FCPS At-Large School Board Race - Is County Split in Two?

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Anonymous wrote:Vote straight republican. Save FCPS before it is too late.

By save FCPS do you mean completely destroy it?

DP, but I'd love to see some diversity OF OPINION on the next School Board. We don't have that with the current board and they have been running FCPS into the ground with their incompetence. Some of them should be in jail.

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+1 COVID and aftermath have shown the current board to be ineffective at actually educating students in reading, writing, arithmetic,...

I'd love all of you $%^% whiners to have done better. You wouldn't have.

Easy items that any competent person should have known:

Need for adequate infrastructure to handle emergency situations - including technology
That students wouldn't have shown up on days when there was no new material
That other school systems, even in the US were safely returning long before FCPS did
Made plans to close education gaps everyone saw coming
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They should have foreseen the need for a once-in-a-lifetime medical emergency that was killing millions of people and the government was grappling with understanding and addressing?

Lots of other school systems handle a lot of things a lot of different ways. So what? We learn from it but it doesn't mean that FCPS was inherently wrong. I'm not sure what school your kid goes to but mine did a decent job, not perfect but decent. And it's been THREE years. If the gaps are not closed for your kid, part of that is on your shoulders.

[Anonymous]

They should have foreseen the need for a once-in-a-lifetime medical emergency that was killing millions of people and the government was grappling with understanding and addressing?

Lots of other school systems handle a lot of things a lot of different ways. So what? We learn from it but it doesn't mean that FCPS was inherently wrong. I'm not sure what school your kid goes to but mine did a decent job, not perfect but decent. And it's been THREE years. If the gaps are not closed for your kid, part of that is on your shoulders.

The schools are paid for by all of the residents--those who have kids in schools, those whose kids have finished school, those who have kids who will be in schools, and those who never have and never will have kids in schools. Even those whose kids go to private schools help to pay for public schools.

So, no, it is not on me. It is on the School Board who made terrible choices. The Health Department told them they could open and they went with the teachers' unions.

Almost all European schools stayed open. There were options the SB chose not to pursue--while some of them made other arrangements for their own kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Vote straight republican. Save FCPS before it is too late.

By save FCPS do you mean completely destroy it?

DP, but I'd love to see some diversity OF OPINION on the next School Board. We don't have that with the current board and they have been running FCPS into the ground with their incompetence. Some of them should be in jail.

+1

+1 COVID and aftermath have shown the current board to be ineffective at actually educating students in reading, writing, arithmetic,...

I'd love all of you $%^% whiners to have done better. You wouldn't have.

Easy items that any competent person should have known:

Need for adequate infrastructure to handle emergency situations - including technology
That students wouldn't have shown up on days when there was no new material
That other school systems, even in the US were safely returning long before FCPS did
Made plans to close education gaps everyone saw coming
...

You do remember that the peaks deaths from COVID in Virginia happened in January 2021, right? When exactly did you want teachers back in school?

Fall of 2020 just like Nebraska, Kansas and other states.

Kids were not dying and teachers had preferential access to vaccines.

DP
I’m a teacher and I wanted to teach in-person at the start of the 2020-2021 SY, but didn’t access to the vaccine start in February of 2021?

Thank you for your dedication to teaching. You are correct the vaccine was not available to teachers in mothers VA until January 2021.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vote straight republican. Save FCPS before it is too late.

By save FCPS do you mean completely destroy it?

DP, but I'd love to see some diversity OF OPINION on the next School Board. We don't have that with the current board and they have been running FCPS into the ground with their incompetence. Some of them should be in jail.

+1

+1 COVID and aftermath have shown the current board to be ineffective at actually educating students in reading, writing, arithmetic,...

I'd love all of you $%^% whiners to have done better. You wouldn't have.

Easy items that any competent person should have known:

Need for adequate infrastructure to handle emergency situations - including technology
That students wouldn't have shown up on days when there was no new material
That other school systems, even in the US were safely returning long before FCPS did
Made plans to close education gaps everyone saw coming
...

They should have foreseen the need for a once-in-a-lifetime medical emergency that was killing millions of people and the government was grappling with understanding and addressing?

Lots of other school systems handle a lot of things a lot of different ways. So what? We learn from it but it doesn't mean that FCPS was inherently wrong. I'm not sure what school your kid goes to but mine did a decent job, not perfect but decent. And it's been THREE years. If the gaps are not closed for your kid, part of that is on your shoulders.

This is called blaming the victim. That if the parent cannot close the gap caused by the school system, a system that seeks to marginalize and keep them in the dark as to what the school teaches them, it is their fault. Not everyone can afford to pay excessive FOIA fees to get copies of their child's curriculum. Keeping the schools closed WAS A POLITICAL DECISION driven by teacher unions. What if the child was special needs, and denied school for a year? Is it the parent's fault for not being able to close the gap? Especially under the current school calendar that has the most disruptions, and the least amount of 5 day school weeks, than any other school district in the country? Either the person making this post does not have kids in the system, or does not have any empathy for the harm this school board caused children and families.

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It was entirely wrong to keep schools closed. How is this a discussion? The SB showed us it’s incompetence. The remaining SB members need to be voted out-especially Meren and Frisch.

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Anonymous wrote:County doesn't appear split -- Moon, Webb, and Munir are getting support from both the southern and northern parts of Fairfax County.

