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Anonymous wrote:Echoing some PPs, I am open to voting for any candidate, no matter the party endorsement.

Issue that I care the most about: the quality of academics at FCPS. (Doing something about the lack of quality.)

Caveats:
*I do not care about punishing people who closed the schools during the pandemic. Move on.
*I will NOT vote for someone who makes a priority of creating a hostile environment for LGBTQ kids.
(And for those who make assumptions about me based on this statement: I have ordered the two books mentioned and will read them with an open mind. But even if I find them wholly inappropriate, I cannot imagine making two books in high school library shelves into a catalyst issue. I haven't read every post but, from what I have, this thread has covered: a couple controversial books, a proposed but not implemented plan to refer to kids by their "gender assigned at birth," and the notion that referring to gay people at all might be considered in elementary school as reference to sex and therefore inappropriate. I am by no means a political activist nor a nutty liberal, but any candidate who underlines these three points as their big identifying issues has lost me.)

Please tell me which candidates are genuinely invested in working to raise academic standards without emphasizing those particular gender/sexuality points.

Other books banned by activists that are worth reading to understand the genuine concern of parents at FCPS about gender ideology activism at our schools, particularly because of its effect on kids who identify as experiencing body dysmorphia:

1. Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness by Miriam Grossman, MD.
2. Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids by Josie A. and Dina S.
3. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier.

This book isn't based on data -- it's an opinion piece by someone who is anti-trans.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Echoing some PPs, I am open to voting for any candidate, no matter the party endorsement.

Issue that I care the most about: the quality of academics at FCPS. (Doing something about the lack of quality.)

Caveats:
*I do not care about punishing people who closed the schools during the pandemic. Move on.
*I will NOT vote for someone who makes a priority of creating a hostile environment for LGBTQ kids.
(And for those who make assumptions about me based on this statement: I have ordered the two books mentioned and will read them with an open mind. But even if I find them wholly inappropriate, I cannot imagine making two books in high school library shelves into a catalyst issue. I haven't read every post but, from what I have, this thread has covered: a couple controversial books, a proposed but not implemented plan to refer to kids by their "gender assigned at birth," and the notion that referring to gay people at all might be considered in elementary school as reference to sex and therefore inappropriate. I am by no means a political activist nor a nutty liberal, but any candidate who underlines these three points as their big identifying issues has lost me.)

Please tell me which candidates are genuinely invested in working to raise academic standards without emphasizing those particular gender/sexuality points.

Other books banned by activists that are worth reading to understand the genuine concern of parents at FCPS about gender ideology activism at our schools, particularly because of its effect on kids who identify as experiencing body dysmorphia:

1. Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness by Miriam Grossman, MD.
2. Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids by Josie A. and Dina S.
3. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier.

This book isn't based on data -- it's an opinion piece by someone who is anti-trans.

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Anonymous wrote:Besides Kyle McDaniel and Karl Frisch, Robyn Lady can be a good addition to FCPS school board. As a lesbian and retired FCPS school counselor, she has the expertise to help FCPS develop a strategy to guide students on exploring their gender preference and sexual orientation.

https://victoryfund.org/candidate/lady-robyn/

Karl Frisch does not even have children, let along children in FCPS. He is a lifelong political activist whose far-left, special-interest policies have been a disaster for learning in FCPS.

He is the last person who should be re-elected, because he obviously does not care about academics and will put learning last on his list of priorities.

If McDaniel and Lady are associated with Frisch, they just lost my vote too.

Explain

Pandemic in person school closure for one full year - no additional info needed.

How is virtual school during a global pandemic a "far-left, special-interest policy"?

Republicans think the public forgot about the 1.2 million people killed by Covid which would’ve been far worse without closures. No one liked closures, but most people weren’t so self centered about it. According to them, democrats just woke up one day and randomly said “hey let’s just close schools for sh%ts and giggles.”

I'm not sure what kind of psychopath you have to be to force teachers into schools prior to vaccines and prior to the peak of the pandemic (Jan 2021), but I guess psychopath and Republican are synonymous.

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Anonymous wrote:Besides Kyle McDaniel and Karl Frisch, Robyn Lady can be a good addition to FCPS school board. As a lesbian and retired FCPS school counselor, she has the expertise to help FCPS develop a strategy to guide students on exploring their gender preference and sexual orientation.

https://victoryfund.org/candidate/lady-robyn/

Karl Frisch does not even have children, let along children in FCPS. He is a lifelong political activist whose far-left, special-interest policies have been a disaster for learning in FCPS.

