School board reckoning?
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Anonymous
The separation of church and state is enshrined in the Constitution, but it would be far better to spend money teaching students at all the schools the skills they need to advocate, when they choose to do so, rather than setting up a program at one school with a likely bias towards teaching students not only that they should become advocates, but also what they should advocate. |
Anonymous
They have to take it on the day set aside for make ups. So if the kid is sick on that day there is no make up option. Or if a kid is taking multiple tests there is a chance they end up with 2 tests on one day. The O Days are ridiculous. Don't allow tests and quizzes for school assigned work but telling Teachers to not to provide new material and not allowing kids to take national based exams is an over reach. This ridiculous policy removes 11 teaching days from the calendar even though schools are open. So DS has 11 days where he is in school and learns nothing new and does nothing new. It is dumb and unnecessary. TJ admissions will continue to have a portion of seats assigned to each MS. If they bring back the test, the kids who do well enough on the test at each Middle School will still have guaranteed seats. I have no clue how this is going to affect the kids of the pissed of parents at the TJ Feeder schools. Unless those parents are ridiculous enough to believe that there are not 8-10 students at each Middle School that can pass that exam. |
Anonymous
I'm black. She's not one of us. |
Anonymous
The difference is that there is large turnout for a general election to elect a President or Governor, whereas SB elections (at least in FC) are off-year elections. Typically that favors Democrats, but if the Republicans can keep parents engaged in what will be an off-year election in 2023 there could be a huge swing. Quite honestly, if I were a current SB member in FCPS I’d be letting people know now I have no plans to run again (unless my first name were Megan). They are damaged goods and they will encounter an enormous amount of opposition if they try to run again. |
Anonymous
WOW that is pretty messed up. This needs to be elevated. |
Anonymous
Yeah a lot of Democrats on guns in VA. We're responsible. We take classes. We know how to use a safe. Painting all gun owners as right wing nut jobs doesn't really help the Democrat cause in a moderate state. BTW I'm a Democratic Black Woman and I own an AK 47. |
Anonymous
Look, I don't like the "O" days but it's ridiculous to call it an overreach. This is perfectly within their purview, though a blunder. The problem with all of you "School Board reckoning" whiners is this: your child, your needs . . . they are not the only ones in the classroom. The schools have to balance the wants, needs, desires of the school and all of the kids in it, and their parents. That's 2000+ kids at my school alone. Public school is for the benefit of the community, and learning in that community. Not your kid's AP desires or whatever else it is. If you want that much control, homeschool or go private. FULL stop. For every person that doesn't like "equity" there are people who do. For those who don't like name changes, there are those of us that support it. For those who don't like "O" days, there are those that like to see their holidays respected. And in a PUBLIC school, that is a relevant consideration where Christian holidays have traditionally been the only ones acknowledged in a significant way (winter break centered around Christmas -something I recognize has other considerations- spring break tied to Easter). All of those things need to be balanced. I'm sorry, if you cannot understand that, you don't belong in the public schools. |
Anonymous
PP Here. And while the O days are a blunder, imo, it's not worth all of the grousing and howling I've heard, nor justification enough for the huge mistake made last night. You folks are going to regret this choice b/c you're gonna get the bad, and none of the good you're expecting. |
Anonymous
If they want to take it, the have to do so during the accommodations block. Which has a lot of downsides. They get scores later— possibly too late to use for college advising. They have a third week of AP testing which is exhausting. They take a different test than everyone else, so norming hard, especially if most kids are from a high performing system like FCPS. If the actually need the accommodations block for accommodations, too bad for them. A kid with both tests and extra time under a 504 would be unable to take both. A kid with COViS is SOL. Etc. |
Anonymous
Why do you own an AK-47? Just curious. |
Anonymous
+1. Kim Adams, Randy Weingarden, Omeish and Fritsch got Youngkin elected. |
Anonymous
But Fairfax isn’t super progressive. We have a SB that is a lot more progressive and Woke than moderate Dem parents who hate TJ admissions changes, school re-namings during COVID, equity being at the center of all we do, etc. ODays pushed me over the edge. We have lost the equivalent of at least a semester in the last two years— so they take 11 instructional days away? Really? |
Anonymous
Then, we can do this again in 2022 midterms and 2023. Don’t know what else we can do. |
Anonymous
So pathetic that you think the amount of melanin in your skin makes you a monolith. Ignore this poster, she is threatened by the fact that something doesn’t fit in her narrow world view. I’m also black and not a fan of her |
Anonymous
This. |