Anonymous wrote:Adding that I wish there were a moderate running outside of the democrats but there aren’t any.

There are no moderates running on the left.

Anonymous wrote:Adding that I wish there were a moderate running outside of the democrats but there aren’t any.

Saundra Davis is a left of center moderate.

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Anonymous wrote:Adding that I wish there were a moderate running outside of the democrats but there aren’t any.

Davis is a moderate. If you think otherwise you are far to the left and can’t handle a mainstream candidate.

She supports book banning. That is not moderate. It’s part of the right wing extremist playbook currently running in other states and in Spotsylvania County, VA.

It is not "banning books" to eliminate inappropriate materials for minors from schools. "Banning books" means that books cannot be published or sold. No one is calling for that.

While I'm not fan of Stacy Langdon, it is clear that the book she talked about at the SB meetings does not belong in any school library. A graphic novel with pics of "parents" participating in what could kindly be called "out of the usual" sexual acts has no redeeming qualities.

Who should determine what is inappropriate? In states with policies like Langton wants, Toni Morrison and Jodi Picoult and many other authors are banned. https://abcnews.go.com/US/author-jodi-picoult-denounces-book-bans-after-florida/story?id=98151365

FCPS has a book challenge process, concerned people should follow it. I don’t want one untrained individual deciding to ban books from our school libraries.

Schools in FCPS are both a place to educate minor children, and a place of employment by adults.

I think a good starting point for deciding which books are available inside of classrooms and libraries is:

1) For students, if a book contains graphic images or explicit text that would result in an adult being charged with a crime against children if they showed it to the child outside of school, and especially without the parents explicit informed consent, then the book should not be allowed in school. Graphic novels such as Gender Queer would fall under this category. If your 50 year old neighbor Joe decided to read a book full of drawings of blow jobs and other explicit photos to your 13 year old son or daughter, especially encouraging them to keep this info away from you their parent, he would likely be arrested. This should be a basic, common sense standard in public school.

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2) If a book contains graphic images and text such that if a Virginia state or Fairfax County government employee had it out at work and showed or distributed it to coworkers and especially subordinates, willing or unwilling, would result in the state or county government employee being disciplined or fired for sexual harrassment, then the county employees of FCPS should not be allowed to share that book with minor children in FCPS in any capacity, be it in the library, in the classroom, or sharing with an individual student.

Use the state and county employment standards for what material an adult employee is allowed to share in the workplace, and apply this to our govt employee teachers, counselors, support staff and principals.

This should not even be a point of contention unless you are a predator.

Anonymous wrote:A stellar field of democratic candidates. Hopefully there will be some inroads in the at large seats.

The dems hold all the school board seats, including all at large seats. This one party dominence by dems has been an indisputable disaster for students and schools.

FCPS cannot survive any more "inroads" by dem domination to our school board.

We need opposing voices, even if it is just 1-3 non dems.

At the rate the current school board and Gatehouse gang are driving FCPS into the ground it won’t matter what books are in the library since FCPS students won’t be able to read them.

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Anonymous wrote:Adding that I wish there were a moderate running outside of the democrats but there aren’t any.

Davis is a moderate. If you think otherwise you are far to the left and can’t handle a mainstream candidate.

She supports book banning. That is not moderate. It’s part of the right wing extremist playbook currently running in other states and in Spotsylvania County, VA.

It is not "banning books" to eliminate inappropriate materials for minors from schools. "Banning books" means that books cannot be published or sold. No one is calling for that.

While I'm not fan of Stacy Langdon, it is clear that the book she talked about at the SB meetings does not belong in any school library. A graphic novel with pics of "parents" participating in what could kindly be called "out of the usual" sexual acts has no redeeming qualities.

Who should determine what is inappropriate? In states with policies like Langton wants, Toni Morrison and Jodi Picoult and many other authors are banned. https://abcnews.go.com/US/author-jodi-picoult-denounces-book-bans-after-florida/story?id=98151365

FCPS has a book challenge process, concerned people should follow it. I don’t want one untrained individual deciding to ban books from our school libraries.

You're an idiot. You know there's no scenario where one individual would get to decide what books are selected for FCPS school libraries. And you apparently don't have a problem with community standards, either. You simply think that one left-wing group comprised of drag queen fans like Karl Frisch and their designees should speak for the entire community.

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Anonymous wrote:Adding that I wish there were a moderate running outside of the democrats but there aren’t any.

Davis is a moderate. If you think otherwise you are far to the left and can’t handle a mainstream candidate.

She supports book banning. That is not moderate. It’s part of the right wing extremist playbook currently running in other states and in Spotsylvania County, VA.

It is not "banning books" to eliminate inappropriate materials for minors from schools. "Banning books" means that books cannot be published or sold. No one is calling for that.

While I'm not fan of Stacy Langdon, it is clear that the book she talked about at the SB meetings does not belong in any school library. A graphic novel with pics of "parents" participating in what could kindly be called "out of the usual" sexual acts has no redeeming qualities.

Who should determine what is inappropriate? In states with policies like Langton wants, Toni Morrison and Jodi Picoult and many other authors are banned. https://abcnews.go.com/US/author-jodi-picoult-denounces-book-bans-after-florida/story?id=98151365

FCPS has a book challenge process, concerned people should follow it. I don’t want one untrained individual deciding to ban books from our school libraries.

