Anonymous wrote:I might need to ask this in political forum? How many of you are planning to vote on Election Day? My 17-year-old and I already voted early at the government center.

I really like voting on the actual Election Day - it feels special to me. I've been an election officer for the last few elections and have to vote early (I've never been assigned to work at my polling place.) I'm not working this election so I'm waiting until Tuesday to vote. The rest of my family has already voted.

With all of the heated political rhetoric and incidents of political violence, it would be foolish to keep schools open. There’s no way to keep the building secure on voting days. During special elections this year, schools were told to have a staff member monitor the door that separated the voters from the rest of the school. That is someone who was pulled from working with students, who was unarmed, asked to act as security. The Board of Elections nor the county would provide personnel to help with security.

I’m from another country where elections take place on the weekends. Schools are used as polling places without disruption. With widespread early voting opportunities is there really a need to stick to Tuesdays?

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Anonymous wrote:Schools were closed on election day back when i was in elementary school. This isnt new. VA law requires polls to be open specific hours. And kids cant be in school while the building is used for voting. Duh.

+1 another idiotic post complaining. Sigh.

There is a certain kind of brain rotted parent who thinks anything that inconveniences them must be a new scheme cooked up by FCPS in the last 1-2 years. Next they’ll be like “since when can’t schools also teach on the weekends??”

+2 The title of these threads should be : Why can’t the public school schedule be tailored to my life like my phone is.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools were closed on election day back when i was in elementary school. This isnt new. VA law requires polls to be open specific hours. And kids cant be in school while the building is used for voting. Duh.

+1 another idiotic post complaining. Sigh.

There is a certain kind of brain rotted parent who thinks anything that inconveniences them must be a new scheme cooked up by FCPS in the last 1-2 years. Next they’ll be like “since when can’t schools also teach on the weekends??”

NP. It is weird we don't hold elections on Saturdays, when school is not in session. People who can't do Saturdays for whatever reason could still do early voting, but you'd eliminate the school disruption.

Sometimes they do have the schools open while smaller elections are taking place, but this one is expected to have a pretty decent turnout, so they had concerns that the greater number of voters would interfere with the regular school day.

Stranger danger hysteria.

Anonymous wrote:Schools were closed on election day back when i was in elementary school. This isnt new. VA law requires polls to be open specific hours. And kids cant be in school while the building is used for voting. Duh.

+1 another idiotic post complaining. Sigh.

Schools were closed on election day back when i was in elementary school. This isnt new. VA law requires polls to be open specific hours. And kids cant be in school while the building is used for voting. Duh.

I might need to ask this in political forum? How many of you are planning to vote on Election Day? My 17-year-old and I already voted early at the government center.

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Anonymous wrote:Because it’s way too crowded to of an area to only have polls open for a couple of hours, and that’s not really fair either in terms of accessibility for people who work all different kinds of schedules. Further, there’s way too many creeps to allow schools to be open while people are in there voting.

I think there's just as many creepy people around now as there were 20 years ago. Was education a higher priority back then?

Yes.

Anonymous wrote:Because it’s way too crowded to of an area to only have polls open for a couple of hours, and that’s not really fair either in terms of accessibility for people who work all different kinds of schedules. Further, there’s way too many creeps to allow schools to be open while people are in there voting.

I think there's just as many creepy people around now as there were 20 years ago. Was education a higher priority back then?

Because it’s way too crowded to of an area to only have polls open for a couple of hours, and that’s not really fair either in terms of accessibility for people who work all different kinds of schedules. Further, there’s way too many creeps to allow schools to be open while people are in there voting.

Why can’t voting either take place after school hours, like 5-8pm or on a Saturday or Sunday like other countries. Why do schools have to close for voting?