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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.

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FCPS has never actually changed a single boundary based on "One Fairfax" principles.  When the School Board took tentative steps along those lines back in 2018, the local Republicans - many from the Langley area - intimidated the hell out of them and they shut it down.  The Langley/McLean boundary change from 2021 - where Elaine Tholen overrode a staff recommendation that would have moved some Tysons apartments to Langley and instead made sure only expensive single-family homes were reassigned - was actually regressive from an "equity" standpoint.  The Republicans from Great Falls will continue to claim the School Board is going to redistrict based on "One Fairfax," and the Democrats will continue to be all talk and no action because they live in fear of vocal parents.

If you're in the "right" neighborhood, it's a classic "heads I win, tails you lose" scenario.  Of course, there are also a lot of folks on the losing end, but recent history shows they get ignored by the School Board.  [/quote]

DP.  I honestly can't count how many time you have posted exactly the same rant.  Here's the thing:  "One Fairfax" nonsense *should* be shut down.  If Langley parents are the only ones bold enough to take action, so be it.  The Democrats *should* live in fear of vocal parents because everything they do is asinine.  It's just too bad [b]more [/b]parents across FCPS don't speak up for themselves too.[/quote]

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