
By firepower, you mean money, lawyers and appeals to conservatives. It’s all good until they realize those nice, inoffensive county policies they support as bleeding hearts actually have a trickle down effect on their kids. I just hope skills based grading is rolled out across FCPS soon so they will put their focus on something that truly matters for our kids — not how pretty their school is or what other kids they might be exposed to. Ask Madison parents how SBG is going. |
What truly matters for kids hasn't been a focus of Fairfax County parents for many years. It feels like during the late-2000s the focus shifted towards internal fighting for the best renovated facilities and for maximum containment of the dwindling wealthy population. |
People can care about other things besides SBG at Madison, you know. |
Policy 8130 is on the agenda for the 4/15 Governance Committee Meeting. |
Obviously parents can care about more than one thing at a time. Are you saying that everything else at Madison trumps SBG? |
Is this a meeting that will be televised or another meeting that won't be recorded? They ought to be transparent about what they plan to do with this policy and the nature of the "holistic" (sic) review. |
My understanding is that the Governance Committee Meetings are not televised/recorded. |
That's probably why they wanted to get a jump on discussing Policy 8130 prior to the work session in late May, which presumably will be recorded. Need to offer Jake Sizemore a performance spot before the Governance Committee meeting. Then Rachna would make sure it was televised, lol. |
Yep, it's coming. Get ready for stealth socioeconomic balancing under cover of self-inflicted overcrowding. |
Until they formally put Dunn Loring ES on ice until there's a demonstrated need for that school, I can't take anything that Kyle McDaniel or other School Board members have to say on the topic of school boundaries seriously. It's an $80M boondoggle and the new SB members haven't done squat to revisit it. If they want to show that they are being fiscally prudent, and responsive to the schools that are actually overcrowded, there's no better decision they could make than to cancel Dunn Loring and reallocate that money. |
And, they’re having another Governance committee meeting tomorrow, 4/16. I have never seen back to back committee meetings. More often, they cancel them because they can’t get quorum. Committee meetings aren’t televised or recorded but they are open to the public. Anyone going to tomorrow’s work session could pop into Governance first. |
The thing that makes me furious, is that McDaniel never mentioned redistricting when he ran for the board. In fact, none of them mentioned it, despite this being the obvious end goal for many of them. It’s about to do immense damage to the Fairfax democrat brand. What an unforced error. |
Kyle seems like quite the attention whore always trying to get in the press. Makes sense because he doesn’t care about the schools, just advancing his political career. |
You gave yourself away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet) |