Reid email , protecting immigrants

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:While some of you celebrate what’s going on as a win, here's a little dose of reality. There are students in FCPS now telling their teachers and counselors that they will kill themselves if they get deported to a country they have never lived in/do not remember living in. Regardless of whether you feel that those kids and their families “deserve” this, the teachers and counselors now have to divert time and resources to dealing with the kids who are now in crisis. Not only does this lead to more teachers and counselors wanting to quit, but it also means less time and resources for your kid. And no, it doesn’t matter whose fault this is. Your kid will suffer either way. I hope you’re happy.

There have been a steady stream of kids showing up from the border over the last 4 years. They've been taking up time and resources from American kids for a long time. There is no way they're walking here from Central America and other far flung places without experiencing and seeing significant trauma along the way. Especially for the girls. All of this requires support.

Last I heard Fairfax county public School are a school not a meals, daycare or counseling service. The perversion of it into some social program has caused the core mission to be out on the back burner to advanced liberal social agendas.

This is one of the many reasons that I quit working in FCPS.

FCPS has lost their collective minds and way and need to decide if their mission is to educate students or become a social service umbrella agency.

This is why I’m leaving. The mission has become unattainable.

I worked in a very high ML population low income school that is title 1 funded.

I always feel defeated. Trying to get these kids to learn, remember and prove it on assessments is so hard. And we are expected to get these kids to the same level as their English speaking peers.

Despite whatever she is trying to say in this email, she doesn’t really care for the large ESOL support needed and there isn’t any grace given to these circumstances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While some of you celebrate what’s going on as a win, here's a little dose of reality. There are students in FCPS now telling their teachers and counselors that they will kill themselves if they get deported to a country they have never lived in/do not remember living in. Regardless of whether you feel that those kids and their families “deserve” this, the teachers and counselors now have to divert time and resources to dealing with the kids who are now in crisis. Not only does this lead to more teachers and counselors wanting to quit, but it also means less time and resources for your kid. And no, it doesn’t matter whose fault this is. Your kid will suffer either way. I hope you’re happy.

Sadly, allegedly, there are also kids reporting to their teachers that they will kill themselves if others don’t accept their gender identities, or because this or the other. Unfortunately, kids face all kinds of issues, challenges, and traumas. That has always existed. What is new as of recently, however, is the perspective some kids have in life. They seem to have been robed of any sense of hope, self-worth, true identity, and resilience.

The pain these kids who fear deportation along with their parents is very real, but so is their reality. As for the alleged teachers and counselors at FCPS, besides perpetuating on the feeling of hopelessness and helplessness, this is the time to rise above that and besides lending an ear, a word of comfort, etc., they will have to talk to these students about resilience, strength, the future, their self-worth independent from their geographic location, or color of their skin, or gender. These kids need to hear that things will work out fine in the end, though it may not seem like it at this moment. That adversity through resilience can become growth. That they have their entire future ahead of them. A good starting point would be using role models of people who have risen through the worst of adversity and yet not only survive, but excelled. There are many examples, but the most recent one that comes to mind is JD Vance. Of course there are others, such as Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, or the many women in Latin America who became presidents of their countries 14 times altogether!

While we can’t change reality for these kids -or any other kid- we, as adults, can role model how to cope and make the best out of things we can’t change.

I agree that they need to hear that all is not lost even if they do get deported. They are resilient and can thrive anywhere.

This generation should learn you can't have everything you want and certainly not if you or your parents have broken the law to get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While some of you celebrate what’s going on as a win, here's a little dose of reality. There are students in FCPS now telling their teachers and counselors that they will kill themselves if they get deported to a country they have never lived in/do not remember living in. Regardless of whether you feel that those kids and their families “deserve” this, the teachers and counselors now have to divert time and resources to dealing with the kids who are now in crisis. Not only does this lead to more teachers and counselors wanting to quit, but it also means less time and resources for your kid. And no, it doesn’t matter whose fault this is. Your kid will suffer either way. I hope you’re happy.

Stop making stories up.

Not made up. I was with some people last night who work in FCPS high schools and this is what they are seeing and hearing. There are a lot of kids in crisis for various reasons, and now here’s a new one.

People need to develop some resilience

Not exactly a realistic plan for teenage brains. You can’t just snap your fngers and make it so.

