FCPS Boundary Review Updates

[Anonymous]

While test scores and Zillow values are on everyone's mind right now, you're really quick to dismiss the previous poster.

Fairfax County, like most of the DC area, is highly segregated.

Parents here are lobbying to keep their kids in a low-poverty school with 1,165 white students (McLean).

They are vocally opposed to their children attending Falls Church, a majority-Hispanic school with 320 white students.

FCPS operated a segregated Black school in the Timber Lane/Beech Tree area until the 1965-66 school year.

Fairfax supervisors purposefully zoned areas near Marshall HS for apartments in the 1960s, in order to keep that type of housing away from downtown McLean.

Finally, the current "L" shape of the Timber Lane attendance area includes two apartment/condo areas that were historically black. These apartments were purposely built for former James Lee community members (at a time before fair housing laws were enforced).

With changes in FCPS demographics, and a growing population, the current boundaries make less sense today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While test scores and Zillow values are on everyone's mind right now, you're really quick to dismiss the previous poster.

Fairfax County, like most of the DC area, is highly segregated.

Parents here are lobbying to keep their kids in a low-poverty school with 1,165 white students (McLean).

They are vocally opposed to their children attending Falls Church, a majority-Hispanic school with 320 white students.

FCPS operated a segregated Black school in the Timber Lane/Beech Tree area until the 1965-66 school year.

Fairfax supervisors purposefully zoned areas near Marshall HS for apartments in the 1960s, in order to keep that type of housing away from downtown McLean.

Finally, the current "L" shape of the Timber Lane attendance area includes two apartment/condo areas that were historically black. These apartments were purposely built for former James Lee community members (at a time before fair housing laws were enforced).

With changes in FCPS demographics, and a growing population, the current boundaries make less sense today.

Huh? You think we should change boundaries because the demographics have changed? Isn't that why we should not change them?

As for decisions made sixty years ago, there have been lots of changes since then and I don't think the boundaries are the same. There are also a lot of new schools since then. Every one of them required a boundary study.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While test scores and Zillow values are on everyone's mind right now, you're really quick to dismiss the previous poster.

Fairfax County, like most of the DC area, is highly segregated.

Parents here are lobbying to keep their kids in a low-poverty school with 1,165 white students (McLean).

They are vocally opposed to their children attending Falls Church, a majority-Hispanic school with 320 white students.

FCPS operated a segregated Black school in the Timber Lane/Beech Tree area until the 1965-66 school year.

Fairfax supervisors purposefully zoned areas near Marshall HS for apartments in the 1960s, in order to keep that type of housing away from downtown McLean.

Finally, the current "L" shape of the Timber Lane attendance area includes two apartment/condo areas that were historically black. These apartments were purposely built for former James Lee community members (at a time before fair housing laws were enforced).

With changes in FCPS demographics, and a growing population, the current boundaries make less sense today.

Of the 200 Timber Lane students being reassigned to Marshall and Falls Church, less than a third of them are from affluent neighborhoods, so this doesn’t really track. Most of the changes recommended for McLean are actually making it a less diverse community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While test scores and Zillow values are on everyone's mind right now, you're really quick to dismiss the previous poster.

Fairfax County, like most of the DC area, is highly segregated.

Parents here are lobbying to keep their kids in a low-poverty school with 1,165 white students (McLean).

They are vocally opposed to their children attending Falls Church, a majority-Hispanic school with 320 white students.

FCPS operated a segregated Black school in the Timber Lane/Beech Tree area until the 1965-66 school year.

Fairfax supervisors purposefully zoned areas near Marshall HS for apartments in the 1960s, in order to keep that type of housing away from downtown McLean.

Finally, the current "L" shape of the Timber Lane attendance area includes two apartment/condo areas that were historically black. These apartments were purposely built for former James Lee community members (at a time before fair housing laws were enforced).

With changes in FCPS demographics, and a growing population, the current boundaries make less sense today.

There was a segregated black school across from Chesterbrook in McLean too. I also see that people can’t call McLean a majority white school anymore, so they just post the number of white students, which in of itself is somewhat diverse. One could argue that Falls Church is less diverse since it is not a majority minority school like McLean now is, but it is more of a flaw in how the demographics are counted as the Hispanic or Latino population is also diverse. Both schools are diverse.

