Places to Sign Recall Petitions - Tholen/Omeish/Cohen

[Anonymous]

I cannot imagine being so wedded to a local political party that I wouldn’t at least wait to see what a candidate endorsed by a particular party had to say before deciding whether to support them. And, while I often vote for candidates endorsed by Democrats, the single biggest problem with the current School Board is the lack of different perspectives when you have a board that functions mostly as an echo chamber because they are all from the same party. Sure, they squabble with each other occasionally, but it’s all over small stuff, not the larger policy issues they ought to be considering.

You'd be surprised.

When I was an Election Worker, we had a woman who walked in and received her ticket to vote from the entry desk. After she had been logged in, she realized she had failed to pick up the Democrat sample ballot. She had picked up the GOP one by mistake. She wanted to go out and get the Dem sample before she voted. She was told that she could not do that--she was already logged in. (Pretty stupid woman--didn't realize she could just vote "opposite" of the GOP ballot, I guess.) So, what did she do? She went through a trash can to find one. She was successful.

The problem is that the ones that run are to the far right or the far left. However, this current batch is almost off the charts left. Without Schultz, there is no push back at all--except a little from McLaughlin. I don't agree with her on everything, but we definitely need more of her. I had high hopes for Pekarsky, but she has definitely consumed the KoolAid. And, her assistant is an activist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:anyone but Elaine

Based.

[Anonymous]

Is there any active effort to hold Elaine and other SB members accountable similar to what we are seeing in Loudoun County?

[Anonymous]

Never fear - Tholen is "monitoring" capacity at MHS !

https://www.tysonsreporter.com/2021/11/16/next-phase-of-mclean-high-school-roof-replacement-advances-as-fcps-monitors-capacity/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never fear - Tholen is "monitoring" capacity at MHS !

https://www.tysonsreporter.com/2021/11/16/next-phase-of-mclean-high-school-roof-replacement-advances-as-fcps-monitors-capacity/

She signaled in a recent Board meeting that she’s going to ask staff to create a new renovation queue with McLean near the top. By the time anything comes of this, the 2023 SB election will be approaching and it will be too little, too late. Most likely her seat will flip to a Republican candidate in 2023.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never fear - Tholen is "monitoring" capacity at MHS !

https://www.tysonsreporter.com/2021/11/16/next-phase-of-mclean-high-school-roof-replacement-advances-as-fcps-monitors-capacity/

She signaled in a recent Board meeting that she’s going to ask staff to create a new renovation queue with McLean near the top. By the time anything comes of this, the 2023 SB election will be approaching and it will be too little, too late. Most likely her seat will flip to a Republican candidate in 2023.

Im sure she is planning a last minute action to try to get reelected. I cant imagine that the MHS parents who support her will be fooled.

[Anonymous]

Hey look! The SB just honored the one person who literally ignored capacity at MHS for 25 years and forced the meaningless boundary change on Tholen!

Can the hypocrisy get any worse? Get over yourself SB. Let's vote them all out.



https://www.fcps.edu/news/former-school-board-members-janie-strauss-and-ilryong-moon-honored-facilities-renaming

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey look! The SB just honored the one person who literally ignored capacity at MHS for 25 years and forced the meaningless boundary change on Tholen!

Can the hypocrisy get any worse? Get over yourself SB. Let's vote them all out.



https://www.fcps.edu/news/former-school-board-members-janie-strauss-and-ilryong-moon-honored-facilities-renaming

Janie was asleep for a long time, but the boundary change she tried to get approved in 2018 (it was blocked by other Democrats) would have moved more kids and actually aligned with "One Fairfax" by moving some of the Tysons apartments/condos to Langley.

Elaine then pushed through a change that moved fewer kids and reassigned none of the MHS areas that were growing faster to Langley. So Langley picked up more expensive single-family homes, while all the current and future condos/apartments in Tysons stay zoned to McLean and Marshall. Then they changed TJ admissions so Longfellow is sending more kids to McLean and fewer kids to TJ, which largely offsets the limited relief provided by Tholen's scheme.

Tholen has managed to alienate more people in two years on the Board than Strauss did in over 20 years. Maybe she'll come up with something new over the next year; as it now stands, she's largely handed the Dranesville seat (and probably at least one of the at-large seats) on the SB to a Republican in 2023.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never fear - Tholen is "monitoring" capacity at MHS !

https://www.tysonsreporter.com/2021/11/16/next-phase-of-mclean-high-school-roof-replacement-advances-as-fcps-monitors-capacity/

She signaled in a recent Board meeting that she’s going to ask staff to create a new renovation queue with McLean near the top. By the time anything comes of this, the 2023 SB election will be approaching and it will be too little, too late. Most likely her seat will flip to a Republican candidate in 2023.

Im sure she is planning a last minute action to try to get reelected. I cant imagine that the MHS parents who support her will be fooled.

Should be the motto for the 2023 SB election.

