So the OP of this thread is essentially admitting the premise of the thread was entirely farcical, created by a left wing activist to bait and fight with moderates and centrist dems who are looking for a balance in the ideological make up of the school board, and who might be considering alternatives to the D sample ballot.

Most of this thread has been dominated by far left blue Virginia types, who have no arguments or positions to defend, only slurs and insults.

I am not sure that this thread is going the way the left wing activists intended. Moderates tend to not like being insulted by politicsl activists nor are they big fans of insults as a substitute for debate of ideas.

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Anonymous wrote:JFC. . . what is wrong with you people and your sheeplike tendencies.

DEI is not superceding every other initiative and program in the district. That's a talking point. Not a fact.

It is the cause of dropping homework, lowering standards for assignments, switching to standards based grading, etc. For dropping the science fair, dropping service requirements for middle school, etc. All because some students cannot or do not do it. So schools have dropped or lowered standards and requirements. For equity.

+1. Pretty much every post trying to defend DEI is a 1 liner screaming LIES or STOP IT without acknowledging the fully laid out concerns by parents against DEI overtaking other priorities. Anyway I think objective readers of this thread can tell which posters are reasonable and which ones aren’t. I’m definitely not spending my time trying to convince the deep DEI faithful. Will be voting Republican in November.

I won’t be voting for Republican SB candidates so much as voting against the Democrats on the SB who have been awful for years, but especially for the last four. They are just despicable - incompetent, hypocritical, virtue-signaling failures at everything they’ve touched.

Absolutely agree.

+1. I’ll be doing the same. Just the the anti-Trump voters in 2020. They didn’t vote for Biden; they voted against Trump. I will vote against the current SB.

I voted for Biden; I'll vote for him again. I think he's done excellent work. I didn't just vote anti-Trump. I would never, ever vote for one of the GOP SB candidates listed. I mean, you have a candidate like Moon as the top Democratic endorsed SB candidate. He's always focused on academics, he's got a ton of experience, and he's moderate. My guess is that you're just a pro-GOP person who thinks they can influence other "moderate" people by pretending to hold whatever position you think they hold. Fortunately the majority of educated people in Fairfax have more sense to fall for your shtick.

DP. Moon is fine. Telling, though, that the FCDC rewarded him for years of thoughtful and moderate service in 2019 by denying him an endorsement. It took four years of Abrar Omeish regularly embarrassing herself and the local Democrats for them to give him another chance.

Telling also that they endorsed him now--they learned from their earlier mistake. I was disappointed that he didn't have the endorsement earlier, and I would have voted for him if he ran. But I can critique the Dem SB/FCDC without running to a far worse option.

You can remain a lemming but the reality is that most of the current FCDC-endorsed candidates are more like Omeish (inexperienced ideologues) than Moon (who wasn’t far left enough to make the cut four years ago).

And the other available candidates? Worse.

Disagree.

Moon is a decent guy, although he’s been kicked around so much by the local Democrats over the years that he probably has Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

No one knows why Ryan McElveen is running again. He couldn’t have acted more bored and disinterested the last couple of years he was on the board. He hasn’t found another office he could win (he was a distant third in the BOS primary), but this a step back for him.

And there’s rarely been a bigger flake running for local office than Kyle McDaniel. Didn’t like him as a Republican? Fine, he’ll repackage himself as a far-left Democratic. Too boring as a white bread dad? Fine, he’ll declare that he’s a bisexual ally and close friend of Robert Rigby and the rest of the Liberty Fund core team. No idea what persona he’ll adopt if he’s elected.

David and AuCoin are far, far better choices for the other two at-large slots.

Davis and Aucoin? The republicans ? No thanks.

Yes, thanks. We need more diversity of thought on the School Board. If we’d had some over the past four years it’s unlikely FCPS’s reputation would have declined as much as it has.

So republicans are whining for a free seat because they can’t win around here? Hard pass.

The past four years have underscored the need for a school board that isn’t a one-party circle jerk.

Your response is moronic.

The GOP trolls on here are becoming more and more unhinged. Thats probably a good sign for the Democrats. Enjoy 4 more years of a 12-0 democratic school board.

As an immigrant from an ex-communist country, I have to tell you that it is never a good idea to have a 1-party system. Do you need more explanation?

Are you stupid? Having a full Democratic school board is not a one party system.

You told an immigrant that he/she is stupid and that is your explanation for how a 12 person school board made up of 100% of one party is not effectively a 1-party system? That is not a very smart explanation.

OP here. You’re dumber than rocks. I’m an independent and have voted GOP for SB before but if your main argument for why I should vote Republican this year is because we can’t have a “one-party system,” I’m just gonna vote Democrat.

A one party system would mean it’s only Democrats on the ballot. Newsflash: there are Republicans on the ballot too! And independents. But you all don’t seem to have anything to talk about besides “THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS.”

I want to hear about academics! I met Saundra Davis at a back to school night and she told me she wants to stop indoctrination in our schools. What the flip is she talking about? Girl please just be for real and talk about what your plans are to address overcrowding, literacy, teacher shortages etc.

Not the poster to whom you’re responding but I’ve overwhelmingly voted for Democratic SB candidates in the past and I can’t think of a single thing that’s more important this fall than voting for more diversity of opinion on the next School Board to break up the current echo chamber.

The current School Board has “distinguished” itself by:

Resolving every issue in favor keeping schools closed during Covid;

Rubber-stamping Frisch’s $60M boondoggle at Dunn Loring with no serious discussion;

Rubber-stamping Tholen’s last-minute reversal of an FCPS staff recommendation so she could keep uber-wealthy Langley under-capacity and free of any multi-family housing;

Changed TJ admissions even though many members admitted after the fact that they didn’t even know whether the new 1.5% middle-school quotas would operate based on a student’s base or attending school (which had major effects on kids at AAP centers);

Have a green-light to Keys-Gamarra’s plans for a “social justice” academy at Lewis HS, even as the school’s test scores remained low and enrollment continued to plummet;

Gave a plum student performance spot at a School Board meeting to Sizemore-Heizer’s son, who had already graduated from an FCPS high school at the time; and

Spent more time bickering with each over the words in competing versions of a meaningless “truth and education” resolution than they spent paying attention to academics or facilities.

It’s not stupid to want someone like Davis or AuCoin on the board so they call out these people if they continue to support each other’s worst initiatives and reinforce each other’s worst tendencies. You simply cannot overstate what a self-indulgent, ineffective, self-dealing group this has been - and the fact that every last one of them is from the same party is a major reason why.

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Anonymous wrote:JFC. . . what is wrong with you people and your sheeplike tendencies.

DEI is not superceding every other initiative and program in the district. That's a talking point. Not a fact.

It is the cause of dropping homework, lowering standards for assignments, switching to standards based grading, etc. For dropping the science fair, dropping service requirements for middle school, etc. All because some students cannot or do not do it. So schools have dropped or lowered standards and requirements. For equity.

+1. Pretty much every post trying to defend DEI is a 1 liner screaming LIES or STOP IT without acknowledging the fully laid out concerns by parents against DEI overtaking other priorities. Anyway I think objective readers of this thread can tell which posters are reasonable and which ones aren’t. I’m definitely not spending my time trying to convince the deep DEI faithful. Will be voting Republican in November.

I won’t be voting for Republican SB candidates so much as voting against the Democrats on the SB who have been awful for years, but especially for the last four. They are just despicable - incompetent, hypocritical, virtue-signaling failures at everything they’ve touched.

Absolutely agree.

