FCPS At-Large School Board Race - Is County Split in Two?

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Anonymous wrote:I thought McDaniel was a moderate considering he used to be a Republican but left the party because it is now extremist.

I could respect him if he left the Republican Party because he felt it was too extremist but he's turned into the second coming of Laura Jane Cohen (or maybe Karl Frisch). Think I'll pass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vote straight republican. Save FCPS before it is too late.

I will be doing the exact opposite, TYVM.

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Anonymous wrote:Vote straight republican. Save FCPS before it is too late.

By save FCPS do you mean completely destroy it?

DP, but I'd love to see some diversity OF OPINION on the next School Board. We don't have that with the current board and they have been running FCPS into the ground with their incompetence. Some of them should be in jail.

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+1 COVID and aftermath have shown the current board to be ineffective at actually educating students in reading, writing, arithmetic,...

I'd love all of you $%^% whiners to have done better. You wouldn't have.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Vote straight republican. Save FCPS before it is too late.

By save FCPS do you mean completely destroy it?

DP, but I'd love to see some diversity OF OPINION on the next School Board. We don't have that with the current board and they have been running FCPS into the ground with their incompetence. Some of them should be in jail.

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+1 COVID and aftermath have shown the current board to be ineffective at actually educating students in reading, writing, arithmetic,...

I'd love all of you $%^% whiners to have done better. You wouldn't have.

1. Would have listened to health department-not the teachers' union. Could have opened schools much, much earlier. Example: teacher "yearning to get back in the classroom--when it is safe" while posting from the beach. Also, one of ouor "At Large" members.
2. Should have paid attention --much earlier--to the mess that was the Tech department. Remember the first iteration of "virtual learning?" Other school systems were better prepared, but our Tech person had no idea of anything.
3. SB members being sure their own kids had school in a "pod" --example Hunter Mill SB member.
4. SB members crying because partner teacher might get sick. Example Providence SB member
5. Spending much time on "equity" while closing schools was anything but equitable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Vote straight republican. Save FCPS before it is too late.

By save FCPS do you mean completely destroy it?

DP, but I'd love to see some diversity OF OPINION on the next School Board. We don't have that with the current board and they have been running FCPS into the ground with their incompetence. Some of them should be in jail.

+1

+1 COVID and aftermath have shown the current board to be ineffective at actually educating students in reading, writing, arithmetic,...

I'd love all of you $%^% whiners to have done better. You wouldn't have.

A different school board might have gotten kids back into school sooner and prioritized making sure FCPS had the IT infrastructure needed to deliver content remotely when absolutely necessary. Instead, we got a bunch of frivolous people doing silly things.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Vote straight republican. Save FCPS before it is too late.

By save FCPS do you mean completely destroy it?

DP, but I'd love to see some diversity OF OPINION on the next School Board. We don't have that with the current board and they have been running FCPS into the ground with their incompetence. Some of them should be in jail.

+1

+1 COVID and aftermath have shown the current board to be ineffective at actually educating students in reading, writing, arithmetic,...

I'd love all of you $%^% whiners to have done better. You wouldn't have.

Easy items that any competent person should have known:

Need for adequate infrastructure to handle emergency situations - including technology
That students wouldn't have shown up on days when there was no new material
That other school systems, even in the US were safely returning long before FCPS did
Made plans to close education gaps everyone saw coming
...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Vote straight republican. Save FCPS before it is too late.

By save FCPS do you mean completely destroy it?

DP, but I'd love to see some diversity OF OPINION on the next School Board. We don't have that with the current board and they have been running FCPS into the ground with their incompetence. Some of them should be in jail.

+1

+1 COVID and aftermath have shown the current board to be ineffective at actually educating students in reading, writing, arithmetic,...

I'd love all of you $%^% whiners to have done better. You wouldn't have.

Easy items that any competent person should have known:

Need for adequate infrastructure to handle emergency situations - including technology
That students wouldn't have shown up on days when there was no new material
That other school systems, even in the US were safely returning long before FCPS did
Made plans to close education gaps everyone saw coming
...

Still trying to understand why you think a group of people with no background in education and no teaching experience (except maybe one) could do any of that. They don't provide enough supervision of Gatehouse and this is the direct result of decades of SB's taking a hand-off approach, and this was inherited by this current SB. They had been in office only a few months when COVID happened, and couldn't have known how bad the tech at Gatehouse was or anything else. You love to criticize, but you could not have done better. Maybe you could have gotten more people killed, though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Vote straight republican. Save FCPS before it is too late.

