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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vote straight republican.  Save FCPS before it is too late.  [/quote]

By save FCPS do you mean completely destroy it?[/quote]

DP, but I'd love to see some diversity OF OPINION on the next School Board.  We don't have that with the current board and they have been running FCPS into the ground with their incompetence.  Some of them should be in jail.  [/quote]
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+1  COVID and aftermath have shown the current board to be ineffective at actually educating students in reading, writing, arithmetic,...
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I'd love all of you $%^% whiners to have done better. You wouldn't have. [/quote]

Easy items that any competent person  should have known:

Need for adequate infrastructure to handle emergency situations - including technology
That students wouldn't have shown up on days when there was no new material
That other school systems, even in the US were safely returning long before FCPS did
Made plans to close education gaps everyone saw coming
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Still trying to understand why you think a group of people with no background in education and no teaching experience (except maybe one) could do any of that.  They don't provide enough supervision of Gatehouse and this is the direct result of decades of SB's taking a hand-off approach, and this was inherited by this current SB.  They had been in office only a few months when COVID happened, and couldn't have known  how bad the tech at Gatehouse was or anything else.   You love to criticize, but you could not have done better.  Maybe you could have gotten more people killed, though.[/quote]

Ok I will take you step by step.  You are a school board member.  You job is to make sure the organization is running effectively.  You have the superintendent bring departments 1 or 2 at a time before the board.   Each department does a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) presentation.  You find out what is working well and what areas need improvement and direct the superintendent to adjust resources appropriately.

I am an IT professional, so the poor state of IT would have been obvious.  But being several generations behind on your critical software, which was the case, would have been obvious to a Luddite.  Other areas that need improvement I suspect would be equally apparent to any normal person.

If the school board is going to rubber stamp Gatehouse which has consistently failed for a long time then they are just taking taxpayer dollars.

As the other poster notes, there is no way to know if bringing kids back to school sooner would have cost more lives but having them stay at home definitely cost lives via suicide.

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