+1. I’ll be doing the same. Just the the anti-Trump voters in 2020. They didn’t vote for Biden; they voted against Trump. I will vote against the current SB.

I voted for Biden; I'll vote for him again. I think he's done excellent work. I didn't just vote anti-Trump. I would never, ever vote for one of the GOP SB candidates listed. I mean, you have a candidate like Moon as the top Democratic endorsed SB candidate. He's always focused on academics, he's got a ton of experience, and he's moderate. My guess is that you're just a pro-GOP person who thinks they can influence other "moderate" people by pretending to hold whatever position you think they hold. Fortunately the majority of educated people in Fairfax have more sense to fall for your shtick.

DP. Moon is fine. Telling, though, that the FCDC rewarded him for years of thoughtful and moderate service in 2019 by denying him an endorsement. It took four years of Abrar Omeish regularly embarrassing herself and the local Democrats for them to give him another chance.

Telling also that they endorsed him now--they learned from their earlier mistake. I was disappointed that he didn't have the endorsement earlier, and I would have voted for him if he ran. But I can critique the Dem SB/FCDC without running to a far worse option.

You can remain a lemming but the reality is that most of the current FCDC-endorsed candidates are more like Omeish (inexperienced ideologues) than Moon (who wasn’t far left enough to make the cut four years ago).

And the other available candidates? Worse.

Disagree.

Moon is a decent guy, although he’s been kicked around so much by the local Democrats over the years that he probably has Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

No one knows why Ryan McElveen is running again. He couldn’t have acted more bored and disinterested the last couple of years he was on the board. He hasn’t found another office he could win (he was a distant third in the BOS primary), but this a step back for him.

And there’s rarely been a bigger flake running for local office than Kyle McDaniel. Didn’t like him as a Republican? Fine, he’ll repackage himself as a far-left Democratic. Too boring as a white bread dad? Fine, he’ll declare that he’s a bisexual ally and close friend of Robert Rigby and the rest of the Liberty Fund core team. No idea what persona he’ll adopt if he’s elected.

David and AuCoin are far, far better choices for the other two at-large slots.

Davis and Aucoin? The republicans ? No thanks.

Yes, thanks. We need more diversity of thought on the School Board. If we’d had some over the past four years it’s unlikely FCPS’s reputation would have declined as much as it has.

So republicans are whining for a free seat because they can’t win around here? Hard pass.

The past four years have underscored the need for a school board that isn’t a one-party circle jerk.

Your response is moronic.

The GOP trolls on here are becoming more and more unhinged. Thats probably a good sign for the Democrats. Enjoy 4 more years of a 12-0 democratic school board.

As an immigrant from an ex-communist country, I have to tell you that it is never a good idea to have a 1-party system. Do you need more explanation?

Are you stupid? Having a full Democratic school board is not a one party system.

You told an immigrant that he/she is stupid and that is your explanation for how a 12 person school board made up of 100% of one party is not effectively a 1-party system? That is not a very smart explanation.

OP here. You’re dumber than rocks. I’m an independent and have voted GOP for SB before but if your main argument for why I should vote Republican this year is because we can’t have a “one-party system,” I’m just gonna vote Democrat.

A one party system would mean it’s only Democrats on the ballot. Newsflash: there are Republicans on the ballot too! And independents. But you all don’t seem to have anything to talk about besides “THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS.”

I want to hear about academics! I met Saundra Davis at a back to school night and she told me she wants to stop indoctrination in our schools. What the flip is she talking about? Girl please just be for real and talk about what your plans are to address overcrowding, literacy, teacher shortages etc.

Engaging in a conversation with phrases like "you are stupid" or "you are dumber than rocks" immediately shuts down the potential for a constructive and respectful exchange of ideas. Such language insult and discourage people rather than effectively conveying a point. Try to express opinions and disagreements in a manner that promotes understanding and encourages a healthy dialogue, allowing for the exchange of diverse perspectives.

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Anonymous wrote:JFC. . . what is wrong with you people and your sheeplike tendencies.

DEI is not superceding every other initiative and program in the district. That's a talking point. Not a fact.

It is the cause of dropping homework, lowering standards for assignments, switching to standards based grading, etc. For dropping the science fair, dropping service requirements for middle school, etc. All because some students cannot or do not do it. So schools have dropped or lowered standards and requirements. For equity.

+1. Pretty much every post trying to defend DEI is a 1 liner screaming LIES or STOP IT without acknowledging the fully laid out concerns by parents against DEI overtaking other priorities. Anyway I think objective readers of this thread can tell which posters are reasonable and which ones aren’t. I’m definitely not spending my time trying to convince the deep DEI faithful. Will be voting Republican in November.

I won’t be voting for Republican SB candidates so much as voting against the Democrats on the SB who have been awful for years, but especially for the last four. They are just despicable - incompetent, hypocritical, virtue-signaling failures at everything they’ve touched.

Absolutely agree.

+1. I’ll be doing the same. Just the the anti-Trump voters in 2020. They didn’t vote for Biden; they voted against Trump. I will vote against the current SB.

I voted for Biden; I'll vote for him again. I think he's done excellent work. I didn't just vote anti-Trump. I would never, ever vote for one of the GOP SB candidates listed. I mean, you have a candidate like Moon as the top Democratic endorsed SB candidate. He's always focused on academics, he's got a ton of experience, and he's moderate. My guess is that you're just a pro-GOP person who thinks they can influence other "moderate" people by pretending to hold whatever position you think they hold. Fortunately the majority of educated people in Fairfax have more sense to fall for your shtick.

DP. Moon is fine. Telling, though, that the FCDC rewarded him for years of thoughtful and moderate service in 2019 by denying him an endorsement. It took four years of Abrar Omeish regularly embarrassing herself and the local Democrats for them to give him another chance.

Telling also that they endorsed him now--they learned from their earlier mistake. I was disappointed that he didn't have the endorsement earlier, and I would have voted for him if he ran. But I can critique the Dem SB/FCDC without running to a far worse option.

You can remain a lemming but the reality is that most of the current FCDC-endorsed candidates are more like Omeish (inexperienced ideologues) than Moon (who wasn’t far left enough to make the cut four years ago).

And the other available candidates? Worse.

Disagree.

Moon is a decent guy, although he’s been kicked around so much by the local Democrats over the years that he probably has Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

No one knows why Ryan McElveen is running again. He couldn’t have acted more bored and disinterested the last couple of years he was on the board. He hasn’t found another office he could win (he was a distant third in the BOS primary), but this a step back for him.

And there’s rarely been a bigger flake running for local office than Kyle McDaniel. Didn’t like him as a Republican? Fine, he’ll repackage himself as a far-left Democratic. Too boring as a white bread dad? Fine, he’ll declare that he’s a bisexual ally and close friend of Robert Rigby and the rest of the Liberty Fund core team. No idea what persona he’ll adopt if he’s elected.

David and AuCoin are far, far better choices for the other two at-large slots.

Davis and Aucoin? The republicans ? No thanks.

Yes, thanks. We need more diversity of thought on the School Board. If we’d had some over the past four years it’s unlikely FCPS’s reputation would have declined as much as it has.

So republicans are whining for a free seat because they can’t win around here? Hard pass.

The past four years have underscored the need for a school board that isn’t a one-party circle jerk.

Your response is moronic.

The GOP trolls on here are becoming more and more unhinged. Thats probably a good sign for the Democrats. Enjoy 4 more years of a 12-0 democratic school board.

As an immigrant from an ex-communist country, I have to tell you that it is never a good idea to have a 1-party system. Do you need more explanation?

