Tell me more about the School Board election process

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Anonymous wrote:How many current school board members are FCPS parents or grandparents? If school board members have children in Fairfax county public schools, will they care students more than politics?

Good question. Anyone?

I am not running, but I care deeply about public schools. I do not have children in FCPS currently. I don't think that should be a requirement as long as your motive is to make the schools better. I have students who are graduates.

Sometimes, people are only concerned about single issues. Megan and Sandy were focused on a later start for high schools. That is what triggered their interest. I think their interests enlarged as they got on the Board. I did not agree with Sandy on many issues or Megan, for that matter.

Clearly, Abrar's goal is politics in general. I believe the same is true of McElveen and Frisch.

Melanie Meren has children in FCPS and she is a TERRIBLE board member.

My wish: that the political parties not be allowed to endorse the candidates. As long as that occurs, we will have this mess.
But, if we are not going to forbid that, then have primaries so people can vote--and not activists.

School board candidates shoule not be allowed to collect any campaign donations from out of state donors or donors who do not reside in Fairfax County.

All donations should be required to be from Fairfax County residents.

Frisch, for example, raises a lot of money, the majority of which is from out of state donors from the west coast. He should not be able to use any of those out of state donations.

1st amendment

Wt??

I think OP means that the first amendment allows him to take the donations. I think, though, that if more people were aware of the reason he is getting so much money and from whom he is getting it, they might take a second look at Frisch--a negative look.

It's all small dollar donations though. Are small dollar donations really the problem with people buying campaigns?