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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don’t need to elect Brody. However it will be another disaster if the next SB is another all-D board. Suggest voting for Moon and Davis and looking at some of the independent candidates running for at-large without a party endorsement like Gabor and Hussein. [/quote]

Davis is a vapid joke. The latest in a long line of GOP closet cases who regurgitate the same 6 sentences hoping to fool voters. She doesn’t have a single qualification to lead our schools and her only track record is leading the failed recall attempts. [/quote]

She came to my neighborhood association candidates forum and she couldnt answer any questions. She said flat out that she didn’t know when asked a question about state funding formulas[/quote]

It’s actually refreshing that a candidate would admit that she might need to ask others to answer a question, rather than pretend to be a know-it-all like some of the current jokes on the School Board.

In any case, the stock answer about state funding formulas is to claim
Fairfax should get more from the state and ROVA should get less.  That’s outside the School Board’s ability to decide, and saying Fairfax should get more doesn’t just make it happen. [/quote]

ROVA gets so much. FCPS doesn't get what we put in. We need people on the board who understand this and will lobby our legislators to advocate for fixing the formula. That's why it'll be great to have people like Laura Jane Cohen and Stella Pekarsky in the GA who understand the formulas.[/quote]

Laura Jane Cohen voted to change TJ admissions and then admitted after the fact she didn’t know whether the 1.5% quotas she’d just approved were based on a student’s zoned or attending school (which has a huge impact on admissions).

Pekarsky accomplished nothing on the School Board and left Chantilly ridiculously overcrowded with no plan other than to expand Centreville to 3000, which many in Sully strongly oppose (and feel they were never asked about).  She made noise occasionally about the mythical new western HS and then did nothing to either move it forward or take it off the table.

The idea that either will be impactful as state legislators is a hoot.  The craftier politicians will run circles around them.

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You're mad at Pekarsky for the wrong reasons. She was [i]too[/i] good at listening to her vocal constituents. The vocal minority of Chantilly parents that send her emails are strongly against making changes to Chantilly for fear that it'll change the make-up of the student body that attends. The value of the school is through the roof regardless of overcrowding.

A more objective view from a facilities and safety perspective would be to do something, but that would interfere with the ratings.[/quote]

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