Are you stupid? Having a full Democratic school board is not a one party system.

You told an immigrant that he/she is stupid and that is your explanation for how a 12 person school board made up of 100% of one party is not effectively a 1-party system? That is not a very smart explanation.

OP here. You’re dumber than rocks. I’m an independent and have voted GOP for SB before but if your main argument for why I should vote Republican this year is because we can’t have a “one-party system,” I’m just gonna vote Democrat.

A one party system would mean it’s only Democrats on the ballot. Newsflash: there are Republicans on the ballot too! And independents. But you all don’t seem to have anything to talk about besides “THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS.”

I want to hear about academics! I met Saundra Davis at a back to school night and she told me she wants to stop indoctrination in our schools. What the flip is she talking about? Girl please just be for real and talk about what your plans are to address overcrowding, literacy, teacher shortages etc.

So sad. Thought she might have been a possibility given everyone here calling her a moderate. I’m so disappointed that the Republicans couldn’t muster up some moderate candidates.

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Anonymous wrote:JFC. . . what is wrong with you people and your sheeplike tendencies.

DEI is not superceding every other initiative and program in the district. That's a talking point. Not a fact.

It is the cause of dropping homework, lowering standards for assignments, switching to standards based grading, etc. For dropping the science fair, dropping service requirements for middle school, etc. All because some students cannot or do not do it. So schools have dropped or lowered standards and requirements. For equity.

+1. Pretty much every post trying to defend DEI is a 1 liner screaming LIES or STOP IT without acknowledging the fully laid out concerns by parents against DEI overtaking other priorities. Anyway I think objective readers of this thread can tell which posters are reasonable and which ones aren’t. I’m definitely not spending my time trying to convince the deep DEI faithful. Will be voting Republican in November.

I won’t be voting for Republican SB candidates so much as voting against the Democrats on the SB who have been awful for years, but especially for the last four. They are just despicable - incompetent, hypocritical, virtue-signaling failures at everything they’ve touched.

Absolutely agree.

+1. I’ll be doing the same. Just the the anti-Trump voters in 2020. They didn’t vote for Biden; they voted against Trump. I will vote against the current SB.

I voted for Biden; I'll vote for him again. I think he's done excellent work. I didn't just vote anti-Trump. I would never, ever vote for one of the GOP SB candidates listed. I mean, you have a candidate like Moon as the top Democratic endorsed SB candidate. He's always focused on academics, he's got a ton of experience, and he's moderate. My guess is that you're just a pro-GOP person who thinks they can influence other "moderate" people by pretending to hold whatever position you think they hold. Fortunately the majority of educated people in Fairfax have more sense to fall for your shtick.

DP. Moon is fine. Telling, though, that the FCDC rewarded him for years of thoughtful and moderate service in 2019 by denying him an endorsement. It took four years of Abrar Omeish regularly embarrassing herself and the local Democrats for them to give him another chance.

Telling also that they endorsed him now--they learned from their earlier mistake. I was disappointed that he didn't have the endorsement earlier, and I would have voted for him if he ran. But I can critique the Dem SB/FCDC without running to a far worse option.

You can remain a lemming but the reality is that most of the current FCDC-endorsed candidates are more like Omeish (inexperienced ideologues) than Moon (who wasn’t far left enough to make the cut four years ago).

And the other available candidates? Worse.

Disagree.

Moon is a decent guy, although he’s been kicked around so much by the local Democrats over the years that he probably has Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

No one knows why Ryan McElveen is running again. He couldn’t have acted more bored and disinterested the last couple of years he was on the board. He hasn’t found another office he could win (he was a distant third in the BOS primary), but this a step back for him.

And there’s rarely been a bigger flake running for local office than Kyle McDaniel. Didn’t like him as a Republican? Fine, he’ll repackage himself as a far-left Democratic. Too boring as a white bread dad? Fine, he’ll declare that he’s a bisexual ally and close friend of Robert Rigby and the rest of the Liberty Fund core team. No idea what persona he’ll adopt if he’s elected.

David and AuCoin are far, far better choices for the other two at-large slots.

Davis and Aucoin? The republicans ? No thanks.

Yes, thanks. We need more diversity of thought on the School Board. If we’d had some over the past four years it’s unlikely FCPS’s reputation would have declined as much as it has.

So republicans are whining for a free seat because they can’t win around here? Hard pass.

The past four years have underscored the need for a school board that isn’t a one-party circle jerk.

Your response is moronic.

The GOP trolls on here are becoming more and more unhinged. Thats probably a good sign for the Democrats. Enjoy 4 more years of a 12-0 democratic school board.

As an immigrant from an ex-communist country, I have to tell you that it is never a good idea to have a 1-party system. Do you need more explanation?

Are you stupid? Having a full Democratic school board is not a one party system.

You told an immigrant that he/she is stupid and that is your explanation for how a 12 person school board made up of 100% of one party is not effectively a 1-party system? That is not a very smart explanation.

OP here. You’re dumber than rocks. I’m an independent and have voted GOP for SB before but if your main argument for why I should vote Republican this year is because we can’t have a “one-party system,” I’m just gonna vote Democrat.

A one party system would mean it’s only Democrats on the ballot. Newsflash: there are Republicans on the ballot too! And independents. But you all don’t seem to have anything to talk about besides “THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS.”

I want to hear about academics! I met Saundra Davis at a back to school night and she told me she wants to stop indoctrination in our schools. What the flip is she talking about? Girl please just be for real and talk about what your plans are to address overcrowding, literacy, teacher shortages etc.

Here they are. All the liberal keyboard warriors coming out and calling everyone dumb or pathetic for being tired of what the current school board has been doing the past 4 years and wanting to vote for a change. Please tell me more about something completely irrelevant to education policy so that I will vote for continuing the insanity the current school board has created.

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Anonymous wrote:JFC. . . what is wrong with you people and your sheeplike tendencies.

DEI is not superceding every other initiative and program in the district. That's a talking point. Not a fact.

It is the cause of dropping homework, lowering standards for assignments, switching to standards based grading, etc. For dropping the science fair, dropping service requirements for middle school, etc. All because some students cannot or do not do it. So schools have dropped or lowered standards and requirements. For equity.

+1. Pretty much every post trying to defend DEI is a 1 liner screaming LIES or STOP IT without acknowledging the fully laid out concerns by parents against DEI overtaking other priorities. Anyway I think objective readers of this thread can tell which posters are reasonable and which ones aren’t. I’m definitely not spending my time trying to convince the deep DEI faithful. Will be voting Republican in November.

I won’t be voting for Republican SB candidates so much as voting against the Democrats on the SB who have been awful for years, but especially for the last four. They are just despicable - incompetent, hypocritical, virtue-signaling failures at everything they’ve touched.

Absolutely agree.

+1. I’ll be doing the same. Just the the anti-Trump voters in 2020. They didn’t vote for Biden; they voted against Trump. I will vote against the current SB.

I voted for Biden; I'll vote for him again. I think he's done excellent work. I didn't just vote anti-Trump. I would never, ever vote for one of the GOP SB candidates listed. I mean, you have a candidate like Moon as the top Democratic endorsed SB candidate. He's always focused on academics, he's got a ton of experience, and he's moderate. My guess is that you're just a pro-GOP person who thinks they can influence other "moderate" people by pretending to hold whatever position you think they hold. Fortunately the majority of educated people in Fairfax have more sense to fall for your shtick.

DP. Moon is fine. Telling, though, that the FCDC rewarded him for years of thoughtful and moderate service in 2019 by denying him an endorsement. It took four years of Abrar Omeish regularly embarrassing herself and the local Democrats for them to give him another chance.

