Former FCPS School Board Member Elizabeth Schultz on Youngkin's Education Transition Team

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All members, except maybe one, have a white last names. What happened to the Asian parents who fought to preserve TJ?

What about them?

White republicans in Fairfax were happy with the prior status quo of TJ - which admitted students in a COLOR BLIND process based on merit.

Republicans support a color blind process, ie - NOT RACIST. Guess what TJ looked like? 80% minority. That is: 80% People of Color - who passed the exams and demonstrated their academic merit. So be it. That’s fine by this white parent.

But the democrats? Oh no. You just could not tolerate a fair, color-blind, merit based system. It was pure racism on the part of democraps, who insisted on making race a factor in TJ admissions. Your hypocrisy and anti-Asian bigotry is disgusting, dems.

Return TJ to a purely merit-based system!

You sound very wise when you use terms like that

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All members, except maybe one, have a white last names. What happened to the Asian parents who fought to preserve TJ?

Tian is a Chinese name.

Only 7% of Virginia is Asian. And, as already pointed out, Tian is an Asian name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All members, except maybe one, have a white last names. What happened to the Asian parents who fought to preserve TJ?

What about them?

White republicans in Fairfax were happy with the prior status quo of TJ - which admitted students in a COLOR BLIND process based on merit.

Republicans support a color blind process, ie - NOT RACIST. Guess what TJ looked like? 80% minority. That is: 80% People of Color - who passed the exams and demonstrated their academic merit. So be it. That’s fine by this white parent.

But the democrats? Oh no. You just could not tolerate a fair, color-blind, merit based system. It was pure racism on the part of democraps, who insisted on making race a factor in TJ admissions. Your hypocrisy and anti-Asian bigotry is disgusting, dems.

Return TJ to a purely merit-based system!

You sound very wise when you use terms like that

Meh; typo. Democrats.

Happy now?

[Anonymous]

I truly hope they don't totally ruin FCPS school system. Charter schools are the last thing VA needs. Just takes money and uses it corruptly for for-profit enterprises. Gross and wrong.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That is a frightening list. All those mommies who thought voting for Youngkin would stick it to the evil Democrats are going to be in for a shock.

Schultz is just vile. She was a terrible board member.

I’m a mommy who did this. First R vote ever. An good. After t*ts how last year, FCPS proved they should not have a monopoly or free education. If there had been charters and vouchers, FCPS would have had to open— or become defunct. Nothing wrong with making the, compete for students with the private sector.

Bring on charters, vouchers, magnets, smaller more specialized HSs, etc.

+1

Stop with the equity at the center of it all nonsense. The primary job of a school system is education. That should be their #1, #2 and #3 priorities.

Renaming schools, changing admissions to 1 HS, equity dashboards, etc. should be way down the agenda of a school board.

Not a public school board. Public schools are required by law to responsive to all, not cater to upper middle class children of privilege who were born on third and whose parents think they hit a triple.

If you want the things you list, private school is a legitimate option.

As a taxpayer, I am far more concerned that the needs of the underserved are met first and foremost.

Quality schools focused on education are only for those whose parents can pay.
Everyone else gets name changes and lowered standards.

Yay.

Those name changes don't have to controversial. You make them controversial.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are in for a real decline in education and raging culture wars about books and bathrooms. I am so disgusted by those voters who fell for all of Youngkin’s right wing trigger words.

Unfortunately, we've all seen what FCPS (and many other school systems) have become after years of left wing trigger words - and emphasis on social justice/equity rather than focusing on excellent academics for all. We can only go up from here, and I have every confidence a Youngkin-led VDOE will do just that.

I disagree with your premise that FCPS isn’t working to provide excellent academics for all. The pandemic was a huge crisis and they should have gone back sooner. But they have been educating our students well. I am not okay with diverting resources to charter schools or allowing unhinged parents to decide what to teach my kids and to have state officials banning books or hiding America’s history. Elizabeth Schulz was useless when she was on the board — did a lot of screaming and stoking off culture wars. Education was not her focus.

On the other hand, I am not okay with diverting resources to feel-good equity initiatives, spending time that could have been used on academic remediation strategies on changes to TJ admissions intended to reduce the percentage of Asian kids, and wasting money on school expansions that were neither necessary nor subject to any meaningful oversight by the school board. Schultz was one of the few School Board members who challenged the direction in which the school board was stumbling.

That is a part of education. Seems you could have learned these lessons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That is a frightening list. All those mommies who thought voting for Youngkin would stick it to the evil Democrats are going to be in for a shock.

Schultz is just vile. She was a terrible board member.

I’m a mommy who did this. First R vote ever. An good. After t*ts how last year, FCPS proved they should not have a monopoly or free education. If there had been charters and vouchers, FCPS would have had to open— or become defunct. Nothing wrong with making the, compete for students with the private sector.

Bring on charters, vouchers, magnets, smaller more specialized HSs, etc.

+1

Stop with the equity at the center of it all nonsense. The primary job of a school system is education. That should be their #1, #2 and #3 priorities.

Renaming schools, changing admissions to 1 HS, equity dashboards, etc. should be way down the agenda of a school board.

Not a public school board. Public schools are required by law to responsive to all, not cater to upper middle class children of privilege who were born on third and whose parents think they hit a triple.

If you want the things you list, private school is a legitimate option.

