Anonymous wrote:So I may have just triggered the Merritt Garland Memo Alert ? My post was deleted - maybe I am now a domestic terrorist? Or maybe it was just a website glitch?

Or maybe tholen called her new bff James Hingeley and he had it removed?

Or maybe tholen dropped another $2344 into Steve Descano's campaign coffers and he stepped in?

Repeating it here to see what happens:

We will not stop, not remain quiet, nor step aside and let these elected officials on the school board continue to fail our kids. Instead we will remain relentless as we tirelessly confront these board members with their poor decisions and repeated failures, and we will not stop until we vote them out of office.

Merritt - just to clarify, we have the right to do the above in line with a little something we like to call the First Amendment. It goes something like this:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.[u][/i]

I listened to a podcast recently about how dissatisfaction with school boards have become a major tool to push far right ideas. When you say I’m unhappy with the SB, I wish they made different decisions—-I get that. That’s ok. That’s normal.
But some of the cuckoo ideas-like so and so is censoring me because they are part of this big conspiracy. Like really? The amount of threads with the words “leftists” and other right wing lingo on the FCPS forum is mind boggling. I miss the silly gen Ed. Vs. AAP, which school is best arguments, etc. It was more productive than this crap.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the recall petition for Laura Jane Cohen was filed in circuit court today. Not sure about Abrar Omeish. Cohen is asking for donations to defend the recall even though it appears FCPS is paying for the lawyers.

Cohen is not going to get donations. She just sold out the West Springfield Elementary neighborhood from Rolling Rd to Daventry for rezoning to Lewis High School.

She had a Freudian slip and bragged about it in her town hall meeting tonight. Whoops!

That's a nightmare for West Springfield homeowners. Lose property value and military families no longer want to rent your house

Yes.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the recall petition for Laura Jane Cohen was filed in circuit court today. Not sure about Abrar Omeish. Cohen is asking for donations to defend the recall even though it appears FCPS is paying for the lawyers.

Cohen is not going to get donations. She just sold out the West Springfield Elementary neighborhood from Rolling Rd to Daventry for rezoning to Lewis High School.

She had a Freudian slip and bragged about it in her town hall meeting tonight. Whoops!

That's a nightmare for West Springfield homeowners. Lose property value and military families no longer want to rent your house

Anonymous wrote:I didn't listen to the call, so I was just asking if it was clear she was talking about students rather than precincts.

They aren't in the middle of any redistricting projects. The work session last night was about the superintendent search. They have a work session today to take up the report of the boundary consultant (which is about boundary policies, not the boundaries of specific schools) and then Keys Gamarra's academy proposal for Lewis, which I agree is a boondoggle.

Maybe it will come up in the work session today about the Lewis academy and either Cohen or someone else will "clarify" her comments or double down.

I suspect the slip of the tongue laat night by Cohen will be far more honest and correct tha. The back peddling today.

I didn't listen to the call, so I was just asking if it was clear she was talking about students rather than precincts.

They aren't in the middle of any redistricting projects. The work session last night was about the superintendent search. They have a work session today to take up the report of the boundary consultant (which is about boundary policies, not the boundaries of specific schools) and then Keys Gamarra's academy proposal for Lewis, which I agree is a boondoggle.

Maybe it will come up in the work session today about the Lewis academy and either Cohen or someone else will "clarify" her comments or double down.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the recall petition for Laura Jane Cohen was filed in circuit court today. Not sure about Abrar Omeish. Cohen is asking for donations to defend the recall even though it appears FCPS is paying for the lawyers.

Cohen is not going to get donations. She just sold out the West Springfield Elementary neighborhood from Rolling Rd to Daventry for rezoning to Lewis High School.

She had a Freudian slip and bragged about it in her town hall meeting tonight. Whoops!

Are you sure she wasn’t just talking about the precincts that have just been moved out of the Springfield District to other magisterial districts by the Board of Supervisors? West Springfield is going to be split among Braddock, Lee, and Springfield, but that won’t necessarily have an impact on the WSHS boundaries.

https://sungazette.news/supervisors-ok-new-districts-leaving-lone-republican-fuming/

She said "kids".

Not voters. Not families. Not houses.

Kids.

The only reason to excitedly say "kids" was if the entire point was to rezone kkds to another school.

Kids don't vote and don't pay taxes.

Kids are just pawns to Cohen and the fcps school board.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the recall petition for Laura Jane Cohen was filed in circuit court today. Not sure about Abrar Omeish. Cohen is asking for donations to defend the recall even though it appears FCPS is paying for the lawyers.

Cohen is not going to get donations. She just sold out the West Springfield Elementary neighborhood from Rolling Rd to Daventry for rezoning to Lewis High School.

She had a Freudian slip and bragged about it in her town hall meeting tonight. Whoops!

Are you sure she wasn’t just talking about the precincts that have just been moved out of the Springfield District to other magisterial districts by the Board of Supervisors? West Springfield is going to be split among Braddock, Lee, and Springfield, but that won’t necessarily have an impact on the WSHS boundaries.

https://sungazette.news/supervisors-ok-new-districts-leaving-lone-republican-fuming/

She said it in the context of Lewis.

Her words were along the line of "We got them to switch a bunch of West Springfield kids to Lee!" in a very excited tone when talking about Lewis high school.

Fcps is in the middle of rezoning. They had a work session last night. Laura Jane spent a good portion of her town hall meeting last night touting the Lewis social justice academy. Lewis is not her district, so why would she hard sell it while happily discussing the West Springfield redistricting to Lee?

