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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just hit the national headlines, queen reid!

https://www.foxnews.com/us/queen-reid-embattled-virginia-schools-boss-demands-personal-bodyguard-top-lavish-salary-perks.amp

Queen Reid is right. I just skimmed the article, but I didn't see mention of any other school superintendent that has this. What are our rights as taxpayers? Do we have a right to an explanation of what credible threats she actually faces? Plenty of teachers and students get threats and the school system does not protect them. If she were known as conservative instead of liberal and progressive would people let her get away with this queen-like behavior?

There were no credible threats, or it would have been reported in the news.

Anonymous wrote:Why aren't they using a company to provide her security? Also, where is this going? Will she need it every school year? over the summer too? Will she become like the president of the US and need it for life after that? This is our taxpayer money and we need more info.

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Anonymous wrote:* No recess outside of Elementary School
* English class, even for the advanced students, requires no reading of actual books
* No sports until high school - and then 50 kids trying out for 15 spots.
* The school board debates utterly useless garbage but manages to pass hiring their campaign managers on FCPS staff
* They talk equity but do absolutely nothing to make anything actually equitable except hire crazy expensive token black women to "run DEI"
* They send out endless surveys about kids' mental health - which only makes kids question their mental health but solves nothing
* Kids never, ever leave the building in Middle and High School. Sometimes for PE but half the year, they are sitting and learning about "health"

this is why this forum is useless. None of this is true. People just write ridiculous inflammatory things. Always some, but definitely a ton now and until November.

There is recess in middle school. Recess is not appropriate in high school.
There are sports in middle school. Cross country and track and they are looking at bringing in more. Traditionally outside groups have served the needs of the community- like parks and SYC and the like.
Free 6 AP tests. Most areas in the country charge $90 per test. Free DE classes. Free SAT day. There are many times when I talk to relatives in other parts of the country and they are paying for things we do not pay for here.
My kids were offered 2 surveys on mental health last year and we opted out of both. That’s not endless and my kids took zero. FYI teen suicide rates have gone down so maybe something is working.
Why would they leave? It’s school. No one is learning health- except in health for 1 quarter. They learn math and science and music and writing….etc.
This is a ridiculous rant based in zero facts. This is why threads get locked and why people stop coming to this site. Because it’s useless.
Unless they popped some corn.

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Anonymous wrote:* No recess outside of Elementary School
* English class, even for the advanced students, requires no reading of actual books
* No sports until high school - and then 50 kids trying out for 15 spots.
* The school board debates utterly useless garbage but manages to pass hiring their campaign managers on FCPS staff
* They talk equity but do absolutely nothing to make anything actually equitable except hire crazy expensive token black women to "run DEI"
* They send out endless surveys about kids' mental health - which only makes kids question their mental health but solves nothing
* Kids never, ever leave the building in Middle and High School. Sometimes for PE but half the year, they are sitting and learning about "health"

All of this let's also add no math interventions or actual support in high school level math. This after having no real math programs in FCPS ES. And let's add the constant staff turnover at most schools and no real exit interviews to hear what teachers are going through. The dissatisfaction teachers feel in their jobs trickles down to the kids. It's a fact and FCPS does nothing to make it a desirable place to work. they don't care they hire some provisional teacher and call it a day-no support for the inexperienced teachers most will quit~ rinse and repeat. All while FCPS shrugs at student and staff needs. Class sizes are going up this year due to cuts being made at the school level.

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Anonymous wrote:If she is receiving numerous frequent violent threats, who are we to say she doesn’t need protection? Attacks on public officials are on the rise. If the police and the SB think she needs protection, it’s quite possible she needs protection.

Shouldn’t she have a social worker protect her instead of armed security?
Social worker salaries are much less than armed security, and according to FCPS, more effective.

Anonymous wrote:* No recess outside of Elementary School
* English class, even for the advanced students, requires no reading of actual books
* No sports until high school - and then 50 kids trying out for 15 spots.
* The school board debates utterly useless garbage but manages to pass hiring their campaign managers on FCPS staff
* They talk equity but do absolutely nothing to make anything actually equitable except hire crazy expensive token black women to "run DEI"
* They send out endless surveys about kids' mental health - which only makes kids question their mental health but solves nothing
* Kids never, ever leave the building in Middle and High School. Sometimes for PE but half the year, they are sitting and learning about "health"

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d be more supportive if there credible reports of actual threats. Without them, this feels like an anticipatory move to try and chill people from disagreeing with Reid and the School Board, especially if, as some in FCPS have asserted, the next round of boundary proposals are “substantially different” from the proposals released in April and May.

We’ve seen this type of behavior from FCPS before, when they cut speaker time at board meetings and stopped showing the faces of speakers (supposedly to protect them but more likely to just make the speakers seem like random, faceless drones). They really do not tolerate criticism well at all.

Don't forget about the DEI issues.

Not sure how that cuts. The most agitated folks in that issue might be far-left activists if FCPS did what the Trump DEI and Youngkin want. If they are defiant, the far-right will more likely just be keyboard warriors who try to use it as campaign fodder.

A lot more people will care about boundary decisions than DEI decisions, as far as I can tell.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d be more supportive if there credible reports of actual threats. Without them, this feels like an anticipatory move to try and chill people from disagreeing with Reid and the School Board, especially if, as some in FCPS have asserted, the next round of boundary proposals are “substantially different” from the proposals released in April and May.

We’ve seen this type of behavior from FCPS before, when they cut speaker time at board meetings and stopped showing the faces of speakers (supposedly to protect them but more likely to just make the speakers seem like random, faceless drones). They really do not tolerate criticism well at all.

Don't forget about the DEI issues.

Anonymous wrote:I’d be more supportive if there credible reports of actual threats. Without them, this feels like an anticipatory move to try and chill people from disagreeing with Reid and the School Board, especially if, as some in FCPS have asserted, the next round of boundary proposals are “substantially different” from the proposals released in April and May.

We’ve seen this type of behavior from FCPS before, when they cut speaker time at board meetings and stopped showing the faces of speakers (supposedly to protect them but more likely to just make the speakers seem like random, faceless drones). They really do not tolerate criticism well at all.

Anonymous wrote:If she is receiving numerous frequent violent threats, who are we to say she doesn’t need protection? Attacks on public officials are on the rise. If the police and the SB think she needs protection, it’s quite possible she needs protection.

Anonymous wrote:* No recess outside of Elementary School
* English class, even for the advanced students, requires no reading of actual books
* No sports until high school - and then 50 kids trying out for 15 spots.
* The school board debates utterly useless garbage but manages to pass hiring their campaign managers on FCPS staff
* They talk equity but do absolutely nothing to make anything actually equitable except hire crazy expensive token black women to "run DEI"
* They send out endless surveys about kids' mental health - which only makes kids question their mental health but solves nothing
* Kids never, ever leave the building in Middle and High School. Sometimes for PE but half the year, they are sitting and learning about "health"