School board results?

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Anonymous wrote:Move to Loudoun. They coted in some Rs

Liberals won a 6-3 majority on the Loudoun School Board.

MAGA, Moms for Liberty types are getting trounced in school board races nationwide. And rightfully so. They’re loud but they are fringe and don’t represent mainstream American values.

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Anonymous wrote:All Democrats. Great!

great for teachers union but not for parents

I say this as a parent, but screw the parents. Some parents need to stay in their lane.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All Democrats. Great!

great for teachers union but not for parents

I'm a parent of a 5th grader. I think lower class sizes, better compensation for teachers (resulting in more successful recruitment and retention of good teachers), better working conditions and benefits for teachers, and more reasonable workloads for teachers are all very good for my child. You don't get great schools by treating teachers like garbage.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care about whether they are R or D but hate that the trajectory seems to be dumbing down education for "equity," and forcing teachers to deal with untenable classroom situations. We'll do the best we can to support our kids's education by providing them with as much supplemental education as we can. Sadly, we can't afford "private" as we're trying to save for four college educations, nor can we move as our jobs are based in Fairfax Mk. We'll survive, but it would be nice to see the schools start focus on educating again instead of spending money on wasteful renaming projects, consultants, etc.

^!My thoughts exactly. Im liberal BUT I just don’t like the trajectory our schools are going. HOW can we change that?

Lol You should have voted differently yesterday. That was your chance.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All Democrats. Great!

great for teachers union but not for parents

I'm a parent of a 5th grader. I think lower class sizes, better compensation for teachers (resulting in more successful recruitment and retention of good teachers), better working conditions and benefits for teachers, and more reasonable workloads for teachers are all very good for my child. You don't get great schools by treating teachers like garbage.

You think your child is in a great school then and no change needed. Republicans have run nothing in the Fairfax schools for decades. It has always been a democrat majority by a long shot.

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Fairfax parent and voter here - teachers, we support you. We see how hard it’s been, and our votes represent us wanting you to have more control over your classroom and compensation for your hard work. We also want to see admin held accountable for what we know is the lowering of SOLs post pandemic.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a republican and honestly believe we will never have another “republican” school board member again in fcps.

We are far outnumbered here.

I just hope there are a few more moderate opinions represented on the new board.

They are more moderate. And Rs lost bc they have gone off the deep end.

Yeah. I am far left of Moon and he still got my vote.

Seriously- the democrats don’t seem to embrace crazy as much as the trolls here think.

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Anonymous wrote:Fairfax parent and voter here - teachers, we support you. We see how hard it’s been, and our votes represent us wanting you to have more control over your classroom and compensation for your hard work. We also want to see admin held accountable for what we know is the lowering of SOLs post pandemic.

What does this even mean? How can people be this stupid? The board was previously entirely democratic and the new board is completely democratic. The dems are responsible for the past and now the future as well. What incentive do they have to do anything differently? What part did Rs have in any of your issues? None. They haven't been in power.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't care about whether they are R or D but hate that the trajectory seems to be dumbing down education for "equity," and forcing teachers to deal with untenable classroom situations. We'll do the best we can to support our kids's education by providing them with as much supplemental education as we can. Sadly, we can't afford "private" as we're trying to save for four college educations, nor can we move as our jobs are based in Fairfax Mk. We'll survive, but it would be nice to see the schools start focus on educating again instead of spending money on wasteful renaming projects, consultants, etc.

^!My thoughts exactly. Im liberal BUT I just don’t like the trajectory our schools are going. HOW can we change that?

Lol You should have voted differently yesterday. That was your chance.

DP. Do you seriously think Republicans would have focused on education? I didn’t get the impression that they would care about getting all kids the education they need. They made me feel that they would spend all of their time focusing on how to not support LGBTQ+ kids, take away support for immigrant kids, and make sure no one learns about history that isn’t white American.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't care about whether they are R or D but hate that the trajectory seems to be dumbing down education for "equity," and forcing teachers to deal with untenable classroom situations. We'll do the best we can to support our kids's education by providing them with as much supplemental education as we can. Sadly, we can't afford "private" as we're trying to save for four college educations, nor can we move as our jobs are based in Fairfax Mk. We'll survive, but it would be nice to see the schools start focus on educating again instead of spending money on wasteful renaming projects, consultants, etc.

^!My thoughts exactly. Im liberal BUT I just don’t like the trajectory our schools are going. HOW can we change that?

Lol You should have voted differently yesterday. That was your chance.

DP. Do you seriously think Republicans would have focused on education? I didn’t get the impression that they would care about getting all kids the education they need. They made me feel that they would spend all of their time focusing on how to not support LGBTQ+ kids, take away support for immigrant kids, and make sure no one learns about history that isn’t white American.

Because you want to think that. Deep down its about you feeling "moral" about your vote rather than actually thinking about what would happen. Any intelligent person would understand that one or two people would have no influence on these items in the same way a couple of democrats on a republican board might not be able to have much influence on these same topics. Zero Republicans got elected. Zero. The vote was to try to stop all the changes which Fairfax I guess decided they were just fine with.

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And what is so sad about the democrats capitalizing on these moral pulls is that these groups are doing worse as a result of their leadership. These are the grouos thst have done the worst under democratic leadership. In the same way the Republicans hurt their base by killing them off in Covid, the democrats have no clue how to actually support the people they say they do. What they are doing is actually treating these groups like victims which ends up sinking them more than any republican opinion.

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I wonder how Virginja Beach dd with the governor pouring money into that district.

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Equity got all!

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Equity for all!