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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To defend Shapiro, aside from a small amount of PTA volunteering, I too didn't give a sh$t about the school board until they pushed our start date before Labor Day, renamed our schools to the tune of a million dollars and kept the schools closed. Frankly he'd be one of 8 and it's good to have a more conservative opinion given the liberal activists that were on the board for the last 4 years.[/quote]

You do realize that 1) the name change didn’t cost a million and [b]2) our schools were the first to go back in the whole region[/b], right? Oh and also all schools in VA moved their start date to before Labor Day once the law changed. People are delusional.  [/quote]

As a parent of a FCCPS young elementary school student I’m tired of hearing people push this talking point. Loudon County elementary school students were back in school before us and most of the other nova districts were just a couple of weeks behind. in the meanwhile these school districts were dealing with coordinating across dozens of disparate schools with far greater complicating factors. The fact that despite its tiny area, substantial resources and only 4 schools to manage,  FCCPS still didn't open for the vast majority of its students until spring 2021 is a failure in leadership- not something to brag about.[/quote]

If you really want to compare, look at how those school districts were opened. Many teachers refused to come back, and the schools had classroom monitors while the teachers taught remotely. I do think our city should be proud that all teachers came back to school and taught in the classrooms. This is largely due to the fact that we had vaccination clinics in our schools, beginning in January, back when it was difficult to get vaccinated (remember those days?!) We had a graduation ceremony. We had prom. I have lots of friends in Fairfax and Arlington, and trust me, our school experiences from February - June were far better than theirs were.[/quote]

Do not speak for teachers and why we came back. Other local districts asked teachers their preference and tried to match up teachers who preferred virtual with all virtual classes. FCCPS did not. Teachers were told they had to come back or take a leave of absence, which involved agreeing to not work anywhere for a year while paying your health insurance out of pocket. As for the vaccination clinics, staff had the option to go to the clinics through Fairfax County. This was not an extra benefit.  They could choose if they wanted to go to the high school or the county location.  Teachers came back because they want to teach the students in FCCPS and many feel supported by the parents.  Or they didn’t have a choice because they needed the salary and health insurance and it was past the date that resignations were taken. [/quote]

[b]KUDOS to you teacher--hope my child has you--as you seem to be one of the few non brainwashed FCCPS staff. My feeling is that any staff that had an ounce of an independent streak either no longer teaches there, is passive aggressive by doing minimal work(definitely had a many of those teachers teach my kids)  or is handcuffed to a pension and counting the days to go. Most teachers seem almost cult-ish in this groupthink mentality with a very curved bend to one political way of thinking.  It's like Stepford teachers 2.0....[/quote][/b]

Oh my really? There are many many hard working strong teachers in the school system. If you’ve had many of the teacher doing “minimal work” and are so unhappy with the schools why do you keep your kids in the school system. Probably to moan about it?

We’re a in very very strong school district. Many people just moan about it. Where’s the positivity or constructive ideas? Just entitled moaning [/quote]

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