By save FCPS do you mean completely destroy it?

DP, but I'd love to see some diversity OF OPINION on the next School Board. We don't have that with the current board and they have been running FCPS into the ground with their incompetence. Some of them should be in jail.

+1

+1 COVID and aftermath have shown the current board to be ineffective at actually educating students in reading, writing, arithmetic,...

I'd love all of you $%^% whiners to have done better. You wouldn't have.

Easy items that any competent person should have known:

Need for adequate infrastructure to handle emergency situations - including technology
That students wouldn't have shown up on days when there was no new material
That other school systems, even in the US were safely returning long before FCPS did
Made plans to close education gaps everyone saw coming
...

Still trying to understand why you think a group of people with no background in education and no teaching experience (except maybe one) could do any of that. They don't provide enough supervision of Gatehouse and this is the direct result of decades of SB's taking a hand-off approach, and this was inherited by this current SB. They had been in office only a few months when COVID happened, and couldn't have known how bad the tech at Gatehouse was or anything else. You love to criticize, but you could not have done better. Maybe you could have gotten more people killed, though.

Have you considered the suicide rate and mental health issues of our school children?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see it that way at all. If McElveen and McDaniel have more support far north than others, my sense is that's largely because they are the MOST left on the political spectrum, and that's what the wealthy Oakton/Vienna/McLean crowd likes. Moon seems much more moderate, but widely popular with everyone. I've meet Munir and he's moderate, too -- as a parent (maybe the only current parent of FCPS students running?) his concerns seemed quite practical and I think that's where is focus is, rather than national talking points. As a parent, that resonated with me. At this point, for me, it's Moon and Munir, but I can't quite figure out the 3rd. McElveen seems disingenuous and McDaniel has sent me about 400 emails but the only thing they are about is LGBTQ issues, so I can't really figure out what his actual education-related stances are.

I’m get McDaniel’s emails too and I think maybe 1 was about LGBTQ issues, which, like it or not, is a topic of concern for the community. His website has a long list of education issues.

PP here -- you do realize that it's possible we're on different mailing lists, or the social media algorithms show us different posts, right? I'm not an LGBTQ activist but perhaps I got on some list. Regardless, I'm not against LGBTQ activism, so I'm not quite sure what you were trying to imply, I'm well aware it's a topic of concern for some/many in the community. My point was that it is FAR from the ONLY issue of concern for the community, but it's a quick and easy talking point to show how liberal you are, and that's what concerned me. I'm glad to hear he has a well-rounded platform.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I thought McDaniel was a moderate considering he used to be a Republican but left the party because it is now extremist.

I could respect him if he left the Republican Party because he felt it was too extremist but he's turned into the second coming of Laura Jane Cohen (or maybe Karl Frisch). Think I'll pass.

Thanks. I will look into him a little more. Definitely not interested in another Cohen or Frisch.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Vote straight republican. Save FCPS before it is too late.

By save FCPS do you mean completely destroy it?

DP, but I'd love to see some diversity OF OPINION on the next School Board. We don't have that with the current board and they have been running FCPS into the ground with their incompetence. Some of them should be in jail.

+1

+1 COVID and aftermath have shown the current board to be ineffective at actually educating students in reading, writing, arithmetic,...

I'd love all of you $%^% whiners to have done better. You wouldn't have.

Easy items that any competent person should have known:

Need for adequate infrastructure to handle emergency situations - including technology
That students wouldn't have shown up on days when there was no new material
That other school systems, even in the US were safely returning long before FCPS did
Made plans to close education gaps everyone saw coming
...

Still trying to understand why you think a group of people with no background in education and no teaching experience (except maybe one) could do any of that. They don't provide enough supervision of Gatehouse and this is the direct result of decades of SB's taking a hand-off approach, and this was inherited by this current SB. They had been in office only a few months when COVID happened, and couldn't have known how bad the tech at Gatehouse was or anything else. You love to criticize, but you could not have done better. Maybe you could have gotten more people killed, though.

Ok I will take you step by step. You are a school board member. You job is to make sure the organization is running effectively. You have the superintendent bring departments 1 or 2 at a time before the board. Each department does a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) presentation. You find out what is working well and what areas need improvement and direct the superintendent to adjust resources appropriately.

I am an IT professional, so the poor state of IT would have been obvious. But being several generations behind on your critical software, which was the case, would have been obvious to a Luddite. Other areas that need improvement I suspect would be equally apparent to any normal person.

