Anonymous wrote:For all his campaigning on increasing teacher salaries and funding for education specialists, all Youngkin has actually done is cut school funding. Which was utterly predictable but a whole lot of stupid people fell for it anyway.

+100000%

This is just one survey.

Panorama runs the SEL survey that asks students very intimate questions about race, their sex lives, substance use and mental health. Panorama is a private company not governed by FERPA, with ties to Zuckerberg.

The SEL surveys are taken by your minor child on their student specific fcps issued laptops, with all survey results directly linked to your minor children and stored and analyzed offsite by Panorama. (I believe but definitely need to do more research, that Panorama has some investment by Chinese communist party linked investors.)

Parent consent is not required for this data mining operation. Like all FCPS surveys administered by outside consutling firms, the surveys are opt out only. If parents are distracted, or busy, or don't open the emails to know to opt out of this or any of the other multiple outside data mining surveys, their kids are automatically opted into the survey, with their intimate data mined and monetized by outside corporate entities.

The Panorama contract, according to the Fairfax County contract registry, is $1,845,000.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/cregister/ContractDetails.aspx?contractNumber=4400010525

You can go to the registry and click on the documents to see the cost and scope of this one contract of many survey, dei and sel contracts.

There is zero academic or social value in these surveys, or of paying an outside data mining company millions to harvest and sell our minor kids information, without informed parent permission and consent. Additionally, the kids spend hours of precious school time on these commercial intrusions, hours that could be spent on literacy, math, svience or heck, spirit assemblies.

Cutting this survey and all the other surveys means that we not only protect student data, but that fcps spends our education dollars more wisely and more efficiently.

This survey alone is 10% of that total deficit.

There are at least 10 similar outside surveys and SEL or DEI type programs contracted by fcps every year.

Cut all of those and we more than make up the difference with room to spare.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a $13M difference for FCPS, which has an annual budget in excess of $3 billion.

I think FCPS can handle it. Maybe they’ll have to spend less than $500K on their next sole-source contracts with equity consultants.

So it's fine for FCPS and all the other school districts to rebudget due to Youngkin's inability to count? That's fine, in your world?

Absolutely it is fine.

Do you realize how much money fcps spends for outside data mining companies to conduct surveys on our minor kids?

Rebudget and get rid of all the wasteful spending the district sends to outside consultants and redirect the money back to teacher pay and students.

We spend so much money paying these companies to mine out kids data without parent permission. It is criminal.

While this was posted in the FCPS forum, it's a statewide issue. Do you disdain all the other Virginia school districts as much as Fairfax? Or only here?

Just about every Democratic politician from Fairfax runs for office asserting that NoVa isn't getting its fair share of state funding. So let's not pretend you're worried about how this is going to affect Lee or Wise County, OK? Y'all are already the biggest phonies on the planet.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a $13M difference for FCPS, which has an annual budget in excess of $3 billion.

I think FCPS can handle it. Maybe they’ll have to spend less than $500K on their next sole-source contracts with equity consultants.

Cool, go through the FCPS budget and tell us what lines items you would cut for existing commitments to make up the gap.

Start with the surveys fcps pays outside consultants to conduct. I think we are up to 10 a year (it might be more) with most of these surveys asking very intimate questions of our kids by companies not governed by FERPA, without parent informed consent (all are opt out, not opt in/permkssion required). Millions could be saved by eliminating all or most of the surveys.

Do the middle schoolw still do the Positivity Project? Get rid of that. The kids hate it and thought what the staff and student groups did prior to the positivity prlject were mucb better (and free).

FCPS spends a ton on outside equity consultants who have such great ideas as showing videos to high school students that imply white kids and cops are nothing but mosquitos that should be shot with what looks like a machine gun by non white kids (this past week at our kids high school). Stop paying the morons who come up with that kind of thing.

The facebook affiliate (Leadership Academy???) That contract is worth millions. Our brilliant school board broke the contract into dozens of smaller contracts under $200,000 so it would be harder to track and so the contract would not have to go under public scrutiny before signing. Collectively, the contrqct is multi year, worth millions, and allows them to monetize our kids private information with no FERPA oversight. Cut that terrible relationship.

You can’t just speculate “millions,” you have support that with evidence.