Fairfax county does have a racist past. That cannot be questioned. However, Fairfax County is not nearly as segregated as much of the rest of the country and is quite ethnically diverse within neighborhoods. The segregation is now based on income more than race.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While test scores and Zillow values are on everyone's mind right now, you're really quick to dismiss the previous poster.

Fairfax County, like most of the DC area, is highly segregated.

Parents here are lobbying to keep their kids in a low-poverty school with 1,165 white students (McLean).

They are vocally opposed to their children attending Falls Church, a majority-Hispanic school with 320 white students.

FCPS operated a segregated Black school in the Timber Lane/Beech Tree area until the 1965-66 school year.

Fairfax supervisors purposefully zoned areas near Marshall HS for apartments in the 1960s, in order to keep that type of housing away from downtown McLean.

Finally, the current "L" shape of the Timber Lane attendance area includes two apartment/condo areas that were historically black. These apartments were purposely built for former James Lee community members (at a time before fair housing laws were enforced).

With changes in FCPS demographics, and a growing population, the current boundaries make less sense today.

Chesterbrook in the McLean district was once a historically Black community.

Downtown McLean has multiple apartments now, as do other areas that currently feed into McLean HS in Tysons, near the WFC Metro, and off Route 29.

Moving Timber Lane north of Route 29 to Falls Church won't have much impact on Falls Church's demographics, even if it adds a few dozen White students to FCHS, but it will reduce the FARMS rate at McLean from 12% to about 8%.

Marshall will be impacted if they move part of Timber Lane that is almost entirely low-income to Shrevewood (as proposed) and rezone part of Westbriar that consists entirely of single-family homes to Madison (as proposed), but parents at McLean did not lobby for any of this.

With changes in FCPS demographics, and an expected flat student enrollment in the coming years, preserving the current feeder patterns at McLean, including the community that accounts for much of the current SES diversity there, makes more sense than ever.

[See how easy the counterpoint to your string of factoids was.]

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:While test scores and Zillow values are on everyone's mind right now, you're really quick to dismiss the previous poster.

Fairfax County, like most of the DC area, is highly segregated.

Parents here are lobbying to keep their kids in a low-poverty school with 1,165 white students (McLean).

They are vocally opposed to their children attending Falls Church, a majority-Hispanic school with 320 white students.

FCPS operated a segregated Black school in the Timber Lane/Beech Tree area until the 1965-66 school year.

Fairfax supervisors purposefully zoned areas near Marshall HS for apartments in the 1960s, in order to keep that type of housing away from downtown McLean.

Finally, the current "L" shape of the Timber Lane attendance area includes two apartment/condo areas that were historically black. These apartments were purposely built for former James Lee community members (at a time before fair housing laws were enforced).

With changes in FCPS demographics, and a growing population, the current boundaries make less sense today.

Chesterbrook in the McLean district was once a historically Black community.

Downtown McLean has multiple apartments now, as do other areas that currently feed into McLean HS in Tysons, near the WFC Metro, and off Route 29.

Moving Timber Lane north of Route 29 to Falls Church won't have much impact on Falls Church's demographics, even if it adds a few dozen White students to FCHS, but it will reduce the FARMS rate at McLean from 12% to about 8%.

Marshall will be impacted if they move part of Timber Lane that is almost entirely low-income to Shrevewood (as proposed) and rezone part of Westbriar that consists entirely of single-family homes to Madison (as proposed), but parents at McLean did not lobby for any of this.

With changes in FCPS demographics, and an expected flat student enrollment in the coming years, preserving the current feeder patterns at McLean, including the community that accounts for much of the current SES diversity there, makes more sense than ever.

[See how easy the counterpoint to your string of factoids was.]

You've said all this before. We get it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:While test scores and Zillow values are on everyone's mind right now, you're really quick to dismiss the previous poster.

Fairfax County, like most of the DC area, is highly segregated.

Parents here are lobbying to keep their kids in a low-poverty school with 1,165 white students (McLean).

They are vocally opposed to their children attending Falls Church, a majority-Hispanic school with 320 white students.