[Anonymous]

There are some crazy a$$ Republicans on this thread! Lol! It's pretty psycho this obsession with the FFX County SB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are some crazy a$$ Republicans on this thread! Lol! It's pretty psycho this obsession with the FFX County SB.

So because the SB has been almost all Democratic for a long time, you assume any and all criticisms are coming from Republicans?

That tells me you don't know what's going on. If you knew better, you'd realize Republicans largely sit back now and let disaffected Democrats do the heavy lifting. They just pipe in occasionally with a "we told you so" or a "serves you right."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey look! The SB just honored the one person who literally ignored capacity at MHS for 25 years and forced the meaningless boundary change on Tholen!

Can the hypocrisy get any worse? Get over yourself SB. Let's vote them all out.



https://www.fcps.edu/news/former-school-board-members-janie-strauss-and-ilryong-moon-honored-facilities-renaming

Janie was asleep for a long time, but the boundary change she tried to get approved in 2018 (it was blocked by other Democrats) would have moved more kids and actually aligned with "One Fairfax" by moving some of the Tysons apartments/condos to Langley.

Elaine then pushed through a change that moved fewer kids and reassigned none of the MHS areas that were growing faster to Langley. So Langley picked up more expensive single-family homes, while all the current and future condos/apartments in Tysons stay zoned to McLean and Marshall. Then they changed TJ admissions so Longfellow is sending more kids to McLean and fewer kids to TJ, which largely offsets the limited relief provided by Tholen's scheme.

Tholen has managed to alienate more people in two years on the Board than Strauss did in over 20 years. Maybe she'll come up with something new over the next year; as it now stands, she's largely handed the Dranesville seat (and probably at least one of the at-large seats) on the SB to a Republican in 2023.

And just to clarify, Elaine's "scheme" only moved about 20 kids from MHS to LHS this year. 100% irrelevant and meaningless, just like her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey look! The SB just honored the one person who literally ignored capacity at MHS for 25 years and forced the meaningless boundary change on Tholen!

Can the hypocrisy get any worse? Get over yourself SB. Let's vote them all out.



https://www.fcps.edu/news/former-school-board-members-janie-strauss-and-ilryong-moon-honored-facilities-renaming

Janie was asleep for a long time, but the boundary change she tried to get approved in 2018 (it was blocked by other Democrats) would have moved more kids and actually aligned with "One Fairfax" by moving some of the Tysons apartments/condos to Langley.

Elaine then pushed through a change that moved fewer kids and reassigned none of the MHS areas that were growing faster to Langley. So Langley picked up more expensive single-family homes, while all the current and future condos/apartments in Tysons stay zoned to McLean and Marshall. Then they changed TJ admissions so Longfellow is sending more kids to McLean and fewer kids to TJ, which largely offsets the limited relief provided by Tholen's scheme.

Tholen has managed to alienate more people in two years on the Board than Strauss did in over 20 years. Maybe she'll come up with something new over the next year; as it now stands, she's largely handed the Dranesville seat (and probably at least one of the at-large seats) on the SB to a Republican in 2023.

And just to clarify, Elaine's "scheme" only moved about 20 kids from MHS to LHS this year. 100% irrelevant and meaningless, just like her.

So who are you going to get to replace her?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey look! The SB just honored the one person who literally ignored capacity at MHS for 25 years and forced the meaningless boundary change on Tholen!

Can the hypocrisy get any worse? Get over yourself SB. Let's vote them all out.



https://www.fcps.edu/news/former-school-board-members-janie-strauss-and-ilryong-moon-honored-facilities-renaming

Janie was asleep for a long time, but the boundary change she tried to get approved in 2018 (it was blocked by other Democrats) would have moved more kids and actually aligned with "One Fairfax" by moving some of the Tysons apartments/condos to Langley.

Elaine then pushed through a change that moved fewer kids and reassigned none of the MHS areas that were growing faster to Langley. So Langley picked up more expensive single-family homes, while all the current and future condos/apartments in Tysons stay zoned to McLean and Marshall. Then they changed TJ admissions so Longfellow is sending more kids to McLean and fewer kids to TJ, which largely offsets the limited relief provided by Tholen's scheme.

Tholen has managed to alienate more people in two years on the Board than Strauss did in over 20 years. Maybe she'll come up with something new over the next year; as it now stands, she's largely handed the Dranesville seat (and probably at least one of the at-large seats) on the SB to a Republican in 2023.

And just to clarify, Elaine's "scheme" only moved about 20 kids from MHS to LHS this year. 100% irrelevant and meaningless, just like her.

So who are you going to get to replace her?

A Donkey? A frog? Anyone - anyone from any party. Cant. Be. Worse.

[Anonymous]

Hi Elaine - Great decision to put books back into our school libraries that contain drawings of men having s3x with minors. You have to power to keep these types of graphic drawings out of our schools, but once again, you and your friends on the board have failed our kids.