The millions was published online 3 years ago when the contracts were signed. I would have to do a lot of digging but it is public information.

That one contract was borken intl many small contracts that were collectively worth millions. It is public information.

IOW, you can’t find it.

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Anonymous wrote:Republicans always talk about how there's no budget problem if we reduce taxes.... now we know how they do it! They just don't adjust the accounting until after they implement the tax cuts!

To them this isn’t a problem- it’s the system working as intended. Cut money to public services so they become unusable, then privatize it so they and their buddies get rich. It’s a win for them and who cares about everyone else.

Exactly.

Anonymous wrote:Republicans always talk about how there's no budget problem if we reduce taxes.... now we know how they do it! They just don't adjust the accounting until after they implement the tax cuts!

To them this isn’t a problem- it’s the system working as intended. Cut money to public services so they become unusable, then privatize it so they and their buddies get rich. It’s a win for them and who cares about everyone else.

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has over 2 billion dollar budget.

They planned to spend millions this yewr making fancy bathrooms in the football stadiums and replacing all the turf fields.

I think those were wasteful expenses and a great place to cut to make up the difference.

Capital improvements and operations are typically different budgets

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Anonymous wrote:This is a $13M difference for FCPS, which has an annual budget in excess of $3 billion.

I think FCPS can handle it. Maybe they’ll have to spend less than $500K on their next sole-source contracts with equity consultants.

Cool, go through the FCPS budget and tell us what lines items you would cut for existing commitments to make up the gap.

Start with the surveys fcps pays outside consultants to conduct. I think we are up to 10 a year (it might be more) with most of these surveys asking very intimate questions of our kids by companies not governed by FERPA, without parent informed consent (all are opt out, not opt in/permkssion required). Millions could be saved by eliminating all or most of the surveys.

Do the middle schoolw still do the Positivity Project? Get rid of that. The kids hate it and thought what the staff and student groups did prior to the positivity prlject were mucb better (and free).

FCPS spends a ton on outside equity consultants who have such great ideas as showing videos to high school students that imply white kids and cops are nothing but mosquitos that should be shot with what looks like a machine gun by non white kids (this past week at our kids high school). Stop paying the morons who come up with that kind of thing.

The facebook affiliate (Leadership Academy???) That contract is worth millions. Our brilliant school board broke the contract into dozens of smaller contracts under $200,000 so it would be harder to track and so the contract would not have to go under public scrutiny before signing. Collectively, the contrqct is multi year, worth millions, and allows them to monetize our kids private information with no FERPA oversight. Cut that terrible relationship.

You can’t just speculate “millions,” you have support that with evidence.

The millions was published online 3 years ago when the contracts were signed. I would have to do a lot of digging but it is public information.

That one contract was borken intl many small contracts that were collectively worth millions. It is public information.

Anonymous wrote:Everh dollar spent by fcps on outside consultants and surveys is a dollar taken from students and teacher salaries.

Maybe they need consultants to figure out to deal with idiotic parents who are anti-“CRT”.

Everh dollar spent by fcps on outside consultants and surveys is a dollar taken from students and teacher salaries.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a $13M difference for FCPS, which has an annual budget in excess of $3 billion.

I think FCPS can handle it. Maybe they’ll have to spend less than $500K on their next sole-source contracts with equity consultants.

Cool, go through the FCPS budget and tell us what lines items you would cut for existing commitments to make up the gap.

Start with the surveys fcps pays outside consultants to conduct. I think we are up to 10 a year (it might be more) with most of these surveys asking very intimate questions of our kids by companies not governed by FERPA, without parent informed consent (all are opt out, not opt in/permkssion required). Millions could be saved by eliminating all or most of the surveys.

Do the middle schoolw still do the Positivity Project? Get rid of that. The kids hate it and thought what the staff and student groups did prior to the positivity prlject were mucb better (and free).

FCPS spends a ton on outside equity consultants who have such great ideas as showing videos to high school students that imply white kids and cops are nothing but mosquitos that should be shot with what looks like a machine gun by non white kids (this past week at our kids high school). Stop paying the morons who come up with that kind of thing.