FCPS operated a segregated Black school in the Timber Lane/Beech Tree area until the 1965-66 school year.

Fairfax supervisors purposefully zoned areas near Marshall HS for apartments in the 1960s, in order to keep that type of housing away from downtown McLean.

Finally, the current "L" shape of the Timber Lane attendance area includes two apartment/condo areas that were historically black. These apartments were purposely built for former James Lee community members (at a time before fair housing laws were enforced).

With changes in FCPS demographics, and a growing population, the current boundaries make less sense today.

Chesterbrook in the McLean district was once a historically Black community.

Downtown McLean has multiple apartments now, as do other areas that currently feed into McLean HS in Tysons, near the WFC Metro, and off Route 29.

Moving Timber Lane north of Route 29 to Falls Church won't have much impact on Falls Church's demographics, even if it adds a few dozen White students to FCHS, but it will reduce the FARMS rate at McLean from 12% to about 8%.

Marshall will be impacted if they move part of Timber Lane that is almost entirely low-income to Shrevewood (as proposed) and rezone part of Westbriar that consists entirely of single-family homes to Madison (as proposed), but parents at McLean did not lobby for any of this.

With changes in FCPS demographics, and an expected flat student enrollment in the coming years, preserving the current feeder patterns at McLean, including the community that accounts for much of the current SES diversity there, makes more sense than ever.

[See how easy the counterpoint to your string of factoids was.]

You've said all this before. We get it.

Apparenty it didn't sink in. Pay more attention next time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Desegregating the Jim Crow south occured 50-60 plus years ago

That has no connection to what is happening now in FCPS.

Based on your mention of being rezoned during desegregation of the south, you would be too old now to have kids in FCPS.

Being so passionate to rezone other peoples kids to boost your property value is a bit distasteful.

You're clueless if you think states and school districts across the US haven't attempted other desegretation efforts since Jim Crow. Or maybe you've lived your whole life in Fairfax County.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:While test scores and Zillow values are on everyone's mind right now, you're really quick to dismiss the previous poster.

Fairfax County, like most of the DC area, is highly segregated.

Parents here are lobbying to keep their kids in a low-poverty school with 1,165 white students (McLean).

They are vocally opposed to their children attending Falls Church, a majority-Hispanic school with 320 white students.

FCPS operated a segregated Black school in the Timber Lane/Beech Tree area until the 1965-66 school year.

Fairfax supervisors purposefully zoned areas near Marshall HS for apartments in the 1960s, in order to keep that type of housing away from downtown McLean.

Finally, the current "L" shape of the Timber Lane attendance area includes two apartment/condo areas that were historically black. These apartments were purposely built for former James Lee community members (at a time before fair housing laws were enforced).

With changes in FCPS demographics, and a growing population, the current boundaries make less sense today.

Chesterbrook in the McLean district was once a historically Black community.

Downtown McLean has multiple apartments now, as do other areas that currently feed into McLean HS in Tysons, near the WFC Metro, and off Route 29.

Moving Timber Lane north of Route 29 to Falls Church won't have much impact on Falls Church's demographics, even if it adds a few dozen White students to FCHS, but it will reduce the FARMS rate at McLean from 12% to about 8%.

Marshall will be impacted if they move part of Timber Lane that is almost entirely low-income to Shrevewood (as proposed) and rezone part of Westbriar that consists entirely of single-family homes to Madison (as proposed), but parents at McLean did not lobby for any of this.

With changes in FCPS demographics, and an expected flat student enrollment in the coming years, preserving the current feeder patterns at McLean, including the community that accounts for much of the current SES diversity there, makes more sense than ever.

[See how easy the counterpoint to your string of factoids was.]

You've said all this before. We get it.

Apparenty it didn't sink in. Pay more attention next time.

Some of us are paying attention to more than Timber Lane. You all can keep screaming and commenting into the void if it makes you feel better.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:While test scores and Zillow values are on everyone's mind right now, you're really quick to dismiss the previous poster.

Fairfax County, like most of the DC area, is highly segregated.

Parents here are lobbying to keep their kids in a low-poverty school with 1,165 white students (McLean).

