TJHSST PTSA Election

[Anonymous]

TJ forms a new HSA - Home school association 501c3. They get to keep all the money raised instead of going to the PTA fees. Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TJ forms a new HSA - Home school association 501c3. They get to keep all the money raised instead of going to the PTA fees. Problem solved.

You mean the TJ PTA? Will they be allowed to do this? Who needs to approve this? Remember that the Principal is not on the same side as the lawfully elected school board.

[Anonymous]

Apparently the new president is on the side of the principal and asked the VA PTA for clarification of the tj bylaws to see if the principal can have a vote on the executive committee of the tj ptsa.

[Anonymous]

Line 526 of the tj bylaws says that a paid employee can't have a vote on the EC. As a paid employee of the fcps, it doesn't seem to be appropriate that the principal should have a vote. It will potentially cause some deadlock as well with the EC having an even number of members. Plus, all EC members are elected by the general membership.

[Anonymous]

Why should she have a vote? And why should the VA PTA be forcing a local chapter to give her a vote?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. The outgoing PTSA President has written fairly strongly against TJ admissions reform.

But yes, there is a slate of candidates on offer that is essentially an anti-reform bloc. It will be interesting to see how this new PTSA officer group interacts with an incoming group of Class of 2025 parents selected by a mechanism that they have spoken out against so strongly.

They will be mean and cruel to the kids, because that is who they are.

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Anonymous wrote:The anti-School Board group is reporting that it won all but one of the seats on the TJ PTSA.

Fantastic - this needs to happen at other schools that have been shat upon by the School Board, and the School Board members recalled.

Not sure how a single school PTA will show the school board anything or lead to recalls. Also, can't really call it a mandate - the vote difference - less than 30 votes and close to 50/50 for most of the races- sends more of the message that the parents are rather evenly split. To me, the issue is about how the school will integrate the Class of 2025 and/or advocate for future changes to the new admission policy while representing all the families and supporting all the kids.

These are not especially outstanding results for the status-quo mob, given that they literally published their "recommended slate" of candidates and ran unopposed in two races. One race had a margin of literally two votes.

Good luck next year.

why wait, once the new class starts and parents can join, why not just vote to oust the current leadership?

There isn't a mechanism to do that. They'll have an opportunity in this window next year.

The PTA is just a volunteer body that take care of things like cupcakes and yearbooks. It's important for this group to represent the entire student body so there's participation from all parents for the benefit of all students. Please leave politics out of this.

I'd be thrilled if the people who are running the TJ PTSA would "leave politics out of it". But they don't. They send newsletters encouraging parents to write to their school boards because students are being taught lessons in social-emotional learning - something that is BEYOND desperately needed at TJ and has been for the entirety of its existence - and have a link to a PTSA-hosted webpage that solely exists for people to copy and paste the emails of all of the higher-ups to make it easier to pester them.

And the opposing parties are doing the opposite.. I don't think it's too difficult to get a listing of all parents and do the same even if you are not organized as the PTA. The other group should force a resolution asking for the PTA to not spend any money on political efforts.

The PTA is funded by parent contributions and by outside entities like the Partnership Fund. Ideally, you want all parents to join. If 50% drop out because of this nonsense, it's the students that lose.

Right, with this leadership we just won't pay dues and participate.

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Anonymous wrote:The division came from brabrand and the School Board and was strongly echoed by the principal who decided she didn’t like the current tj students.

I am so sad at what all those people did to a wonderful school experience for my kids. On top of all the hardships of covid, my kids had to deal with hate-filled talk from leadership and a divided school community. Truly heartless.

I don’t know what to do with the elections. I disapprove of the sloppy and racist admission changes but I don’t need the PTSA advocating in a way to further divide and hurt the kids. I am thinking about voting half and half and make them all work together.

I do wish bonitatibus were gone. She was truly cruel to the students.

Yes, the race neural admissions policies are racist because one group may or may not still account for 70 percent of the student population! And it's so cruel to be concerned about economically disadvantaged kids or to want TJ to serve the entire FCPS community. Racist, cruel and evil--did I miss any other buzzwords?

It's the same crap that white people used to use to prevent fair hiring practices for literally all other minorities in the mid-1900s. The EXACT same language and coding.

It's weird. They have full states for these kinds of people. They're called Mississippi, Alabama, FL. Why are they in VA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the new president is on the side of the principal and asked the VA PTA for clarification of the tj bylaws to see if the principal can have a vote on the executive committee of the tj ptsa.

Harry Jackson is on the side of Ann? Yeah, I don’t think so.

[Anonymous]

Harry is the president elect, not the new incoming president.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the new president is on the side of the principal and asked the VA PTA for clarification of the tj bylaws to see if the principal can have a vote on the executive committee of the tj ptsa.

Harry Jackson is on the side of Ann? Yeah, I don’t think so.

It's awesome if he is!

[Anonymous]

I’m assuming the TJPF will step in and fill the gaps. They raise more than a million dollars a year and already do a lot of the extras PTAs do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the new president is on the side of the principal and asked the VA PTA for clarification of the tj bylaws to see if the principal can have a vote on the executive committee of the tj ptsa.

Did this same new president leak the internal workings of TJ PTA to VA PTA to prevent the newly elected officers from doing any work?

[Anonymous]

So much intrigue. It’s crazy to think there won’t be similar levels of conflict in the coming years among the teachers and students as well. Congratulations, School Board, on destroying America’s #1 school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harry is the president elect, not the new incoming president.

What's the difference? Isn't the president elect the new incoming president?