School board reckoning?

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Anonymous wrote:With the governor's race ending up the way it did, will the FCPS school board now tone down their nonsense out of fear of being kicked out at the next election?

What nonsense exactly?

Oh come on. The VMPI push to end advanced math (which I realize there's an ardent defender of "they didn't mean that!" here, but the receipts are in the video) would've trickled down here. The way they never stick to a calendar from year-to-year. The fact that they are painting over real learning loss and increasing widening education gaps and instead focusing on implementing meaningless Covid screening tests - which would've been great last fall if they had opened - for November 2021 as 5-11s practically pound down pharmacy doors to get vaccinated. The fact that renaming schools was more important than getting kids into them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would love a nice slate of Moderates by either party. I am sick of the far right and the far left but I can't have nice things.

JFC. McAuliffe is about as moderate as they come. Not sure why you are basically equating him to Bernie Sanders. Care to explain?

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Anonymous wrote:With the governor's race ending up the way it did, will the FCPS school board now tone down their nonsense out of fear of being kicked out at the next election?

Very cringe because you think you just voted out the school board when in fact you voted for governor.

They did vote out the state board of education. I’m guessing equity won’t be a priority for the incoming board.

This. This is why I voted Youngkin. Whatever it takes to get Atif Qarni to stop imposing new teacher training mandates about equity that don’t do a damn thing to help my kid learn the 3 R’s, science, and non-victim-based social studies.

Exactly. And if the School Board members are paying any attention they’ll start focusing on their basic responsibilities again and stop with all their stupid nonsense like a new “social justice” Academy at failing Lewis HS.

I would have assumed conservative Christians would be supportive of such things considering the importance of social justice in the teachings of Jesus.[/quote]

This is an assumption that you should not make, as they've proven that they do not. Time and again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would love a nice slate of Moderates by either party. I am sick of the far right and the far left but I can't have nice things.

JFC. McAuliffe is about as moderate as they come. Not sure why you are basically equating him to Bernie Sanders. Care to explain?

DP, but having Randi Weingarten campaign as his closing argument unfortunately didn't scream "moderate." Have you seen the platform the AFT has been pushing in recent years?

I think people are using "moderate" as a stand-in word for "Cares about governing effectively on the issues that matter to people." So much of the stuff causing pain for families right now comes back to the way Covid was handled and continues to be handled. Long quarantines for exposure in schools, supply chain issues, counties surprising families withe last-minute asynchronous days, very little transparency into whether or not millions of dollars of federal money are actually going to learning loss, and on and on.

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Anonymous wrote:With the governor's race ending up the way it did, will the FCPS school board now tone down their nonsense out of fear of being kicked out at the next election?

Very cringe because you think you just voted out the school board when in fact you voted for governor.

They did vote out the state board of education. I’m guessing equity won’t be a priority for the incoming board.

This. This is why I voted Youngkin. Whatever it takes to get Atif Qarni to stop imposing new teacher training mandates about equity that don’t do a damn thing to help my kid learn the 3 R’s, science, and non-victim-based social studies.

Exactly. And if the School Board members are paying any attention they’ll start focusing on their basic responsibilities again and stop with all their stupid nonsense like a new “social justice” Academy at failing Lewis HS.

I would have assumed conservative Christians would be supportive of such things considering the importance of social justice in the teachings of Jesus.[

This is an assumption that you should not make, as they've proven that they do not. Time and again.

DP, but you know the bolded was sarcasm and so do I. Of course, many conservative Christians are distancing themselves from the label evangelical for this reason, but nobody wants to pay attention to the rare people actually living out their beliefs (regardless of belief structure), just the flash point narratives.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how republicans run the school board for 50 years and destroy the entire county system and a month after a democratic board gets into office all the problems are their fault.

Wiw! Where do you get your media talking points? You know nothing about nova school boards.

I have been a parent and teacher in fcps for 25 years, but ok.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:McAuliffe won Fairfax County by a whopping 65 - 35, so there's no reason for them to not double down.

The state DoE, however, may tread a bit more cautiously.

Republicans and independents may not be able to punish the board in county elections, but they can take their frustrations out on state wide elections and cost those candidates big time.

This definitely is part of what happened. Democrats underestimated the impact of anger towards the school boards, even though most of it was whipped up by outside money.

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I won’t forget that my kids were out of school for a year when the next school board elections come around. I’m smarter than the sample ballot. But I don’t have as much faith in my fellow voters. It is what it is.

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I will say that candidates who agitated against CRT and COVID restrictions lost badly yesterday in many parts of flyover country, so I'm not sure the board has anything to worry about when it comes right down to it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:McAuliffe won Fairfax County by a whopping 65 - 35, so there's no reason for them to not double down.

The state DoE, however, may tread a bit more cautiously.

Republicans and independents may not be able to punish the board in county elections, but they can take their frustrations out on state wide elections and cost those candidates big time.

This definitely is part of what happened. Democrats underestimated the impact of anger towards the school boards, even though most of it was whipped up by outside money.

Exactly

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Anonymous wrote:The Virginia GOP proved that it can whip up racist white enthusiasm, and win at the ballot box, without Donald Trump.

Virginians just elected a black woman and Latino guy. Yes, must be racist white enthusiasts who voted them in. Democrats fail to recognize that there are much more educated AA now.

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Anonymous wrote:The Virginia GOP proved that it can whip up racist white enthusiasm, and win at the ballot box, without Donald Trump.

Donald Trump may not currently be in office or on any ballot, but his pernicious influence still lingers in these elections. Younkin would not have gotten away with the sbtle racist bell whistles he campaigned on without the preceding tenure of TFG.

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Anonymous wrote:With the governor's race ending up the way it did, will the FCPS school board now tone down their nonsense out of fear of being kicked out at the next election?

What nonsense exactly?

Who are you? Rip Van Winkle? Google and catch up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Virginia GOP proved that it can whip up racist white enthusiasm, and win at the ballot box, without Donald Trump.

Virginians just elected a black woman and Latino guy. Yes, must be racist white enthusiasts who voted them in. Democrats fail to recognize that there are much more educated AA now.

I can’t tell if all the “Democrats” on this site are Russian Trolls or not. It’s always somehow linked back to racism even when it’s clearly not. When there is no intelligent argument, they just start calling everyone who disagrees with them racist. It seems like something a Russian troll would do to stir the pot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love how republicans run the school board for 50 years and destroy the entire county system and a month after a democratic board gets into office all the problems are their fault.

Huh? FCPS has been going down the tubes under Democrats.