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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The connection I see is that the School Board treated the Stuart renaming as a major priority, whereas the discussions relating to the capital projects were shallow and largely consisted of SB members accepting without many questions proposals by the facilities staff that will make an increasing number of FCPS high schools huge facilities similar to the schools in Prince William, at the same time as Loudoun differentiates itself by building new, smaller schools that are closer in size to the size that FCPS not that long ago said was ideal.  At the same time, despite this purported focus on equity, FCPS is letting schools like Lee and Mount Vernon go down the drain. I think their priorities consist of appeasing various interest groups rather than looking out for typical kids, and will vote against the bond to send a message that they need to stop pretending to be SJWs and start getting back to the basics.[/quote]

Where's the evidence that capital projects discussions would have been any more rigorous if the renaming had been handled differently? The proposed size of new Fairfax schools relative to new schools elsewhere has nothing to do with renaming Stuart, nor does the board's focus on Lee and Mt. Vernon. The board can walk and chew gum, and while the renaming controversy drew a lot of press and public attention, it couldn't have been more than a tiny fraction of the board's total time.

Again, the board doesn't deserve blame because a vocal minority raised a fit in opposition to the proposal to rename Stuart.

Voting against the bond does send a message, just not quite the one you had in mind: that you care more about avenging your grievance than ensuring that our schools have the resources to best serve our children.[/quote]

The burden isn't on me to prove that the School Board would have scrutinized their ill-conceived capital spending priorities more closely had the Stuart name change not been on the agenda, when it is in fact clear that the priorities are misplaced, yet received little scrutiny, all while the School Board devoted countless hours to debsting the Stuart renaming (with multiple Board members claiming it was the single most difficult issue they had ever encountered during their years on the Board) and then essentially opting for a "concept" name that hadn't even been voted upon by the community.

This is not cutting one's nose to spite one's face, but instead sending a clear message that we cannot trust the current Board as a steward of our tax dollars until they clean up their act. Vote No on this bond referendum.[/quote]

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