Telling also that they endorsed him now--they learned from their earlier mistake. I was disappointed that he didn't have the endorsement earlier, and I would have voted for him if he ran. But I can critique the Dem SB/FCDC without running to a far worse option.

You can remain a lemming but the reality is that most of the current FCDC-endorsed candidates are more like Omeish (inexperienced ideologues) than Moon (who wasn’t far left enough to make the cut four years ago).

And the other available candidates? Worse.

Disagree.

Moon is a decent guy, although he’s been kicked around so much by the local Democrats over the years that he probably has Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

No one knows why Ryan McElveen is running again. He couldn’t have acted more bored and disinterested the last couple of years he was on the board. He hasn’t found another office he could win (he was a distant third in the BOS primary), but this a step back for him.

And there’s rarely been a bigger flake running for local office than Kyle McDaniel. Didn’t like him as a Republican? Fine, he’ll repackage himself as a far-left Democratic. Too boring as a white bread dad? Fine, he’ll declare that he’s a bisexual ally and close friend of Robert Rigby and the rest of the Liberty Fund core team. No idea what persona he’ll adopt if he’s elected.

David and AuCoin are far, far better choices for the other two at-large slots.

Davis and Aucoin? The republicans ? No thanks.

Yes, thanks. We need more diversity of thought on the School Board. If we’d had some over the past four years it’s unlikely FCPS’s reputation would have declined as much as it has.

So republicans are whining for a free seat because they can’t win around here? Hard pass.

The past four years have underscored the need for a school board that isn’t a one-party circle jerk.

Your response is moronic.

The GOP trolls on here are becoming more and more unhinged. Thats probably a good sign for the Democrats. Enjoy 4 more years of a 12-0 democratic school board.

As an immigrant from an ex-communist country, I have to tell you that it is never a good idea to have a 1-party system. Do you need more explanation?

Are you stupid? Having a full Democratic school board is not a one party system.

You told an immigrant that he/she is stupid and that is your explanation for how a 12 person school board made up of 100% of one party is not effectively a 1-party system? That is not a very smart explanation.

Not to mention: xenophobic, racist, closed-minded, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:JFC. . . what is wrong with you people and your sheeplike tendencies.

DEI is not superceding every other initiative and program in the district. That's a talking point. Not a fact.

It is the cause of dropping homework, lowering standards for assignments, switching to standards based grading, etc. For dropping the science fair, dropping service requirements for middle school, etc. All because some students cannot or do not do it. So schools have dropped or lowered standards and requirements. For equity.

+1. Pretty much every post trying to defend DEI is a 1 liner screaming LIES or STOP IT without acknowledging the fully laid out concerns by parents against DEI overtaking other priorities. Anyway I think objective readers of this thread can tell which posters are reasonable and which ones aren’t. I’m definitely not spending my time trying to convince the deep DEI faithful. Will be voting Republican in November.

I won’t be voting for Republican SB candidates so much as voting against the Democrats on the SB who have been awful for years, but especially for the last four. They are just despicable - incompetent, hypocritical, virtue-signaling failures at everything they’ve touched.

Absolutely agree.

+1. I’ll be doing the same. Just the the anti-Trump voters in 2020. They didn’t vote for Biden; they voted against Trump. I will vote against the current SB.

I voted for Biden; I'll vote for him again. I think he's done excellent work. I didn't just vote anti-Trump. I would never, ever vote for one of the GOP SB candidates listed. I mean, you have a candidate like Moon as the top Democratic endorsed SB candidate. He's always focused on academics, he's got a ton of experience, and he's moderate. My guess is that you're just a pro-GOP person who thinks they can influence other "moderate" people by pretending to hold whatever position you think they hold. Fortunately the majority of educated people in Fairfax have more sense to fall for your shtick.

DP. Moon is fine. Telling, though, that the FCDC rewarded him for years of thoughtful and moderate service in 2019 by denying him an endorsement. It took four years of Abrar Omeish regularly embarrassing herself and the local Democrats for them to give him another chance.

Telling also that they endorsed him now--they learned from their earlier mistake. I was disappointed that he didn't have the endorsement earlier, and I would have voted for him if he ran. But I can critique the Dem SB/FCDC without running to a far worse option.

You can remain a lemming but the reality is that most of the current FCDC-endorsed candidates are more like Omeish (inexperienced ideologues) than Moon (who wasn’t far left enough to make the cut four years ago).

And the other available candidates? Worse.

Disagree.

Moon is a decent guy, although he’s been kicked around so much by the local Democrats over the years that he probably has Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

No one knows why Ryan McElveen is running again. He couldn’t have acted more bored and disinterested the last couple of years he was on the board. He hasn’t found another office he could win (he was a distant third in the BOS primary), but this a step back for him.

And there’s rarely been a bigger flake running for local office than Kyle McDaniel. Didn’t like him as a Republican? Fine, he’ll repackage himself as a far-left Democratic. Too boring as a white bread dad? Fine, he’ll declare that he’s a bisexual ally and close friend of Robert Rigby and the rest of the Liberty Fund core team. No idea what persona he’ll adopt if he’s elected.

David and AuCoin are far, far better choices for the other two at-large slots.

Davis and Aucoin? The republicans ? No thanks.

Yes, thanks. We need more diversity of thought on the School Board. If we’d had some over the past four years it’s unlikely FCPS’s reputation would have declined as much as it has.

So republicans are whining for a free seat because they can’t win around here? Hard pass.

The past four years have underscored the need for a school board that isn’t a one-party circle jerk.

Your response is moronic.

The GOP trolls on here are becoming more and more unhinged. Thats probably a good sign for the Democrats. Enjoy 4 more years of a 12-0 democratic school board.

As an immigrant from an ex-communist country, I have to tell you that it is never a good idea to have a 1-party system. Do you need more explanation?

I’d hope an “immigrant from an ex-communist country” would recognize the irony in advocating for Republicans who tried to overthrow our own government on January 6th. One of those insurrectionists is even a candidate for this position who bragged about being tear gassed that day.

Do you need more explanation?

I’m always hearing about these right wing crazies and their guns, yet when they tried to take over the country they decided to leave them home.

Weird.

Is this Maureen Brody? Did your eyes finally clear up from the tear gas?

Wasn’t Brody the PTA President at Lewis? She was willing to send her kids to a diverse school unlike those two-faced Democratic snobs Elaine Tholen and Karen Keys Gamarra.

Nice deflection. Also pathetic. Maureen Brody literally stormed Capitol Hill on January 6th and posted about it online. You defending her as “just a PTA mom” is sad.

What does it mean to “literally storm Capitol Hill”? I noticed you didn’t say the Capitol itself. Is that like the FCDC groups that “literally storm School Board meetings”?

Again, Brody sent her kids to Lewis, unlike elitist Democratic snobs like Elaine Tholen, who fought to keep Langley without any poor kids, and Karen Keys Gamarra, who sent her kids to Madison. And she was willing to head the PTA at Lewis, too. It must really bother you when parents who actually put in the time seek seats on the School Board.

