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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The big story of this election is how a group of Langley parents from the Forestville ES part of Great Falls got so agitated over a rumor that they might get moved back to Herndon some day (never mind that Langley is under capacity and Herndon is full) that they started a well-funded group to try and replace the Democrats on the School Board with a bunch of right-wing Republicans more to their liking.

When they realized that people elsewhere wouldn’t care much about something that might only affect the Langley boundaries in 2032, they changed their name from “One Great Falls” to “Voices of Fairfax,” started pretending to care about the overcrowding at McLean, and struck an alliance with people like Elizabeth Schultz.

Then they found a weak candidate in Dranesville who only moved to the DC area after Trump’s election (Anastasia Karloutsos) and continued to spread misinformation about the School Board’s plans, in particular by suggesting that even considering SES factors when adjusting boundaries is tantamount to a county-wide redistricting to bus kids at every level back and forth across the county.  The lies were so egregious that Superintendent Scott Brabrand, who has every incentive to stay out of their politics, felt compelled to issue a statement and video to debunk their claims.

Fortunately, there is a good choice in Dranesville:  Elaine Tholen.  She’s a long-time county resident and educator, with a strong commitment to forward-looking thinking. She lives in Great Falls, so it’s not like she’s going to throw Langley overboard, but her election should help put the non-productive rumor-mongering of groups like VOF to a halt.

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just Because Tholen lives on Great Falls doesn’t mean she’ll vote against the Democratic agenda.   Her kids are grown.  No one pushing this approach to close the achievement gap has kids in FCPS now.    Howard County is going through this mess right now.   Redistricting to alleviate overcrowding is one thing (which they have refused to do since May 2018) but redistricting to solve the “achievement gap” by [b]mixing up a recipe of SES or race is a great way to hide problems you haven’t been able to fix with the law of averages - whole not helping those kids that need it.[/b]   [/quote]

Wonder how many Langley parents would repeal Brown v. Board of Education if they could.  They make the same arguments as the Dixiecrats were making in the 50s. [/quote]

A bunch of white people (school board) trying to  decide what’s best for minorities without asking them what they want. 
  It’s EXACTLY like that. Thanks for pointing out how racist they are. [/quote]

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