The facebook affiliate (Leadership Academy???) That contract is worth millions. Our brilliant school board broke the contract into dozens of smaller contracts under $200,000 so it would be harder to track and so the contract would not have to go under public scrutiny before signing. Collectively, the contrqct is multi year, worth millions, and allows them to monetize our kids private information with no FERPA oversight. Cut that terrible relationship.

You can’t just speculate “millions,” you have support that with evidence.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a $13M difference for FCPS, which has an annual budget in excess of $3 billion.

I think FCPS can handle it. Maybe they’ll have to spend less than $500K on their next sole-source contracts with equity consultants.

Cool, go through the FCPS budget and tell us what lines items you would cut for existing commitments to make up the gap.

Start with the surveys fcps pays outside consultants to conduct. I think we are up to 10 a year (it might be more) with most of these surveys asking very intimate questions of our kids by companies not governed by FERPA, without parent informed consent (all are opt out, not opt in/permkssion required). Millions could be saved by eliminating all or most of the surveys.

Do the middle schoolw still do the Positivity Project? Get rid of that. The kids hate it and thought what the staff and student groups did prior to the positivity prlject were mucb better (and free).

FCPS spends a ton on outside equity consultants who have such great ideas as showing videos to high school students that imply white kids and cops are nothing but mosquitos that should be shot with what looks like a machine gun by non white kids (this past week at our kids high school). Stop paying the morons who come up with that kind of thing.

The facebook affiliate (Leadership Academy???) That contract is worth millions. Our brilliant school board broke the contract into dozens of smaller contracts under $200,000 so it would be harder to track and so the contract would not have to go under public scrutiny before signing. Collectively, the contrqct is multi year, worth millions, and allows them to monetize our kids private information with no FERPA oversight. Cut that terrible relationship.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a $13M difference for FCPS, which has an annual budget in excess of $3 billion.

I think FCPS can handle it. Maybe they’ll have to spend less than $500K on their next sole-source contracts with equity consultants.

So it's fine for FCPS and all the other school districts to rebudget due to Youngkin's inability to count? That's fine, in your world?

Absolutely it is fine.

Do you realize how much money fcps spends for outside data mining companies to conduct surveys on our minor kids?

Rebudget and get rid of all the wasteful spending the district sends to outside consultants and redirect the money back to teacher pay and students.

We spend so much money paying these companies to mine out kids data without parent permission. It is criminal.

While this was posted in the FCPS forum, it's a statewide issue. Do you disdain all the other Virginia school districts as much as Fairfax? Or only here?

+1. I wonder what pp would propose cutting from school budgets in southwest Virginia.

PP doesn’t actually care about education. Just wants to trash FCPS for political purposes.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a $13M difference for FCPS, which has an annual budget in excess of $3 billion.

I think FCPS can handle it. Maybe they’ll have to spend less than $500K on their next sole-source contracts with equity consultants.

Cool, go through the FCPS budget and tell us what lines items you would cut for existing commitments to make up the gap.

Football stadium cosmetic upgrades.

Surveys. Cut all of them.

Outside equity consultants and student data mining programs. This would result in enough savings to make up the difference without anyone missing a single moment of learning. Heck, the kids will have morre time to devote to stem and language. And teachers could probable get a small bonus from the money fcps would save.

Bingo. So much money gets wasted on outside consultants. They could give the entire $202 million to FCPS and they'd still leave kids in trailers and cheap modulars while wasting money on third-party consultants who add no value. It's simply a way for incumbent School Board members to tout their commitment to "equity."

Until you provide numbers to support them, these comments are meaningless.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a $13M difference for FCPS, which has an annual budget in excess of $3 billion.

I think FCPS can handle it. Maybe they’ll have to spend less than $500K on their next sole-source contracts with equity consultants.

Cool, go through the FCPS budget and tell us what lines items you would cut for existing commitments to make up the gap.

Football stadium cosmetic upgrades.

Surveys. Cut all of them.

Outside equity consultants and student data mining programs. This would result in enough savings to make up the difference without anyone missing a single moment of learning. Heck, the kids will have morre time to devote to stem and language. And teachers could probable get a small bonus from the money fcps would save.

Bingo. So much money gets wasted on outside consultants. They could give the entire $202 million to FCPS and they'd still leave kids in trailers and cheap modulars while wasting money on third-party consultants who add no value. It's simply a way for incumbent School Board members to tout their commitment to "equity."