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Anonymous wrote:I'm not ever voting R again in local elections. While Tholen overpromised and underdelivered, she's not taking away civil rights.

It’s this type of pre-emptive nonsense that leads to FCPS’s continued decline.

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Some of the key players in that group are GOP operatives, they have an agenda and it’s to get people to vote Republican.

Maybe true. But, how about the FLE Committee composed of Democrat activists and political cronies?
Does that bother you?

We need middle ground and we are not getting it.

I should have been more specific. My concern is that this group is trying to create a lot of parental angst about the FCPS, not specifically to change the composition of the school board to R - they’d like to do that too but I don’t think that’s their primary agenda. They want parents mad at Dems so they vote GOP in statewide etc races. It’s the playbook that elected Youngkin. There’s a breathless “OMG look at FCPS failing our students again, it’s an outrage!” about any little incident they can exploit. I’m

Personally, I wish school board wasn’t partisan in any sense but in the age of so much divisiveness that’s probably a pipe dream.

I don't know the people in this group. From what I read online, there appears to be some divisiveness there. I think they have become political activists because of the actions and inactions of our School Board. I think it began with closed schools--and then people started paying more attention to what our School Board does.

I think most people in Fairfax County have no idea what is going on. Local news reporting is almost non-existent except for social media--and that usually comes through "echo chambers." WAPO is a propaganda piece for the School Board. Fairfax Times is the reverse for Asra.

It seems to me that there are lots of "stovepipe issues." These all have good reasons for being activists--but some go to the extreme. I'll leave off the names of the people i think to be leaders.
Examples:
1. The autistic group--everything is about Special ED. They have some good reasons to be in this group, but have gone to the extreme at the expense of the average child.
2. The Pride Group--Used to be in support of gays--now the main focus is trans in opposition to those who want separate bathrooms and for girls sports to be limited to biological girls. Proponents of mixed gender FLE. Many of the FLE members are in this group.
3. The Open Schools people who have now joined other groups in opposition

4. The Everything is racist groups--they have strong support on the SB. Lots of talk, but no concrete solutions other than to scream about it. Anything to avoid the hard solutions--which, to me, means help the kids where they are with instruction and quit paying money for cosmetic solutions. Some of these people think that shifting boundaries will solve the problem--it won't. It never does. It just covers it up.
The "Equity" push is their mantra.

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Anonymous wrote:Whoever runs their Twitter account must also work for the Daily Mail. That was the most non-newsworthy Tweet ever. Why Tweet if you are not going to post the video? (Hint: Because it was probably not disturbing, but saying it was sounds super bad.)

Some of the key players in that group are GOP operatives, they have an agenda and it’s to get people to vote Republican.

Not true but can’t wait to vote a straight R ticket and get these fools off the SB ✌️

I don't see much evidence the Rs are fielding SB candidates in at least half the magisterial districts. And some of these Rs and Is? Meren may be a flake but she'll demolish Jackson in the Hunter Mill race, assuming she gets endorsed again. Plus, if Dranesville even has a Republican candidate, it's a closely held secret.

Fairfax GOP will likely endorse Paul Bartkowski in Dranesville. He will be a strong choice for those looking for balance on a school board with a super-majority of Democrats for the past 8+ years.

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I hate that political parties endorse school board members at all. But since most are endorsed by the Fairfax Democrats apparatus, I'll be voting for the GOP endorsed candidate.

Just do everyone a favor and move to Florida, then.

DP. You do know the current School Board got elected in Fairfax but then spent four years pretending they all lived in San Francisco.

Good riddance to THEM!

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Anonymous wrote:Whoever runs their Twitter account must also work for the Daily Mail. That was the most non-newsworthy Tweet ever. Why Tweet if you are not going to post the video? (Hint: Because it was probably not disturbing, but saying it was sounds super bad.)

Some of the key players in that group are GOP operatives, they have an agenda and it’s to get people to vote Republican.

Not true but can’t wait to vote a straight R ticket and get these fools off the SB ✌️

I don't see much evidence the Rs are fielding SB candidates in at least half the magisterial districts. And some of these Rs and Is? Meren may be a flake but she'll demolish Jackson in the Hunter Mill race, assuming she gets endorsed again. Plus, if Dranesville even has a Republican candidate, it's a closely held secret.

Fairfax GOP will likely endorse Paul Bartkowski in Dranesville. He will be a strong choice for those looking for balance on a school board with a super-majority of Democrats for the past 8+ years.

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I hate that political parties endorse school board members at all. But since most are endorsed by the Fairfax Democrats apparatus, I'll be voting for the GOP endorsed candidate.

