National Jewish Organization Threatens to File Complaint Against FCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks, I appreciate the response and understand. I'll take the invitation to think about my sensitivity level, as you suggest, especially when the main point of the Instagram post is a great reflection of the amazing diversity and positive students (and delicious food) in the county.

I was thinking that the graphic might be interpreted as potentially discourteous. I think FCPS should seek to expand open discussion, context, and political and cultural sensitivity at some level, but I see how this could be a misguided concern here. The student is young, FCPS may have prepared the post, maybe it wasn't meant as a political statement, and it's not presented as a political statement. On the other hand, it could be viewed as a political statement and it seems objectively disputable to identify Palestine as a country of origin.

That's all I have on this, I appreciate your thoughts. For reference the post is in the middle of the page at https://www.instagram.com/fairfaxcountypublicschools

This is such an awful post. The student is proudly Palestinian. Her parents are likely from Palestine. You don't get to tell her where she's from or erase her history. I understand that many are at work presently trying to eradicate people like her from the planet but its not FCPS' job to perpetuate that. Each kid had a flag and hers is Palestine. You can take your supremacist views elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks, I appreciate the response and understand. I'll take the invitation to think about my sensitivity level, as you suggest, especially when the main point of the Instagram post is a great reflection of the amazing diversity and positive students (and delicious food) in the county.

I was thinking that the graphic might be interpreted as potentially discourteous. I think FCPS should seek to expand open discussion, context, and political and cultural sensitivity at some level, but I see how this could be a misguided concern here. The student is young, FCPS may have prepared the post, maybe it wasn't meant as a political statement, and it's not presented as a political statement. On the other hand, it could be viewed as a political statement and it seems objectively disputable to identify Palestine as a country of origin.

That's all I have on this, I appreciate your thoughts. For reference the post is in the middle of the page at https://www.instagram.com/fairfaxcountypublicschools

This is such an awful post. The student is proudly Palestinian. Her parents are likely from Palestine. You don't get to tell her where she's from or erase her history. I understand that many are at work presently trying to eradicate people like her from the planet but its not FCPS' job to perpetuate that. Each kid had a flag and hers is Palestine. You can take your supremacist views elsewhere.

I don't have instagram, so cannot see the pic in question.

However, what happened to being proudly "American?"
If the child is born here, why isn't she waving an American flag?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A national Jewish organization based in NYC has threatened to file a complaint against FCPS with the Department of Education, pointing to FCPS’s inaction in response to anti-Israel comments by a School Board member and anti-Semitic incidents at Robinson Secondary and other schools in FCPS. Brabrand really should be looking for a new job now.

https://zoa.org/2021/06/10443332-zoa-documents-years-of-antisemitism-at-fairfax-va-public-schools-demands-corrective-measures-to-protect-jewish-students/

Not good when a pro-Democratic party organization threatens a lawsuit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Zionist =/= Jewish.

Repeated for truth

[Anonymous]

You don’t need an Instagram account to see — “Palestine” on the FCPS account

You can google Instagram and the account name is below

fairfaxcountypublicschools