They are vocally opposed to their children attending Falls Church, a majority-Hispanic school with 320 white students.

FCPS operated a segregated Black school in the Timber Lane/Beech Tree area until the 1965-66 school year.

Fairfax supervisors purposefully zoned areas near Marshall HS for apartments in the 1960s, in order to keep that type of housing away from downtown McLean.

Finally, the current "L" shape of the Timber Lane attendance area includes two apartment/condo areas that were historically black. These apartments were purposely built for former James Lee community members (at a time before fair housing laws were enforced).

With changes in FCPS demographics, and a growing population, the current boundaries make less sense today.

Chesterbrook in the McLean district was once a historically Black community.

Downtown McLean has multiple apartments now, as do other areas that currently feed into McLean HS in Tysons, near the WFC Metro, and off Route 29.

Moving Timber Lane north of Route 29 to Falls Church won't have much impact on Falls Church's demographics, even if it adds a few dozen White students to FCHS, but it will reduce the FARMS rate at McLean from 12% to about 8%.

Marshall will be impacted if they move part of Timber Lane that is almost entirely low-income to Shrevewood (as proposed) and rezone part of Westbriar that consists entirely of single-family homes to Madison (as proposed), but parents at McLean did not lobby for any of this.

With changes in FCPS demographics, and an expected flat student enrollment in the coming years, preserving the current feeder patterns at McLean, including the community that accounts for much of the current SES diversity there, makes more sense than ever.

[See how easy the counterpoint to your string of factoids was.]

You've said all this before. We get it.

Apparenty it didn't sink in. Pay more attention next time.

Some of us are paying attention to more than Timber Lane. You all can keep screaming and commenting into the void if it makes you feel better.

Dunno. You seem rather obsessed with it. Is it going to be your big "win" to go after one group of families for the sin of having attended a majority-minority school that apparently has too many white kids? Even if the result is to make that same school wealthier and whiter? Slow clap of the year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:While test scores and Zillow values are on everyone's mind right now, you're really quick to dismiss the previous poster.

Fairfax County, like most of the DC area, is highly segregated.

Parents here are lobbying to keep their kids in a low-poverty school with 1,165 white students (McLean).

They are vocally opposed to their children attending Falls Church, a majority-Hispanic school with 320 white students.

FCPS operated a segregated Black school in the Timber Lane/Beech Tree area until the 1965-66 school year.

Fairfax supervisors purposefully zoned areas near Marshall HS for apartments in the 1960s, in order to keep that type of housing away from downtown McLean.

Finally, the current "L" shape of the Timber Lane attendance area includes two apartment/condo areas that were historically black. These apartments were purposely built for former James Lee community members (at a time before fair housing laws were enforced).

With changes in FCPS demographics, and a growing population, the current boundaries make less sense today.

Chesterbrook in the McLean district was once a historically Black community.

Downtown McLean has multiple apartments now, as do other areas that currently feed into McLean HS in Tysons, near the WFC Metro, and off Route 29.

Moving Timber Lane north of Route 29 to Falls Church won't have much impact on Falls Church's demographics, even if it adds a few dozen White students to FCHS, but it will reduce the FARMS rate at McLean from 12% to about 8%.

Marshall will be impacted if they move part of Timber Lane that is almost entirely low-income to Shrevewood (as proposed) and rezone part of Westbriar that consists entirely of single-family homes to Madison (as proposed), but parents at McLean did not lobby for any of this.

With changes in FCPS demographics, and an expected flat student enrollment in the coming years, preserving the current feeder patterns at McLean, including the community that accounts for much of the current SES diversity there, makes more sense than ever.

[See how easy the counterpoint to your string of factoids was.]

You've said all this before. We get it.

Apparenty it didn't sink in. Pay more attention next time.

Some of us are paying attention to more than Timber Lane. You all can keep screaming and commenting into the void if it makes you feel better.

Dunno. You seem rather obsessed with it. Is it going to be your big "win" to go after one group of families for the sin of having attended a majority-minority school that apparently has too many white kids? Even if the result is to make that same school wealthier and whiter? Slow clap of the year.

