Do Local Republicans Want to Gut or Reform FCPS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They want vouchers, which takes the money out of public schools and into private. This only benefits families that can pay the difference in cost between the voucher amount and the private school tuition. Wealthy kids get private education and the other kids are left behind in their defunded schools.

Vouchers could make the difference for some families. And if they leave that is fewer students for the public schools.

Vouchers wild dynamite the budget. Every kid currently in private would qualify plus every kid who actually takes one.

[Anonymous]

You do know Fairfax was a pretty red county until fairly recently. Privatization of public schools sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory. Up there with flat earth and reptilians.

[Anonymous]

I am a disillusioned Dem voter, and was pretty much planning on voting for whatever R candidate they ran... until I saw that his *only* issue is the INOVA Pride Clinic... literally something that has NOTHING to do with education. There are millions of things that could have swayed me and my husband to shift right, but this is.. not one of them. So, I will hold my nose and vote for the very ineffective, unimpressive Frisch yet once again, because he is most assuredly better than the alternative. Welcome to Fairfax!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You do know Fairfax was a pretty red county until fairly recently. Privatization of public schools sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory. Up there with flat earth and reptilians.

Storming the capital sounded like a conspiracy theory as did taking away health care for pregnant women (see Texas lawsuit) but it all happened. I’m not risking it even though I disagree with some measures currently in place from the current school board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They want vouchers, which takes the money out of public schools and into private. This only benefits families that can pay the difference in cost between the voucher amount and the private school tuition. Wealthy kids get private education and the other kids are left behind in their defunded schools.

Vouchers could make the difference for some families. And if they leave that is fewer students for the public schools.

Vouchers wild dynamite the budget. Every kid currently in private would qualify plus every kid who actually takes one.

How many kids in Fairfax are homeschooled or at private? 20,000?

At $2,000 per kid vouchers would cost $40,000,000 for that number. Only 1.1% of the current budget. Hardly blows things up.

Don't know the exact numbers of course, but the above should provide some scale of the potential cost.

I don't think vouchers will ever happen in Virginia anyway.

[Anonymous]

I'm a GOP voter. I don't want vouchers. I just want good, solid instruction for all kids.
I want common sense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are most definitely forces outside of the county that want to dismantle public education and see Fairfax as the place to do that. Republicans have nothing to offer in terms of healthcare, real immigration reform or gun control or the debt, so they’re going back to culture wars and distractions like CRT and book banning.

This.

Makes little sense. Fairfax isn’t anything close to what you’d consider a soft target if your goal is to “dismantle public education,” given the liberal population and the Democratic stranglehold on local government, unless you think the self-inflicted wounds by an overreaching School Board and county government have left the county particularly vulnerable to Republican insurgents. The most likely scenario is they may pick up a few seats on the School Board and Board of Supervisors this fall, which wouldn’t give them control but might allow for some dissent and/or challenges to the progressive echo chamber. That might not be such a bad thing.

I’m the PP who posted that I’m skeptical because I know one of the people involved. I don’t think she would acknowledge that she’s trying to dismantle public education but she supports vouchers to be able to be used, including for religious schools. My perception is that she’s more about using schools and education related issues as a blunt instrument to try to help the Republicans generally in NoVa. I think that the GOP knows there are a lot of education oriented parents in Ffx and are trying to convince them the schools are falling apart and the only answer is to vote GOP. I think they saw this work with Youngkin being elected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The alternative question, I suppose, is whether the Democrats can find more moderate Democrats to replace those not seeking re-election.

I liked Kyle McDaniel when he was running for Cohen's seat in Springfield. Of course he had no chance as an independent. But now that he's seeking the Democratic endorsement he's tacking far to the left of where he seemed to have been when he ran as an independent in 2019. It's sad there's such a need to pander, but getting an endorsement from someone like Atif Qarni is a negative, not a plus, for some of us.

What do you expect someone seeking the democratic endorsement to do? Tack hard right? He is trying to win an election (endorsement) in which the voters are all Democrats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They want vouchers, which takes the money out of public schools and into private. This only benefits families that can pay the difference in cost between the voucher amount and the private school tuition. Wealthy kids get private education and the other kids are left behind in their defunded schools.

