Many issues converging: Contact SB and Reid!

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I've never put a political sign in front of my house but for the next school board election I'm thinking it's time. I've known my rep for a while and like her but something has to change.

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Anonymous wrote:dont forget the loss of federal funding because they are doubling down on allowing males to be females to use all bathrooms and participate in female sports

What else are you absolutely uninformed about? Tell us more, Fox News bot!

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Anonymous wrote:dont forget the loss of federal funding because they are doubling down on allowing males to be females to use all bathrooms and participate in female sports

What else are you absolutely uninformed about? Tell us more, Fox News bot!

DP. I feel like you post this same type of sentiment, sometimes with swear words, a lot - basically any time anyone questions the school board or FCPS. The school board’s actions these last two years has been left of where most Democrats are. It has made a lot of the Democratic base question why they still belong to the party.

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There are aspects of the Republican party that makes me worried about voting in a more right-leaning school board. Examples include banning books, encouraging students to report their teachers if the lesson makes them "uncomfortable," posting the Ten Commandments in schools, pushing a Christian-based curriculum, white-washing history, and so the list goes on.

We've already gotten a taste of some of that with the "rat out your teachers" hotline that Youngkin set up when he first came into office.

Our school board isn't perfect, and I disagree with them on issues, but when I look at other states, I'm glad we don't have to deal with right-wing Christian nationality flooding our schools with nonsense.

This is not the Republican party of old. This is a the party that will say, under oath, that Roe vs. Wade is established law. That vaccines won't be touched. If that's happening at the national level, I don't expect much different at the local government or school board level.

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Anonymous wrote:There are aspects of the Republican party that makes me worried about voting in a more right-leaning school board. Examples include banning books, encouraging students to report their teachers if the lesson makes them "uncomfortable," posting the Ten Commandments in schools, pushing a Christian-based curriculum, white-washing history, and so the list goes on.

We've already gotten a taste of some of that with the "rat out your teachers" hotline that Youngkin set up when he first came into office.

Our school board isn't perfect, and I disagree with them on issues, but when I look at other states, I'm glad we don't have to deal with right-wing Christian nationality flooding our schools with nonsense.

This is not the Republican party of old. This is a the party that will say, under oath, that Roe vs. Wade is established law. That vaccines won't be touched. If that's happening at the national level, I don't expect much different at the local government or school board level.

Look, you and I are largely aligned ideologically, but I will never vote for a D in an FCPS SB election again. They hid their boundary review intentions during their campaigns, ignored their constituents to cram it through, and are hurrying the process to try to avoid blowback in 2027 (it won’t work).

As much as I don’t want all the things that you mention might come with an R on the school board, I’d rather those than having the school board look at my kid as their resource to paper over a poor performing school. All the R stuff I can discuss and contextualize with my kid. I can’t discuss away them having to leave their friends and have a significantly altered education because the school board felt the need to pick winners and losers based on zip code.

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Anonymous wrote:There are aspects of the Republican party that makes me worried about voting in a more right-leaning school board. Examples include banning books, encouraging students to report their teachers if the lesson makes them "uncomfortable," posting the Ten Commandments in schools, pushing a Christian-based curriculum, white-washing history, and so the list goes on.

We've already gotten a taste of some of that with the "rat out your teachers" hotline that Youngkin set up when he first came into office.

Our school board isn't perfect, and I disagree with them on issues, but when I look at other states, I'm glad we don't have to deal with right-wing Christian nationality flooding our schools with nonsense.

This is not the Republican party of old. This is a the party that will say, under oath, that Roe vs. Wade is established law. That vaccines won't be touched. If that's happening at the national level, I don't expect much different at the local government or school board level.

We have children injuring other children in schools and you’re worried about this nonsense? Get your priorities straight and vote in people that will address the real issues because the people in there now are endangering children.

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Anonymous wrote:dont forget the loss of federal funding because they are doubling down on allowing males to be females to use all bathrooms and participate in female sports

What else are you absolutely uninformed about? Tell us more, Fox News bot!

