FCPS School Board candidates in Dranesville

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ardavan is gonna Ardavan.

One Great Falls (aka "Voices of Fairfax") - trying its hardest to make sure FCPS looks at issues through an "inequity-based lens" for another decade.

No to Mobasheri. No to Karloutsos.

So, in the name of "equity" you pull communities out of an underenrolled school that they like and send communities that likely don't want to go there.

Sure, that makes sense.

One Fairfax is a fraud and a waste of money. The partisan Democratic bots on the board talk about "equity," but they can't define what it means or even understand it. And they won't say how to evaluate when we achieve it, because they never want to stop spending our money to hire their friends to "fight" for it.

[Anonymous]

We have this thing called existing law which prohibits discrimination.

[Anonymous]

How One Fairfax will be applied to boundry changes by "race".

You take the best schools, dominated by Asians, and redraw the borders to spread the Asians out across many different surrounding schools that are not so good.

Do the same for the worst schools.

The gap between best zip code and worst is narrowed. Board claims victory by saying your zip code no longer determines your success.

Truth is, Asian families pushing their kids will continue to push their kids to success. Nothing will change, except communities are broken up in the name of racial "equity".

Equality is achieved by smashing the lens of race and burying it never to be brought back to life again.

FCPS is trying to bring back the lens of race.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How One Fairfax will be applied to boundry changes by "race".

You take the best schools, dominated by Asians, and redraw the borders to spread the Asians out across many different surrounding schools that are not so good.

Do the same for the worst schools.

The gap between best zip code and worst is narrowed. Board claims victory by saying your zip code no longer determines your success.

Truth is, Asian families pushing their kids will continue to push their kids to success. Nothing will change, except communities are broken up in the name of racial "equity".

Equality is achieved by smashing the lens of race and burying it never to be brought back to life again.

FCPS is trying to bring back the lens of race.

Bingo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How One Fairfax will be applied to boundry changes by "race".

You take the best schools, dominated by Asians, and redraw the borders to spread the Asians out across many different surrounding schools that are not so good.

Do the same for the worst schools.

The gap between best zip code and worst is narrowed. Board claims victory by saying your zip code no longer determines your success.

Truth is, Asian families pushing their kids will continue to push their kids to success. Nothing will change, except communities are broken up in the name of racial "equity".

Equality is achieved by smashing the lens of race and burying it never to be brought back to life again.

FCPS is trying to bring back the lens of race.

PP, very racist post to assume only Asians do well.

[Anonymous]

"PP, very racist post to assume only Asians do well."

No, it's a fact.

"At Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Asian Students Made Up 68 Percent of the Student Body by 2017–18"

https://www.educationnext.org/edstat-thomas-jefferson-high-school-science-technology-asian-students-made-68-percent-student-body-2017-18/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How One Fairfax will be applied to boundry changes by "race".

You take the best schools, dominated by Asians, and redraw the borders to spread the Asians out across many different surrounding schools that are not so good.

Do the same for the worst schools.

The gap between best zip code and worst is narrowed. Board claims victory by saying your zip code no longer determines your success.

Truth is, Asian families pushing their kids will continue to push their kids to success. Nothing will change, except communities are broken up in the name of racial "equity".

Equality is achieved by smashing the lens of race and burying it never to be brought back to life again.

FCPS is trying to bring back the lens of race.

Bingo.

Well, Asian American has lowest voting rate.
"If you are not on the table you are on the menu."
So, feel free to screw up Asian American community. sigh~~~~~~~`

[Anonymous]

"At the table "

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How One Fairfax will be applied to boundry changes by "race".

You take the best schools, dominated by Asians, and redraw the borders to spread the Asians out across many different surrounding schools that are not so good.

Do the same for the worst schools.

The gap between best zip code and worst is narrowed. Board claims victory by saying your zip code no longer determines your success.

Truth is, Asian families pushing their kids will continue to push their kids to success. Nothing will change, except communities are broken up in the name of racial "equity".

Equality is achieved by smashing the lens of race and burying it never to be brought back to life again.

FCPS is trying to bring back the lens of race.

Bingo.

Well, Asian American has lowest voting rate.
"If you are not on the table you are on the menu."
So, feel free to screw up Asian American community. sigh~~~~~~~`

Vinson Palathingal lives in Dranesville. He's been campaigning hard in the Asian community. Very hard. They are going to show up in large numbers and they are going to vote against anyone who wants to play racial or ethnic games with their kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can’t mount a credible campaign to represent all of Dranesville when all you really care about is keeping your small pocket of western Great Falls zoned for Cooper/Langley. Everyone who has come into contact with this guy knows that’s his only concern.

Hello:

This is the candidate Ardavan Mobasheri. This is simply not true. I don't know why you would say this. I have met with countless residents of Herndon and McLean. My platform is very broad and has proposals and perspectives on the primary issues of Herndon and McLean. I look at things from a long terms perspective and am not supportive of band-aid type short term solutions which have always gotten us in trouble within a few years because of short-sightedness. I realize that almost all of the posts here are anonymous but please be fair in your assessments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you think an addition at McLean will be costly, how much do you a new HS in Tysons will cost?

