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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All  this work to kick someone out who was  never going to run for re-election anyway.  She was the stand in when the first choice candidate stepped out to run for BOS at the last minute.  I doubt she intended to stay for more than one term. [/quote]

I think the backlash has been building for decades.  Years and years ago, Fairfax was a majority GOP county and slowly it changed to purple and now blue.  There are some that at angry and want things to go back to they way there were. However, the electorate does not favor them.  For some reason, they have moved to the fringe right instead of staking out the moderate middle. They have no chance going with the fringe right, they have a chance to get a few seats with a moderate middle approach- but they will never be majority in the foreseeable future.

Fairfax County has also grown from a suburban county to a huge urban county.  It is still run more like a suburban county and there will be more growing pains since it is hard to run things without someone at the top that can make fast decisions.  We have two Boards- BOS and the School Board, they have to figure out how to be able to make decisions faster as issues arise.  They can’t debate endlessly. [/quote]

Backlash has been building but not for fringe right or left reasons or suburban-urban.  Yes it has more farms-ELS but that started over 2 decades ago. It's academics as seen in the decades late NAACP letter, political sites for construction [see 2017 bond referendum voted for in a consensus agenda along with boiler replacements], program placement and funding, class size impacts, lack of consolidation on programs, etc.  The board of supervisors even stated that there was an elephant in the room for 2019 bond referendum -Mount Vernon open capacity.

School boards in Virginia have a duty to operate with the utmost efficiency and that includes boundary changes.  People were shocked that TJ wasn't made into an academy-part time governor's school.

Look at the Reston-Herndon WWYD thread for a perfect example of what is wrong-1 family. Children at different elementary schools.  1 got quarterly pandemic hard copy packets. The other?  It's like the old my child got book x to read and another got 5 pages copied of the book.  It's the same school division and it just doesn't make sense.

Facilities Planning Advisory Council (FPAC):https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/FPAC-Meeting-Minutes-April-2021.pdf
Local level iv in every school-3 year roll out.  How can this take 3 years?  FCPS has done it in months.  What about IB?  Consolidation?

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/FPAC-Meeting-Minutes-March-2021.pdf
Dr. Lisa Williams, Chief Equity Officer, one the top FCPS leadership positions. [i]" encouraging discussions about diversity, which opens up access for 
sharing ideas and experiences. For the topic of community outreach, it’s so important to think 
collectively where our assumptions and prejudices arise from and how we can ‘share power’ 
with other community members. FCPS should ask ‘what do we want to achieve’ through asking 
the questions to help move towards a common goal. [b]Design Justice[/b] may lie in what are the 
individual needs for that school community. In process for considering design justice and “Equity 
vs. Equality,”[/i]

What is Design Justice?  How does the public share power when FCPS comes up with some bizarre stuff and wastes taxpayer money?

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