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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You  :D  get  :D  the  :D  school  :D  district  :D  you  :D  vote  :D  for  :D

Keep voting lockstep with teAM bLuE!11 because of some irrelevant political issues that the hacks are using to manipulate you into turning your $3.2B annual FCPS budget over to a bunch of political hacks who aren't interested in educating YOUR children or preserving YOUR property values. [/quote]

Are you joking? "Team blue" so far has been a conservative's dream come true. No boundary changes along with allowing worsening conditions at the undesirable schools has catapulted property values at the "good" schools. A republican candidate who goes on about removing useless equity policies and truly taking action for equality might actually have to do something that hurts property values.
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The school board often rezoned for capacity when it was run by republicans.

Somehow they managed to do this without tanking property values.[/quote]

Rezoning based on reasonable factors like capacity and distance-to-school has always been an occasional requirement in many public schools. Rezoning based on "racial and social equity" of One Fairfax--shifting kids around like pieces on a gameboard based on their race or parental income level--is a terrible idea. That's what's in store for FCPS---the factors to be considered for rezoning have already been amended along those lines. Nothing conservative about that.

Setting the bar high and enforcing uniform behavior standards across all students, without regard to race or other woke status points, is a traditional approach. Yammering on about "disparate discipline" statistics being a problem to be solved (by cracking down on the most trivial of infractions by certain students due to their race, while allowing much more serious misbehavior by other groups of students due to their race, in an attempt to fix your school's "disparate discipline" problem) is pure Team Blue.

Shortchanging students by not providing basic materials (textbooks!) while spending millions of dollars renaming schools because some historic figure doesn't live up to [insert current year] woke political standards is pure Team Blue.

I could go on with the litany of issues that FCPS focuses on instead of the core mission of providing a strong academic experience to a well-behaved student population in a safe environment. We could just have a strong school district that just focuses on teaching and applies an equal standard to every child, instead of dabbling in every woke political fad or pandering to emotional political issues. But instead we have FCPS, where striver parents who sense the sinking quality are desperately trying to get their kids into AAP to get them out of the morass that "Gen-Ed" has become. [/quote]

I recently saw some stats compiled by a parent who sat through every single school board and planning meeting from the past year (literally thousands of hours) and timed how much time the school board spent on various topics.

The vast majority of time, close to 1/4 of the school board's time, was spent on accolades and recognizing various groupd.   Things like the calendar, budget, esser funds, superintendent stuff, and SRR/pronouns very high.

Academics combined were less than 4% of their time combined.

Learning loss was less than a percentage of the school board's time over the past year

Advanced academics was less than a  single percentage of their time.

Special ed was slightly over 1% of their time.

Academic/curriculum was around 1-2% of their time.

Over 95% of the school boards time over the past year was spent on anything but academic issues or improving education.

Their most important priority over the past year was making pronouncements honoring different groups.
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Accolades, pronouncements, resolutions, etc was more than double the next closest topic, budget, which occupied less than 10% of their time.

Capital improvement was less than 5% of their time.

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