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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For a county that has so many well-educated people, overall a good tax base, and the expertise of a large school system..... FCPS has not done very well.

I understand that this was very abrupt to switch education from in-person to on-line.  I give them a break for the rest of this year (to some degree).

But, this whole school board meeting and the big FAIL gives me no confidence at all that FCPS is going to handle next school year well.

I watch Cuomo's press conf. everyday.  He gives the impression of being seriously on the task and giving us the facts.  I would feel comfortable following him into battle.  Watching the FCPS administrators, I do not have confidence and would not want to follow them into battle.  It would be like the Keystone Cops.... bumbling into each other and getting captured by the enemy.  a mess.[/quote]

If you have followed our schoolboard for the past couple of years, you would see that as they have gotten more and more dominated by one side, their focus has been very far from the basics of educating the students.

Their emphasis has been on Ryan McEleven inspired pet projects that have zero to do with education.

Add that to a bloated Gatehouse full of overpaid "leaders" and now we have what we have.

I would bet most Fairfax residents have never set foot into fcps main office building. If they did, they would be stunned by how top heavy this district is.

The school board has been very poor stewards of our resources and students for many years, and have gotten a pass due to so many quality teachers.

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I have heard the same thing from many school board members.  They find Gatehouse frustrating and wasteful, but said that large portions of the board deferred to the Supervisor so completely that they really had abdicated any kind of real oversight.  This does not seem to be either a democratic or republican tendency - there have been members of both parties and total independents who were guilty of the same.  I would suggest that one thing that might help is to elect people with actual educational credentials to the school board, so they would know a little more about how the system runs than the business people, stay at home moms, lawyers and whatnot who have traditionally run it.  How about we put some teachers and former principals up there??[/quote]

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