Anonymous
09/25/2023 12:37
Subject: GOP endorsed school board candidates
Anonymous wrote: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.
I also want an return to an emphasis on academics over solely focusing on gender issues.
Agree.
I also agree, but I would restate it as wanting a return to an emphasis on academics with NO focus on gender issues, whatsoever.
DP
Must be nice to move through the world without having to deal with discrimination or have a kid who worries about getting bullied because they’re gay or trans. You’re awesome.
Oh for crying out loud. Guidance lessons could be tailored around treating *everyone* fairly and kindly. There does not have to be this ridiculous emphasis on sexuality, race, etc. Teaching kids that everyone is different and everyone deserves respect does not need to delve into their sexuality or gender (or race). Grow up.
Anonymous
09/25/2023 12:20
Subject: GOP endorsed school board candidates
Anonymous wrote:The issue is that the current School Board’s core group of supporters want to make everything about LBGTQ rights every day, all the time.
They think they get a gold star for constantly attacking someone like Abigail Shrier when most local parents don’t have a clue who she is, would agree with her if they knew what she’s written, and would still prefer to have a School Board that paid more attention to academics and basic operating matters and less to defending Gender Queer in school libraries and biological males in girls bathrooms.
BS. The only reason LGBTQ is even a topic is because the Rs are continually attacking them. Who bright up Shrier? Rs.
Rs have no platform aside from pushing LGBTQ hate.
Anonymous
09/25/2023 12:10
Subject: GOP endorsed school board candidates
The issue is that the current School Board’s core group of supporters want to make everything about LBGTQ rights every day, all the time.
They think they get a gold star for constantly attacking someone like Abigail Shrier when most local parents don’t have a clue who she is, would agree with her if they knew what she’s written, and would still prefer to have a School Board that paid more attention to academics and basic operating matters and less to defending Gender Queer in school libraries and biological males in girls bathrooms.
They think they get a gold star for constantly attacking someone like Abigail Shrier when most local parents don’t have a clue who she is, would agree with her if they knew what she’s written, and would still prefer to have a School Board that paid more attention to academics and basic operating matters and less to defending Gender Queer in school libraries and biological males in girls bathrooms.
Anonymous
09/25/2023 11:45
Subject: GOP endorsed school board candidates
This thread has devolved into an argument covered in several other threads.
Do ANY of the candidates say they are going to do something practical like look at the IB program in FCPS and determine if changes need to be made? That is an actual academic (and operating efficiency) issue.
Do ANY of the candidates say they are going to do something practical like look at the IB program in FCPS and determine if changes need to be made? That is an actual academic (and operating efficiency) issue.
Anonymous
09/25/2023 11:35
Subject: Re:GOP endorsed school board candidates
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/political-minds/202012/new-book-irreversible-damage-is-full-misinformation?amp
New Book “Irreversible Damage” Is Full of Misinformation
Shrier did not interview most of the transgender adolescents she wrote about.
The author’s note points out that she only interviewed their parents, who uniformly did not accept their children’s transgender identities. Many of them were estranged from their kids because the children were so hurt by their parents' rejection. To actually understand the psychology of these young people, one would need to talk to them, not simply rely on stories from parents with whom they do not speak.
Further arguing against Shrier’s objectivity is her crass and offensive language throughout the book.
Shrier claims that “in most cases—nearly 70 percent—gender dysphoria resolves," and thus youth should not be provided gender-affirming medical care. That statistic is false.
Shrier claims that a large number of kids who say they are transgender are actually LGB and afraid to say so because transgender identity carries less stigma than being LGB. Actual data suggest otherwise.
Shrier states there is evidence that providing adolescents with puberty blockers makes them more likely to continue to identify as transgender. That’s false.
Shrier ignores all of the data showing that gender-affirming medical care results in improved mental health outcomes for transgender youth.
It’s anti-trans political propaganda.
New Book “Irreversible Damage” Is Full of Misinformation
Shrier did not interview most of the transgender adolescents she wrote about.
The author’s note points out that she only interviewed their parents, who uniformly did not accept their children’s transgender identities. Many of them were estranged from their kids because the children were so hurt by their parents' rejection. To actually understand the psychology of these young people, one would need to talk to them, not simply rely on stories from parents with whom they do not speak.
