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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let us enumerate the ways he has continued to fail our children, especially low income, ELL, and special needs. His continued disparaging of parents’ expression of REAL concerns about the safety of their children in school is unprofessional and, quite frankly, a dereliction of duties. [b]Last night’s rant about parent emails to the school board[/b] is my last straw. I care about solving racism in our schools, but his continued ignorance about how his policies inequitably impact children in protected classes and disadvantaged groups is damaging our children and the future sustainability of ACPS. He needs to go.

How does this happen?[/quote]

Can you elaborate on what was said last night?[/quote]

At the working session of the school board, on the agenda was to discuss outdoor lunches, added I’m guessing as a result of email campaigns driven by Ms. Westfall and others (although I emailed the school board and superintendent separately, of my own volition, using my own words, because I was incredulous that my two elementary kids would be filing into a lunch room with 150-200 kids to eat). For a large portion of the time spent “discussing” outdoor lunches he basically ranted about how parents sending emails were clogging his inbox and wasting his time, saying this (emailing the board) “is not how we operate” and that he has “work coming through that same email address that is VERY IMPORTANT STUFF” and he has to “filter through [emails from parents]” to get to the important “daily” work. He goes on to talk about how people accuse him of being defensive and making excuses and that he doesn’t do that (after talking about all of the excuses for why outdoor lunches are hard). He wants people to stop sending emails, especially “copy paste” emails about outdoor lunches and tents.

Basically he knows best, parents are idiots, he makes the decisions around here.

https://alexandriaschoolsva.new.swagit.com/videos/136180

2:21 they start talking about lunches, 2:27:30 he rants about parent emails.[/quote]

Thank you for posting.  I will work on my email today to him and select board members.   Last meeting, he either showed a complete ignorance of COVID mitigation / the delta variant and/or he was willing to say anything to support his position on the testing of unvaccinated staff.  Now this plus the horrible SOL scores for which he is responsible.  [/quote]

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