Just do everyone a favor and move to Florida, then.

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I think there are people on the right who want to defund public schools

I find it difficult to believe that anyone running for the School Board wants to defund public schools. i think it is a great talking point for the left.

Believe it https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/group-tied-to-charter-school-backers-spent-thousands-in-va-school-board-election/2018/11/24/2a11fbc0-e696-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html

This article is behind a firewall and appears to be five years old. What jurisdiction was involved?

Anonymous wrote:I'm not ever voting R again in local elections. While Tholen overpromised and underdelivered, she's not taking away civil rights.

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I think there are people on the right who want to defund public schools

I find it difficult to believe that anyone running for the School Board wants to defund public schools. i think it is a great talking point for the left.

Believe it https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/group-tied-to-charter-school-backers-spent-thousands-in-va-school-board-election/2018/11/24/2a11fbc0-e696-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html

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I think there are people on the right who want to defund public schools

I find it difficult to believe that anyone running for the School Board wants to defund public schools. i think it is a great talking point for the left.

I think there are people on the right who want to defund public schools

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Anonymous wrote:Whoever runs their Twitter account must also work for the Daily Mail. That was the most non-newsworthy Tweet ever. Why Tweet if you are not going to post the video? (Hint: Because it was probably not disturbing, but saying it was sounds super bad.)

Some of the key players in that group are GOP operatives, they have an agenda and it’s to get people to vote Republican.

Not true but can’t wait to vote a straight R ticket and get these fools off the SB ✌️

I don't see much evidence the Rs are fielding SB candidates in at least half the magisterial districts. And some of these Rs and Is? Meren may be a flake but she'll demolish Jackson in the Hunter Mill race, assuming she gets endorsed again. Plus, if Dranesville even has a Republican candidate, it's a closely held secret.

Fairfax GOP will likely endorse Paul Bartkowski in Dranesville. He will be a strong choice for those looking for balance on a school board with a super-majority of Democrats for the past 8+ years.

How do you know he will be a strong choice? Most Republicans seem to want to de-fund public schools so their private education companies can profit off the backs of our kids.

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Anonymous wrote:

Some of the key players in that group are GOP operatives, they have an agenda and it’s to get people to vote Republican.

Maybe true. But, how about the FLE Committee composed of Democrat activists and political cronies?
Does that bother you?

We need middle ground and we are not getting it.

I should have been more specific. My concern is that this group is trying to create a lot of parental angst about the FCPS, not specifically to change the composition of the school board to R - they’d like to do that too but I don’t think that’s their primary agenda. They want parents mad at Dems so they vote GOP in statewide etc races. It’s the playbook that elected Youngkin. There’s a breathless “OMG look at FCPS failing our students again, it’s an outrage!” about any little incident they can exploit. I’m

Personally, I wish school board wasn’t partisan in any sense but in the age of so much divisiveness that’s probably a pipe dream.

+!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whoever runs their Twitter account must also work for the Daily Mail. That was the most non-newsworthy Tweet ever. Why Tweet if you are not going to post the video? (Hint: Because it was probably not disturbing, but saying it was sounds super bad.)

Some of the key players in that group are GOP operatives, they have an agenda and it’s to get people to vote Republican.

Not true but can’t wait to vote a straight R ticket and get these fools off the SB ✌️

I don't see much evidence the Rs are fielding SB candidates in at least half the magisterial districts. And some of these Rs and Is? Meren may be a flake but she'll demolish Jackson in the Hunter Mill race, assuming she gets endorsed again. Plus, if Dranesville even has a Republican candidate, it's a closely held secret.

Fairfax GOP will likely endorse Paul Bartkowski in Dranesville. He will be a strong choice for those looking for balance on a school board with a super-majority of Democrats for the past 8+ years.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Some of the key players in that group are GOP operatives, they have an agenda and it’s to get people to vote Republican.

Maybe true. But, how about the FLE Committee composed of Democrat activists and political cronies?
Does that bother you?

We need middle ground and we are not getting it.

I should have been more specific. My concern is that this group is trying to create a lot of parental angst about the FCPS, not specifically to change the composition of the school board to R - they’d like to do that too but I don’t think that’s their primary agenda. They want parents mad at Dems so they vote GOP in statewide etc races. It’s the playbook that elected Youngkin. There’s a breathless “OMG look at FCPS failing our students again, it’s an outrage!” about any little incident they can exploit. I’m

Personally, I wish school board wasn’t partisan in any sense but in the age of so much divisiveness that’s probably a pipe dream.