FCPS At-Large School Board Race - Is County Split in Two?

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Anonymous wrote:Consensus seems to be that Moon, McElveen, and McDaniel will win.

Oh heck no.

What a disaster for FCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Consensus seems to be that Moon, McElveen, and McDaniel will win.

Oh heck no.

What a disaster for FCPS.

PP is just talking about the Democratic endorsement, I think. Stop whining and get to work if you think other at-large candidates are better. Unless, of course, you're one of the trolls who wants to see FCPS continue to decline so you can feel better about pulling your kid out and sending him to O'Connell.

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Anonymous wrote:Vote straight republican. Save FCPS before it is too late.

By save FCPS do you mean completely destroy it?

DP, but I'd love to see some diversity OF OPINION on the next School Board. We don't have that with the current board and they have been running FCPS into the ground with their incompetence. Some of them should be in jail.

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+1 COVID and aftermath have shown the current board to be ineffective at actually educating students in reading, writing, arithmetic,...

I'd love all of you $%^% whiners to have done better. You wouldn't have.

1. Would have listened to health department-not the teachers' union. Could have opened schools much, much earlier. Example: teacher "yearning to get back in the classroom--when it is safe" while posting from the beach. Also, one of ouor "At Large" members.
2. Should have paid attention --much earlier--to the mess that was the Tech department. Remember the first iteration of "virtual learning?" Other school systems were better prepared, but our Tech person had no idea of anything.
3. SB members being sure their own kids had school in a "pod" --example Hunter Mill SB member.
4. SB members crying because partner teacher might get sick. Example Providence SB member
5. Spending much time on "equity" while closing schools was anything but equitable.

+100 to all of this. The SB during the pandemic was a farce. Every thing they did was a mess and so hypocritical to what they claim to stand for. Let's not forget the 4 day of schools instead of 5. Like WHAT!?!?!?!??!

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Anonymous wrote:Consensus seems to be that Moon, McElveen, and McDaniel will win.

No it isn't. The only one guaranteed to win is Moon. McDaniel will surely win too just from the way he's worked this campaign. But there will be a real race to third place between Webb, Munir and McElveen.

Eileen Filler-corn endorsed Moon, Webb, and McElveen. But others have endorsed Moon, Webb, and Munir.

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Anonymous wrote:Ryan McElveen seems to have alienated some of the core Democrats since he left the School Board but he's one of the few candidates who acknowledges the need to address facilities and overcrowding issues in FCPS, so he will have my vote this spring and fall. Can't really change what he had to say on closing schools in March 2020; as a China expert, he likely knew more early on about the threat Covid stood to pose than the typical county resident.

His platform on his website doesn't mention building renovations or facility maintenance at all. The other candidates, at least McDaniel and Moon, have those issues on their websites. Of course all the candidates care about this issue.

One of the five bullets on his platform page is (emphasis mine): "Build and maintain educational environments and facilities that are safe, inclusive, healthy, sustainable, and inspire learning"

I get that it's not necessarily putting the issue first and foremost or emphasizing the need to address overcrowding and aging facilities, but I don't think it's fair/accurate to say his website doesn't at least mention the topic.

But it isn't fair to say that other candidates don't talk about it, when most of them actually talk about it more than McElveen.

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I had a call from someone wanting me to vote for McDaniel today. She was the most uninterested caller... clearly not a volunteer. She was reading a script and then hung up on me. It was bizarre. I'm used to nervous callers, but this girl sounded like she couldn't care less. It was... odd.

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Saundra Davis is the best option for at large if you want competent leadership, focus on students, and a voice of reason.

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Anonymous wrote:Saundra Davis is the best option for at large if you want competent leadership, focus on students, and a voice of reason.

Just say no to book banners who don’t trust our librarians.

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Anonymous wrote:Saundra Davis is the best option for at large if you want competent leadership, focus on students, and a voice of reason.

Just say no to book banners who don’t trust our librarians.

Just say no to Saundra Davis.

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I’ll vote for Davis this fall so there’s some diversity of views on the School Board. Why is the FCDC afraid of even one voice (although Frisch and Meren deserve to get unseated as well) challenging their echo chamber?

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll vote for Davis this fall so there’s some diversity of views on the School Board. Why is the FCDC afraid of even one voice (although Frisch and Meren deserve to get unseated as well) challenging their echo chamber?

I’m not in the fcdc. I’m just a parent who is very against the new trend of individual parents making decisions for my kid’s education rather than trusting our trained educators and parenting their own kids.

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Adding that I wish there were a moderate running outside of the democrats but there aren’t any.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll vote for Davis this fall so there’s some diversity of views on the School Board. Why is the FCDC afraid of even one voice (although Frisch and Meren deserve to get unseated as well) challenging their echo chamber?

I’m not in the fcdc. I’m just a parent who is very against the new trend of individual parents making decisions for my kid’s education rather than trusting our trained educators and parenting their own kids.

That’s a straw-man argument if I ever heard one. Although it wouldn’t be bad to have more parents on the board as opposed to aspiring politicians like Frisch, who has neither a college degree nor kids in FCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Adding that I wish there were a moderate running outside of the democrats but there aren’t any.

Davis is a moderate. If you think otherwise you are far to the left and can’t handle a mainstream candidate.

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Anonymous wrote:Adding that I wish there were a moderate running outside of the democrats but there aren’t any.

Davis is a moderate. If you think otherwise you are far to the left and can’t handle a mainstream candidate.

She supports book banning. That is not moderate. It’s part of the right wing extremist playbook currently running in other states and in Spotsylvania County, VA.