THE GOAL OF BOUNDARY CHANGES IS NOT ABOUT DEMOGRAPHICS. Has that sunk in yet?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:While test scores and Zillow values are on everyone's mind right now, you're really quick to dismiss the previous poster.

Fairfax County, like most of the DC area, is highly segregated.

Parents here are lobbying to keep their kids in a low-poverty school with 1,165 white students (McLean).

They are vocally opposed to their children attending Falls Church, a majority-Hispanic school with 320 white students.

FCPS operated a segregated Black school in the Timber Lane/Beech Tree area until the 1965-66 school year.

Fairfax supervisors purposefully zoned areas near Marshall HS for apartments in the 1960s, in order to keep that type of housing away from downtown McLean.

Finally, the current "L" shape of the Timber Lane attendance area includes two apartment/condo areas that were historically black. These apartments were purposely built for former James Lee community members (at a time before fair housing laws were enforced).

With changes in FCPS demographics, and a growing population, the current boundaries make less sense today.

Chesterbrook in the McLean district was once a historically Black community.

Downtown McLean has multiple apartments now, as do other areas that currently feed into McLean HS in Tysons, near the WFC Metro, and off Route 29.

Moving Timber Lane north of Route 29 to Falls Church won't have much impact on Falls Church's demographics, even if it adds a few dozen White students to FCHS, but it will reduce the FARMS rate at McLean from 12% to about 8%.

Marshall will be impacted if they move part of Timber Lane that is almost entirely low-income to Shrevewood (as proposed) and rezone part of Westbriar that consists entirely of single-family homes to Madison (as proposed), but parents at McLean did not lobby for any of this.

With changes in FCPS demographics, and an expected flat student enrollment in the coming years, preserving the current feeder patterns at McLean, including the community that accounts for much of the current SES diversity there, makes more sense than ever.

[See how easy the counterpoint to your string of factoids was.]

You've said all this before. We get it.

Apparenty it didn't sink in. Pay more attention next time.

Some of us are paying attention to more than Timber Lane. You all can keep screaming and commenting into the void if it makes you feel better.

Dunno. You seem rather obsessed with it. Is it going to be your big "win" to go after one group of families for the sin of having attended a majority-minority school that apparently has too many white kids? Even if the result is to make that same school wealthier and whiter? Slow clap of the year.

THE GOAL OF BOUNDARY CHANGES IS NOT ABOUT DEMOGRAPHICS. Has that sunk in yet?

Stop screaming.

Their problem is they haven’t convinced people that the “problems” they’ve identified are truly problems, and the solutions they’ve identified to date are inelegant and in many cases create as many issues as they purport to resolve. It’s a classic case of the juice not being worth the squeeze.

You might also want to brush up on the law of unintended consequences.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure would be nice if the Timber Lane crew gave other communities the chance to have their voices heard tonight!

Top comments continue to be "don't do this" and "start by checking residency." I think the vibe of the community is coming through fine.

Anyone else notice a pattern from literally every community feedback session that they’ve done over the last seven months. No matter the pyramid, every stop is filled with parents who oppose the boundary changes.

that is the norm for nearly every boundary change that ever was. People do not like change.

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FCPS should make boundary changes more often so the community understands that it is a normal process for growing communities. They waited too long and now everyone is being a big fat whiny baby about it.

BS.

The majority of school districts across the country do not rezone in the way FCPS is attempting to do because stability for kids is crucial.

The vast majority of school districts across the country only rezone when new schools are built or when schools are closed.

I don't know where you are getting "the vast majority of school districts" but here is Loudoun county's policy and it states they will review every 5 years. This is absolutely a problem in FCPS because they waited WAY too long to do this review. School populations change as kids age up and out and they need the ability to adjust boundaries to prevent schools from being overcrowded.

They are doing some really stupid stuff right now, for sure. But the process is necessary, and they need to get the community on board. From my POV that means they should have gone easy this time around- instead they have made mis-steps and kicked the hornets nest. I have friends in Loudoun whose son will go to three different middle schools because of a new school being built and redistricting. She's annoyed, but also resigned, because that's just the policy.

There was a great comment last night about how overcrowded schools generally are the ones where people actually want to send their kids and should be rewarded with additional resources and expansions, not punished by redistricting kids to lower performing schools that families are avoiding.

