Anonymous wrote:OPENFCPS PEOPLE and their twitter rumors are absurd. Shut up, Joanne and Rory Bory.

From what I've read, there was a specific proposal recently before the National Education Association to require “mandatory safe and effective COVID-19 vaccinations and testing for all students and staff before returning to face-to-face instruction in the fall.” The proposal appears to have been rejected or at least downplayed by the NEA for now, but having watched teachers' organizations in Fairfax lobby to keep schools closed last year it would hardly be surprising if this raised a red flag for local parents here.

Anonymous wrote:Why couldn't they just repurpose one of the schools already in that area? There are a ton of them.

If you're talking about Frisch, Shrevewood is overcrowded and other elementary schools that feed into the same MS/HS (Kilmer/Marshall) had capacity. He could have arranged for immediate relief at Shrevewood starting this fall by moving part of Shrevewood to Stenwood, and part of Stenwood to Freedom Hill. The Dunn Loring site was one of two former elementary schools (the other being Pimmit Hills) that FCPS had suggested might be repurposed in a decade or so.

Instead, Frisch took money earmarked for a new elementary school in Oakton at Blake Lane Park and got the others on the School Board to agree it could be used to accelerate the renovation of Dunn Loring. So the Shrevewood families will have to wait years for overcrowding relief, and more families - especially those now at Stenwood - will end up redistricted than would have otherwise been necessary to address the overcrowding at Shrevewood. Why do this? Because a few dozen active Democrats, many without children, wanted Blake Lane Park to remain a dog park, not a school site.

It's obscene that he prioritized his friends over his constituents, and what's even worse is that other School Board members have done things just as bone-headed. He did get a few Shrevewood parents to support his scheme, which involved the rest of the School Board closing their eyes and pretending that money dedicated to building a new school in "Fairfax/Oakton" could just as readily be used to renovate a school over five miles away in Dunn Loring, but one suspects that their enthusiasm will wane once they realize how long it's going to take to renovate Dunn Loring and adjust the boundaries at multiple schools in their pyramid.

Why couldn't they just repurpose one of the schools already in that area? There are a ton of them.

OPENFCPS PEOPLE and their twitter rumors are absurd. Shut up, Joanne and Rory Bory.

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Anonymous wrote:How does one SB member get to screw over the location of a new school? How do that possible?

https://www.saveblakelanepark.org/

Frisch helped his buddies by moving the walkable neighborhood site for the new elementary school that was supposed to be put in at Blake Lane Dog Park, to an abandoned commercial building in a Dunn Loring industrial park.

Palchik made it happen on the Board of Supervisors end.

It is abhorrent what these two did, especially Frisch whose role is to represent the students, not his political cronies and a bunch of childless dog owners.

In doing this, he not only screwed over the families that live in THAT area, he also repurposed the money that was supposed to go to that school to create a new school in Dunn Loring that NO ONE ASKED FOR. Shrevewood parents asked him for help in moving forward a zoning study and boundary changes that were promised to us two years ago and was in the CIP to be implemented this year, and instead he repurposed this money to renovate the Dunn Loring School, which will be ready in 5-10 years, when all of our kids are out of elementary and the school is projected to be at least 25% over capacity. We have an entire grade plus some specials out in trailers now, and he expects us to wait 5-10 years longer??? He's an asz.

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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.

Probably a rumor planted by openfcps to keep their outrage machine pumping.

This. Having trouble scrounging up enough signatures for your politically-motivated temper tantrum so now you’re shifting to new lies and so-called rumors to fuel the effort? In your own words, keep moving that goal post, openFCPS. I’m no fan of this school board but the openFCPS folks are absurd.

Ah, you’re back. You just can’t manage to quit this thread, can you?

Anonymous wrote: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.

Best summary I’ve seen! And brutal. These hypocritical, sanctimonious twits have to go.

Where did this rumor originate?

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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.

Probably a rumor planted by openfcps to keep their outrage machine pumping.

This. Having trouble scrounging up enough signatures for your politically-motivated temper tantrum so now you’re shifting to new lies and so-called rumors to fuel the effort? In your own words, keep moving that goal post, openFCPS. I’m no fan of this school board but the openFCPS folks are absurd.

You're not a fan of this school board, but are happy to let others do all the work to make a change?

Nice try. You sound like quite the community passivist.

You can’t just say these things without evidence. Otherwise you are just spreading lies. Teachers are looking forward to seeing students five days a week in person.

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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.

Probably a rumor planted by openfcps to keep their outrage machine pumping.

This. Having trouble scrounging up enough signatures for your politically-motivated temper tantrum so now you’re shifting to new lies and so-called rumors to fuel the effort? In your own words, keep moving that goal post, openFCPS. I’m no fan of this school board but the openFCPS folks are absurd.

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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.

Well under the current rumor the teachers would be going back 5 days, it’s just the students who wouldn’t be. I don’t want to split hairs too much but the way I read it, the 3 days/2 days would have the teachers in the building full time and the students get 3 or 2 days on alternating weeks.

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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.

Probably a rumor planted by openfcps to keep their outrage machine pumping.

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.

Probably a rumor planted by openfcps to keep their outrage machine pumping.

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).

Exactly. As a teacher, I will be infuriated if they try to do hybrid in the fall. We need to get everyone who can be vaccinated, vaccinated, and get back to regular school.