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FCPS Back to School and COVID updates are broadcast into thousands of households. There is very large engagement in these meetings. Everyone is angry. Everyone wants answers.  Everyone i upset about pauses and wants info on testing and quarantines.  And there 180,000 kids and 35,000 staff involved. The audience was huge. It was on TV.  And parents watching on their TV set in early evening had their elementary school aged kids in the room.  You want to protect your 13 year old?  My 7 year old saw this. Too late for her to stay innocent.

I’m sorry you aren’t engaged in the school system. Some of us haven’t been ble to zone out on our kids education this year. [/quote]

It's a basic tenet of 1st Amendment law that (with few exceptions), the rights of the speaker are not limited by the effect of the speech on a listener.  The best way to protect your 7 year-old is to not have her watch a school board meeting.[/quote]

First, one of the exceptions you mention is broadcast TV between 6am and 10pm, when it must be appropriate for the reasonably intended audience.  Which for an early evening SB meeting is… parents with young kids around.

Second, do you even hear yourself?  My kid now has to protected from *FCPS SB meetings* because God forbid we expect adults to act like adults.  There is something seriously off kilter when the right says with a straight face that it’s okay if SB meetings on a return to school agenda (as opposed to FLE) are inappropriate for children to hear.  Seriously?  [/quote]

This, my friends, is faux outrage, a common tactic of the left to silence conservatives.  The likelihood of any children attending a school board meeting is infinitesimally small.  And if the content isn't appropriate for a school board meeting, it's not appropriate for the school.[/quote]

Do you actually have kids in FCPS? If you did, you’d realize that many, many families - especially those with young kids - will watch the SB meeting on TV at home.

And context is important. Obviously. Faux obtuse. 
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Just to be clear then.  You're okay with the content in school library, but not in the school board meeting.  Got it.  'Nuf said.[/quote]

So....do you have a kid in FCPS or not? 
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Yes.  I wouldn't be posting otherwise.  I appreciate you trying to attach motives though.  Another tactic of the left.[/quote]

You [i]don't[/i] think motives are important? You'd be OK with non-FCPS parents stirring the pot for their own political motives? 
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