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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a Republican, I say let the Democrats continue to own the disaster that FCPS has become. No saving it at this point.[/quote]

They will, anyway.  Most pay no attention to politics, they just vote Democrat.  [/quote]
I pay attention to politics which is why I continue to vote Democrats. Not because I think they are great. They are just better than Republicans at this point. [/quote]

How can you say that with a straight face?[/quote]

I'm new to this thread, but I'll answer:  because it's true.  Local Republicans are the same as national Republicans, Trump trash to the core.  Davis is a Republican, period, who is just in disguise.  When local Republicans en masse dump Trump and Trumpism, and stop as their primary agenda attacking LGBTQ+ kids and racial and religious minorities, and focus instead on issues most voters actually care about, THEN they will start competing seriously again.  This election will end with another 12-0 Democratic school board because voters from all walks of life uniformly reject the local GOP every time now, in every election.  There are over 260 precincts in Fairfax County, and Republicans can't win even a couple dozen of them.  They few they win are scattered and isolated.

The books in the schools are just fine, including the ones the local GOP theocrats complain are "sexually explicit."  I have 3 kids long in FCPS, 2 in high school and 1 in 5th grade, and I don't want conservatives touching my kids' schools.  They are vile.[/quote]

New to the thread but posting the same trash talk on the forum for years, no doubt.

The people who try to DQ all the GOP-endorsed candidates right off the bat are often the same ones most frustrated when the all-Democrat School Board does one stupid thing after another, in part because the board is an echo chamber with no serious debate and no members really willing to challenge each other’s worst ideas.  And if their ideas weren’t so consistently stupid, they wouldn’t be so afraid of having at least a few members with different perspectives willing to challenge them. [/quote]

Have you ever been to a school board meeting? There is very serious debate and disagreement between all the 12 members and the student member. But those disagreements are about specific policies and things that will actually make a difference in the community. The only thing Republican members of the board used to do were spew homophobic remarks and skip most meetings. She provided no actual substance to the conversations at all and she was a terrible advocate for her district. I don't see any reason to indicate any of these other Republicans will be any different. The same local Republican party that just nominated a wife-beater also nominated Davis.[/quote]

Give it a rest.  These clowns gave Karl Frisch a blank check to waste $60 million on a new school in Vienna that isn’t needed and is surrounded by under-enrolled schools.  There was no real debate. They let Karen Keys Gamarra push ahead with the “Lewis Academy” that has no clear purpose, again with no real debate.  They changed TJ admissions with no real probing as to the impact in would have on other schools.  They let Karen Corbett Sanders get her way with a $50 million addition to West Potomac even though Mount Vernon has excess capacity.  And so on. The only time they ever really went at each other was over a largely meaningless resolution on supporting equity in education, where three or so members lit into the others because they didn’t think a competing resolution proposed by McLaughlin and Tholen was laden with enough progressive buzzwords.  Meanwhile, academic performance suffers, teachers continue to struggle under the excessive demands placed on them by Gatehouse, and overcrowding in some parts of the county goes largely ignored.

This isn’t the product of a board that focuses on the toughest challenges facing FCPS and engages in healthy, thoughtful debate.  It’s the product of a self-indulgent bunch of virtue-signaling lightweights who have the attention span of gnats, and value sound bites pitched to special-interest groups over hard work.  And your canned response will always be to contend that others who might compete for their jobs aren’t sufficiently committed to supporting trans rights or the like, every single time.  So bad mouth Saundra Davis all you want, but she was right in anticipating the negative impact that shuttered schools would have on kids’ academic and social development, and plenty of us want an alternative to the likes of Omeish and Keys Gamarra, who have accomplished nothing of value to FCPS during their terms. [/quote]
+ 1,000,000.[/quote]

+2,000,000[/quote]

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