He is the last person who should be re-elected, because he obviously does not care about academics and will put learning last on his list of priorities.

If McDaniel and Lady are associated with Frisch, they just lost my vote too.

Explain

Pandemic in person school closure for one full year - no additional info needed.

How is virtual school during a global pandemic a "far-left, special-interest policy"?

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Anonymous wrote:Why do the Republican endorsed candidates not tell us they’re Republican? Are they ashamed?

Well, the school board is supposed to be nonpartisan. There are no Rs or Ds next to their name on the ballot.

But if they are ENDORSED by the Republicans, they are Republican. Otherwise they would not apply for the endorsement.

The Democratic candidates tell me they are Democrats, and the truly independent candidates who are not endorsed by anyone tell me they’re independent. I’d rather hear “I’m a Republican” than “I’m an independent” when I know that to be a lie.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Besides Kyle McDaniel and Karl Frisch, Robyn Lady can be a good addition to FCPS school board. As a lesbian and retired FCPS school counselor, she has the expertise to help FCPS develop a strategy to guide students on exploring their gender preference and sexual orientation.

https://victoryfund.org/candidate/lady-robyn/

Karl Frisch does not even have children, let along children in FCPS. He is a lifelong political activist whose far-left, special-interest policies have been a disaster for learning in FCPS.

He is the last person who should be re-elected, because he obviously does not care about academics and will put learning last on his list of priorities.

If McDaniel and Lady are associated with Frisch, they just lost my vote too.

Explain

Pandemic in person school closure for one full year - no additional info needed.

How is virtual school during a global pandemic a "far-left, special-interest policy"?

Republicans think the public forgot about the 1.2 million people killed by Covid which would’ve been far worse without closures. No one liked closures, but most people weren’t so self centered about it. According to them, democrats just woke up one day and randomly said “hey let’s just close schools for sh%ts and giggles.”

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Besides Kyle McDaniel and Karl Frisch, Robyn Lady can be a good addition to FCPS school board. As a lesbian and retired FCPS school counselor, she has the expertise to help FCPS develop a strategy to guide students on exploring their gender preference and sexual orientation.

https://victoryfund.org/candidate/lady-robyn/

Karl Frisch does not even have children, let along children in FCPS. He is a lifelong political activist whose far-left, special-interest policies have been a disaster for learning in FCPS.

He is the last person who should be re-elected, because he obviously does not care about academics and will put learning last on his list of priorities.

If McDaniel and Lady are associated with Frisch, they just lost my vote too.

Explain

Pandemic in person school closure for one full year - no additional info needed.

How is virtual school during a global pandemic a "far-left, special-interest policy"?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Echoing some PPs, I am open to voting for any candidate, no matter the party endorsement.

Issue that I care the most about: the quality of academics at FCPS. (Doing something about the lack of quality.)

Caveats:
*I do not care about punishing people who closed the schools during the pandemic. Move on.
*I will NOT vote for someone who makes a priority of creating a hostile environment for LGBTQ kids.
(And for those who make assumptions about me based on this statement: I have ordered the two books mentioned and will read them with an open mind. But even if I find them wholly inappropriate, I cannot imagine making two books in high school library shelves into a catalyst issue. I haven't read every post but, from what I have, this thread has covered: a couple controversial books, a proposed but not implemented plan to refer to kids by their "gender assigned at birth," and the notion that referring to gay people at all might be considered in elementary school as reference to sex and therefore inappropriate. I am by no means a political activist nor a nutty liberal, but any candidate who underlines these three points as their big identifying issues has lost me.)

Please tell me which candidates are genuinely invested in working to raise academic standards without emphasizing those particular gender/sexuality points.

The at-large candidates who fit this description are

-Cassandra Aucoin
-Maureen Brody, and
-Saundra Davis

What are their plans/positions?

Cassandra’s main focus is on restoring parent engagement/input and restore a focus on academic excellence for all children.

Maureen was a PTA president at Justice HS and wants to try to eliminate wasted in the FCPS system by conducting an independent audit. She also wants to focus on low-performing schools and find solutions that actually work. She additionally will focus on academics, including an emphasis on phonics, plus coding/STEM.

