Should we just stop having public school board meetings?

[Anonymous]

Oh they know THAT book. Everyone does now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No you can't have school board meetings outside of the public eye. Here in Fairfax County our school board actually added religious holidays to the public school calendar which took away 15 days of learning. Who knows what other extreme policies they would implement with zero accountability.

The current school board is radicalized. Their views are extreme, and not in line with most of the community.

They should do the honorable thing and resign.

They are not going to resign. You should do the honorable thing and cope.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why not just hold them in private or something?

Sure. Let's allow congress and state and local legislatures to do the same. We'll be North Korea in a decade.

Exactly what most Democrats seem to want: Communism.

You're right about the far left. But us regular Dems don't want that. And some of us are fighting against woke BOE insanity as hard as any Republican.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only a radical could make that statement with a straight face.

The SB here is liberal, sure, but they've implemented few things that would be considered radical (see: any boundary change discussion of the past forever years, or the example of spending tens of millions to expand a school when a school with capacity is available right next door).

The only way you can perceive this SB as radical is if you're so far right that anything remotely left-of-center is considered "radical" to you.

OK, now let's do MCPS. In 2018 they voted to make diversity the #1 factor when determining new school boundaries and, if not for Covid, would have redrawn all the boundaries in the county already. And they are all-in on equity and anti-racism which are racist they way they are being done here. The BOE is absolutely radical.