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Anonymous
Thanks, Gatehouse. It was in your pipeline no matter who got elected. Got it. Our bad. You know what is best for us and our kids. We deserve everything you plan to do to us. Shame on us for speaking up. |
Anonymous
Republicans are irrelevant. They can't stop voters from communicating with their elected officials. |
Anonymous
It is all online. They started in 2018 and pushed through a survey and virtual meetings during covid. The response was overwhelmingly against rezoning. The school board openly blamed right wing trumpers of manipulating the survey responses, then tabled the very unpopular rezoning in 2021 so it would not be an issue in the 2023 election, with the hopes that people were not paying attention the first time. Here is the FCPS version of events. https://www.fcps.edu/facilities-planning-future/school-boundary-adjustments/boundary-policy Click on all the embedded links to get a fuller picture of how this started. The school board still openly holds the belief that opposition to county wide rezoning was just conservatives and #openfcps types infiltrating the survey to fake widespread opposition to county wide rezoning. As recently as the October 8, 2024 work session on rezoning linked earlier, the school board discusses and asks Thru how they can prevent people (ie conservatives and those against rezoning) from skewing the results of feedback. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i04W3vvtV4w I am paraphrasing, of course, but it is all there online in Board Docs and videos for anyone who cares enough about their kids and local governance to pay attention and educate themselves. For those of you who keep saying rezoning is not about "equity" it is right there on the FCPS historicl timeline of rezoning linked above: "...The One Fairfax policy, adopted in 2017, commits the county and schools to intentionally consider equity when delivering policies, programs, and services. ..." We shouldn't have to pay this much attention to our schools which should be focused solely on literacy, writing and math skills, sciences, trades education, citizenship, and literacy recovery for the poor 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th graders who did their formative early education during covid "school" and who now are dreadfully behind and in the case of many, functionally illiterate. We shouldn't have to become political activists spending hours each week connecting the dots of this school board, just to make sure our kids aren't being used as political pawns for someone else's social justice experiment or another adult from across town's property values. We deserve school leadership that has laser focus on academics, literacy remediation, and trades/college preparation, managing our 4 billion dollar budget correctly, and a non political school system that keeps to the middle avoids unpopular and radical curriculum and pet projects like equity rezoning and county wide rezoning so they can move 6th to middle school. But here we are and this is the path our blue no matter who friends neighbors have picked for all of us. Go down the rabbit hole of FCPS and educate yourself for your kids. Watch the school boatd meetings and work sessions. Pressure through emails and phone calls Dunne, McElvan, and Moon. They are all very liberal but the closest to the center that we have. Dunne and McElevan are both very smart and savvy with future political aspirations. Moon is old school Fairfax left of center moderate like we had a decade ago before all the crazy activists took over Fairfax politics. Those 3 are the most likely to break from the blind herd and start standing up for parents... if only because they are the only school board members smart enough to see the risks to their future political aspirations. The rest are a dangerous combination of ideologues who only talk to other ideologues. They will tell you whatever they need to shut you up, then go forward with their plans with no variance. If you care about rezoning, educate yourself, starting with those two links above. Research the crazy stuff posted here and find the first person sources. You will quickly realize the further you go down the FCPS rabbit hole, through videos and documents, that the crazy sounding posters are actually very well informed, and very accurate. That is what happened to me. I started researching publicly available FCPS and Ffx County documents and video the crazy stuff posted on this website, thinking that surely the stuff is just craziness by trolls with personal axes to grind. I quickly and shockingly discovered that much of it was not made up trolling, but true. Now I follow FCPS like a hawk, reading and researching everything. The school board as a whole does not have our kids best interest in mind. Reid is sweet, soft spoken and smiley, but is not as nice as her public persona indicates. Please educate yourself fully, make your own conclusions, researching everything crazy posted here, and everything reassuring stated (often falsely) by our school board members. If you resesrch thoroughly enough, you will become very disappointed with many of our local elected officials, including most of the school board. Unless, of course, you are an activist yourself. Then you will be thrilled with their priorities. |
Anonymous
It is illegal for reators to share anything like that about schools. Have you never bought a house? |
Anonymous
You are not educated. Educate yourself. Rezoning absolutely was the school boards focus during covid. They hid it during election year, knowing all the people who don't pay attention would vote blue, not knowing the plans that were already in progress. The omission was intentional, to get elected. |
Anonymous
Of course it will stand. Fairfax County will overwhelmingly elect a democratic monopoly on the school board in 2027, even with rezoning. The school board knows this. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| See bolded, above. You and I are making the same point. |
Anonymous
Moon and McElveen are the only current SB members who were on the board in 2018, and they weren’t on the board from 2019-23. Moon is a senile old “yes” man for Karl Frisch. He got beat up by the FCDC is 2019 and learned his lesson, which is never to challenge the far-left activists now in control of the party. He brings absolutely nothing to the table any longer. McElveen has actually moved more towards the center as the rest of the board has moved further left. His instincts are that the county-wide plan is poorly conceived and will eventually implode and he’s distanced himself from both Reid and Frisch. |
Anonymous
Um, the Republicans were running on “grooming” and 2020 school closures and attacking trans kids, not on opposing rezoning. If it were intentional, the Republicans would have been making noise about it. |
Anonymous
DP. Just so you are aware, lots of democrats and former democrats, while generally supportive of trans kids, don’t elevate that issue over their kids being used as pawns by the school board. |
Anonymous
The "loony" Republicans were right about the school board's plans for "equity" and "nuclear" rezoning, although they were actively smeared as racists and called crazy by democrat activists and Dem party candidates. People who dug down and read the documents found that they "loonies" were telling the truth. The "loony" Republicans protested certain books being put in school libraries, saying they were targeted at young children, exposing them to sexual themes which are inappropriate. Democrat activists and Dem party candidates accuse them of being "anti gay" and lying. Maybe parents want to actually take a look at the books that the school board insists must be available in the schools. Find out if the "loony" Republicans turn out to be right about that too. |
Anonymous
We are 2.1 miles from Woodson and 4.1 miles from Annandale. 2.2 miles from Frost and 5 miles to Poe. |
Anonymous
You're going to be sorely disappointed. Dunne combines some fairly conservative views on spending with the traditional desire on the part of south county polticians to screw northern and western Fairfax to benefit southeastern Fairfax. He'll happily shift boundaries if it means more kids coming into the schools in that part of the county that people try to avoid. Moon used to be fairly thoughtful, and for that he was rewarded with the FCDC denying him an endorsement in 2019 and instead endorsing left-wingers like Sizemore-Heizer and Omeish. He learned his lesson, which is to do whatever folks like Karl Frisch want. Occasionally he'll challenge something or someone for a moment, and then find himself unable to complete a sentence. He's weary and over the hill. McElveen still has political ambitions, and he's smart enough to know that the local Democrats are putting their political careers at risk, but then he can't piss off the other Democrats too much. So he'll probably vote against their redistricting plan, but he'll do so knowing that it has enough votes to pass and without calling them out. He's just trying to carve a middle path that might still get him elected to another office later. This School Board is going to tear FCPS apart, and it's going to be virtually impossible to put it back together. Its future is bleak. |
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