If the school board is going to rubber stamp Gatehouse which has consistently failed for a long time then they are just taking taxpayer dollars.

As the other poster notes, there is no way to know if bringing kids back to school sooner would have cost more lives but having them stay at home definitely cost lives via suicide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vote straight republican. Save FCPS before it is too late.

By save FCPS do you mean completely destroy it?

DP, but I'd love to see some diversity OF OPINION on the next School Board. We don't have that with the current board and they have been running FCPS into the ground with their incompetence. Some of them should be in jail.

+1

+1 COVID and aftermath have shown the current board to be ineffective at actually educating students in reading, writing, arithmetic,...

I'd love all of you $%^% whiners to have done better. You wouldn't have.

Easy items that any competent person should have known:

Need for adequate infrastructure to handle emergency situations - including technology
That students wouldn't have shown up on days when there was no new material
That other school systems, even in the US were safely returning long before FCPS did
Made plans to close education gaps everyone saw coming
...

You do remember that the peaks deaths from COVID in Virginia happened in January 2021, right? When exactly did you want teachers back in school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vote straight republican. Save FCPS before it is too late.

By save FCPS do you mean completely destroy it?

DP, but I'd love to see some diversity OF OPINION on the next School Board. We don't have that with the current board and they have been running FCPS into the ground with their incompetence. Some of them should be in jail.

+1

+1 COVID and aftermath have shown the current board to be ineffective at actually educating students in reading, writing, arithmetic,...

I'd love all of you $%^% whiners to have done better. You wouldn't have.

Easy items that any competent person should have known:

Need for adequate infrastructure to handle emergency situations - including technology
That students wouldn't have shown up on days when there was no new material
That other school systems, even in the US were safely returning long before FCPS did
Made plans to close education gaps everyone saw coming
...

You do remember that the peaks deaths from COVID in Virginia happened in January 2021, right? When exactly did you want teachers back in school?

Fall of 2020 just like Nebraska, Kansas and other states.

Kids were not dying and teachers had preferential access to vaccines.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vote straight republican. Save FCPS before it is too late.

By save FCPS do you mean completely destroy it?

DP, but I'd love to see some diversity OF OPINION on the next School Board. We don't have that with the current board and they have been running FCPS into the ground with their incompetence. Some of them should be in jail.

+1

+1 COVID and aftermath have shown the current board to be ineffective at actually educating students in reading, writing, arithmetic,...

I'd love all of you $%^% whiners to have done better. You wouldn't have.

Easy items that any competent person should have known:

Need for adequate infrastructure to handle emergency situations - including technology
That students wouldn't have shown up on days when there was no new material
That other school systems, even in the US were safely returning long before FCPS did
Made plans to close education gaps everyone saw coming
...

You do remember that the peaks deaths from COVID in Virginia happened in January 2021, right? When exactly did you want teachers back in school?

Fall of 2020 just like Nebraska, Kansas and other states.

Kids were not dying and teachers had preferential access to vaccines.

DP
I’m a teacher and I wanted to teach in-person at the start of the 2020-2021 SY, but didn’t access to the vaccine start in February of 2021?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vote straight republican. Save FCPS before it is too late.

By save FCPS do you mean completely destroy it?

DP, but I'd love to see some diversity OF OPINION on the next School Board. We don't have that with the current board and they have been running FCPS into the ground with their incompetence. Some of them should be in jail.

+1

+1 COVID and aftermath have shown the current board to be ineffective at actually educating students in reading, writing, arithmetic,...

I'd love all of you $%^% whiners to have done better. You wouldn't have.

1. Would have listened to health department-not the teachers' union. Could have opened schools much, much earlier. Example: teacher "yearning to get back in the classroom--when it is safe" while posting from the beach. Also, one of ouor "At Large" members.
2. Should have paid attention --much earlier--to the mess that was the Tech department. Remember the first iteration of "virtual learning?" Other school systems were better prepared, but our Tech person had no idea of anything.
3. SB members being sure their own kids had school in a "pod" --example Hunter Mill SB member.
4. SB members crying because partner teacher might get sick. Example Providence SB member
5. Spending much time on "equity" while closing schools was anything but equitable.

Oh come on. You have presented the most biased version of these points. And, unless you are a wizard, could not have single-handedly, or easily as you convey, done what you think they could.

A lot of people did 3, including us.
4 and 5 are completely reasonable positions.

You're still a #$%$$ whiner. But now we know your biased and a liar too.