It never ceases to amaze me how dumb the local Republicans think voters are. Maureen Brody tried to overthrow the government then tried to run for Delegate and lost. Now she's trying to get on the School Board. Another bust by the Fairfax Republicans. Toss her in with Harry Jackson the wife beater and Saundra Davis the fraud, and it's a true basket of deplorables.

https://news.yahoo.com/jan-6-rioter-arrested-assaulting-173103273.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALp_UjqdS5sOpZcX8kJ2y7oTH7kuJt0yjGW3dLxjdl1oO_p_MDZBBOqUdEwzvT10HE3fVmQGMDCwMplPH-HpmOh0iaNfivt7tNqKrs5IwLxmORa0M0APXnfsCTCv5t8bnqWPMoFqBTAxQk8YRxPGNkxq60dcYcnwx3PpjJYFEQkN

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joseph-brody-january-6-rioter-arrested-glenn-youngkin_n_633da1fee4b03e8038c4ba98

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/03/least-seven-jan-6-rallygoers-won-public-office-election-day/

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmimms/jan-6-republicans-ballot-election-day

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Anonymous wrote:JFC. . . what is wrong with you people and your sheeplike tendencies.

DEI is not superceding every other initiative and program in the district. That's a talking point. Not a fact.

It is the cause of dropping homework, lowering standards for assignments, switching to standards based grading, etc. For dropping the science fair, dropping service requirements for middle school, etc. All because some students cannot or do not do it. So schools have dropped or lowered standards and requirements. For equity.

+1. Pretty much every post trying to defend DEI is a 1 liner screaming LIES or STOP IT without acknowledging the fully laid out concerns by parents against DEI overtaking other priorities. Anyway I think objective readers of this thread can tell which posters are reasonable and which ones aren’t. I’m definitely not spending my time trying to convince the deep DEI faithful. Will be voting Republican in November.

I won’t be voting for Republican SB candidates so much as voting against the Democrats on the SB who have been awful for years, but especially for the last four. They are just despicable - incompetent, hypocritical, virtue-signaling failures at everything they’ve touched.

Absolutely agree.

+1. I’ll be doing the same. Just the the anti-Trump voters in 2020. They didn’t vote for Biden; they voted against Trump. I will vote against the current SB.

I voted for Biden; I'll vote for him again. I think he's done excellent work. I didn't just vote anti-Trump. I would never, ever vote for one of the GOP SB candidates listed. I mean, you have a candidate like Moon as the top Democratic endorsed SB candidate. He's always focused on academics, he's got a ton of experience, and he's moderate. My guess is that you're just a pro-GOP person who thinks they can influence other "moderate" people by pretending to hold whatever position you think they hold. Fortunately the majority of educated people in Fairfax have more sense to fall for your shtick.

DP. Moon is fine. Telling, though, that the FCDC rewarded him for years of thoughtful and moderate service in 2019 by denying him an endorsement. It took four years of Abrar Omeish regularly embarrassing herself and the local Democrats for them to give him another chance.

Telling also that they endorsed him now--they learned from their earlier mistake. I was disappointed that he didn't have the endorsement earlier, and I would have voted for him if he ran. But I can critique the Dem SB/FCDC without running to a far worse option.

You can remain a lemming but the reality is that most of the current FCDC-endorsed candidates are more like Omeish (inexperienced ideologues) than Moon (who wasn’t far left enough to make the cut four years ago).

And the other available candidates? Worse.

Disagree.

Moon is a decent guy, although he’s been kicked around so much by the local Democrats over the years that he probably has Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

No one knows why Ryan McElveen is running again. He couldn’t have acted more bored and disinterested the last couple of years he was on the board. He hasn’t found another office he could win (he was a distant third in the BOS primary), but this a step back for him.

And there’s rarely been a bigger flake running for local office than Kyle McDaniel. Didn’t like him as a Republican? Fine, he’ll repackage himself as a far-left Democratic. Too boring as a white bread dad? Fine, he’ll declare that he’s a bisexual ally and close friend of Robert Rigby and the rest of the Liberty Fund core team. No idea what persona he’ll adopt if he’s elected.

David and AuCoin are far, far better choices for the other two at-large slots.

Davis and Aucoin? The republicans ? No thanks.

Yes, thanks. We need more diversity of thought on the School Board. If we’d had some over the past four years it’s unlikely FCPS’s reputation would have declined as much as it has.

So republicans are whining for a free seat because they can’t win around here? Hard pass.

The past four years have underscored the need for a school board that isn’t a one-party circle jerk.

Your response is moronic.

The GOP trolls on here are becoming more and more unhinged. Thats probably a good sign for the Democrats. Enjoy 4 more years of a 12-0 democratic school board.

As an immigrant from an ex-communist country, I have to tell you that it is never a good idea to have a 1-party system. Do you need more explanation?

Are you stupid? Having a full Democratic school board is not a one party system.

You told an immigrant that he/she is stupid and that is your explanation for how a 12 person school board made up of 100% of one party is not effectively a 1-party system? That is not a very smart explanation.

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Anonymous wrote:JFC. . . what is wrong with you people and your sheeplike tendencies.

DEI is not superceding every other initiative and program in the district. That's a talking point. Not a fact.

It is the cause of dropping homework, lowering standards for assignments, switching to standards based grading, etc. For dropping the science fair, dropping service requirements for middle school, etc. All because some students cannot or do not do it. So schools have dropped or lowered standards and requirements. For equity.

+1. Pretty much every post trying to defend DEI is a 1 liner screaming LIES or STOP IT without acknowledging the fully laid out concerns by parents against DEI overtaking other priorities. Anyway I think objective readers of this thread can tell which posters are reasonable and which ones aren’t. I’m definitely not spending my time trying to convince the deep DEI faithful. Will be voting Republican in November.

I won’t be voting for Republican SB candidates so much as voting against the Democrats on the SB who have been awful for years, but especially for the last four. They are just despicable - incompetent, hypocritical, virtue-signaling failures at everything they’ve touched.

Absolutely agree.

+1. I’ll be doing the same. Just the the anti-Trump voters in 2020. They didn’t vote for Biden; they voted against Trump. I will vote against the current SB.

I voted for Biden; I'll vote for him again. I think he's done excellent work. I didn't just vote anti-Trump. I would never, ever vote for one of the GOP SB candidates listed. I mean, you have a candidate like Moon as the top Democratic endorsed SB candidate. He's always focused on academics, he's got a ton of experience, and he's moderate. My guess is that you're just a pro-GOP person who thinks they can influence other "moderate" people by pretending to hold whatever position you think they hold. Fortunately the majority of educated people in Fairfax have more sense to fall for your shtick.

DP. Moon is fine. Telling, though, that the FCDC rewarded him for years of thoughtful and moderate service in 2019 by denying him an endorsement. It took four years of Abrar Omeish regularly embarrassing herself and the local Democrats for them to give him another chance.

Telling also that they endorsed him now--they learned from their earlier mistake. I was disappointed that he didn't have the endorsement earlier, and I would have voted for him if he ran. But I can critique the Dem SB/FCDC without running to a far worse option.

You can remain a lemming but the reality is that most of the current FCDC-endorsed candidates are more like Omeish (inexperienced ideologues) than Moon (who wasn’t far left enough to make the cut four years ago).

And the other available candidates? Worse.

Disagree.

Moon is a decent guy, although he’s been kicked around so much by the local Democrats over the years that he probably has Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

No one knows why Ryan McElveen is running again. He couldn’t have acted more bored and disinterested the last couple of years he was on the board. He hasn’t found another office he could win (he was a distant third in the BOS primary), but this a step back for him.

And there’s rarely been a bigger flake running for local office than Kyle McDaniel. Didn’t like him as a Republican? Fine, he’ll repackage himself as a far-left Democratic. Too boring as a white bread dad? Fine, he’ll declare that he’s a bisexual ally and close friend of Robert Rigby and the rest of the Liberty Fund core team. No idea what persona he’ll adopt if he’s elected.