Saundra Davis believes FCPS schools should be freed of politics, and focus on teaching academic subjects instead. She also wants to change the Board to allow parent voices to be heard and considered on matters affecting their children’s education.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Besides Kyle McDaniel and Karl Frisch, Robyn Lady can be a good addition to FCPS school board. As a lesbian and retired FCPS school counselor, she has the expertise to help FCPS develop a strategy to guide students on exploring their gender preference and sexual orientation.

https://victoryfund.org/candidate/lady-robyn/

Karl Frisch does not even have children, let along children in FCPS. He is a lifelong political activist whose far-left, special-interest policies have been a disaster for learning in FCPS.

He is the last person who should be re-elected, because he obviously does not care about academics and will put learning last on his list of priorities.

If McDaniel and Lady are associated with Frisch, they just lost my vote too.

Explain

Pandemic in person school closure for one full year - no additional info needed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Echoing some PPs, I am open to voting for any candidate, no matter the party endorsement.

Issue that I care the most about: the quality of academics at FCPS. (Doing something about the lack of quality.)

Caveats:
*I do not care about punishing people who closed the schools during the pandemic. Move on.
*I will NOT vote for someone who makes a priority of creating a hostile environment for LGBTQ kids.
(And for those who make assumptions about me based on this statement: I have ordered the two books mentioned and will read them with an open mind. But even if I find them wholly inappropriate, I cannot imagine making two books in high school library shelves into a catalyst issue. I haven't read every post but, from what I have, this thread has covered: a couple controversial books, a proposed but not implemented plan to refer to kids by their "gender assigned at birth," and the notion that referring to gay people at all might be considered in elementary school as reference to sex and therefore inappropriate. I am by no means a political activist nor a nutty liberal, but any candidate who underlines these three points as their big identifying issues has lost me.)

Please tell me which candidates are genuinely invested in working to raise academic standards without emphasizing those particular gender/sexuality points.

Other books banned by activists that are worth reading to understand the genuine concern of parents at FCPS about gender ideology activism at our schools, particularly because of its effect on kids who identify as experiencing body dysmorphia:

1. Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness by Miriam Grossman, MD.
2. Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids by Josie A. and Dina S.
3. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier.

I'm against book banning on both sides - so it just really irks me that the progressives do not also recognize this as book banning.

FCPS has been led by hard-left progressives on the School Board (and they hire the superintendent, who is 100% in line with their ideology).

As for the only books they “allow” take a look at a typical MS they govern, and the ideology being pushed:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1152800.page

Seems like time for a change. November is that time.

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Anonymous wrote:Echoing some PPs, I am open to voting for any candidate, no matter the party endorsement.

Issue that I care the most about: the quality of academics at FCPS. (Doing something about the lack of quality.)

Caveats:
*I do not care about punishing people who closed the schools during the pandemic. Move on.
*I will NOT vote for someone who makes a priority of creating a hostile environment for LGBTQ kids.
(And for those who make assumptions about me based on this statement: I have ordered the two books mentioned and will read them with an open mind. But even if I find them wholly inappropriate, I cannot imagine making two books in high school library shelves into a catalyst issue. I haven't read every post but, from what I have, this thread has covered: a couple controversial books, a proposed but not implemented plan to refer to kids by their "gender assigned at birth," and the notion that referring to gay people at all might be considered in elementary school as reference to sex and therefore inappropriate. I am by no means a political activist nor a nutty liberal, but any candidate who underlines these three points as their big identifying issues has lost me.)

Please tell me which candidates are genuinely invested in working to raise academic standards without emphasizing those particular gender/sexuality points.

Other books banned by activists that are worth reading to understand the genuine concern of parents at FCPS about gender ideology activism at our schools, particularly because of its effect on kids who identify as experiencing body dysmorphia:

1. Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness by Miriam Grossman, MD.
2. Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids by Josie A. and Dina S.
3. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do the Republican endorsed candidates not tell us they’re Republican? Are they ashamed?

Well, the school board is supposed to be nonpartisan. There are no Rs or Ds next to their name on the ballot.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Echoing some PPs, I am open to voting for any candidate, no matter the party endorsement.

Issue that I care the most about: the quality of academics at FCPS. (Doing something about the lack of quality.)

