Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I won't vote for you if you are endorsed by a party whose leading candidate for the presidential nomination has been indicted on 90+ charges (including felonies), has recently stated (along with other members of the party) that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should be hung for protecting the Constitution and that he will investigate news outlets if elected. That's just the tip of the iceberg, pulling from recent events.

Party is as party does.

So true, which is why the current Democratic-dominated SB is so representative of the LWNJ faction of the Democratic party. Party definitely is as party does.

What’s your alternative?

Voting for the Republican candidates - duh. This isn't about Trump, so don't try and deflect. This is about bringing some much-needed sanity to the SCHOOL BOARD.

So you want to elect the nuts who stormed the Capitol? That’s “sanity”?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I won't vote for you if you are endorsed by a party whose leading candidate for the presidential nomination has been indicted on 90+ charges (including felonies), has recently stated (along with other members of the party) that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should be hung for protecting the Constitution and that he will investigate news outlets if elected. That's just the tip of the iceberg, pulling from recent events.

Party is as party does.

So true, which is why the current Democratic-dominated SB is so representative of the LWNJ faction of the Democratic party. Party definitely is as party does.

What’s your alternative?

Voting for the Republican candidates - duh. This isn't about Trump, so don't try and deflect. This is about bringing some much-needed sanity to the SCHOOL BOARD.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I won't vote for you if you are endorsed by a party whose leading candidate for the presidential nomination has been indicted on 90+ charges (including felonies), has recently stated (along with other members of the party) that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should be hung for protecting the Constitution and that he will investigate news outlets if elected. That's just the tip of the iceberg, pulling from recent events.

Party is as party does.

So true, which is why the current Democratic-dominated SB is so representative of the LWNJ faction of the Democratic party. Party definitely is as party does.

What’s your alternative?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Democrats gave us Lucy Calkins and her failed reading and writing programs. Republicans pushed back and now finally phonics is a large part of early reading and spelling again.

Lucy Calkins is horrible. Can you explain who pushed back and brought back phonics?

There were numerous advocates and when conservatives pushed for this they were ignored. But when the Fairfax NAACP also made it a priority they were heard.

+100
Disgraceful.

Anonymous wrote:I won't vote for you if you are endorsed by a party whose leading candidate for the presidential nomination has been indicted on 90+ charges (including felonies), has recently stated (along with other members of the party) that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should be hung for protecting the Constitution and that he will investigate news outlets if elected. That's just the tip of the iceberg, pulling from recent events.

Party is as party does.

So true, which is why the current Democratic-dominated SB is so representative of the LWNJ faction of the Democratic party. Party definitely is as party does.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too bad it’s the Democrats who shrugged as SAT scores plummeted, kids deprived of their normal social development opportunities had mental health crises, and kids returned to school in buildings that were falling apart.

I hear the facilities at Gatehouse are really nice, though.

Lies, lies, and more lies.

Sad that you can't make a point without lying.

You don’t have kids in FCPS. Do you?

I have a kid in HS in FCPS. And I see SEL efforts and budget constraints, no shrugging.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too bad it’s the Democrats who shrugged as SAT scores plummeted, kids deprived of their normal social development opportunities had mental health crises, and kids returned to school in buildings that were falling apart.

I hear the facilities at Gatehouse are really nice, though.

Lies, lies, and more lies.

Sad that you can't make a point without lying.

You don’t have kids in FCPS. Do you?

Anonymous wrote:Too bad it’s the Democrats who shrugged as SAT scores plummeted, kids deprived of their normal social development opportunities had mental health crises, and kids returned to school in buildings that were falling apart.

I hear the facilities at Gatehouse are really nice, though.

Lies, lies, and more lies.

Sad that you can't make a point without lying.

Too bad it’s the Democrats who shrugged as SAT scores plummeted, kids deprived of their normal social development opportunities had mental health crises, and kids returned to school in buildings that were falling apart.

I hear the facilities at Gatehouse are really nice, though.

Anonymous wrote:I won't vote for you if you are endorsed by a party whose leading candidate for the presidential nomination has been indicted on 90+ charges (including felonies), has recently stated (along with other members of the party) that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should be hung for protecting the Constitution and that he will investigate news outlets if elected. That's just the tip of the iceberg, pulling from recent events.