David and AuCoin are far, far better choices for the other two at-large slots.

Davis and Aucoin? The republicans ? No thanks.

Yes, thanks. We need more diversity of thought on the School Board. If we’d had some over the past four years it’s unlikely FCPS’s reputation would have declined as much as it has.

So republicans are whining for a free seat because they can’t win around here? Hard pass.

The past four years have underscored the need for a school board that isn’t a one-party circle jerk.

Your response is moronic.

The GOP trolls on here are becoming more and more unhinged. Thats probably a good sign for the Democrats. Enjoy 4 more years of a 12-0 democratic school board.

As an immigrant from an ex-communist country, I have to tell you that it is never a good idea to have a 1-party system. Do you need more explanation?

I’d hope an “immigrant from an ex-communist country” would recognize the irony in advocating for Republicans who tried to overthrow our own government on January 6th. One of those insurrectionists is even a candidate for this position who bragged about being tear gassed that day.

Do you need more explanation?

I’m always hearing about these right wing crazies and their guns, yet when they tried to take over the country they decided to leave them home.

Weird.

Is this Maureen Brody? Did your eyes finally clear up from the tear gas?

Wasn’t Brody the PTA President at Lewis? She was willing to send her kids to a diverse school unlike those two-faced Democratic snobs Elaine Tholen and Karen Keys Gamarra.

Nice deflection. Also pathetic. Maureen Brody literally stormed Capitol Hill on January 6th and posted about it online. You defending her as “just a PTA mom” is sad.

What does it mean to “literally storm Capitol Hill”? I noticed you didn’t say the Capitol itself. Is that like the FCDC groups that “literally storm School Board meetings”?

Again, Brody sent her kids to Lewis, unlike elitist Democratic snobs like Elaine Tholen, who fought to keep Langley without any poor kids, and Karen Keys Gamarra, who sent her kids to Madison. And she was willing to head the PTA at Lewis, too. It must really bother you when parents who actually put in the time seek seats on the School Board.

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Anonymous wrote:JFC. . . what is wrong with you people and your sheeplike tendencies.

DEI is not superceding every other initiative and program in the district. That's a talking point. Not a fact.

It is the cause of dropping homework, lowering standards for assignments, switching to standards based grading, etc. For dropping the science fair, dropping service requirements for middle school, etc. All because some students cannot or do not do it. So schools have dropped or lowered standards and requirements. For equity.

+1. Pretty much every post trying to defend DEI is a 1 liner screaming LIES or STOP IT without acknowledging the fully laid out concerns by parents against DEI overtaking other priorities. Anyway I think objective readers of this thread can tell which posters are reasonable and which ones aren’t. I’m definitely not spending my time trying to convince the deep DEI faithful. Will be voting Republican in November.

I won’t be voting for Republican SB candidates so much as voting against the Democrats on the SB who have been awful for years, but especially for the last four. They are just despicable - incompetent, hypocritical, virtue-signaling failures at everything they’ve touched.

Absolutely agree.

+1. I’ll be doing the same. Just the the anti-Trump voters in 2020. They didn’t vote for Biden; they voted against Trump. I will vote against the current SB.

I voted for Biden; I'll vote for him again. I think he's done excellent work. I didn't just vote anti-Trump. I would never, ever vote for one of the GOP SB candidates listed. I mean, you have a candidate like Moon as the top Democratic endorsed SB candidate. He's always focused on academics, he's got a ton of experience, and he's moderate. My guess is that you're just a pro-GOP person who thinks they can influence other "moderate" people by pretending to hold whatever position you think they hold. Fortunately the majority of educated people in Fairfax have more sense to fall for your shtick.

DP. Moon is fine. Telling, though, that the FCDC rewarded him for years of thoughtful and moderate service in 2019 by denying him an endorsement. It took four years of Abrar Omeish regularly embarrassing herself and the local Democrats for them to give him another chance.

Telling also that they endorsed him now--they learned from their earlier mistake. I was disappointed that he didn't have the endorsement earlier, and I would have voted for him if he ran. But I can critique the Dem SB/FCDC without running to a far worse option.

You can remain a lemming but the reality is that most of the current FCDC-endorsed candidates are more like Omeish (inexperienced ideologues) than Moon (who wasn’t far left enough to make the cut four years ago).

And the other available candidates? Worse.

Disagree.

Moon is a decent guy, although he’s been kicked around so much by the local Democrats over the years that he probably has Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

No one knows why Ryan McElveen is running again. He couldn’t have acted more bored and disinterested the last couple of years he was on the board. He hasn’t found another office he could win (he was a distant third in the BOS primary), but this a step back for him.

And there’s rarely been a bigger flake running for local office than Kyle McDaniel. Didn’t like him as a Republican? Fine, he’ll repackage himself as a far-left Democratic. Too boring as a white bread dad? Fine, he’ll declare that he’s a bisexual ally and close friend of Robert Rigby and the rest of the Liberty Fund core team. No idea what persona he’ll adopt if he’s elected.

David and AuCoin are far, far better choices for the other two at-large slots.

Davis and Aucoin? The republicans ? No thanks.

Yes, thanks. We need more diversity of thought on the School Board. If we’d had some over the past four years it’s unlikely FCPS’s reputation would have declined as much as it has.

So republicans are whining for a free seat because they can’t win around here? Hard pass.

The past four years have underscored the need for a school board that isn’t a one-party circle jerk.

Your response is moronic.

The GOP trolls on here are becoming more and more unhinged. Thats probably a good sign for the Democrats. Enjoy 4 more years of a 12-0 democratic school board.

As an immigrant from an ex-communist country, I have to tell you that it is never a good idea to have a 1-party system. Do you need more explanation?

I’d hope an “immigrant from an ex-communist country” would recognize the irony in advocating for Republicans who tried to overthrow our own government on January 6th. One of those insurrectionists is even a candidate for this position who bragged about being tear gassed that day.

Do you need more explanation?

I’m always hearing about these right wing crazies and their guns, yet when they tried to take over the country they decided to leave them home.

Weird.

Is this Maureen Brody? Did your eyes finally clear up from the tear gas?

Wasn’t Brody the PTA President at Lewis? She was willing to send her kids to a diverse school unlike those two-faced Democratic snobs Elaine Tholen and Karen Keys Gamarra.

Nice deflection. Also pathetic. Maureen Brody literally stormed Capitol Hill on January 6th and posted about it online. You defending her as “just a PTA mom” is sad.

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Anonymous wrote:JFC. . . what is wrong with you people and your sheeplike tendencies.

DEI is not superceding every other initiative and program in the district. That's a talking point. Not a fact.

It is the cause of dropping homework, lowering standards for assignments, switching to standards based grading, etc. For dropping the science fair, dropping service requirements for middle school, etc. All because some students cannot or do not do it. So schools have dropped or lowered standards and requirements. For equity.

+1. Pretty much every post trying to defend DEI is a 1 liner screaming LIES or STOP IT without acknowledging the fully laid out concerns by parents against DEI overtaking other priorities. Anyway I think objective readers of this thread can tell which posters are reasonable and which ones aren’t. I’m definitely not spending my time trying to convince the deep DEI faithful. Will be voting Republican in November.

I won’t be voting for Republican SB candidates so much as voting against the Democrats on the SB who have been awful for years, but especially for the last four. They are just despicable - incompetent, hypocritical, virtue-signaling failures at everything they’ve touched.

Absolutely agree.

+1. I’ll be doing the same. Just the the anti-Trump voters in 2020. They didn’t vote for Biden; they voted against Trump. I will vote against the current SB.