As a taxpayer, I am far more concerned that the needs of the underserved are met first and foremost.

Quality schools focused on education are only for those whose parents can pay.
Everyone else gets name changes and lowered standards.

Yay.

Those name changes don't have to controversial. You make them controversial.

Youngkin should prove his republican bona fides by requiring school districts to name 10% of schools after confederate generals or statesmen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I truly hope they don't totally ruin FCPS school system. Charter schools are the last thing VA needs. Just takes money and uses it corruptly for for-profit enterprises. Gross and wrong.

+1

Will send property values down the toilet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I truly hope they don't totally ruin FCPS school system. Charter schools are the last thing VA needs. Just takes money and uses it corruptly for for-profit enterprises. Gross and wrong.

+1

Will send property values down the toilet.

We're zoned for a school with a very large portion of FARMS students. If the charters pull away those kids (because that's who for profit charters attract), I think it will be great for the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That is a frightening list. All those mommies who thought voting for Youngkin would stick it to the evil Democrats are going to be in for a shock.

Schultz is just vile. She was a terrible board member.

I’m a mommy who did this. First R vote ever. An good. After t*ts how last year, FCPS proved they should not have a monopoly or free education. If there had been charters and vouchers, FCPS would have had to open— or become defunct. Nothing wrong with making the, compete for students with the private sector.

Bring on charters, vouchers, magnets, smaller more specialized HSs, etc.

+1

Stop with the equity at the center of it all nonsense. The primary job of a school system is education. That should be their #1, #2 and #3 priorities.

Renaming schools, changing admissions to 1 HS, equity dashboards, etc. should be way down the agenda of a school board.

+2

+3

It just highlighted how much equity theater it was - when they were doing this stuff while not even allowing in person education to occur - the real thing that would help with equity in education.

[Anonymous]

FCPS bond referendum seems to have passed:

https://results.elections.virginia.gov/vaelections/2021%20November%20General/Site/Locality/FAIRFAX_COUNTY/Index.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I truly hope they don't totally ruin FCPS school system. Charter schools are the last thing VA needs. Just takes money and uses it corruptly for for-profit enterprises. Gross and wrong.

+1

Will send property values down the toilet.

We're zoned for a school with a very large portion of FARMS students. If the charters pull away those kids (because that's who for profit charters attract), I think it will be great for the school.

Charters attract non-FARMS families looking to escape their high-FARMS schools.

Property values will nose dive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I truly hope they don't totally ruin FCPS school system. Charter schools are the last thing VA needs. Just takes money and uses it corruptly for for-profit enterprises. Gross and wrong.

+1

Will send property values down the toilet.

We're zoned for a school with a very large portion of FARMS students. If the charters pull away those kids (because that's who for profit charters attract), I think it will be great for the school.

Charters attract non-FARMS families looking to escape their high-FARMS schools.

Property values will nose dive.

That isn't remotely true in most places. Charters attract people susceptible to their sales pitches. Most are barely even schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That is a frightening list. All those mommies who thought voting for Youngkin would stick it to the evil Democrats are going to be in for a shock.

Schultz is just vile. She was a terrible board member.

I’m a mommy who did this. First R vote ever. An good. After t*ts how last year, FCPS proved they should not have a monopoly or free education. If there had been charters and vouchers, FCPS would have had to open— or become defunct. Nothing wrong with making the, compete for students with the private sector.

Bring on charters, vouchers, magnets, smaller more specialized HSs, etc.

+1

Stop with the equity at the center of it all nonsense. The primary job of a school system is education. That should be their #1, #2 and #3 priorities.

Renaming schools, changing admissions to 1 HS, equity dashboards, etc. should be way down the agenda of a school board.

Not a public school board. Public schools are required by law to responsive to all, not cater to upper middle class children of privilege who were born on third and whose parents think they hit a triple.

If you want the things you list, private school is a legitimate option.

As a taxpayer, I am far more concerned that the needs of the underserved are met first and foremost.

Quality schools focused on education are only for those whose parents can pay.
Everyone else gets name changes and lowered standards.

Yay.

Exactly. If you had $$$, odds are good your child had an education last year. If not, you were stuck with a SB who needed to meet 8 times about TJ admissions.

(And still got it wrong.Did you know that the 25% “economically needy” admitted to TJ under the new system last year were all SELF-REPORTED as such by the parents? The vast majority of these kids are not actually low income students.The application had a huge loophole that anyone dishonest could game by checking a box that their child got free meals, knowing that FCPS likely didn’t actually want to verify, they just wanted a good press release. Many honest kids were cheated out of a spot in this way. Vent over)

Seriously??? Taking “equity theater” to a whole new level. Gross incompetence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I truly hope they don't totally ruin FCPS school system. Charter schools are the last thing VA needs. Just takes money and uses it corruptly for for-profit enterprises. Gross and wrong.

+1

Will send property values down the toilet.

We're zoned for a school with a very large portion of FARMS students. If the charters pull away those kids (because that's who for profit charters attract), I think it will be great for the school.

Charters attract non-FARMS families looking to escape their high-FARMS schools.

Property values will nose dive.

That isn't remotely true in most places. Charters attract people susceptible to their sales pitches. Most are barely even schools.

Susceptible people, huh? Guess they will be filled with MAGA kids.