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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you realize that parents think different things and have different opinions?  Or do you only value the ones who hear about nonsense from Tucker Carlson and scream at school boards about the assigned issues? [/quote]

You sound like Obama when he deigned to campaign for McAuliffe. Out of touch, willfully blind to what’s been happening in public schools, and ignored by the majority of voters. [/quote]

Nope,  I am a parent of 3 FCPS students who has paid close attention to the issues.  I disagree with some actions (tj admissions,calendar)  and will vote differently in 2023 but I do not agree with the book banning, anti crt bs, loss of civility, or voting for Governor based on my experience with a school board during a pandemic. It’s highly disturbing that you folks are so radicalized that you cannot understand that opinions differ among FCPS parents.

Try to watch the public comment section of the last school board meeting to see parents who support the school board and try to get out of your openfcps bubble.[/quote]

Meh.  You still want a seat at their table and think you're going to have more influence if you use your indoor voice and ask politely for their help, all as they continue to go about lowering standards, playing favorites, and neglecting their basic statutory duties and responsibilities.

That gets you nowhere with these people, who need to be held accountable or relieved of their positions. [/quote]

The leftists, especially those that subscribe to CRT, are radicals. We have to communicate with them in a manner that they understand. They will walk all over those who talk to them clamly. [/quote]
When you call people leftists because they disagree with you—you lose any credibility on communicating calmly and being anti-extremist.[/quote]

No dumbass. Not everyone who disagrees with me is a leftist. But people who push CRT, or policies rooted in CRT,[b] and make the radical argument that parents should not be involved in the education of their kids[/b], there is no doubt these are leftists. [/quote]

The quote was parents shouldn't decide what schools teach, do you disagree? If you disagree, what parents get to decide what schools teach? Surely it's not just the majority of parents because they elected the school board which already decides, so which parents get to decide what schools teach? [/quote]

Parents should decide *all* of what is taught in schools. The school board members are supposed to operate based on continued feedback from parents. They are not supposed to just get hired based on campaign promises and then run off to implement their own agendas without any regard to what parents want. You seem to have a severe misunderstanding of representative government. We don't elect representatives to think for us, we elect them to carry out our will. Sure, the representative has the power and the duty to make his/her own judgments, even in cases where such judgments do not have popular support, but this in no way negates the fact that it is at least partly, if not the majority, the duty of a representative to carry out the will of his/her constituents. Therefore to say that parents should not be able to decide what schools teach, is to completely distort the nature of representative democracy.[/quote]

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