I don’t think Loudoun should be our model. Their schools aren’t that great academically, and they only get away with the constant redistricting because of all the new schools they’re opening. FCPS is largely built out and very rarely opens new schools.

Ok, Timber Lane parent.

Not a Timber Lane parent. Or Hunt Valley. Or Emerald Chase. Or Hollin Meadows. Or Shrevewood. Or Vienna. Or Westbriar.

Want to keep going down your list of families who think this review is misguided?

But didn't you know that only 3 elementary schools are against rezoning.

Everyone else in FCPS quietly supports rezoning with no grandfathering. They are the silent majority

It would be just like this crew to hold eight community meetings, get roundly criticized in each one, and then plow ahead claiming they are aligning their actions with the preferences of the “silent majority”!

They already paid a half million dollars to a consultant before covid, who crafted every question to generate support rezoning.

At the end of the process, the consultant produced a report that essentially said no rezoning unless absolutely necessary to correct significant enrollment issues that cannot be resolved by trailers or expansions.

FCPS more or less dismissed that report, with some school board members claiming the opposition to rezoning was tainted because the process incorporated online feedback, and that there was actually wide spread support for it that did not show up in the responses.

You couldfind thread ls on it here if you do a deep search.

What a waste. And then they hired another consultant who is encouraging online feedback.

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Anonymous wrote:Poplar Heights and Donna Lee Gardens should be lobbying to move to Shrevewood in place of the apartments off Hollywood Rd. This would eliminate the risk of Shrevewood becoming an over capacity Title I school. They’d also be guaranteed their consolation pyramid (Kilmer/Marshall) and they’d physically share a border with the McLean HS boundary should the Shrevewood split feeder proposal stick.

Shrevewood parents crap all over their current poor kids (off Route 29 and outside the Beltway) so they probably aren't going to be very nice to the kids west of Hollywood Road, either. They want so bad to be Haycock South and instead the school is turning into Timber Lane West.

Shrevewood parents have given up on that community and school. Most families have taken their UMC kids to Lemon Road and it seems like most (all) would be happy to be redistricted to MHS. Pathetic little community of virtue signalers.

Aw, I'm sorry that you lost out on the house you put an offer on in Falls Hill, sweetie! Better luck next time!

The vibe at Poplar Heights pool with the proposed changes to Shrevewood and Timber Lane hanging over the community is going to be TENSE this summer.

It will be not be tense. Your wording “hanging over the community” is dramatic. There are FCC and St James families at the pool as well.

NP. Current member of the PH pool here. Have been three times in the last two weeks. Not one fellow member has talked to me about it once. Everybody just wants to live their life.

That person is clearly someone who is jealous that they can't buy a house in the area. There's no other reason.

Also we literally don't know anyone at the pool with kids at Timber Lane. Those neighborhoods are closer to the Lee-Graham pool, which is easier to get into and cheaper.

You do know that all the homes directly and indirectly surrounding the pool are zoned for Timber Lane. The pool itself is zoned for the school. You either are not a member or don’t know many people.

You're wrong, actually. If the school were a home, it would be zoned to Shrevewood. We know the family across the street.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At what point does the school board get concerned that the outrage is intense enough that it starts to put their reelection in jeopardy?

I’d argue they’ve been playing with fire on this and at least a few of them are now vulnerable.

Even if one seat flips with an accompanying focus from that new board member on accountability it’d be fascinating to see what additional scandals might surface.

SB chair Karl Frisch had a political war-chest of over $400,000 during the last election, while every other candidate (D or R) had about $50,000. Karl donated most of his donations to other candidates, including disgraced Kyle McDaniel.

Karl only needs a simple majority on the Board to steam-roll through whatever changes he wants.

Your Board does not care what you think because they know they are invincible in FFX simply by virtue of the “D “ behind their name.

Karl Frisch does not have kids, does not have a background in education, received the majority of his financial support from California, and planned to use his original election as a one term step to higher office.

With all of this public knowledge, it is astonishing that his constituents reelected him, and even crazier that he will probably win again by large margins.

The alternative was a MAGA who wants guns in schools, so yeah, we choose the lesser of two evils.