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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I completely DISAGREE with this poster and was also at the reno meeting. Parents were civil and got their point across FINALLY. Something needed to be done for Janie Strauss to FINALLY answer questions without sugar coating her response like all of the past meetings. [/quote]

I've been listening to some of the You Tube videos of this meeting.  Quite honestly, particulary if you don't have the background, some of the parents do sound very rude and condescending.  Strauss was interrupted repeatedly by a few parents who seemed to be more interested in making speeches and getting applause from other parents than engaging in a civil discussion.

Having watched similar sessions at other School Board meetings, parents in this area behave like that when issues affecting schools are concerned.  Parents at Haycock don't react any differently than some parents in Herndon and Vienna reacted when the School Board proposed to redistrict their kids to South Lakes, or when some parents in Alexandria reacted when the School Board proposed to redistrict their kids to Edison, or when parents in Clifton learned that the School Board planned to close Clifton Elementary.   Some get emotional; others go into "I'm the smartest guy/gal in the room" mode and start offering their own solutions.

The flip side of it is that, obviously, the parents care deeply about the school.  If you don't care about the school, you don't show up at these meetings or other PTA events.  There are plenty of schools in the area that would love to have the same group of involved, vocal parents that Haycock attracts.  In Haycock's case, a lot of the angst/nastiness seems to come from the fact that some parents feel like the renovations to Haycock should have come sooner, or that FCPS could have done a better job of anticipating the growth in Haycock's enrollment.  Hindsight, as they say, is 20-20.

If this was a small town, not a large metropolitan region with millions of people, I expect people would conduct themselves differently, but the end result hopefully will be schools - not just Haycock, but in Cluster 2 as well - that better serve the needs of students.  [/quote]

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