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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the School Board devoted countless hours to debsting the Stuart renaming[/quote]

"Countless?" Come on. Do you know how many board meetings, committee meetings, working groups, and other sessions this year had nothing to do with the name change? See for yourself: http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=AAZFYB3D3E83. It took up a tiny fraction of the board's and staff's time.

[quote=Anonymous](with multiple Board members claiming it was the single most difficult issue they had ever encountered during their years on the Board)[/quote]

Of course it was! On one side, you had proponents making the seemingly indisputable point that public spaces shouldn't be named after traitors. On the other were a clump of opponents with a bizarre fixation on keeping that traitor's namesake.

[quote=Anonymous]This is not cutting one's nose to spite one's face[/quote]

That's exactly what it is! You want to deny the school system hundreds of millions of dollars in funding because you didn't like that Stuart got renamed. Just be honest about it. [/quote]

Lying repeatedly won't make your arguments any better.

School Board members and FCPS staff are on the record as saying the Stuart name change took a lot of their time and energy.

Conversely, they rubber-stamped capital spending proposals that deserved far more scrutiny.

As for Stuart, it's clear the School Board did the bidding of the NAACP and a very small number of "Changers" in cahoots with them and Evans.

I'd still probably vote against this bond package even if the mishandling of the Stuart renaming wasn't taking place simultaneously, but it seals the deal.   They don't deserve more money.    [/quote]

The capital spending proposal was rubber stamped because there were no really vocal objectors.  I assure you, if you had organized like the two sides of the Stuart debate, you would have been heard.  If the SB doesn't get vocal push back, they assume we are ok with what they are doing.  [/quote]

Agree this is what happened however people come out whenever there is a clear threat to them and often for highly publicized issues and issues that involve specific minority groups. That's why general ed has such a hard time mobilizing. Everyone thinks someone else will handle. [b]If the school board wants to spend less time with partisan supporters they should start focusing on some more mundane issues[/b].[/quote]

If FCPS and the School Board were responsible and really committed to community engagement, that's the dialogue they would encourage.  Do we want more schools with over 2500 students?  Are we prepared to have some students in trailers longer if we build a new school?  How important is it to make full use of schools with extra capacity like Mount Vernon and Lee?  What disparities, in terms of class sizes, are appropriate between schools in high ESOL/FARMS areas and those in wealthier areas?  Should we keep spending money busing kids to AAP centers and TJHSST?  Is IB worth the extra costs?

None of these questions really are discussed openly, either among School Board members or with the public.  You end up with a system that caters only to special interests, and the middle gets the declining share of what's left, at least until they flee for Loudoun.   [/quote]

+1,000,000[/quote]

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