Further arguing against Shrier’s objectivity is her crass and offensive language throughout the book.
Shrier claims that “in most cases—nearly 70 percent—gender dysphoria resolves," and thus youth should not be provided gender-affirming medical care. That statistic is false.
Shrier claims that a large number of kids who say they are transgender are actually LGB and afraid to say so because transgender identity carries less stigma than being LGB. Actual data suggest otherwise.
Shrier states there is evidence that providing adolescents with puberty blockers makes them more likely to continue to identify as transgender. That’s false.
Shrier ignores all of the data showing that gender-affirming medical care results in improved mental health outcomes for transgender youth.
It’s anti-trans political propaganda.
Anonymous
09/25/2023 10:39
Subject: GOP endorsed school board candidates
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
This book isn't based on data -- it's an opinion piece by someone who is anti-trans.
So it should be banned?
Banned where? By whom?
ttps://www.thefp.com/p/the-books-are-already-burning
A library in Canada that doesn’t want to support anti-LGBTQ bigots? Ok…
You must have lack reading comprehension skills. The library does support the book. Activists with your attitude want to ban it from that library, removed it from Amazon and Target in the past, and will continue to do anything not to see it in our libraries in FCPS.
Oh. So the books aren’t actually banned then?
The book is not data-based. It’s an opinion piece by an anti-trans activist.
The book is not data-based. It’s an opinion piece by an anti-trans activist.
You realize this is just your opinion on a well researched book based on a topic with very limited data, right?
Likewise, please do share what libraries in FCPS have copies of Irreversible Damage available.
At a recent School Board meeting, a member of the community brought up the book and author to be considered in our schools. What have the school librarians done about it? How about the advocates for students who identify as LGBTQ? And do Civics teachers include discussions about censoring in the U.S. as described in the article?
It’s objectively not a “well researched” book.
My kids learned about censorship AND misinformation in Civics class.
…On Tuesday, one of the blog’s long-time contributors, Dr. Harriet Hall — a family physician and flight surgeon in the Air Force with dozens of publications to her name — posted a favorable review of my book. She examined the scientific claims as well as the medical ones and wrote that the book “combines well-researched facts with horrifying stories about botched surgeries, people who later regret their choices and therapists who are not providing therapy but just validating their patient’s self-diagnosis.” Dr. Hall not only shared my criticisms of “affirmative care” — that is, immediately agreeing with a teen’s self-diagnosis of gender dysphoria and proceeding to hormones and surgeries — but also noted that many physicians and therapists feel the same way but are afraid to say so…
…How have we gotten here? How have we gotten to the point where having conversations about important scientific and medical subjects requires such a high level of personal risk? How have we accepted a reality in which Big Tech can carry out the digital equivalent of book burnings? And why is it that so few people are speaking up against the status quo?
I can’t think of a person better situated to answer these questions than Abigail Shrier, the author of today’s guest essay…
Extracted from:
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-books-are-already-burning
Anonymous
09/25/2023 10:32
Subject: GOP endorsed school board candidates
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.
I also want an return to an emphasis on academics over solely focusing on gender issues.
You're not interested in anything by your agenda. There is no part of an FCPS curriculum or plan that is "solely focusing on gender issues" and you know it.
Exactly.
Anonymous
09/25/2023 10:31
Subject: GOP endorsed school board candidates
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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"?
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.
Nice that you called our Dem gov a psychopath - a LOTs of other places who were smart enough to go back to school with Ds - like Rhode Island.
We had vaccines by then, brainiac.
Why thank you - I am a brainiac and I have receipts to support me unlike you - Northam said we could go back to hybrid in fall 2020 before vaccines. And here is Providence, Rhode Island in person before vaccines too:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/us/coronavirus-schools-rhode-island-providence.html
In Providence, more than 70 percent of the district’s roughly 22,600 students have returned to their classrooms. The district is 68 percent Latino, 15 percent Black, 6.5 percent white and 4 percent Asian. Eighty-five percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
A key part of what has made Providence different has been Rhode Island’s governor, Gina Raimondo, who pushed strongly for schools to reopen for in-person instruction, saying that remote learning was leaving disadvantaged students behind.
