Reply to Tired of Name Changes/Bad Planning

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Tired of Name Changes/Bad Planning - Vote NO on School Bonds"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]to 17:56 " If you have a bona fide problem with how the board proposes to deploy bond funds on a large scale, such as building a new school versus expanding existing facilities, then sure, a no vote may make sense. But it sounds like you're mostly mad about the Stuart issue and grasping at other excuses to support making an indiscriminate political statement about it. "

I'm concerned about certain members of the board acting inappropriately: without regard for their own regulations, the concerns of large majorities of the community, due process, and open communications.  The outcome of the renaming is indicative of a board that is largely out of touch with their constituents.  If you believe that JEB Stuart is a traitor and his name simply MUST be removed from the school, that is your one vote - there were many hundreds more than yours that expressed differing views.  To repeatedly assert that you have the moral high ground and that any other opinion is immoral is immaterial in our representative democratic system (although you are welcome to your opinion).  The school board's own regulations stipulated a process - that they willfully ignored - on several occasions.  And then they simply ignored the votes of the district residents.  This indicates a severe lack of judgement and a hubris that is simply unacceptable - "I know better so I will decide" is something that Trump or Hillary might assert (or Stalin or Mao).  Fortunately, we live in a country where there are checks and balances and the will of the board can be challenged and votes will be held to reconstitute the board periodically.  One other check is the requirement that funding for capital spending be approved by bond referendums.  Given that there are already $630M of approved spending that have not been allocated it is appropriate to ask why the board is seeking an additional $315M now.  In all events, the judgement of the board has been shown to be lacking on many occasions and issues and this alone is sufficient to warrant withholding additional funds.  I vote NO.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics