FCPS School Board and Brabrand Must Go

[Anonymous]

We got far more info about food distribution than we ever did about FCPS's distance learning plans for the first few weeks of this.

Either they
1. had no plan at all and were scrambling, or, 2.there are misplaced priorities.

Or. 3. The people running food distribution are more capable.

Or, all three options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what's the deal with that facebook weirdo who posts her petition like 17 times in every thread?

I am pretty sure that's OP and she had Jeff delete my post where I said I was marking her FB posts as spam, because that's what they are. I encourage everyone else to do that too.

[Anonymous]

This thread is very disorienting with the threads being deleted real time without a reason being posted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS spent their time and resources focusing on the wrong priorities. As a school system, they should focus on education. It took FCPS 4 weeks to get distance learning up and running, poorly, but only a few days to get their meal distribution up and running. I have received infinitely more communication regarding meal distribution than distance learning. Let the food banks feed the kids. The school system needs to focus on educating the kids.

You’ve got my vote, PP.

I’m in social services in Fairfax County and have watched our schools creep into food distribution and social work - basically overstepping boundaries and making established charities and networks superfluous.

Also entirely too much focus on unisex bathrooms and menstrual supply availability when we have ignored sinking graduation rates, overcrowded schools and changing demographics.

It’s been smoke and mirrors for too long.

+1,000
Those of us who did *not* vote for the current board members knew something like this would occur. I hope those who *did* vote for them are kicking themselves now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just received word from my Principal that the SB and Central office folks are now pointing fingers at teachers. In usual fashion, they're trying to deflect the negative attention and point the fingers at us. Meanwhile, I left a very lucrative job in the private sector ten years ago to follow my dream of "giving back to society" via teaching at public school. These clowns have no idea what it is to be leaders. Ugh...

I hope the teachers and principals will vote against these schoolboard members when they come up for reelection.

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What about the parents who idiotically voted for these clowns, and called anyone who didn't "racists"? Unbelievable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know about the rest of you, but I've been reporting OP's crazy Facebook posts with her petition as spam on Facebook. She is nuts.

What petition? What are you referring to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brabrand has been doing his best and there is room for improvement. Some board members, Asst. Superintendents, Principals (even the new ones), and Asst. Ppals. must go.

Brabrand has totally bungled distance learning.

Academic performance hasn't improved.

He has been a complete failure when it comes to facilities.

He lucked into a good economy from 2017 to early 2020, which allowed FCPS to pay teachers more.

What exactly has he done well? If anyone should pay the price for the mess here, it's Brabrand and some others at Gatehouse, along with long-time SB members, not principals or assistant principals. They raise issues and get ignored.

How is academic performance going to improve when principals approve empty brain videos during instruction time? How is academic performance going to improve when many teachers don’t welcome higher thinking questions during instruction time? Academic performance doesn’t improve overwhelming students with worksheets copied from other teachers elsewhere or wasting time with 1hr assemblies (during which students are put to watch a guy playing with knifes, balls or other non sense demonstration).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just received word from my Principal that the SB and Central office folks are now pointing fingers at teachers. In usual fashion, they're trying to deflect the negative attention and point the fingers at us. Meanwhile, I left a very lucrative job in the private sector ten years ago to follow my dream of "giving back to society" via teaching at public school. These clowns have no idea what it is to be leaders. Ugh...

I hope the teachers and principals will vote against these schoolboard members when they come up for reelection.

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What about the parents who idiotically voted for these clowns, and called anyone who didn't "racists"? Unbelievable.

Still beyond glad Schultz and Wilson are gone.

Our school was very overcrowded and Wilson objected to any efforts to do something about it, claiming it would be unfair to Oakton, his daughter’s school - which was literally in the middle of a $130M renovation/expansion.

If the Republicans want to attack the current School Board, they are stuck with the fact that some of have memories longer than last week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brabrand has been doing his best and there is room for improvement. Some board members, Asst. Superintendents, Principals (even the new ones), and Asst. Ppals. must go.

Brabrand has totally bungled distance learning.

Academic performance hasn't improved.

