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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Silly. You don't vote this year in order to deal with the election 4 years away. DCUM should be doing a public service to this district. Epstein: If you're reading this, don't run. You will not be elected on the strength of, "I will make empty promises to fix the stuff Strauss hasn't fixed."

Nobody likes large class sizes. Nobody. But what's the real solution?[/quote]

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I live in Dranesville, and I will vote against Epstein and donate heavily to anybody who runs against her. Anybody. (Thank goodness she hasn't announced... yet.) If your primary message is: Taxes are too high, so let's make the most of a dwindling resource by focusing it on the wealthy parts of our district... then you are not fit to serve on a School Board. You do not understand the purpose of public education. And you are harmful to our schools' real chances of success.

Somebody ought to run who can speak the truth: Good schools cost money. Richmond ought to pay more; the Board of Supervisors ought to be diversifying their tax base more so we're not so dependent on property taxes, etc. But bottom line is that anybody who says they can fix the schools by starving them to death is a liar.[/quote]

Some people seem to be going out of their way to portray Louise Epstein (and the entire MCA) as a Tea Party group whose primary goal is to reduce taxes.

I actually don't recall Epstein commenting one way or the other whether taxes were too high.  Clearly she reflects the views of many people in Dranesville who are frustrated being saddled with some of the largest class sizes in the county.  [On the other hand, anyone running in Dranesville has to keep in mind that it includes Herndon, which has seen the largest increase in ESOL/FARMS students of any part of the county over the past year or two, including both Bailey's Crossroads and the Route 1 corridor.]

As for the MCA, the Dranesville Supervisor, who is a Democrat, used to be its head.  Historically, it was more NIMBY than anything else. [/quote]

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