I think you just eliminated an ychance of McLean HS district to vote for you since you have damned their children to the over-crowded school for 10-15 years-(how long do you think it would take to find and build a new HS in Tysons?)

And you will lose more Langley aren’t who do not want the diversity of classes decreased at Langley.

This is the candidate Ardavan Mobasheri. Of course, a new high school in Tysons is going to be more costly. But we can't simply take the easy road and band-aid solutions year after year and not have them catch up with us. There is no free money here. Failure to be sufficiently forward-looking will eventually cost us dearly. Consider this simple look at what we will be facing in the next 10 years taken from data from the board of supervisors projections:

1) By 2030, the three zip codes 22101, 22102, and 22182 which serve McLean, Langley, and a small portion of Marshall will see their population growth contribute to 30% of the entire growth in the county.
2) Just between 2025 and 2030, the number of High School students in the county will rise by 6,300
3) Are we being too presumptuous if we assume 30% of that 6,300 increase will not come from 22101, 22102, and 22182? No. But can you assume that all of the projects being approved in those zip codes will add no high school students to any of the three high schools mentioned above? If we assume 30% then that's an additional 1800 students. Let's say its 20%. That's still an additional 1,200 students between the three high schools (assuming Marshall is given exactly 33% of that increase).
4) With the rezoning of some McLean students into Langley both high schools will be at capacity by 2024.
5) So where will you put the additional 400 students per high school? 400 more students will bring both schools at roughly 20% overcapacity.
6) Building an addition to McLean seems like a good band-aid type solution. Let's not consider beyond 2030. Let's kick the can down the road. Let's just do a quick addition and all of the families that will see their kids going to high school in 2030 will have to deal with it when the time comes? Is this how we want to plan things? Just do quick and politically convenient and expedient answers to long term challenges? Isnt that what we have been doing for 27 years now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can’t mount a credible campaign to represent all of Dranesville when all you really care about is keeping your small pocket of western Great Falls zoned for Cooper/Langley. Everyone who has come into contact with this guy knows that’s his only concern.

Hello:

This is the candidate Ardavan Mobasheri. This is simply not true. I don't know why you would say this. I have met with countless residents of Herndon and McLean. My platform is very broad and has proposals and perspectives on the primary issues of Herndon and McLean. I look at things from a long terms perspective and am not supportive of band-aid type short term solutions which have always gotten us in trouble within a few years because of short-sightedness. I realize that almost all of the posts here are anonymous but please be fair in your assessments.

Party drone voting has been a terrible problem on the FCSB. That's how we got a bond referendum adding 772 seat to West Potomac which if the addition existed today would be an over 1000 surplus in eastern FX. Oakton is near Madison and getting a 500 plus addition and Herndon an addition over 300. All that construction leaves a deficit of almost 1000 in Western Fairfax and a new HS should have been built on the land near Carson sold to the Saudis.

Strauss became a party drone when she would not offer her amendment in Jan 2019. Read the comments from candidates McLaughlin and Tompkins :
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/havent-seen-a-year-quite-like-this-inside-epic-battles-for-school-board-seats-in-northern-virginia/2019/10/27/58380e4a-f1df-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html

[Anonymous]

Most of the rest of the board refused her initiative to move some students from McLean to Langley in January.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you think an addition at McLean will be costly, how much do you a new HS in Tysons will cost?

I think you just eliminated an ychance of McLean HS district to vote for you since you have damned their children to the over-crowded school for 10-15 years-(how long do you think it would take to find and build a new HS in Tysons?)

And you will lose more Langley aren’t who do not want the diversity of classes decreased at Langley.

This is the candidate Ardavan Mobasheri. Of course, a new high school in Tysons is going to be more costly. But we can't simply take the easy road and band-aid solutions year after year and not have them catch up with us. There is no free money here. Failure to be sufficiently forward-looking will eventually cost us dearly. Consider this simple look at what we will be facing in the next 10 years taken from data from the board of supervisors projections:

1) By 2030, the three zip codes 22101, 22102, and 22182 which serve McLean, Langley, and a small portion of Marshall will see their population growth contribute to 30% of the entire growth in the county.
2) Just between 2025 and 2030, the number of High School students in the county will rise by 6,300
3) Are we being too presumptuous if we assume 30% of that 6,300 increase will not come from 22101, 22102, and 22182? No. But can you assume that all of the projects being approved in those zip codes will add no high school students to any of the three high schools mentioned above? If we assume 30% then that's an additional 1800 students. Let's say its 20%. That's still an additional 1,200 students between the three high schools (assuming Marshall is given exactly 33% of that increase).
4) With the rezoning of some McLean students into Langley both high schools will be at capacity by 2024.
5) So where will you put the additional 400 students per high school? 400 more students will bring both schools at roughly 20% overcapacity.
6) Building an addition to McLean seems like a good band-aid type solution. Let's not consider beyond 2030. Let's kick the can down the road. Let's just do a quick addition and all of the families that will see their kids going to high school in 2030 will have to deal with it when the time comes? Is this how we want to plan things? Just do quick and politically convenient and expedient answers to long term challenges? Isnt that what we have been doing for 27 years now?

