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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Legally the most recent PP is right. Voters decide the elections that pick people who set statewide and local school standards and that's the most control we have.

However voters can decide to put into place a governor who will sign off on a bill allowing parents to pick an alternate book for one containing sexually explicit material. McAuliffe was clearly not that governor. Maybe Youngkin is. And maybe Virginia voters think parents should at least be able to do that. I can think of plenty of wonderful, valuable books that I personally think are great to read...but in college or later.[/quote]

Virginia code has an explicit process on how the state and school districts are supposed to approve curriculum, paper texts and digital texts.

It includes a community review period.

Fcps and other school districts are violating this law by eliminating textbooks and digital textbooks, then replacing these class materials entirely by outside contracts with private companies, internet websites that are not pre vetted, and teacher material sharing sites containing non vetted and non apprpved curriculums.

The school districts are awarding these contracts without following the public bidding process by breaking them intl multi year and multi part small contracts so they do not have to follow procedure for large contracts and textbook contracts.  So a 3 million dollar multi year contract that would normally go through an established, required bidding process now becomes dozens of contracts in the thousands or tens of thousands that are all with one ouside company and awarded as an "informal" bidding process, with no oversight, competitive bidding or public review/oversight.  For example, the recent Leadership Academy CRT contract is worth millions of dollars over many years.  But fcps broke each workshop, each text, each part into small contracts ranging from a few thousand to ten to twenty thousand, and signed the hige contract as an informal bid.  Tjis is meant for small things like a speaker.  Not for a contract that is millions of dollars.

Then, fcps is granting these outside companies such as Panorama, the school FERPA protections that are not meant for private compankes.

They are giving these companies very private intimate information about our minor children, with no parent notification or permission. The information is shared even if parents opted out.

These private companies are exempt from  from FOIA, so there is zero oversight of what they do or how they use out kods information.

Parents cannot view the curriculum or materials used because it is proprietory information of a private company.

Fcps is violatimg every law and prptection written intl the Virginia code by taking advantage of no longer using actual physical textbooks.

Fcps needs to be sued over this.

Hopefully the Youngkin administration will zero in on this violation of Virginia law, parent rights and student privacy.[/quote]

+million, LCPS too[/quote]

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