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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have yet to see anyone denigrating the so-called "FACTS team" come up with any real evidence or factual information about that indicates the FACTS candidates are wrong, incorrect, slanderous, or twisted.

Smerdon herself has explained very eloquently and passionately why she Supports the Girls, that has nothing to do with getting elected.  She has laid out very clearly data indicating there is need for improvement by FCC school leadership that to date has been ignored or publicly un-addressed by those in positions of authority. She has articulated why she and others co-sponsored a petition to ask a neutral third-party to interpret policies that school system leadership believes give them the right to interfere with a committee that provides community voice (and that also seems to collect and interpret data better than they do--the horror).

No one posting on DCUM has offered clear articulation of any specific wrongdoing, bullying, or lying perpetrated by those listed on the FACTS site. Instead, the "FACTS people" have provided clear documentation of insufficient information and transparency in leadership's public documents used to justify very big, expensive decisions such as school system budgets, funding allocations, and teacher retention decisions. The FACTS candidates have posted these documents online. The biggest local newspaper FCNP has failed in its journalistic duty to investigate and report on these actual facts, because FCNP is arm-in-arm with people who want to continue the status quo.

I believe the only voices that have explicitly tied the We Support the Girls folks to an election are, well, the families of the girls. They've stated who they support and why.

It is no wonder that those decrying "FACTS candidates" are merely asserting this group is of bad character and describe them with negative adjectives rather than offering real information to support these conclusions. Because there is no real information.  The lack of real information seems to be an endemic pattern.

Well, you get what you vote for.[/quote]

My issue with the FC Post (note, I am not referring to the "FACTS Team" and never have) is that they claim to be transparent and data driven yet they cherry pick what data are presented in order to make the desired point. Everyone knows the FCNP does that but the FCPost acts like they don't.

As only one example, the recent article on school enrollment and the role of apartments and mixed-use developments is very misleading.  By lumping all mixed use development together, it implies that ALL of the new developments are disproportionately contributing to increased school enrollment, which isn't the case.  The type of housing matters (condo vs apartment, unit size, etc) and the surge in enrollment is primarily comes from certain types of housing. There is also no mention of what the rest of the geographic area is doing in terms of school enrollment increases.  The entire area is seeing increases in enrollment and the increases started before these mixed use developments were built.     [/quote]

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