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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The School Board has been a disaster over the past four years, but most people don't pay attention and tend to vote a party line.  Then they wonder why their schools are kind of a mess and/or their kids aren't getting as rigorous an education as they'd hoped, but then tend to either suck it up or pull their kids out of FCPS.

Realistically, the real pressure on the School Board will come eventually from the Board of Supervisors.  They are also mostly from the same party and can see that the School Board is flailing.  To some extent, they don't want to get involved with FCPS matters, because then it becomes their mess as well, but some know that FCPS was once a big draw for the county and that's no longer the case. [/quote]

We need a Republican Party in Fairfax County that is serious about the business of governing. We're long past being able to have that across the country, but there are enough sensible conservatives in Northern Virginia that we should end up with better candidates than Harry Jackson and Debbie Tisler and Saundra Davis. The Fairfax County GOP - at least based on their Twitter account and their endorsements - seems to be obsessed with being as Trumpy as possible when that tack has been proven repeatedly to be unsuccessful in this area. Fairfax County is not a place to appeal to the lowest common denominator and we should demand better.[/quote]

Saundra Davis is a good candidate. So is Paul Bartkowski. Maybe Debra Tisler is as well; not my district.

You want to lump every GOP-endorsed candidate along with Harry Jackson because you know he’s polarizing. No different than suggesting every FCDC-endorsed candidate is a carbon copy of Abrar Omeish or Karl Frisch (both awful).

Would be great if voters would look at individual candidates and recognize we need diverse views on the board again. [/quote]

PP. I will grant you that Omeish is terrible. I am thankful she is not running again, especially after her anti-Semitic stunt at the last Board meeting. Karl Frisch is fine - he's nothing special, but he's perfectly suited to do the job and in this field, "not actively harmful" is a plus.

Bartkowski is too focused on students' genitals, and I have no patience for anyone who is interested in book-banning or who genuinely believes that there is "porn in schools".

And Harry Jackson isn't polarizing. He's a serial abuser.[/quote]

I was at the candidate debate in Dranesville last night and Paul Bartkowski did not say anything about "students' genitals."

On the other hand, I did notice that the person in the front row clapping the loudest for Robyn Lady last night, regardless of the topic or the strength of her response (and some of her responses were not that great), was trans activist Willow Woycke, whom Elaine Tholen had appointed as the Dranesville representative to the FCPS Family Life Committee.  [/quote]

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