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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is just one survey.

Panorama runs the SEL survey that asks students very intimate questions about race, their sex lives, substance use and mental health.  Panorama is a private company not governed by FERPA, with ties to Zuckerberg.

The SEL surveys are taken by your minor child on their student specific fcps issued laptops, with all survey results directly linked to your minor children and stored and analyzed offsite by Panorama.  (I believe but definitely need to do more research, that Panorama has some investment by Chinese communist party linked investors.)

Parent consent is not required for this data mining operation.  Like all FCPS surveys administered by outside consutling firms, the surveys are opt out only.  If parents are distracted, or busy, or don't open the emails to know to opt out of this or any of the other multiple outside data mining surveys, their kids are automatically opted into the survey, with their intimate data mined and monetized by outside corporate entities.

The Panorama contract, according to the Fairfax County contract registry, is $1,845,000.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/cregister/ContractDetails.aspx?contractNumber=4400010525

You can go to the registry and click on the documents to see the cost and scope of this one contract of many survey, dei and sel contracts.

There is zero academic or social value in these surveys, or of paying an outside data mining company millions to harvest and sell our minor kids information, without informed parent permission and consent.  Additionally, the kids spend hours of precious school time on these commercial intrusions, hours that could be spent on literacy, math, svience or heck, spirit assemblies.

Cutting this survey and all the other surveys means that we not only protect student data, but that fcps spends our education dollars more wisely and more efficiently.

This survey alone is 10% of that total deficit.

There are at least 10 similar outside surveys and SEL or DEI type programs contracted by fcps every year.

Cut all of those and we more than make up the difference with room to spare.[/quote]

That contract is not just for survey, it’s for a full program.  Also, if you look through the amendments, you will see the revised total value over five years is now lower, at $1,732,200.  Third, the value for this school year and next is $321,425 per year, or $642,850 total for the two years.  The at is less than 4% of the shortfall FCPS will have to make up (which is closer to $18m over the two years, not $13m).  Finally, any amounts of this year’s allocation that has already been paid cannot be clawed back to make up the shortfall, so that has to be factored in as well.

So, how do you propose to make up the other approximate $17m?[/quote]

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