Vouchers could make the difference for some families. And if they leave that is fewer students for the public schools.

Vouchers wild dynamite the budget. Every kid currently in private would qualify plus every kid who actually takes one.

How many kids in Fairfax are homeschooled or at private? 20,000?

At $2,000 per kid vouchers would cost $40,000,000 for that number. Only 1.1% of the current budget. Hardly blows things up.

Don't know the exact numbers of course, but the above should provide some scale of the potential cost.

I don't think vouchers will ever happen in Virginia anyway.

$2k per kid? Thats extremely low. FCPS spends $14k-ish/kid/year. Thats closer to the amount voucher supporters want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They want vouchers, which takes the money out of public schools and into private. This only benefits families that can pay the difference in cost between the voucher amount and the private school tuition. Wealthy kids get private education and the other kids are left behind in their defunded schools.

Vouchers could make the difference for some families. And if they leave that is fewer students for the public schools.

Vouchers wild dynamite the budget. Every kid currently in private would qualify plus every kid who actually takes one.

How many kids in Fairfax are homeschooled or at private? 20,000?

At $2,000 per kid vouchers would cost $40,000,000 for that number. Only 1.1% of the current budget. Hardly blows things up.

Don't know the exact numbers of course, but the above should provide some scale of the potential cost.

I don't think vouchers will ever happen in Virginia anyway.

$2k per kid? Thats extremely low. FCPS spends $14k-ish/kid/year. Thats closer to the amount voucher supporters want.

What they want and what they’ll get are completely different. Families will get no where near 14k.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a GOP voter. I don't want vouchers. I just want good, solid instruction for all kids.
I want common sense.

You could eliminate the party affiliation and speak on behalf of 85% of voters.

But the 15% who drive the primaries want…other things.

[Anonymous]

I think you have to understand that we are a pretty blue area these days. Any Rs that get elected will necessarily be pretty moderate. Herrity in springfield is not bad - so we keep voting him in our area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.

Republicans are taking away women’s right to health care when pregnant.

They also want to privatize education.

I’m not willing to trust in a republican school
Board candidate yet given their past behavior.

I have voted for r and d before but will not vote r in the current climate. Their goal is to undermine government.

This is why I’m not voting D anymore - past behavior - I saw what I needed to see with the all D decision on school closures and they completely lost my trust.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They want vouchers, which takes the money out of public schools and into private. This only benefits families that can pay the difference in cost between the voucher amount and the private school tuition. Wealthy kids get private education and the other kids are left behind in their defunded schools.

Vouchers could make the difference for some families. And if they leave that is fewer students for the public schools.

Vouchers wild dynamite the budget. Every kid currently in private would qualify plus every kid who actually takes one.

How many kids in Fairfax are homeschooled or at private? 20,000?

At $2,000 per kid vouchers would cost $40,000,000 for that number. Only 1.1% of the current budget. Hardly blows things up.

Don't know the exact numbers of course, but the above should provide some scale of the potential cost.

I don't think vouchers will ever happen in Virginia anyway.

$2k per kid? Thats extremely low. FCPS spends $14k-ish/kid/year. Thats closer to the amount voucher supporters want.

From where? The county? Just over half of the county funds go to the schools and you’re not paying nearly that amount in real estate taxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That’s my question. Disgusted with the local Democrats on the School Board - flakes like Meren, idiots like Frisch and Omeish, hypocrites like Tholen.

But I also support public schools. So my question is whether the local Republicans trying to get elected this fall want to gut and privatize public education (won’t support them) or instead reform FCPS and refocus on the basics (will support them).

Anyone with real insight is welcome to post. Screeds against, say, Glenn Youngkin or Randi Weingarten are not being solicited.

Banning books? You want repukes in charge of schools

HELL NO>

Fixed it for you.

We will not have school choice in VA.

Republcians ruin schools that is a fact! What red state has good schools over all none.

Separation of Church and state will state in the State of VA. And keep Betsey DeVos and your home schooling religious crap out of the schools.

By the way CRT was never taught in one VA school not one so learn to read as well.