Anonymous wrote:Has any one had experience emailing school board reps and getting a response? I emailed the Franconia rep regarding her plan to help fix Lewis HS. It’s been a week now and I haven’t received a response.
Just curious if it’s normal for the reps to ignore emails

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Anonymous wrote:You understand the webpage submission also reaches them, right? And it feeds into a system where they can track each message to make sure it gets responded to and not lost in an inbox?

I thought it reached their personal assistants, not them.

It does, but they also don't seem to read their own inboxes. From experience.

Anonymous wrote:Has any one had experience emailing school board reps and getting a response? I emailed the Franconia rep regarding her plan to help fix Lewis HS. It’s been a week now and I haven’t received a response.
Just curious if it’s normal for the reps to ignore emails

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher here, met Michelle Reid recently. I am not someone to draw conclusions on someone from afar. I was actually excited to have Michelle Reid come to our school and spend time with our kids. Things were going well until an unplanned event occurred. Michelle Reid was extremely rude and so self entitled, it was nauseating. She was very late, left early. Maybe she was having a bad day, but she puts on a show for the kids but behind the scenes she was a nightmare.

Get a life. You seriously took time to pull up a thread from a few months ago to share this? Do you need attention?

You gave no specifics about what she said or did nor did offer any grace because maybe she really was having a bad day and you could’ve kept this to yourself.

Anonymous wrote:She attended our ES Back to School night and well, didn't make the best impression of herself. Came across as very severe.

Didn't know a thing about the school, enrollment, challenges, etc. Things that you'd think any person in that position would take 5 minutes to "review" prior to walking in the door - there's noone in all of FCPS writing a few facts on a notecard so she can at least cram and try to fake it?

I would think the head of such a large organization would have people prepping her prior to a school visit, event or speaking opportunity. How many of those awkward moments have we all sat through - but at least the people standing on stage have made an effort. She didn't.

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher here, met Michelle Reid recently. I am not someone to draw conclusions on someone from afar. I was actually excited to have Michelle Reid come to our school and spend time with our kids. Things were going well until an unplanned event occurred. Michelle Reid was extremely rude and so self entitled, it was nauseating. She was very late, left early. Maybe she was having a bad day, but she puts on a show for the kids but behind the scenes she was a nightmare.

Get a life. You seriously took time to pull up a thread from a few months ago to share this? Do you need attention?

You gave no specifics about what she said or did nor did offer any grace because maybe she really was having a bad day and you could’ve kept this to yourself.

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here, met Michelle Reid recently. I am not someone to draw conclusions on someone from afar. I was actually excited to have Michelle Reid come to our school and spend time with our kids. Things were going well until an unplanned event occurred. Michelle Reid was extremely rude and so self entitled, it was nauseating. She was very late, left early. Maybe she was having a bad day, but she puts on a show for the kids but behind the scenes she was a nightmare.

Safety is a top priority.
And now, my complaints:
1. How much money have they set aside to do this? My kid is in a class with almost 35 kids. FCPS couldn't afford to fully staff elementary schools just a few months ago, but now they can afford to pay for a fingerprint background check for thousands of parents? When parents already scan their license for names to get checked against a sex offender registry. What other offenses is FCPS looking for, and what are they going to find that really prevents crimes against students? Basically, it seems like it will be a huge amount of money for not a lot of payoff.
2. How many volunteers will schools lose when people won't be willing or able to do this? Will schools get enough volunteers willing to do the process in order to do the regular things the school usually does, like book fair, field trips, etc., or will teachers and IAs have to fill in the gaps on those fun experiences?
3. What about parents who might not want someone taking their fingerprints and information in the current political climate?
4. FCPS emails are touting this as something that is going to enhance family-school partnerships or deepen relationships between schools and families. It's going to do the opposite.