I voted for Biden; I'll vote for him again. I think he's done excellent work. I didn't just vote anti-Trump. I would never, ever vote for one of the GOP SB candidates listed. I mean, you have a candidate like Moon as the top Democratic endorsed SB candidate. He's always focused on academics, he's got a ton of experience, and he's moderate. My guess is that you're just a pro-GOP person who thinks they can influence other "moderate" people by pretending to hold whatever position you think they hold. Fortunately the majority of educated people in Fairfax have more sense to fall for your shtick.

DP. Moon is fine. Telling, though, that the FCDC rewarded him for years of thoughtful and moderate service in 2019 by denying him an endorsement. It took four years of Abrar Omeish regularly embarrassing herself and the local Democrats for them to give him another chance.

Telling also that they endorsed him now--they learned from their earlier mistake. I was disappointed that he didn't have the endorsement earlier, and I would have voted for him if he ran. But I can critique the Dem SB/FCDC without running to a far worse option.

You can remain a lemming but the reality is that most of the current FCDC-endorsed candidates are more like Omeish (inexperienced ideologues) than Moon (who wasn’t far left enough to make the cut four years ago).

And the other available candidates? Worse.

Disagree.

Moon is a decent guy, although he’s been kicked around so much by the local Democrats over the years that he probably has Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

No one knows why Ryan McElveen is running again. He couldn’t have acted more bored and disinterested the last couple of years he was on the board. He hasn’t found another office he could win (he was a distant third in the BOS primary), but this a step back for him.

And there’s rarely been a bigger flake running for local office than Kyle McDaniel. Didn’t like him as a Republican? Fine, he’ll repackage himself as a far-left Democratic. Too boring as a white bread dad? Fine, he’ll declare that he’s a bisexual ally and close friend of Robert Rigby and the rest of the Liberty Fund core team. No idea what persona he’ll adopt if he’s elected.

David and AuCoin are far, far better choices for the other two at-large slots.

Davis and Aucoin? The republicans ? No thanks.

Yes, thanks. We need more diversity of thought on the School Board. If we’d had some over the past four years it’s unlikely FCPS’s reputation would have declined as much as it has.

So republicans are whining for a free seat because they can’t win around here? Hard pass.

The past four years have underscored the need for a school board that isn’t a one-party circle jerk.

Your response is moronic.

The GOP trolls on here are becoming more and more unhinged. Thats probably a good sign for the Democrats. Enjoy 4 more years of a 12-0 democratic school board.

As an immigrant from an ex-communist country, I have to tell you that it is never a good idea to have a 1-party system. Do you need more explanation?

I’d hope an “immigrant from an ex-communist country” would recognize the irony in advocating for Republicans who tried to overthrow our own government on January 6th. One of those insurrectionists is even a candidate for this position who bragged about being tear gassed that day.

Do you need more explanation?

I’m always hearing about these right wing crazies and their guns, yet when they tried to take over the country they decided to leave them home.

Weird.

Is this Maureen Brody? Did your eyes finally clear up from the tear gas?

Wasn’t Brody the PTA President at Lewis? She was willing to send her kids to a diverse school unlike those two-faced Democratic snobs Elaine Tholen and Karen Keys Gamarra.

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Anonymous wrote:JFC. . . what is wrong with you people and your sheeplike tendencies.

DEI is not superceding every other initiative and program in the district. That's a talking point. Not a fact.

It is the cause of dropping homework, lowering standards for assignments, switching to standards based grading, etc. For dropping the science fair, dropping service requirements for middle school, etc. All because some students cannot or do not do it. So schools have dropped or lowered standards and requirements. For equity.

+1. Pretty much every post trying to defend DEI is a 1 liner screaming LIES or STOP IT without acknowledging the fully laid out concerns by parents against DEI overtaking other priorities. Anyway I think objective readers of this thread can tell which posters are reasonable and which ones aren’t. I’m definitely not spending my time trying to convince the deep DEI faithful. Will be voting Republican in November.

I won’t be voting for Republican SB candidates so much as voting against the Democrats on the SB who have been awful for years, but especially for the last four. They are just despicable - incompetent, hypocritical, virtue-signaling failures at everything they’ve touched.

Absolutely agree.

+1. I’ll be doing the same. Just the the anti-Trump voters in 2020. They didn’t vote for Biden; they voted against Trump. I will vote against the current SB.

I voted for Biden; I'll vote for him again. I think he's done excellent work. I didn't just vote anti-Trump. I would never, ever vote for one of the GOP SB candidates listed. I mean, you have a candidate like Moon as the top Democratic endorsed SB candidate. He's always focused on academics, he's got a ton of experience, and he's moderate. My guess is that you're just a pro-GOP person who thinks they can influence other "moderate" people by pretending to hold whatever position you think they hold. Fortunately the majority of educated people in Fairfax have more sense to fall for your shtick.

DP. Moon is fine. Telling, though, that the FCDC rewarded him for years of thoughtful and moderate service in 2019 by denying him an endorsement. It took four years of Abrar Omeish regularly embarrassing herself and the local Democrats for them to give him another chance.

Telling also that they endorsed him now--they learned from their earlier mistake. I was disappointed that he didn't have the endorsement earlier, and I would have voted for him if he ran. But I can critique the Dem SB/FCDC without running to a far worse option.

You can remain a lemming but the reality is that most of the current FCDC-endorsed candidates are more like Omeish (inexperienced ideologues) than Moon (who wasn’t far left enough to make the cut four years ago).

And the other available candidates? Worse.

Disagree.

Moon is a decent guy, although he’s been kicked around so much by the local Democrats over the years that he probably has Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

No one knows why Ryan McElveen is running again. He couldn’t have acted more bored and disinterested the last couple of years he was on the board. He hasn’t found another office he could win (he was a distant third in the BOS primary), but this a step back for him.

And there’s rarely been a bigger flake running for local office than Kyle McDaniel. Didn’t like him as a Republican? Fine, he’ll repackage himself as a far-left Democratic. Too boring as a white bread dad? Fine, he’ll declare that he’s a bisexual ally and close friend of Robert Rigby and the rest of the Liberty Fund core team. No idea what persona he’ll adopt if he’s elected.

David and AuCoin are far, far better choices for the other two at-large slots.

Davis and Aucoin? The republicans ? No thanks.

Yes, thanks. We need more diversity of thought on the School Board. If we’d had some over the past four years it’s unlikely FCPS’s reputation would have declined as much as it has.

So republicans are whining for a free seat because they can’t win around here? Hard pass.

The past four years have underscored the need for a school board that isn’t a one-party circle jerk.

Your response is moronic.

The GOP trolls on here are becoming more and more unhinged. Thats probably a good sign for the Democrats. Enjoy 4 more years of a 12-0 democratic school board.

As an immigrant from an ex-communist country, I have to tell you that it is never a good idea to have a 1-party system. Do you need more explanation?

Are you stupid? Having a full Democratic school board is not a one party system.

DP. This is how the Democrats always speak to immigrants when they don’t toe the party line. You’re splitting hairs to suggest there hasn’t been one-party hegemony in Fairfax, and it’s ruining the public schools. We need a real diversity of views again.

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Anonymous wrote:JFC. . . what is wrong with you people and your sheeplike tendencies.

DEI is not superceding every other initiative and program in the district. That's a talking point. Not a fact.

It is the cause of dropping homework, lowering standards for assignments, switching to standards based grading, etc. For dropping the science fair, dropping service requirements for middle school, etc. All because some students cannot or do not do it. So schools have dropped or lowered standards and requirements. For equity.

