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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn’t sign it.  You couldn’t even give me a concrete answer to my question on Cohen.  Go do something productive with your life and stop wasting people’s time.  Vote in new school board members when you can, but this recall BS is stupid.[/quote]
I really don't understand the intense hatred for this SB.  It's almost like a group of people latched onto this because their kids did not go back to school. FCPS followed the general trend of the area.  The SB would have received hate no matter what the decision had been last year.  I can't even imagine having to make those decisions.  I doubt some of you would have performed any better.  All I read and see is a bunch of grown people having a fit but not able to actually verbalize how this SB failed. [/quote]

I think the difference between the way you feel and what they feel is that those people have watched the school board meetings from start to finish for well over a year now, and as a result have developed a comprehensive understanding of how deficient, political and negligent this school board actually is.

Also, many of the most involved parents in that petition movement are parents of kids with special needs, who have been utterly screwed over by this school board, often in illegal ways.  It has continued even through this summer with the ESY mess.  They are motivited by the natural instinct of mess with my chiod and there will be hell to pay.

The parents who are the most upset with the school board are the ones who have taken the time to be very informed.  The more they learn, the more upset and motivated they get.

And they are bipartisan, particularly the leadership group which splits fairly evenly between Ds and Rs.[/quote]

That's very well said and quite accurate IMHO.

I know people who engaged politely with the School Board on a range of issues for years, and now they are just exasperated and wand these SB members gone.  Of the three, Cohen has probably been the biggest tool of the teachers' organizations that consistently lobbied against returning to classroom instruction.  On the other hand, Tholen has proven to be tone-deaf and self-serving, and Omeish has used (and abused) her platform as a SB member to weigh in on global political issues, encourage graduates to engage in "jihad," and tell students their schools sit on "stolen land."  Replacing any or all of them would be an improvement. [/quote]

+1,000 to both PPs.[/quote]

+2,000[/quote]

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