Caveats:
*I do not care about punishing people who closed the schools during the pandemic. Move on.
*I will NOT vote for someone who makes a priority of creating a hostile environment for LGBTQ kids.
(And for those who make assumptions about me based on this statement: I have ordered the two books mentioned and will read them with an open mind. But even if I find them wholly inappropriate, I cannot imagine making two books in high school library shelves into a catalyst issue. I haven't read every post but, from what I have, this thread has covered: a couple controversial books, a proposed but not implemented plan to refer to kids by their "gender assigned at birth," and the notion that referring to gay people at all might be considered in elementary school as reference to sex and therefore inappropriate. I am by no means a political activist nor a nutty liberal, but any candidate who underlines these three points as their big identifying issues has lost me.)

Please tell me which candidates are genuinely invested in working to raise academic standards without emphasizing those particular gender/sexuality points.

Other books banned by activists that are worth reading to understand the genuine concern of parents at FCPS about gender ideology activism at our schools, particularly because of its effect on kids who identify as experiencing body dysmorphia:

1. Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness by Miriam Grossman, MD.
2. Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids by Josie A. and Dina S.
3. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier.

I'm against book banning on both sides - so it just really irks me that the progressives do not also recognize this as book banning.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Echoing some PPs, I am open to voting for any candidate, no matter the party endorsement.

Issue that I care the most about: the quality of academics at FCPS. (Doing something about the lack of quality.)

Caveats:
*I do not care about punishing people who closed the schools during the pandemic. Move on.
*I will NOT vote for someone who makes a priority of creating a hostile environment for LGBTQ kids.
(And for those who make assumptions about me based on this statement: I have ordered the two books mentioned and will read them with an open mind. But even if I find them wholly inappropriate, I cannot imagine making two books in high school library shelves into a catalyst issue. I haven't read every post but, from what I have, this thread has covered: a couple controversial books, a proposed but not implemented plan to refer to kids by their "gender assigned at birth," and the notion that referring to gay people at all might be considered in elementary school as reference to sex and therefore inappropriate. I am by no means a political activist nor a nutty liberal, but any candidate who underlines these three points as their big identifying issues has lost me.)

Please tell me which candidates are genuinely invested in working to raise academic standards without emphasizing those particular gender/sexuality points.

Other books banned by activists that are worth reading to understand the genuine concern of parents at FCPS about gender ideology activism at our schools, particularly because of its effect on kids who identify as experiencing body dysmorphia:

1. Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness by Miriam Grossman, MD.
2. Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids by Josie A. and Dina S.
3. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Echoing some PPs, I am open to voting for any candidate, no matter the party endorsement.

Issue that I care the most about: the quality of academics at FCPS. (Doing something about the lack of quality.)

Caveats:
*I do not care about punishing people who closed the schools during the pandemic. Move on.
*I will NOT vote for someone who makes a priority of creating a hostile environment for LGBTQ kids.
(And for those who make assumptions about me based on this statement: I have ordered the two books mentioned and will read them with an open mind. But even if I find them wholly inappropriate, I cannot imagine making two books in high school library shelves into a catalyst issue. I haven't read every post but, from what I have, this thread has covered: a couple controversial books, a proposed but not implemented plan to refer to kids by their "gender assigned at birth," and the notion that referring to gay people at all might be considered in elementary school as reference to sex and therefore inappropriate. I am by no means a political activist nor a nutty liberal, but any candidate who underlines these three points as their big identifying issues has lost me.)

Please tell me which candidates are genuinely invested in working to raise academic standards without emphasizing those particular gender/sexuality points.

The at-large candidates who fit this description are

-Cassandra Aucoin
-Maureen Brody, and
-Saundra Davis

What are their plans/positions?

You’ll never get a straight answer on this. Just go look at their websites and see how empty they are.

Saundra Davis is lying to people saying she’s an independent and dodging hard questions such as LGBTQ protections. If you lie and dodge during the campaign, you’ll lie and dodge when in office.

Maureen Brody was a participant in the January 6th riot and was even tear gassed. She is also rabidly anti-LGBTQ.

Add these republicans to the other republicans running like Harry Jackson who was arrested 3 times for beating his wife, and Cynthia Walsh who claims vaccines cause autism and you get a true basket of deplorables.

Vote wisely or you’ll end up with the worst parts of humanity doing nothing except tearing down our schools.