Wait, what part of PP’s statement is inaccurate? That is FCPS’s policy, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Where can I see school board position on all of these issues? I'm not sure about combining all into one.

I think OP gave some good suggestions, but I would not copy it. Write your own. Pick your poison and go with it.

Do I think it will do any good? NO. But, what do you have to lose?

I'm stunned Reid is still here.

Fine - just send something. Right away, ASAP. We need to flood them with feedback.

And yes, Reid is ridiculously over her head. Vistiting schools for photo opps and going to sports games instead of figuring out the complicated student needs that is her actual, very-highly-paid job. These people are going out into society each year by the thousands, we can't afford to wait to teach them to read, understand voting, and be ready to have a job. Get with the program yesterday, Michelle Reid.

I don’t care that Reid attends so many random school events. It’s the illusion of engagement when in fact it’s unlikely she even knows where she is and she continues to avoid deep dives into the things that should have gotten attention before they started a county-wide boundary review.

I think she’s irredeemable and the only real hope is to clean house and elect an entirely new slate of School Board members in 2027. For that to happen they cannot be a bunch of far-right MAGA Republicans who have no chance of winning a local election.

Teacher here. Not a fan of her at all. Braband was so much better.

I don't care if he's probably senile by now, bring back Dan Domenich.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve never gotten a response from a school board member by emailing them. I’ve given up, they aren’t reading them.

If you can get major news outlets to pick up the story and actually cover FCPS negatively (many of them seem pretty hestitant to do so, except right-leaning, politically-hostile-to-our-school-board entities that the leadership ignores anyway), then action happens. That's about it.

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Anonymous wrote:There are aspects of the Republican party that makes me worried about voting in a more right-leaning school board. Examples include banning books, encouraging students to report their teachers if the lesson makes them "uncomfortable," posting the Ten Commandments in schools, pushing a Christian-based curriculum, white-washing history, and so the list goes on.

We've already gotten a taste of some of that with the "rat out your teachers" hotline that Youngkin set up when he first came into office.

Our school board isn't perfect, and I disagree with them on issues, but when I look at other states, I'm glad we don't have to deal with right-wing Christian nationality flooding our schools with nonsense.

This is not the Republican party of old. This is a the party that will say, under oath, that Roe vs. Wade is established law. That vaccines won't be touched. If that's happening at the national level, I don't expect much different at the local government or school board level.

We have children injuring other children in schools and you’re worried about this nonsense? Get your priorities straight and vote in people that will address the real issues because the people in there now are endangering children.

Children injuring other children? I presume you're talking about school shootings. Firearms are the leading cause of death for children in America, beating out car accidents. And that's currently an issue Repblicans tend to downplay. Or rather, they'll send some thoughts and prayers when it happens.

Yes, you're absolutely right, let's vote in people who will address real issues that are endangering children. Not the "thoughts and prayers" crowd, but the party that actually wants to protect our children with legislation and action. Get your priorities straight!

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Anonymous wrote:There are aspects of the Republican party that makes me worried about voting in a more right-leaning school board. Examples include banning books, encouraging students to report their teachers if the lesson makes them "uncomfortable," posting the Ten Commandments in schools, pushing a Christian-based curriculum, white-washing history, and so the list goes on.

We've already gotten a taste of some of that with the "rat out your teachers" hotline that Youngkin set up when he first came into office.

Our school board isn't perfect, and I disagree with them on issues, but when I look at other states, I'm glad we don't have to deal with right-wing Christian nationality flooding our schools with nonsense.

This is not the Republican party of old. This is a the party that will say, under oath, that Roe vs. Wade is established law. That vaccines won't be touched. If that's happening at the national level, I don't expect much different at the local government or school board level.

OK, so find some moderate Ds or old Regan Republicans (there are plenty in the area, many now as moderate Ds but not all) and get them to run. I mean - the guy running as an R for Braddock BOS comes across as totally normal. Why can't we have that for SB?