I know some of you can’t understand this because you lack empathy, but most people who work in schools WANT to help kids who are struggling regardless of whether the district has “tasked” them with this as a “social service” or not. Unlike you they care about the kids. Maybe if you took any time to talk with them you would understand how protective they feel over the vulnerable kids. They’ve probably helped your kid during the school day in some way you aren’t even aware of. Your little right wing fantasy land is not reality and you don’t have as much control over this as you think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While some of you celebrate what’s going on as a win, here's a little dose of reality. There are students in FCPS now telling their teachers and counselors that they will kill themselves if they get deported to a country they have never lived in/do not remember living in. Regardless of whether you feel that those kids and their families “deserve” this, the teachers and counselors now have to divert time and resources to dealing with the kids who are now in crisis. Not only does this lead to more teachers and counselors wanting to quit, but it also means less time and resources for your kid. And no, it doesn’t matter whose fault this is. Your kid will suffer either way. I hope you’re happy.

There have been a steady stream of kids showing up from the border over the last 4 years. They've been taking up time and resources from American kids for a long time. There is no way they're walking here from Central America and other far flung places without experiencing and seeing significant trauma along the way. Especially for the girls. All of this requires support.

Last I heard Fairfax county public School are a school not a meals, daycare or counseling service. The perversion of it into some social program has caused the core mission to be out on the back burner to advanced liberal social agendas.

This is one of the many reasons that I quit working in FCPS.

FCPS has lost their collective minds and way and need to decide if their mission is to educate students or become a social service umbrella agency.

This is why I’m leaving. The mission has become unattainable.

I worked in a very high ML population low income school that is title 1 funded.

I always feel defeated. Trying to get these kids to learn, remember and prove it on assessments is so hard. And we are expected to get these kids to the same level as their English speaking peers.

Despite whatever she is trying to say in this email, she doesn’t really care for the large ESOL support needed and there isn’t any grace given to these circumstances.

That should be *work now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While some of you celebrate what’s going on as a win, here's a little dose of reality. There are students in FCPS now telling their teachers and counselors that they will kill themselves if they get deported to a country they have never lived in/do not remember living in. Regardless of whether you feel that those kids and their families “deserve” this, the teachers and counselors now have to divert time and resources to dealing with the kids who are now in crisis. Not only does this lead to more teachers and counselors wanting to quit, but it also means less time and resources for your kid. And no, it doesn’t matter whose fault this is. Your kid will suffer either way. I hope you’re happy.

I missed the part where that's my problem.

My kid certainly isn't suffering because some teen is sad their parents screwed up.

Yes, we know you are a heartless moron. You voted for Trump.

But you’re also pro-life, right? Right?????? Or does that only go as far as my vagina and uterus. Once the kid is here then you don’t give a shit?

I’m asking this as well. And are they only pro life for American white babies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While some of you celebrate what’s going on as a win, here's a little dose of reality. There are students in FCPS now telling their teachers and counselors that they will kill themselves if they get deported to a country they have never lived in/do not remember living in. Regardless of whether you feel that those kids and their families “deserve” this, the teachers and counselors now have to divert time and resources to dealing with the kids who are now in crisis. Not only does this lead to more teachers and counselors wanting to quit, but it also means less time and resources for your kid. And no, it doesn’t matter whose fault this is. Your kid will suffer either way. I hope you’re happy.

I missed the part where that's my problem.

My kid certainly isn't suffering because some teen is sad their parents screwed up.

Yes, we know you are a heartless moron. You voted for Trump.

But you’re also pro-life, right? Right?????? Or does that only go as far as my vagina and uterus. Once the kid is here then you don’t give a shit?

I’m asking this as well. And are they only pro life for American white babies?

Stop with the dramatics. They are being deported, not harmed/killed. You know most don't qualify for asylum and are economic migrants. Which laws do you believe others can pick and choose to follow?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Using a word twice in once sentence does not magically transform something.


“We have CLEAR plans in place to respond to the shifting federal policies and our principals have received CLEAR direction from me on the expected response should a federal law enforcement official come to a school.”

Using “clear” twice in this sentence undermines her message. It feels like an attempt to overcompensate. It does not sound credible and trustworthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Using a word twice in once sentence does not magically transform something.


“We have CLEAR plans in place to respond to the shifting federal policies and our principals have received CLEAR direction from me on the expected response should a federal law enforcement official come to a school.”

Using “clear” twice in this sentence undermines her message. It feels like an attempt to overcompensate. It does not sound credible and trustworthy.

If she is following the law, why doesn't she just say what the guidance to the principals is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Using a word twice in once sentence does not magically transform something.


“We have CLEAR plans in place to respond to the shifting federal policies and our principals have received CLEAR direction from me on the expected response should a federal law enforcement official come to a school.”

Using “clear” twice in this sentence undermines her message. It feels like an attempt to overcompensate. It does not sound credible and trustworthy.

