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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think these threads are largely sustained by the local equivalent of Trump-style populists who think appeals to the "forgotten middle" will advance their anti-tax, anti-public school, pro-voucher, and pro-private school agenda.  There's an inverse relationship between their success at the polls and the amount of time they spend venting on anonymous forums. [/quote]

No, these are my posts you're responding to, and I don't have a "anti-tax, anti-public school, pro-voucher, and pro-private school agenda."

As I've stated, I went to public school, and always assumed my children would attend public school as well.  I didn't want to send my kids to private school, and resisted doing so for about as long as I could, in good conscience, ignore the nagging thought that my children's education and emotional health (and in some cases, their personal safety) were reaching unacceptable levels.

I'm always generally in favor of lower taxes (like most people, I think), because I've seen first-hand how wasteful so much government spending can be.  But I paid pretty much the same in taxes up in NJ as I do here, and never had a problem with the school district like what I've had with FCPS.  I'm not some "anti-tax" zealot, and as a parent with several school age children, I understand that taxes pay for the schools that we depend on.

I'm not "pro-voucher" per se, nor do I have any idea what "pro-private school" means.  Should I be "anti-private school"?  I'm thankful that there were private schools nearby to whom we turned when we could no longer accept the low quality education that FCPS was providing.  But I am not, and never have been, someone who pushed for private schools over public schools out of some "pro-private school" agenda.

Believe it or not, I'm just a parent who wants the best for my children, with a safe and challenging academic experience being high on the list of priorities.  Yes, I'm what you'd call "conservative" around here, but as I've said, I've spent many years living in deep blue areas where not everything --- certainly not children's education --- was hyper-politicized like it is here.

I'm sure that there are many hot-button political issues that I would disagree with most of my neighbors about.  Very, very few of them have any place in the classroom, however.  And I'm sure my neighbors and I agree on the importance of safety and education.  It doesn't have to be so complicated to teach children math, reading, science, and history.  It really doesn't.

I've said before that one major structural problem with FCPS is that it is way, way too big -- why on earth would you want to be a drop in the ocean of 190K students?  The district is far too inaccessible to individual parents; a big, bloated, inefficient bureaucracy that is unresponsive to parents and so big that oversight and accountability are lost. [/quote]

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