FCPS School Board candidates in Dranesville

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s hard to imagine anyone running for School Board without thinking they are going to be in for a lot of engagement with the public.

Forums like this and social media has opened the door wide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s hard to imagine anyone running for School Board without thinking they are going to be in for a lot of engagement with the public.

It's very clear from the way they used to speak in their work sessions that they assumed few to none of us would watch them.

[Anonymous]

They were used to constituents who relied largely or solely on newsletters and public meetings for information.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't wait for all the people who voted Democrat without researching the candidates to get what they voted for

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Except. They have been rattled by all the public attention as well as challenges.

Legal counsel told them they can't use race to draw boundaries.

Voices of Fairfax highlighted their conversations about boundaries and helped push them on their nonsensical refusal to take sensible actions that the public wanted

This forced public denials of plans to bus as well as forced every Dranesville candidate to promise to keep all Langley neighborhoods in Langley. Tholen erased One Fairfax from her website.

Brabrand couldn't utter the words "One Fairfax"

Keys Gamarra tried to pretend policy draft was entirely invented by staff.

Most of all, all the attention caused by Voices of Fairfax stopped the planned vote scheduled for September, that they intended to pass with NO public input.

Now let's wait and see if they do what they implied about Langley and McLean, or if the boundary study will include other schools.

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Voices of Fairfax did the public a service by exposing what the SB thought they could get away with behind closed doors.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I always wonder at the people who bring Trump into a discussion about the SB. Obsessed much?

I always wonder at the local Republicans who deny their leadership (Tim Hannigan) and most of their candidates are Trump supporters. And then they blame their losses in Fairfax on uninformed voters.

Not sure what your reference to Tim Hannigan is about - I had to google him. What’s your issue with him? I’m quite certain he has a counterpart on the Democrats’ side, no?
- an independent

He does, and that person opposes Trump and backs candidates for local office in Fairfax who also oppose Trump and have priorities that Fairfax voters support.

Republicans can keep crying into their beer about last week’s local elections but it won’t change the fact their candidates lost.

You sound incredibly smug. Not a good look, though we’ve become quite used to it.

When voters rejected a slate of candidates who ran campaigns based on lies and misinformation, the rest of us are entitled to celebrate, even as you continue to whine about what the future holds.

Get over it.

“Entitled” being the key word ^^^. If anything, we’ve had to listen to YOU whining about your special brand of “diversity”. It’s been eye opening, to say the least, but at least now everyone’s on to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't wait for all the people who voted Democrat without researching the candidates to get what they voted for

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Except. They have been rattled by all the public attention as well as challenges.

Legal counsel told them they can't use race to draw boundaries.

Voices of Fairfax highlighted their conversations about boundaries and helped push them on their nonsensical refusal to take sensible actions that the public wanted

This forced public denials of plans to bus as well as forced every Dranesville candidate to promise to keep all Langley neighborhoods in Langley. Tholen erased One Fairfax from her website.

Brabrand couldn't utter the words "One Fairfax"

Keys Gamarra tried to pretend policy draft was entirely invented by staff.

Most of all, all the attention caused by Voices of Fairfax stopped the planned vote scheduled for September, that they intended to pass with NO public input.

Now let's wait and see if they do what they implied about Langley and McLean, or if the boundary study will include other schools.

Voices of Fairfax antagonized most of the current School Board members, endorsed 11 Republican candidates (each of whom lost), and sent questionnaires to candidates that were so hostile that only one member of the next School Board decided to respond.

If the School Board delivers on Langley/McLean, it will probably be due to the efforts of others, and in spite of the rhetoric of One Great Falls/Voices of Fairfax.

DP. “The efforts of others”?? Such as? You mean those who constantly want to use Langley as a scapegoat for all of their own community’s problems?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s hard to imagine anyone running for School Board without thinking they are going to be in for a lot of engagement with the public.

It's very clear from the way they used to speak in their work sessions that they assumed few to none of us would watch them.

Exactly. I’m grateful to those who posted SB videos so that all of us could see exactly what they had in mind.

[Anonymous]

The biggest losers in this School Board election (although there is much overlap) were Republicans, Voices of Fairfax, and Great Falls.

No amount of feverish posting and sock puppetry on DCUM will change that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The biggest losers in this School Board election (although there is much overlap) were Republicans, Voices of Fairfax, and Great Falls.

No amount of feverish posting and sock puppetry on DCUM will change that.

Not really. The losers are those who voted like lemmings for social engineering. Because that’s exactly what they’ll get. And speaking of sock puppets, you may want to stop. You just look infantile, repeating the same things over and over.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The biggest losers in this School Board election (although there is much overlap) were Republicans, Voices of Fairfax, and Great Falls.

No amount of feverish posting and sock puppetry on DCUM will change that.

Not really. The losers are those who voted like lemmings for social engineering. Because that’s exactly what they’ll get. And speaking of sock puppets, you may want to stop. You just look infantile, repeating the same things over and over.

Sad that you remain permanently moored somewhere between denial and anger.

Meanwhile the rest of us move on, happy that the choices we made were validated by the majority of county voters.

[Anonymous]

The winners are everyone who paid attention to school board issues, no matter how they voted.

I for one am now aware that the chief academic officer has been repurposed, at least some members want to scrap AAP for "equity" concerns, and the board discussed busing and nuking boundaries because they think the system is segregated.

I have also learned that the ell program has really improved for its students, some schools haven't been teaching science and scores for black children have improved. More information is good.

[Anonymous]

On balance I have more of an appreciation of why so many of my neighbors chose private.

I have heard that standards in fcps are on the decline and the evidence does seem to support that.

[Anonymous]

The main thing I’ve learned in recent months is how utterly unrepresentative DCUM posts are of how most people in the county feel about FCPS, their kids’ schools, and School Board members and candidates.

Will be interesting to see if the same handful of people can maintain their level of venom for the next four years. DCUM seems to be their preferred outlet since they don’t have a real seat at “the room where it happens.”

[Anonymous]

People have been expressing opinions on social media for years.

I have learned in my few months here that people (a vocal minority I hope) not in the Langley pyramid spend an awful lot of time thinking about, envying and complaining about Langley.

I had no idea when I moved here that people cared so much instead of being happy in their own schools. It's unbelievable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The biggest losers in this School Board election (although there is much overlap) were Republicans, Voices of Fairfax, and Great Falls.

No amount of feverish posting and sock puppetry on DCUM will change that.

Not really. The losers are those who voted like lemmings for social engineering. Because that’s exactly what they’ll get. And speaking of sock puppets, you may want to stop. You just look infantile, repeating the same things over and over.

Sad that you remain permanently moored somewhere between denial and anger.

Meanwhile the rest of us move on, happy that the choices we made were validated by the majority of county voters.

Sounds like you’re referring to the inability of liberals to move on after losing the presidential election in 2016. So funny that you can’t even recognize the irony. :wink: