Anonymous
07/07/2021 10:25
Subject: Places to Sign Recall Petitions - Tholen/Omeish/Cohen
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There’s now a rumor going around on Twitter that schools are going to start hybrid in the fall - 3 days/2 days for groups in alternating weeks. So get out and sign those petitions and maybe we can avoid this. The pro-openers like MM and KCS are denying it but the rumor is out there.
Yeah, it”s just a rumor. There is no way they would get away with that.
Stop your paranoia. That is not happening and to spread such nonsense is ridiculous. Teachers have been told we are going back five days a week.
Anonymous
07/07/2021 10:18
Subject: Re:Places to Sign Recall Petitions - Tholen/Omeish/Cohen
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:When ARE school board re-elections? If the recalls don’t work, how long will these people serve?
2023.
You'd have to have more courage than Tholen has ever shown on the SB to be the subject of a recall that got enough signatures to go to court and still run for re-election in two years.
Anonymous
07/07/2021 10:10
Subject: Places to Sign Recall Petitions - Tholen/Omeish/Cohen
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There’s now a rumor going around on Twitter that schools are going to start hybrid in the fall - 3 days/2 days for groups in alternating weeks. So get out and sign those petitions and maybe we can avoid this. The pro-openers like MM and KCS are denying it but the rumor is out there.
Yeah, it”s just a rumor. There is no way they would get away with that.
I'd like to hear from one teacher who would like this arrangement - one. It doesn't increase their planning time, but now they have more work to do for two groups (if the off days are async) or they have to do concurrent (if the off days are synchronous remote).
It does seem like most teachers would like 5 days in person - it’s what they’re used to and is also most effective for the vast majority of kids. It’s the administrators and the unions (oh, I’m sorry, “organizations”) which seem to be pushing for distancing to continue into this coming SY, which would lead to hybrid becoming a necessity.
Anonymous
07/07/2021 10:04
Subject: Re:Places to Sign Recall Petitions - Tholen/Omeish/Cohen
Anonymous wrote:When ARE school board re-elections? If the recalls don’t work, how long will these people serve?
2023.
Anonymous
07/07/2021 10:01
Subject: Places to Sign Recall Petitions - Tholen/Omeish/Cohen
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There’s now a rumor going around on Twitter that schools are going to start hybrid in the fall - 3 days/2 days for groups in alternating weeks. So get out and sign those petitions and maybe we can avoid this. The pro-openers like MM and KCS are denying it but the rumor is out there.
Yeah, it”s just a rumor. There is no way they would get away with that.
I'd like to hear from one teacher who would like this arrangement - one. It doesn't increase their planning time, but now they have more work to do for two groups (if the off days are async) or they have to do concurrent (if the off days are synchronous remote).
Anonymous
07/07/2021 10:00
Subject: Re:Places to Sign Recall Petitions - Tholen/Omeish/Cohen
When ARE school board re-elections? If the recalls don’t work, how long will these people serve?
Anonymous
07/07/2021 09:59
Subject: Places to Sign Recall Petitions - Tholen/Omeish/Cohen
Anonymous wrote:There’s now a rumor going around on Twitter that schools are going to start hybrid in the fall - 3 days/2 days for groups in alternating weeks. So get out and sign those petitions and maybe we can avoid this. The pro-openers like MM and KCS are denying it but the rumor is out there.
Yeah, it”s just a rumor. There is no way they would get away with that.
Anonymous
07/07/2021 09:29
Subject: Places to Sign Recall Petitions - Tholen/Omeish/Cohen
There’s now a rumor going around on Twitter that schools are going to start hybrid in the fall - 3 days/2 days for groups in alternating weeks. So get out and sign those petitions and maybe we can avoid this. The pro-openers like MM and KCS are denying it but the rumor is out there.
Anonymous
07/07/2021 07:41
Subject: Places to Sign Recall Petitions - Tholen/Omeish/Cohen
Anonymous wrote:It is so unseemly to buy your kids out of the effect of school being closed (private teacher, socializing in a pod, socializing and exercising on a travel soccer team) while denying less well off peoples kids the same opportunities. She’s disgusting.
+1000
Anonymous
07/07/2021 07:38
Subject: Re:Places to Sign Recall Petitions - Tholen/Omeish/Cohen
It’s the hypocrisy that will be the undoing of these clowns. You also have Tholen claiming to support equity and then cherry-picking only expensive SFHs to move to Langley and Sizemore-Heizer claiming everyone needed to hunker down last year but then posing pictures of her family’s vacation to Florida. Along with Meren’s pod, Frisch’s dog park, Omeish’s traffic violations and exhortations to jihad, Keys Gamarra’s vanity project to open a new “social justice” academy at Lewis, and Corbett Sanders’ $50M boondoggle at West Potomac, these folks can’t stop embarrassing themselves.
Anonymous
07/07/2021 00:18
Subject: Places to Sign Recall Petitions - Tholen/Omeish/Cohen
It is so unseemly to buy your kids out of the effect of school being closed (private teacher, socializing in a pod, socializing and exercising on a travel soccer team) while denying less well off peoples kids the same opportunities. She’s disgusting.
Anonymous
07/07/2021 00:12
Subject: Re:Places to Sign Recall Petitions - Tholen/Omeish/Cohen
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So do they now have enough signatures to at least trigger the recall process for Tholen? She is just as bad as Frisch.
I’ll see your Frisch and raise you a Meren. 💤
I would sign for Maren JUST BECAUSE she did not want kids in school all last year, BUT hired a private tutor and had a "pod" for her own child. (FCPS virtual learning was good enough for YOUR kids, but not HERS). She also swore school wasn't safe for kids but then let her own kid play travel soccer. OK for me, but not for thee!
I don’t care about any of that. Most families we know in the area had pods and most were a disaster. I don’t know how hers went. They were not a manic replacement for being in school. I didn’t want my kids in person for the majority of the year and they played soccer. Soccer is outside. School was inside. I’m not sure why so many people are upset over the pod. I didn’t hear anything positive about any pod. They were paid babysitters. Actual teachers refused to take any of these jobs.
The point is she was totally on Board with keeping schools closed because school wasn’t safe. But what FCPS was offering everyone wasn’t good enough for her kids! They needed a private teacher.
And if she genuinely believes school was unsafe, she should have been doing her part to lower community transmission and get schools open, which would preclude traveling around for kids soccer.
Anonymous
07/06/2021 22:48
Subject: Places to Sign Recall Petitions - Tholen/Omeish/Cohen
Anonymous wrote:The "people" elected these individuals. They will (or won't) run for re-election. That will be the time to decide their fate. These individuals have not conducted themselves in any manner to warrant any sort of impeachment.
Just go away......already.
Please take your own advice and stop clicking on a thread in which you have no interest. Bye!
Anonymous
07/06/2021 22:46
Subject: Places to Sign Recall Petitions - Tholen/Omeish/Cohen
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What about Omeish? I still haven’t been able to sign her petition and I would very much like to.
About 12,000 of 27,000 have been gathered, I believe. I assume more events will be posted once they are past the flurry of counting for Tholen here: https://openfcpscoalition.org/events
You can also email and ask here: openfcpscoalition@gmail.com
Considering the signings have only been in 2 districts, that number for Omeisch is very solid. They should easily get her number once they start having signing events in all the other districts.
Getting to almost half her required numbers in only 2 districts is pretty impressive. Those moms have been working very hard. We all owe them a debt of gratitude.
+100
Anonymous
07/06/2021 22:45
Subject: Places to Sign Recall Petitions - Tholen/Omeish/Cohen
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why are you focused on these two?
Karl is the worst of the bunch. He doesn’t care about kids at all.
I don’t think you should be allowed on the SB if you don’t have kids in FCPS.
They went with the members who needed the fewest signatures first. I agree Karl is terrible though.
That is half the reason.
The other reason is that the parents who initiated the recall positions were mostly residents in Tholen and Cohen's district.
They started with their own school board reps. Many of those volunteer parents doing the heavy work in the beginning were mostly from the local areas covered by the petitions. There has to be some level of local support to get the petitions publicized and signed. Cohen and Tholen's area both had a large number of parents willing to work on it.
If you are in Karl's zone and are ready to get involved, reach out to that group. I am sure that they would be happy to help your friends and neighbors with a petition to recall Karl.
+1
I love how some parents are happy just to sit back and let others do the heavy lifting. Absolutely, there should be a recall petition for Karl (and the others). The parents who live in those districts need to get on it themselves.