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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So the OP of this thread is essentially admitting the premise of the thread was entirely farcical, created by a left wing activist to bait and fight with moderates and centrist dems who are looking for a balance in the ideological make up of the school board, and who might be considering alternatives to the D sample ballot.

Most of this thread has been dominated by far left blue Virginia types, who have no arguments or positions to defend, only slurs and insults.

I am not sure that this thread is going the way the left wing activists intended.  Moderates tend to not like being insulted by politicsl activists nor are they big fans of insults as a substitute for debate of ideas.[/quote]

+1000.

The funny thing is everyone knows the Democrats will almost surely retain a majority on the SB.  But people like OP are so insistent on having total control and squelching any competing perspectives that they immediately call people “stupid” and pepper them with other insults when anyone suggests some contrary views might actually lead to better outcomes.  They are big fans of diversity, except when it might be diversity of opinion.  [/quote]

Diversity of thought is fine when it’s not an irrational disruptor trying to tear everything down. Please refer to Republicans in Congress. We don’t need chaos on the school board.

Or another Elizabeth Schultz. 
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You'd call anything that challenges the pet projects of the all-D School Board an "irrational disruption."

It would have been great to have Elizabeth Schultz or, indeed, anyone who wasn't a rubber-stamp Democrat around the last four years to challenge the School Board's decisions (or lack thereof) around:

Keeping schools closed so long when other jurisdictions had successfully re-opened; funding an unnecessary new elementary school in Dunn Loring to save a dog park at Blake Lane; green-lighting a "social justice" academy at Lewis HS when the enrollment was cratering due to pupil placements for AP; ignoring the years-long overcrowding at Chantilly HS and McLean HS; paying Ibram Kendi $20K for a vapid, one-hour canned speech on "anti-racism"; reducing the length of time speakers could speak at School Board meetings from three to two minutes and ceasing to show their faces as they delivered their remarks; prioritizing the expansion of the DEI staff at Gatehouse over reducing classroom sizes at FCPS schools; spending more time discussing the merits of competing versions of a largely meaningless "Truth in Education" resolution than was spent discussing the annual Capital Improvement Program; and requesting larger transfers to FCPS from the Board of Supervisors even after FCPS enrollment declined by almost 10,000 students.

None of these things received adequate attention.  In some cases, they received virtually no attention at all.  And a primary cause was the backroom deals and lack of transparency that invariably arises when all of the School Board is from the same party.  John Lewis called challenges to the status quo "good trouble," but you want to dismiss it as "chaos." [/quote]

+ a million
Great post.[/quote]

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