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[quote=Anonymous]The middle candidates on your list (Anderson, Lian, Mooney, Shapiro) - seem to be running as a slate and were all part of the Reopen Falls Church Schools group, which IMO has been morphing into a general anti-existing school establishment group. They also seem, at least on their facebook page, to be opposed to the schools teaching diversity.

Ilya Shapiro is a leader at the Cato Foundation, a libertarian think tank founded by the Koch brothers. Personally I'm not a huge fan of a libertarian governing our public schools (since libertarians aren't huge believers in government having anything to do with education) but people can make up their own minds on that one. He also doesn't have kids in the school system yet, so has no personal experience dealing with our schools, teachers, principals, etc. To me, I don't know how you have an informed opinion about how to make our schools better if you haven't experienced them on a personal level.

I don't know if any of the others have been involved in the PTA or volunteered in the schools. I think our schools here are so small and so easy to be involved with that I am personally skeptical of anyone who hasn't actually rolled up their sleeves and been a part of making them work.

I think overall we're very lucky here to have such a small school system in which we can really know our school leaders and school board members and make an impact (unlike bigger school systems i.e. Fairfax).

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