A stellar field of democratic candidates. Hopefully there will be some inroads in the at large seats.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll vote for Davis this fall so there’s some diversity of views on the School Board. Why is the FCDC afraid of even one voice (although Frisch and Meren deserve to get unseated as well) challenging their echo chamber?

I’m not in the fcdc. I’m just a parent who is very against the new trend of individual parents making decisions for my kid’s education rather than trusting our trained educators and parenting their own kids.

Please tell me what was the last good decision made by FCPS’s trained educators?

I sure trust them more than I trust extremist parents. It sounds like you need to homeschool.

DP, but you exemplify the “take it or leave it” mindset of the FCDC establishment that thinks it deserves to exercise total control (no dissent welcome) over FCPS. If you aren’t an FCDC member, you’re certainly the type they depend upon to squelch anyone who might challenge their agenda.

Dems deserve total control because voters gave them total control in 2019 after years of nut jobs like Elizabeth Schultz.

It was just anti-Trump sentiment, which was understandable but led to a pathetically inexperienced, unqualified, and ineffective School Board composed of preening narcissists and hypocrites who rarely challenge each other. Time for a change.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll vote for Davis this fall so there’s some diversity of views on the School Board. Why is the FCDC afraid of even one voice (although Frisch and Meren deserve to get unseated as well) challenging their echo chamber?

I’m not in the fcdc. I’m just a parent who is very against the new trend of individual parents making decisions for my kid’s education rather than trusting our trained educators and parenting their own kids.

Please tell me what was the last good decision made by FCPS’s trained educators?

I sure trust them more than I trust extremist parents. It sounds like you need to homeschool.

DP, but you exemplify the “take it or leave it” mindset of the FCDC establishment that thinks it deserves to exercise total control (no dissent welcome) over FCPS. If you aren’t an FCDC member, you’re certainly the type they depend upon to squelch anyone who might challenge their agenda.

Dems deserve total control because voters gave them total control in 2019 after years of nut jobs like Elizabeth Schultz.

11-1. Doesn't seem to me that Schultz had control.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll vote for Davis this fall so there’s some diversity of views on the School Board. Why is the FCDC afraid of even one voice (although Frisch and Meren deserve to get unseated as well) challenging their echo chamber?

I’m not in the fcdc. I’m just a parent who is very against the new trend of individual parents making decisions for my kid’s education rather than trusting our trained educators and parenting their own kids.

Please tell me what was the last good decision made by FCPS’s trained educators?

I sure trust them more than I trust extremist parents. It sounds like you need to homeschool.

DP, but you exemplify the “take it or leave it” mindset of the FCDC establishment that thinks it deserves to exercise total control (no dissent welcome) over FCPS. If you aren’t an FCDC member, you’re certainly the type they depend upon to squelch anyone who might challenge their agenda.

Dems deserve total control because voters gave them total control in 2019 after years of nut jobs like Elizabeth Schultz.

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Anonymous wrote:Adding that I wish there were a moderate running outside of the democrats but there aren’t any.

Davis is a moderate. If you think otherwise you are far to the left and can’t handle a mainstream candidate.

She supports book banning. That is not moderate. It’s part of the right wing extremist playbook currently running in other states and in Spotsylvania County, VA.

It is not "banning books" to eliminate inappropriate materials for minors from schools. "Banning books" means that books cannot be published or sold. No one is calling for that.

While I'm not fan of Stacy Langdon, it is clear that the book she talked about at the SB meetings does not belong in any school library. A graphic novel with pics of "parents" participating in what could kindly be called "out of the usual" sexual acts has no redeeming qualities.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll vote for Davis this fall so there’s some diversity of views on the School Board. Why is the FCDC afraid of even one voice (although Frisch and Meren deserve to get unseated as well) challenging their echo chamber?

I’m not in the fcdc. I’m just a parent who is very against the new trend of individual parents making decisions for my kid’s education rather than trusting our trained educators and parenting their own kids.

Please tell me what was the last good decision made by FCPS’s trained educators?

I sure trust them more than I trust extremist parents. It sounds like you need to homeschool.

DP, but you exemplify the “take it or leave it” mindset of the FCDC establishment that thinks it deserves to exercise total control (no dissent welcome) over FCPS. If you aren’t an FCDC member, you’re certainly the type they depend upon to squelch anyone who might challenge their agenda.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll vote for Davis this fall so there’s some diversity of views on the School Board. Why is the FCDC afraid of even one voice (although Frisch and Meren deserve to get unseated as well) challenging their echo chamber?

I’m not in the fcdc. I’m just a parent who is very against the new trend of individual parents making decisions for my kid’s education rather than trusting our trained educators and parenting their own kids.

Please tell me what was the last good decision made by FCPS’s trained educators?

I sure trust them more than I trust extremist parents. It sounds like you need to homeschool.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll vote for Davis this fall so there’s some diversity of views on the School Board. Why is the FCDC afraid of even one voice (although Frisch and Meren deserve to get unseated as well) challenging their echo chamber?

I’m not in the fcdc. I’m just a parent who is very against the new trend of individual parents making decisions for my kid’s education rather than trusting our trained educators and parenting their own kids.

Please tell me what was the last good decision made by FCPS’s trained educators?