If she is following the law, why doesn't she just say what the guidance to the principals is?

Agreed, just tell people what the guidance is. This email is almost content free.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Using a word twice in once sentence does not magically transform something.


“We have CLEAR plans in place to respond to the shifting federal policies and our principals have received CLEAR direction from me on the expected response should a federal law enforcement official come to a school.”

Using “clear” twice in this sentence undermines her message. It feels like an attempt to overcompensate. It does not sound credible and trustworthy.

If she is following the law, why doesn't she just say what the guidance to the principals is?

Any principals or admin care to share this “clear guidance”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Using a word twice in once sentence does not magically transform something.


“We have CLEAR plans in place to respond to the shifting federal policies and our principals have received CLEAR direction from me on the expected response should a federal law enforcement official come to a school.”

Using “clear” twice in this sentence undermines her message. It feels like an attempt to overcompensate. It does not sound credible and trustworthy.

If she is following the law, why doesn't she just say what the guidance to the principals is?

Any principals or admin care to share this “clear guidance”?

Here it is. Sounds like FCPS plans to cooperate with ICE.

“ “We’re advising staff so they know how to handle these situations,” McElveen said. “If ICE agents come to a school, staff will take them to the front office, make sure they are who they say they are, and that they have warrants,” he said. “If they don’t, they’ll be sent away.””


https://annandaletoday.com/fcps-vows-to-protect-students-if-ice-agents-come-to-schools/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Using a word twice in once sentence does not magically transform something.


“We have CLEAR plans in place to respond to the shifting federal policies and our principals have received CLEAR direction from me on the expected response should a federal law enforcement official come to a school.”

Using “clear” twice in this sentence undermines her message. It feels like an attempt to overcompensate. It does not sound credible and trustworthy.

If she is following the law, why doesn't she just say what the guidance to the principals is?

Any principals or admin care to share this “clear guidance”?

Here it is. Sounds like FCPS plans to cooperate with ICE.

“ “We’re advising staff so they know how to handle these situations,” McElveen said. “If ICE agents come to a school, staff will take them to the front office, make sure they are who they say they are, and that they have warrants,” he said. “If they don’t, they’ll be sent away.””


https://annandaletoday.com/fcps-vows-to-protect-students-if-ice-agents-come-to-schools/

This does seem pretty clear. Ryan as always is a great communicator.

1) Verify identity of the ICE agents and 2) hand over the student if the agent has a warrant.

[Anonymous]

The email was too much and her writing is over the top. Just be direct and say they will follow the law. They will also make sure there are proper procedures including warrants. This whole light business is too much.

There should be a partnership with the schools to help focus on criminals-MS 13 gang members, etc. Make that the priority and schools probably have useful information. Regardless of political beliefs I suspect most of us are fine with deporting gang members.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is Reid trying to get FCPS on this list:

"Besides ordering an end to DEI programs across federal agencies, Trump revoked a six-decade-old executive order that requires government contractors to proactively root out discrimination on the basis of race and sex.
The president also instructed each agency to identify the “most egregious and discriminatory DEI practitioners” among companies, nonprofits, foundations and other private-sector organizations and recommend up to nine targets for potential civil investigations."

Twitter/X today is full of discussions AMLING conservative commentators re FCPS DEI and immigration.

FCPS is very likely to get put in the crosshairs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Using a word twice in once sentence does not magically transform something.


“We have CLEAR plans in place to respond to the shifting federal policies and our principals have received CLEAR direction from me on the expected response should a federal law enforcement official come to a school.”

Using “clear” twice in this sentence undermines her message. It feels like an attempt to overcompensate. It does not sound credible and trustworthy.

If she is following the law, why doesn't she just say what the guidance to the principals is?

Any principals or admin care to share this “clear guidance”?

Here it is. Sounds like FCPS plans to cooperate with ICE.

“ “We’re advising staff so they know how to handle these situations,” McElveen said. “If ICE agents come to a school, staff will take them to the front office, make sure they are who they say they are, and that they have warrants,” he said. “If they don’t, they’ll be sent away.””


https://annandaletoday.com/fcps-vows-to-protect-students-if-ice-agents-come-to-schools/

Yes that’s pretty much it. The school isn’t a sanctuary anymore and admin have to cooperate if they come with the correct paperwork- but I think they need to call the region to help verify.

I understand why Reid wasn’t going to say that in her email and cause more panic. I still don’t think it means they will be ripping 5 year olds from the classroom and I hope they focus on the criminals and take care of it outside of the school building.

On another note, our school should see a decrease in new arrivals from other countries right?