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I find this whole "we need new blood" argument to be ridiculous. What happened to having experience? That's a great value and it helps us all. I live in Dranesville, and this woman Epstein is just an angry partisan with no actual governing experience. She doesn't seem to play nice with others. I may not agree with Strauss on all issues, but change for change's sake is dangerous when you're voting for somebody like this woman Louise. Read how this thread started... This is somebody with no viable solutions to the class size problem. She just wants to steal resources from the less fortunate. That won't fly. Maybe there's no good solution to the class size problem other than, you know, spending lots of money to help ALL kids in Fairfax get lower class size. That's at least honest, but it's not what you guys seem to want to hear. And people wonder why our politics are filled with panderers... [/quote]

Title I schools get additional funding from the feds.  I don't object to FCPS giving add funding, as well.  However, it appears the balance is out of whack.

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Class sizes are now 10-16 in title one schools with a teacher and assistant and a host of other specialists as well and 30-33 in other schools with one teacher and no specialists. There are schools outside of McLean such as Eagle View mentioned with very large class sizes. This isn't just a McLean issue and I don't think the McLean citizens are treating the issue as such. Their proposal was to help ALL children. Hopefully the extra $4 million will help this next year, but it's not guaranteed that this money will continue in subsequent years so there is still a need to make some fundamental change so that parents don't have to ask for single teacher class sizes 30 and below every year. [/quote]

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