Party is as party does.

+1

We don't need any more crazies trying to tear everything down.

I won't vote for you if you are endorsed by a party whose leading candidate for the presidential nomination has been indicted on 90+ charges (including felonies), has recently stated (along with other members of the party) that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should be hung for protecting the Constitution and that he will investigate news outlets if elected. That's just the tip of the iceberg, pulling from recent events.

Party is as party does.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Democrats gave us Lucy Calkins and her failed reading and writing programs. Republicans pushed back and now finally phonics is a large part of early reading and spelling again.

Lucy Calkins is horrible. Can you explain who pushed back and brought back phonics?

There were numerous advocates and when conservatives pushed for this they were ignored. But when the Fairfax NAACP also made it a priority they were heard.

The fairfax NAACP (90% white) made the original push against phonics. They don’t get credit for being a part of the solution for a problem they helped create.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Democrats gave us Lucy Calkins and her failed reading and writing programs. Republicans pushed back and now finally phonics is a large part of early reading and spelling again.

Lucy Calkins is horrible. Can you explain who pushed back and brought back phonics?

There were numerous advocates and when conservatives pushed for this they were ignored. But when the Fairfax NAACP also made it a priority they were heard.

Most conservative private schools have better language programs than fcps. Yes. They tend to be more white and wealthy and therefore have a better history teaching the language. From the start of the Calkins program, people who understood the rules of language, majority who were conservatives, pushed back against the loose non-grammar based Calkins curriculum like they are now doing against the math curriculum which is also being watered down. It was only after studies showed that a decade of learning hurt the lowest performers and not just the higher performing students, that anyone on the left started to care or realized they couldn’t hide behind inaction anymore. The same is true now for skills based grading. It’s been shown in Baltimore to have lowered the scores of the entire city. An entire city cannot pass a national math test and their language skills are also very low. Anyone who understands how children learn material and have seen average students with a systematic curriculum can see that it’s detrimental to learning to have little to no structure in educational teaching. The majority of students do not magically do well on exams by doing no individual practice or getting no individual feedback and they do not magically do better on a second exam about a new topic without first understanding the topic they didn’t pass before. They also don’t learn that previous topic better by changing grades from the past. People who understand the slow but methodical steps of educational growth can easily see the fault with only grading exams once a month and nothing else. They are smartly skeptical of new fads preferring them to be introduced in moderation and to complement previous methods while keeping the best of the old whereas new fad is the only way liberal education works jumping from one thing to the other. Liberals think that they need to cater to their base in education and so often bring out a new program saying it will help the poor or is non racist whereas conservatives are focusing on tried and true methods which have worked for the majority of students over time. They don’t buy into this idea that our educational model was to indoctrinate children to be societies worker bees. They understand it was to help develop students minds. A blend of both produces an educational system that is both changing with the times and holding on to the non changing aspects of human development related to how children learn. You can see this at the political level as well. Liberals are always about new and change. We need a balanced board who cares about education and understands this and isn’t constantly jumping around from one thing to the other with no real depth of understanding how they are changing education.

Anonymous wrote:Debra Tisler is not moderate!! She was endorsed by Moms for Liberty. She keeps the crazy hidden, but her beliefs are extreme.

I could actually vote for moderate Republicans, if there were any, because I think it’s good to have a variety of viewpoints on the SB. I’m leaning toward Saundra Davis for At-Large, but she makes me nervous too.

There are no moderate Republicans. The ones y’all think are “moderate” believe the same things as the rest of the party, but don’t want to say them out loud.

Anyway, when that awful HS teacher running for delegate or state senate loses badly maybe you can recruit her for school board so she can keep posting videos of LGBTQ children from her class to make fun of.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Democrats gave us Lucy Calkins and her failed reading and writing programs. Republicans pushed back and now finally phonics is a large part of early reading and spelling again.

Lucy Calkins is horrible. Can you explain who pushed back and brought back phonics?

There were numerous advocates and when conservatives pushed for this they were ignored. But when the Fairfax NAACP also made it a priority they were heard.