Your letter last night was clear. No boundary changes. No open enrollment. No addition at McLean. You make some good points above, but that does not take away from the fact that you are protecting Langley at the cost of McLean. Your letter was helpful to me because it clarified your views absolutely; I was able to make my final decision and vote today and beat the crowds. Thanks for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you think an addition at McLean will be costly, how much do you a new HS in Tysons will cost?

I think you just eliminated an ychance of McLean HS district to vote for you since you have damned their children to the over-crowded school for 10-15 years-(how long do you think it would take to find and build a new HS in Tysons?)

And you will lose more Langley aren’t who do not want the diversity of classes decreased at Langley.

This is the candidate Ardavan Mobasheri. Of course, a new high school in Tysons is going to be more costly. But we can't simply take the easy road and band-aid solutions year after year and not have them catch up with us. There is no free money here. Failure to be sufficiently forward-looking will eventually cost us dearly. Consider this simple look at what we will be facing in the next 10 years taken from data from the board of supervisors projections:

1) By 2030, the three zip codes 22101, 22102, and 22182 which serve McLean, Langley, and a small portion of Marshall will see their population growth contribute to 30% of the entire growth in the county.
2) Just between 2025 and 2030, the number of High School students in the county will rise by 6,300
3) Are we being too presumptuous if we assume 30% of that 6,300 increase will not come from 22101, 22102, and 22182? No. But can you assume that all of the projects being approved in those zip codes will add no high school students to any of the three high schools mentioned above? If we assume 30% then that's an additional 1800 students. Let's say its 20%. That's still an additional 1,200 students between the three high schools (assuming Marshall is given exactly 33% of that increase).
4) With the rezoning of some McLean students into Langley both high schools will be at capacity by 2024.
5) So where will you put the additional 400 students per high school? 400 more students will bring both schools at roughly 20% overcapacity.
6) Building an addition to McLean seems like a good band-aid type solution. Let's not consider beyond 2030. Let's kick the can down the road. Let's just do a quick addition and all of the families that will see their kids going to high school in 2030 will have to deal with it when the time comes? Is this how we want to plan things? Just do quick and politically convenient and expedient answers to long term challenges? Isnt that what we have been doing for 27 years now?

Your letter last night was clear. No boundary changes. No open enrollment. No addition at McLean. You make some good points above, but that does not take away from the fact that you are protecting Langley at the cost of McLean. Your letter was helpful to me because it clarified your views absolutely; I was able to make my final decision and vote today and beat the crowds. Thanks for that.

This is the candidate Ardavan Mobasheri again. Can you please tell me what you find objectionable about my campaigns pillars?:

1) McLean deserves better. What is objerctionable to a stance that says enough band aid type kick the can down the road solutions? When we know the trends in our county and zip codes for the next 10 to 15 years, why would we constantly push for relief that can come cheaply and quickly while continously and negatively impacting us in a not so distant future? Why would we choose to create even more traffic on Westmoreland and Old Chain Bridge road with an addition to McLean? Why would we add another 100 cars and tens of school buses into three small two lane roads into McLean HS where familes live and children run around and where families continue to complain about the noise? VDOT will almost certainly object to addtional traffic into Westmoreland and Old Chain Bridge and if they do then it will take an act of VA Legislature and the Governor's signature to get the addition completed. But why would we go thru another round of kicking the can down the road? Dont we want to eventually sell our houses to younger families in five to ten years who would hesitate to look into a town with over crowded schools and congested roads? A new HS in Tysons is the most rational long term solution.

2) Keep One Great Falls. Can you please tell me what is so objectionable about wanting to keep a community that for 25 years has been sending their children to one middle school (Cooper) and one high school (Langley) intact and one? What is wrong with wanting to keep a community together as one? When you split it up you split streets, neighborhoods, soccer teams, cheerleading activities, and recreational activities. What is so objectionable to tell a community that your representative is going to keep your community as one?

3) Let Herndon Decide. Can you tell me what is so wrong when the community itself recognizes that building a new HS will take away a significant part of their park facilities and will increase congestion in and around an already crowded part of town, just so they can shift boundaries so that they avoid doing what is right for Tysons? Can you tell me what is so wrong as to say lets build the HS where it is needed most to satisfy overcrowding at Chantilly, Oakton and elsewhere further south?

4) Can you tell me what is wrong and objectionable for me to say lets play by the rules of the Va Legislature and lets keep the political parties out of our schools and the school board?
5) Can you tell me what you find so objectionable regarding my stance that we should aim for "equality of opportunity" and level the playing field for all of our children and not lower their achievement via "equality of outcome"?
6) Can you tell me what you find wrong with wanting to utilize the latest and greatest in new educational technology so we can fill the achievement gap within our own schools as well as those between us and other countries and getting the help of the latest research from top "education" universities around the country?
7) Can you tell me what you find problematic with wanting to invest even more in our AAP, gifted programs, and special needs programs to not only raise our standards even more but to make us even more competitive globally?

I look forward to hearing your responses