Raimondo is a D, like I was saying.
It was obvious from the beginning that closing schools would hurt the poorest students the most.
The dems (leadership) didn’t care.
Sounds like you care about equity after all. LOL. Drudging up "the poors" when it suits you . . .
+1
“The poors” who tended to have more vulnerable health situations and many who actually preferred virtual.
Again, don’t let facts get in the way of your political narrative.
Anonymous
09/25/2023 10:28
Subject: GOP endorsed school board candidates
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
This book isn't based on data -- it's an opinion piece by someone who is anti-trans.
So it should be banned?
Banned where? By whom?
ttps://www.thefp.com/p/the-books-are-already-burning
A library in Canada that doesn’t want to support anti-LGBTQ bigots? Ok…
You must have lack reading comprehension skills. The library does support the book. Activists with your attitude want to ban it from that library, removed it from Amazon and Target in the past, and will continue to do anything not to see it in our libraries in FCPS.
Oh. So the books aren’t actually banned then?
The book is not data-based. It’s an opinion piece by an anti-trans activist.
The book is not data-based. It’s an opinion piece by an anti-trans activist.
You realize this is just your opinion on a well researched book based on a topic with very limited data, right?
Likewise, please do share what libraries in FCPS have copies of Irreversible Damage available.
At a recent School Board meeting, a member of the community brought up the book and author to be considered in our schools. What have the school librarians done about it? How about the advocates for students who identify as LGBTQ? And do Civics teachers include discussions about censoring in the U.S. as described in the article?
It’s objectively not a “well researched” book.
My kids learned about censorship AND misinformation in Civics class.
Anonymous
09/25/2023 10:25
Subject: GOP endorsed school board candidates
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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"?
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.
Nice that you called our Dem gov a psychopath - a LOTs of other places who were smart enough to go back to school with Ds - like Rhode Island.
We had vaccines by then, brainiac.
Why thank you - I am a brainiac and I have receipts to support me unlike you - Northam said we could go back to hybrid in fall 2020 before vaccines. And here is Providence, Rhode Island in person before vaccines too:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/us/coronavirus-schools-rhode-island-providence.html
In Providence, more than 70 percent of the district’s roughly 22,600 students have returned to their classrooms. The district is 68 percent Latino, 15 percent Black, 6.5 percent white and 4 percent Asian. Eighty-five percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
A key part of what has made Providence different has been Rhode Island’s governor, Gina Raimondo, who pushed strongly for schools to reopen for in-person instruction, saying that remote learning was leaving disadvantaged students behind.
Raimondo is a D, like I was saying.
It was obvious from the beginning that closing schools would hurt the poorest students the most.
The dems (leadership) didn’t care.
Sounds like you care about equity after all. LOL. Drudging up "the poors" when it suits you . . .
Anonymous
09/25/2023 10:23
Subject: GOP endorsed school board candidates
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
I also want an return to an emphasis on academics over solely focusing on gender issues.
Agree.
I also agree, but I would restate it as wanting a return to an emphasis on academics with NO focus on gender issues, whatsoever.
DP
Must be nice to move through the world without having to deal with discrimination or have a kid who worries about getting bullied because they’re gay or trans. You’re awesome.
Oh, here we go. Does the narcissism ever stop?
Narcissism? That word does not mean what you think it does . . . . as evidenced by how you're using it. Maybe work on your own education first?
Anonymous
09/25/2023 10:22
Subject: GOP endorsed school board candidates
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.
I also want an return to an emphasis on academics over solely focusing on gender issues.
You're not interested in anything by your agenda. There is no part of an FCPS curriculum or plan that is "solely focusing on gender issues" and you know it.
Anonymous
09/25/2023 10:05
Subject: GOP endorsed school board candidates
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
This book isn't based on data -- it's an opinion piece by someone who is anti-trans.
So it should be banned?
Banned where? By whom?
ttps://www.thefp.com/p/the-books-are-already-burning
A library in Canada that doesn’t want to support anti-LGBTQ bigots? Ok…
You must have lack reading comprehension skills. The library does support the book. Activists with your attitude want to ban it from that library, removed it from Amazon and Target in the past, and will continue to do anything not to see it in our libraries in FCPS.
