of kids who say they are transgender are actually LGB and afraid to say so because transgender identity carries less stigma than being LGB. Actual data suggest otherwise.

Shrier states there is evidence that providing adolescents with puberty blockers makes them more likely to continue to identify as transgender. That’s false.

Shrier ignores all of the data showing that gender-affirming medical care results in improved mental health outcomes for transgender youth.


It’s anti-trans political propaganda.

Since your posting is based on a piece by Jack Turban MD MHS, allow me to share a different perspective about his input:

…In a field known for its weak methodologies and even weaker scientific conclusions, Turban’s study sets a new low. Even trans activists in the academy who detest the ROGD hypothesis wrote a letter in which they take Turban to task. While the Turban study’s intentions are “admirable,” these authors write, its “results were overinterpreted and . . . the theoretical and methodological shortcomings of the article run the risk of being more harmful than supportive.

That a study like this can pass the peer-review process unscathed, especially at a time when European countries are shutting down or putting severe restrictions on pediatric transition, is a sorry statement about the quality of knowledge gatekeeping in the medical research community. American journalists tout its findings without giving readers relevant information about its flaws, while left-of-center journalists in Britain have been busy blowing the whistle on the pediatric gender-medicine scandal. The U.S. has a long way to go to bring medical practice in line with scientific knowledge and common sense.

Full text:
https://www.city-journal.org/article/a-new-low

Furthermore, allow me to share a more reliable source that references the work of Abigail Shrier by experts on the field. You may really want to take your time to read it :
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/09/71296/

Deflection. Her book is full of misinformation. It's not based on data or even accurate case studies. If you actually checked her sources you'd realize that it's not based on peer-review scientific journals, it's based on partisan op-eds. If you actually look to the science and medical community, she's wrong on almost everything.

She's an anti-trans political hack pushing conservative propaganda.

Doctor Jack Turban, the person you are basing your accusation on, is personally invested in debunking Abigail Shrier’s work, which represents a deep conflict of interest. If I were you, I would take anything he says with a grain of salt:

….In many of Turban’s published papers, the sources of the funding for his research reveal conflicts of interest. Particularly, his past work was made possible by a grant from the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), where Turban is a member of its media committee and where “it’s hard to get any contrary opinions on the symposia,” according to Levine.
Most notably, AACAP is financially supported by pharmaceutical companies Arbor and Pfizer. Both produce off-label puberty blockers that inhibit the onset of physical changes aligning with a person’s sex.
Given that even progressive European nations, such as England, France, Finland, and Sweden, have started to adopt an increasingly cautious approach towards minor gender transitioning, the relationship between Turban’s funding and his conclusions has come under scrutiny.

Full text:
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/advocate-rather-than-a-scientist-the-compromised-research-of-child-gender-transition-doctor-jack-turban/

Unfortunately the activists at the FCPS School Board seem to believe that our students are more interested in drawings of strap-on dildos than information that will help them develop critical thinking skills, such is the case of the work of Abigail Shrier.

Specifically which point did he get wrong. Oh right, he didn’t. Have you checked her sources yet?

He’s just one of many people who called out her book for what it is: anti-trans propaganda devoid of real data or analysis.

The Rs are the people fixated on LGBTQ books. Who keeps bringing them up? Not the Ds. Not the school board.

You want to stop talking about sexuality/gender so much? Then stop the R’s relentless attack on LGBTQ youth.

Ds and school board created the school LGBTQ book issue. This forces parents point out the issue.

No. The Ds aren’t in charge or publishing books and the school board doesn’t pick out each individual book in the HS libraries.

You want to stop talking about sexuality/gender so much? Then stop the R’s relentless attack on LGBTQ youth.

FCPS has a book review committee. After reading FCPS book recommendation about Lawn Boy: A Novel, I finally understand the root cause of the disagreement between FCPS and conservative parents. On one side, the conservative parents, think school should focus on academic. On the other side, FCPS has a different focus.
"The book aligns with the FCPS priority to affirm individuals in their identity. " -- FCPS Book review committee.

https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/policies-regulations-and-notices/school-library-collections/library-books-challenge-0

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11604233/Author-banned-book-describes-sex-act-children-says-never-meant-children.html

https://thespringmagazine.com/2022/01/28/lawn-boy-is-pedophilic-heres-why-explicit/

So the Republicans want FCPS to push for conversion therapy now?

Is that why they keep bringing up sexuality and gender topics?

Again. "Yes, we did it! But you stop talking about it!"

[Anonymous]

Some of the people on the board now will even cherry pick who from the public gets to speak during school board meetings and who gets to post on their public pages. They don't even disclose the writings they get from the public. It's not a democracy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maureen Brody, Cassandra Aucoin, and Saundra Davis are all stronger than Meren or any of the at large women on the school board. I don't know why you think the current school board is anything to admire that any new person has to overcome. The current board has very little substance beyond having a political background. These new people are running to replace absolute horrific destructive at large school board members like Omeish, Gamarra, and Heizer all who are not running because they did such a poor job. The new women are easily better than the current board and offer a new direction. That's all they need to be.

Maureen Brody was TEAR GASSED on January 6th during the riots. On what planet do you think that’s the type we need on the school board??

The people who are on the board now aren't even running again, they are that unpopular. The bar is low. I don't think these are the greatest people, but unless we get more balance on the board, no one remotely logical will want to run. Who wants to sit on a board with reasonable thought and have a board think they are too far right for something like textbooks in the classroom? There has to be some balance in order for there to be divergence of thought. The people on the board now are extreme. The people running on the democratic side are extreme. It's not about each of them. it's about restoring some balance.

You can’t get a reasonable balance with nutters.

Look at what the nutters in Congress are doing right now. They aren’t going to fix anything, only make things worse.