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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one decent is going to run for SB or want to be Superintendent given the current climate.  Just look at this week’s SB meeting.  A frothing lunatic got up and opened her remarks by calling the school board members “Groomers” and went on to rant about communism and NAMBLA.  It’s nothing but abuse and harassment.  And these anti-Vaxx qQnon nuts are getting scarier and scarier.[/quote]

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You can ridicule a parent but at most it’s a distraction. She’s not the one who prompted the parents of over 10,000 kids to pull them out of FCPS. That’s on Brabrand and the current School Board. [/quote]

What she was ranting on about has nothing to do with reasonable disagreements about COVID mitigation approaches.  We have members of the public openly accusing SChool Board members of being pedophiles.  Calling school librarians “groomers” and saying they buy pornography.  It’s completely batshit lunacy, and reasonable people know that it’s nuts, but reasonable people are not turning out for a school Board meetings expressing their reasonableness.  So we have school board members getting death threats from around the country, having hate mail arrive every day.  These completely unhinged people with their conspiracy theories are going to get someone killed.  They are poisoning the whole community.  Who is going to sign up to take this kind of abuse?  Only people who come with a strong partisan agenda.  There is no doubt a lot do anti-trans book banners will be running next time.  Will reasonable people oppose them?

We need reasonable, regular people to run for School Board, but I don’t know anyone who would sign up to be called a groomer and a pedophile and get hate mail on the daily.[/quote]

Reasonable people were reasonable, polite people, and they got repeatedly ignored by this School Board and its predecessor.  These members arrived on the scene with a strong partisan agenda, and it contributed to the current circus just as much as it reflects it.

You want to have it both ways.  You want to call the "ranting" parent part of a lunatic fringe, and yet you come back again and again to center her in the discussion rather than focus on issues that matter to more parents. It's an intentional attempt to distract.

So let's reflect AGAIN on some of the ways in which the current and prior School Board have gone astray and lost community trust, except this time let's clarify which School Board members should be held most accountable next year.

1. Dragging their heels when it came to getting kids back into buildings, leading to over 10,000 FCPS students exiting the system within two years - [b]every School Board member except McLaughlin [/b]

2. Prioritizing admissions changes at TJHSST in order to reduce the percentage of Asian kids -[b] every School Board member but especially Anderson, Cohen, Corbett Sanders, Derenak Kaufax, Frisch, Keys Gamarra, and Meren
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3. Keeping uber-wealthy Langley free of economic diversity - [b]every School Board member but Omeish, but especially Tholen 
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4. Ignoring struggling IB programs (only 3% of Mount Vernon seniors getting IB diplomas) but spending money on a new "Leadership" academy at IB Lewis - [b]every School Board member, but espeically Derenak Kaufax and Keys Gamarra 
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5. Spending money on building additions while nearby poorer schools remain under-enrolled or more overcrowded schools get ignored - [b]every School Board member [/b]

6 Converting Dunn Loring administrative building back into an elementary school when it isn't needed, in order to save a dog park in Oakton - [b]every School Board member, but especially Frisch 
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7. Litigating with the Youngkin administrative over "local control" at every opportunity - [b]every School Board member, but especially Pekarsky 
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