He has been a complete failure when it comes to facilities.

He lucked into a good economy from 2017 to early 2020, which allowed FCPS to pay teachers more.

What exactly has he done well? If anyone should pay the price for the mess here, it's Brabrand and some others at Gatehouse, along with long-time SB members, not principals or assistant principals. They raise issues and get ignored.

How is academic performance going to improve when principals approve empty brain videos during instruction time? How is academic performance going to improve when many teachers don’t welcome higher thinking questions during instruction time? Academic performance doesn’t improve overwhelming students with worksheets copied from other teachers elsewhere or wasting time with 1hr assemblies (during which students are put to watch a guy playing with knifes, balls or other non sense demonstration).

It doesn’t come from Brabrand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why don't you let them figure this out. Then find out what went wrong. Then advicate for corrective action.

Demanding termination of the superintendent at this time would be even more disruptive. He's doing his best to solve the problem. Maybe it's someone in IT who screwed up.. Maybe it's BB didn't provide what they promised. Maybe it's something else.

Proceed with logic. Not a lynch mob emotion.

They should require you use your school login to join videoconferencing (so your real name appears), and the teacher to let each person into the room.

MCPS did this from the start. It's a configuration option. Why did FCPS not think to do the same thing. This is basic IT stuff, and with numerous articles about "zoombombing", how did they not think of this?

Rumor is the IT director either decided not to configure it that way, or forgot to. There will be no accountability.

Yup. Nobody got fired today, or yesterday, not will they tomorrow.

They should have been fired back when they said they needed 4 weeks off to get to, what, This?

Firing people in the middle of this isn't happening and would just further delay distance learning. Advocate for firings immediately after June 12th so we can have competent people planning over the summer for the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just received word from my Principal that the SB and Central office folks are now pointing fingers at teachers. In usual fashion, they're trying to deflect the negative attention and point the fingers at us. Meanwhile, I left a very lucrative job in the private sector ten years ago to follow my dream of "giving back to society" via teaching at public school. These clowns have no idea what it is to be leaders. Ugh...

I hope the teachers and principals will vote against these schoolboard members when they come up for reelection.

+1
What about the parents who idiotically voted for these clowns, and called anyone who didn't "racists"? Unbelievable.

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And the morons like Ryan McElveen - who pushed the whole social justice agenda - can't be held accountable because he's not on the board anymore. Clearly efforts from him and his minions kept FCPS on priorities that didn't include actually educating our children and creating an effective online infrastructure. Democrats control this county from the School Board to Gatehouse Admin to the Board of Supervisors. They are doing a fabulous job of lowering the bar for everyone. Bravo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elizabeth would have called BS on this by now already.

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[Anonymous]

I’m seeing a flood of messages from principals and teachers over last 24 hours in support of the school based tech specialists. That’s an indication they don’t accept what Brabrand, Smith and Luftglass were peddling yesterday. All three of them need to go. Brabrand has zero credibility now. He was not very good to begin with, but he’s totally blown it now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elizabeth would have called BS on this by now already.

+1

Bye Felicia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why don't you let them figure this out. Then find out what went wrong. Then advicate for corrective action.

Demanding termination of the superintendent at this time would be even more disruptive. He's doing his best to solve the problem. Maybe it's someone in IT who screwed up.. Maybe it's BB didn't provide what they promised. Maybe it's something else.

Proceed with logic. Not a lynch mob emotion.

They should require you use your school login to join videoconferencing (so your real name appears), and the teacher to let each person into the room.

MCPS did this from the start. It's a configuration option. Why did FCPS not think to do the same thing. This is basic IT stuff, and with numerous articles about "zoombombing", how did they not think of this?

Rumor is the IT director either decided not to configure it that way, or forgot to. There will be no accountability.

Having dealt w/ FCPS IT before, this seems likely. The folks (who are above building-level) I've dealt with are so incredibly arrogant- think of the worst "IT Guy" stereotype and you'll be on the right track. It also doesn't help that so many of them don't really understand schools. Yes, they may have worked in a school system for a long time, but they treat it like it's a bunch of branch offices full of adult employees.