Delegate Rip Sullivan of McLean just endorsed Moon, Webb, and Munir today, and each has been endorsed by many members of the VA legislature.

Haven't seen any of the other candidates endorsed by any Delegates or Senators.

McDaniel has a pretty impressive list of endorsements. I think he and Moon are probably top two right now.

Does McDaniel have any members of the Virginia legislature endorsing him?

Yep!

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Question: When did our SB begin honoring religious groups?

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/vpublic?open

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:County doesn't appear split -- Moon, Webb, and Munir are getting support from both the southern and northern parts of Fairfax County.

Delegate Rip Sullivan of McLean just endorsed Moon, Webb, and Munir today, and each has been endorsed by many members of the VA legislature.

Haven't seen any of the other candidates endorsed by any Delegates or Senators.

McDaniel has a pretty impressive list of endorsements. I think he and Moon are probably top two right now.

Does McDaniel have any members of the Virginia legislature endorsing him?

Yep!

Is this good? Just shows his rebirth as Laura Jane Cohen 2.0 gets rewarded from insiders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't see it that way at all. If McElveen and McDaniel have more support far north than others, my sense is that's largely because they are the MOST left on the political spectrum, and that's what the wealthy Oakton/Vienna/McLean crowd likes. Moon seems much more moderate, but widely popular with everyone. I've meet Munir and he's moderate, too -- as a parent (maybe the only current parent of FCPS students running?) his concerns seemed quite practical and I think that's where is focus is, rather than national talking points. As a parent, that resonated with me. At this point, for me, it's Moon and Munir, but I can't quite figure out the 3rd. McElveen seems disingenuous and McDaniel has sent me about 400 emails but the only thing they are about is LGBTQ issues, so I can't really figure out what his actual education-related stances are.

McElveen is also an FCPS parent. McDaniel has younger kids that are either in FCPS or about to be. The problem with Munir is he doesn't know what he's doing. I get that there's a learning curve to this, but Munir can't answer basic questions in questionnaires.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was entirely wrong to keep schools closed. How is this a discussion? The SB showed us it’s incompetence. The remaining SB members need to be voted out-especially Meren and Frisch.

This has to be some serious sock-puppeting. Not that many people are that stupid.

[Anonymous]

No children are like puppies, they have a limited time during which socialization needs to occur. Keeping schools closed has messed up a large number of kids for life

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vote straight republican. Save FCPS before it is too late.

By save FCPS do you mean completely destroy it?

DP, but I'd love to see some diversity OF OPINION on the next School Board. We don't have that with the current board and they have been running FCPS into the ground with their incompetence. Some of them should be in jail.

+1

+1 COVID and aftermath have shown the current board to be ineffective at actually educating students in reading, writing, arithmetic,...

I'd love all of you $%^% whiners to have done better. You wouldn't have.

Easy items that any competent person should have known:

Need for adequate infrastructure to handle emergency situations - including technology
That students wouldn't have shown up on days when there was no new material
That other school systems, even in the US were safely returning long before FCPS did
Made plans to close education gaps everyone saw coming
...

You do remember that the peaks deaths from COVID in Virginia happened in January 2021, right? When exactly did you want teachers back in school?

Fall of 2020 just like Nebraska, Kansas and other states.

Kids were not dying and teachers had preferential access to vaccines.

Teachers did not have access to the vaccines in Fall 2020. The School Board did exactly the right thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

They should have foreseen the need for a once-in-a-lifetime medical emergency that was killing millions of people and the government was grappling with understanding and addressing?

Lots of other school systems handle a lot of things a lot of different ways. So what? We learn from it but it doesn't mean that FCPS was inherently wrong. I'm not sure what school your kid goes to but mine did a decent job, not perfect but decent. And it's been THREE years. If the gaps are not closed for your kid, part of that is on your shoulders.

The schools are paid for by all of the residents--those who have kids in schools, those whose kids have finished school, those who have kids who will be in schools, and those who never have and never will have kids in schools. Even those whose kids go to private schools help to pay for public schools.

So, no, it is not on me. It is on the School Board who made terrible choices. The Health Department told them they could open and they went with the teachers' unions.

Almost all European schools stayed open. There were options the SB chose not to pursue--while some of them made other arrangements for their own kids.

True.

Everyone who screamed about mass death ignored all the school systems who went back in other areas and states.

They couldn’t open in Fall 2020 as promised because they mishandled staffing and NOT because of viral concerns (as everyone who watched
that work session knew, despite how they spun it in the email to parents)

They f*caked up with eyes wide open because their eyes were on political blowback, not their responsibility to the children.

And yes, they did make sure to protect their own children from the effects of their malfeasance, as most parents with time, money and know-how did.

Poorer kids? They bore the brunt of the school board’s nonsense, and isn’t that always how it goes.

It was fabulous for tutors, homeschool curriculum companies and private schools though.

[Anonymous]

The great news is that 7 current board members are not seeking reelection. Hopefully, we will get better board members this time around. Hard to do worse but possible with some of the candidates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No children are like puppies, they have a limited time during which socialization needs to occur. Keeping schools closed has messed up a large number of kids for life

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Educational loss in terms of subjects, math, reading, etc. can be made up. The soft skills kids would have learned, when they are best learned, well that opportunity is gone for ever. Amazing how all those hicks and farmers and uneducated folks down south got it right and the intellectuals in the DC area got it all wrong.