+1. Pretty much every post trying to defend DEI is a 1 liner screaming LIES or STOP IT without acknowledging the fully laid out concerns by parents against DEI overtaking other priorities. Anyway I think objective readers of this thread can tell which posters are reasonable and which ones aren’t. I’m definitely not spending my time trying to convince the deep DEI faithful. Will be voting Republican in November.

I won’t be voting for Republican SB candidates so much as voting against the Democrats on the SB who have been awful for years, but especially for the last four. They are just despicable - incompetent, hypocritical, virtue-signaling failures at everything they’ve touched.

Absolutely agree.

+1. I’ll be doing the same. Just the the anti-Trump voters in 2020. They didn’t vote for Biden; they voted against Trump. I will vote against the current SB.

I voted for Biden; I'll vote for him again. I think he's done excellent work. I didn't just vote anti-Trump. I would never, ever vote for one of the GOP SB candidates listed. I mean, you have a candidate like Moon as the top Democratic endorsed SB candidate. He's always focused on academics, he's got a ton of experience, and he's moderate. My guess is that you're just a pro-GOP person who thinks they can influence other "moderate" people by pretending to hold whatever position you think they hold. Fortunately the majority of educated people in Fairfax have more sense to fall for your shtick.

DP. Moon is fine. Telling, though, that the FCDC rewarded him for years of thoughtful and moderate service in 2019 by denying him an endorsement. It took four years of Abrar Omeish regularly embarrassing herself and the local Democrats for them to give him another chance.

Telling also that they endorsed him now--they learned from their earlier mistake. I was disappointed that he didn't have the endorsement earlier, and I would have voted for him if he ran. But I can critique the Dem SB/FCDC without running to a far worse option.

You can remain a lemming but the reality is that most of the current FCDC-endorsed candidates are more like Omeish (inexperienced ideologues) than Moon (who wasn’t far left enough to make the cut four years ago).

And the other available candidates? Worse.

Disagree.

Moon is a decent guy, although he’s been kicked around so much by the local Democrats over the years that he probably has Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

No one knows why Ryan McElveen is running again. He couldn’t have acted more bored and disinterested the last couple of years he was on the board. He hasn’t found another office he could win (he was a distant third in the BOS primary), but this a step back for him.

And there’s rarely been a bigger flake running for local office than Kyle McDaniel. Didn’t like him as a Republican? Fine, he’ll repackage himself as a far-left Democratic. Too boring as a white bread dad? Fine, he’ll declare that he’s a bisexual ally and close friend of Robert Rigby and the rest of the Liberty Fund core team. No idea what persona he’ll adopt if he’s elected.

David and AuCoin are far, far better choices for the other two at-large slots.

Davis and Aucoin? The republicans ? No thanks.

Yes, thanks. We need more diversity of thought on the School Board. If we’d had some over the past four years it’s unlikely FCPS’s reputation would have declined as much as it has.

So republicans are whining for a free seat because they can’t win around here? Hard pass.

The past four years have underscored the need for a school board that isn’t a one-party circle jerk.

Your response is moronic.

The GOP trolls on here are becoming more and more unhinged. Thats probably a good sign for the Democrats. Enjoy 4 more years of a 12-0 democratic school board.

As an immigrant from an ex-communist country, I have to tell you that it is never a good idea to have a 1-party system. Do you need more explanation?

Are you stupid? Having a full Democratic school board is not a one party system.

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Anonymous wrote:JFC. . . what is wrong with you people and your sheeplike tendencies.

DEI is not superceding every other initiative and program in the district. That's a talking point. Not a fact.

It is the cause of dropping homework, lowering standards for assignments, switching to standards based grading, etc. For dropping the science fair, dropping service requirements for middle school, etc. All because some students cannot or do not do it. So schools have dropped or lowered standards and requirements. For equity.

+1. Pretty much every post trying to defend DEI is a 1 liner screaming LIES or STOP IT without acknowledging the fully laid out concerns by parents against DEI overtaking other priorities. Anyway I think objective readers of this thread can tell which posters are reasonable and which ones aren’t. I’m definitely not spending my time trying to convince the deep DEI faithful. Will be voting Republican in November.

I won’t be voting for Republican SB candidates so much as voting against the Democrats on the SB who have been awful for years, but especially for the last four. They are just despicable - incompetent, hypocritical, virtue-signaling failures at everything they’ve touched.

Absolutely agree.

+1. I’ll be doing the same. Just the the anti-Trump voters in 2020. They didn’t vote for Biden; they voted against Trump. I will vote against the current SB.

I voted for Biden; I'll vote for him again. I think he's done excellent work. I didn't just vote anti-Trump. I would never, ever vote for one of the GOP SB candidates listed. I mean, you have a candidate like Moon as the top Democratic endorsed SB candidate. He's always focused on academics, he's got a ton of experience, and he's moderate. My guess is that you're just a pro-GOP person who thinks they can influence other "moderate" people by pretending to hold whatever position you think they hold. Fortunately the majority of educated people in Fairfax have more sense to fall for your shtick.

DP. Moon is fine. Telling, though, that the FCDC rewarded him for years of thoughtful and moderate service in 2019 by denying him an endorsement. It took four years of Abrar Omeish regularly embarrassing herself and the local Democrats for them to give him another chance.

Telling also that they endorsed him now--they learned from their earlier mistake. I was disappointed that he didn't have the endorsement earlier, and I would have voted for him if he ran. But I can critique the Dem SB/FCDC without running to a far worse option.

You can remain a lemming but the reality is that most of the current FCDC-endorsed candidates are more like Omeish (inexperienced ideologues) than Moon (who wasn’t far left enough to make the cut four years ago).

And the other available candidates? Worse.

Disagree.

Moon is a decent guy, although he’s been kicked around so much by the local Democrats over the years that he probably has Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

No one knows why Ryan McElveen is running again. He couldn’t have acted more bored and disinterested the last couple of years he was on the board. He hasn’t found another office he could win (he was a distant third in the BOS primary), but this a step back for him.

And there’s rarely been a bigger flake running for local office than Kyle McDaniel. Didn’t like him as a Republican? Fine, he’ll repackage himself as a far-left Democratic. Too boring as a white bread dad? Fine, he’ll declare that he’s a bisexual ally and close friend of Robert Rigby and the rest of the Liberty Fund core team. No idea what persona he’ll adopt if he’s elected.

David and AuCoin are far, far better choices for the other two at-large slots.

Davis and Aucoin? The republicans ? No thanks.

Yes, thanks. We need more diversity of thought on the School Board. If we’d had some over the past four years it’s unlikely FCPS’s reputation would have declined as much as it has.

So republicans are whining for a free seat because they can’t win around here? Hard pass.

The past four years have underscored the need for a school board that isn’t a one-party circle jerk.

Your response is moronic.

The GOP trolls on here are becoming more and more unhinged. Thats probably a good sign for the Democrats. Enjoy 4 more years of a 12-0 democratic school board.

As an immigrant from an ex-communist country, I have to tell you that it is never a good idea to have a 1-party system. Do you need more explanation?

I’d hope an “immigrant from an ex-communist country” would recognize the irony in advocating for Republicans who tried to overthrow our own government on January 6th. One of those insurrectionists is even a candidate for this position who bragged about being tear gassed that day.

Do you need more explanation?

I’m always hearing about these right wing crazies and their guns, yet when they tried to take over the country they decided to leave them home.

Weird.

Is this Maureen Brody? Did your eyes finally clear up from the tear gas?