Oh. So the books aren’t actually banned then?
The book is not data-based. It’s an opinion piece by an anti-trans activist.
The book is not data-based. It’s an opinion piece by an anti-trans activist.
You realize this is just your opinion on a well researched book based on a topic with very limited data, right?
Likewise, please do share what libraries in FCPS have copies of Irreversible Damage available.
At a recent School Board meeting, a member of the community brought up the book and author to be considered in our schools. What have the school librarians done about it? How about the advocates for students who identify as LGBTQ? And do Civics teachers include discussions about censoring in the U.S. as described in the article?
Anonymous
09/25/2023 10:03
Subject: GOP endorsed school board candidates
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
I also want an return to an emphasis on academics over solely focusing on gender issues.
Agree.
I also agree, but I would restate it as wanting a return to an emphasis on academics with NO focus on gender issues, whatsoever.
DP
Must be nice to move through the world without having to deal with discrimination or have a kid who worries about getting bullied because they’re gay or trans. You’re awesome.
Oh, here we go. Does the narcissism ever stop?
Please stop using words you don’t know the meaning of. It’s not a good look.
Also, it’s not a zero-sum game. You can work on academics AND ensure that kids are not mistreated because they’re queer or trans. This may be difficult for some here to understand, but work in both areas can happen at the same time.
Of course it’s a zero-sum game when people only have limited bandwidth and their personal agendas.
How many times over the past four years did SB meetings drone on well after 10 or 11 PM because members were pushing their silly “equity resolutions” or projects, only for academic matters to either get ignored completely or dealt with in a hasty manner as it got close to midnight?
Please give examples of these academic matters that were ignored completely at these meetings. Just because you assert this has happened doesn’t mean it actually happened.
Declining SAT scores - never addressed.
The pros and cons of AAP centers vs. LLIV - never addressed.
The suitability of IB for schools with large concentrations of ESOL/FARMS kids - never addressed.
Severe overcrowding at schools like Chantilly - very rarely addressed.
So these items were on the agenda and the board didn’t get to them because too much time was spend on transgender issues? Because that’s what you’ve asserted above. Or are you now moving the goal posts?
DP - I personally would like Reid to send out as many emails addressing academic issues as she does on equity issues.
Anonymous
09/25/2023 09:39
Subject: GOP endorsed school board candidates
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
I also want an return to an emphasis on academics over solely focusing on gender issues.
Agree.
I also agree, but I would restate it as wanting a return to an emphasis on academics with NO focus on gender issues, whatsoever.
DP
Must be nice to move through the world without having to deal with discrimination or have a kid who worries about getting bullied because they’re gay or trans. You’re awesome.
Oh, here we go. Does the narcissism ever stop?
Please stop using words you don’t know the meaning of. It’s not a good look.
Also, it’s not a zero-sum game. You can work on academics AND ensure that kids are not mistreated because they’re queer or trans. This may be difficult for some here to understand, but work in both areas can happen at the same time.
Of course it’s a zero-sum game when people only have limited bandwidth and their personal agendas.
How many times over the past four years did SB meetings drone on well after 10 or 11 PM because members were pushing their silly “equity resolutions” or projects, only for academic matters to either get ignored completely or dealt with in a hasty manner as it got close to midnight?
Please give examples of these academic matters that were ignored completely at these meetings. Just because you assert this has happened doesn’t mean it actually happened.
Declining SAT scores - never addressed.
The pros and cons of AAP centers vs. LLIV - never addressed.
The suitability of IB for schools with large concentrations of ESOL/FARMS kids - never addressed.
Severe overcrowding at schools like Chantilly - very rarely addressed.
So these items were on the agenda and the board didn’t get to them because too much time was spend on transgender issues? Because that’s what you’ve asserted above. Or are you now moving the goal posts?
It’s just as offensive that some of these items never make it to an agenda as the fact that, when they do, they end up getting discussed in a perfunctory manner in the wee hours.
If you want to accuse me of “moving the goal posts,” I’d suggest that, when you find yourself digging yourself into a hole, the best thing to do is stop digging.
So they weren’t “ignored completely” then?
Don’t let facts get in the way of a good story.