This switch of West Springfield to Lee district was a last minute change that was not on the original map they were going to vote on.

It splits West Springfield high school pyramid into thirds, and takes the the neighborhood from behind the golf course along Rolling Rd through Daventry and moves it under the Lee district school board rep.

The Lee rep has every incentive to push to rezone these neighborhoods newly moved into her district to get rezoned to Lewis.

The Lee rep has zero reason to support West Springfield families wanting to stay in their current high school, which is minutes from their houses.

Laura Jane Cohen can just wash her hands and claim "you aren't under my jurisdiction" She has no reason or motivation to support the West Springfield parents. They are no longer "her" people.

Irving district and West Springfiled district were not supposed to move districts. This was a last minute change with zero public input that happened the night before the supervisors voted. Something happened behind the scenes.

A week later, Cohen brags at her town hall that she got a "bunch of West Springfield kids" to get redistricted to Lee.

Not a coincidence that fcps also scheduled rezoning as their focus over the near future.

That neighborhood is certainly going to get rezoned.away from the school five minjtes away, across town to Lewis.

I guess Cohen's supporters are just getting what they voted for.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the recall petition for Laura Jane Cohen was filed in circuit court today. Not sure about Abrar Omeish. Cohen is asking for donations to defend the recall even though it appears FCPS is paying for the lawyers.

Cohen is not going to get donations. She just sold out the West Springfield Elementary neighborhood from Rolling Rd to Daventry for rezoning to Lewis High School.

She had a Freudian slip and bragged about it in her town hall meeting tonight. Whoops!

Are you sure she wasn’t just talking about the precincts that have just been moved out of the Springfield District to other magisterial districts by the Board of Supervisors? West Springfield is going to be split among Braddock, Lee, and Springfield, but that won’t necessarily have an impact on the WSHS boundaries.

https://sungazette.news/supervisors-ok-new-districts-leaving-lone-republican-fuming/

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the recall petition for Laura Jane Cohen was filed in circuit court today. Not sure about Abrar Omeish. Cohen is asking for donations to defend the recall even though it appears FCPS is paying for the lawyers.

Cohen is not going to get donations. She just sold out the West Springfield Elementary neighborhood from Rolling Rd to Daventry for rezoning to Lewis High School.

She had a Freudian slip and bragged about it in her town hall meeting tonight. Whoops!

Apparently the recall petition for Laura Jane Cohen was filed in circuit court today. Not sure about Abrar Omeish. Cohen is asking for donations to defend the recall even though it appears FCPS is paying for the lawyers.

One more gem from elaine - quote from right after her buddy James Hingeley did her a solid and refused to prosecute. Here is what she said:

"In this case, a small group of people unhappy about Covid restrictions tried to use the law to substitute their opinion for a unanimous consensus of the Fairfax County School Board," said Tholen in response to the petition dismissal. "I was happy to hear the special prosecutor tell the judge that the case was about a policy disagreement, and that the recall process is not a vehicle to resolve such disputes with elected officials and governing bodies. That is why we have elections."

See you in 2023.

So I may have just triggered the Merritt Garland Memo Alert ? My post was deleted - maybe I am now a domestic terrorist? Or maybe it was just a website glitch?

Or maybe tholen called her new bff James Hingeley and he had it removed?

Or maybe tholen dropped another $2344 into Steve Descano's campaign coffers and he stepped in?

Repeating it here to see what happens:

We will not stop, not remain quiet, nor step aside and let these elected officials on the school board continue to fail our kids. Instead we will remain relentless as we tirelessly confront these board members with their poor decisions and repeated failures, and we will not stop until we vote them out of office.

Merritt - just to clarify, we have the right to do the above in line with a little something we like to call the First Amendment. It goes something like this:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.[u][/i]

Anonymous wrote:The PP is a perfect example of the type of parents who cannot understand that people have different opinions from them.

Not PP, but what are your “different opinions” other than everyone should just suck it up and take whatever FCPS gives them, whether it’s an overcrowded, under-funded high school or being among a small group of kids who get sent to a different MS than most of their ES peers and then to a different HS than almost all of their MS peers?

It doesn’t seem like anything a School Board member should tolerate in her district, but you seem to disagree.

The PP is a perfect example of the type of parents who cannot understand that people have different opinions from them.

Anonymous wrote:These McLean parents of last year’s 7th graders were so entitled that they could not understand they couldn’t get their way. I saw them put their kids out there and feed them lines. Instead of teaching them to be resilient, they taught them victimhood. The boundary change needed to happen. You can’t grandfather forever. I would have liked it to go even faster but they tried to grandfather those close to high school. Your kids will be fine at Langley, for goodness sake.

So the boundary change "needed to happen" - so it happened and 30 kid switched this year. Dont you understand that it made zero difference?? It had zero impact on capacity at MHS. Zero. The FCPS numbers prove that. So why do it? Why leave any kids behind when it makes no difference? Why not instead fight for a reno?? The narrative that a boundary "needed to happen before a reno" was a total lie.

I was not against a boundary change, but it needed to be meaningful and done right - in the end it was neither.

Did you volunteer to switch your kid to Langley? Im sure your kid is resilient and would also be fine at Langley, right? The boundary is fine for you as long as it is not your kid im sure.

Your post makes me wonder if you are tholen or another SB member.