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Anonymous wrote:This is what we have congress and senate at the state level for. They qork on the state budget. The school board needs to understand the budget but lobbying should not be at the top of their list. They need to understand the school budget better and the programs in thee school and then more generally what is happening with the rest of the state and nation.

Ah yes “Congress at the state level.” Do you, could you, mean the General Assembly?

Yes General Assembly. State representative.

Anonymous wrote:This is what we have congress and senate at the state level for. They qork on the state budget. The school board needs to understand the budget but lobbying should not be at the top of their list. They need to understand the school budget better and the programs in thee school and then more generally what is happening with the rest of the state and nation.

Ah yes “Congress at the state level.” Do you, could you, mean the General Assembly?

This is what we have congress and senate at the state level for. They qork on the state budget. The school board needs to understand the budget but lobbying should not be at the top of their list. They need to understand the school budget better and the programs in thee school and then more generally what is happening with the rest of the state and nation.

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t need to elect Brody. However it will be another disaster if the next SB is another all-D board. Suggest voting for Moon and Davis and looking at some of the independent candidates running for at-large without a party endorsement like Gabor and Hussein.

Davis is a vapid joke. The latest in a long line of GOP closet cases who regurgitate the same 6 sentences hoping to fool voters. She doesn’t have a single qualification to lead our schools and her only track record is leading the failed recall attempts.

She came to my neighborhood association candidates forum and she couldnt answer any questions. She said flat out that she didn’t know when asked a question about state funding formulas

It’s actually refreshing that a candidate would admit that she might need to ask others to answer a question, rather than pretend to be a know-it-all like some of the current jokes on the School Board.

In any case, the stock answer about state funding formulas is to claim
Fairfax should get more from the state and ROVA should get less. That’s outside the School Board’s ability to decide, and saying Fairfax should get more doesn’t just make it happen.

ROVA gets so much. FCPS doesn't get what we put in. We need people on the board who understand this and will lobby our legislators to advocate for fixing the formula. That's why it'll be great to have people like Laura Jane Cohen and Stella Pekarsky in the GA who understand the formulas.

There is some merit to this argument.

However, if northern Virginia delegates fight for funding distribution on the state level based off the percentage of taxes paid into the state pot, then returned to the county for education, doesn't that also mean McLean, Langly, Fairfax Station and Vienna wealthy parents can also argue that since they pay the most money into the tax pot, they should receive more money than the poorer schools like Mount Vernon.

Or does the NoVA delegates arguing that Virginia should get more state tax money returned since NoVA is the wealthiest and pays the most taxes to the state, that the many times more funds given to ESOL and FARMS students across Fairfax county schools like Lewis, Mount Vernon and Justice be reduced significantly so the wealthy and English speaking students can receive an equal amount of per pupil funds or proportionally more, since the Langley, Vienna, McLean and Fairfax Station parents are paying much more in taxes?

No OP but what was being said is that the state funding formula (not just for schools, for everything) is backwards and just assumes that because of the wealth of Fairfax there are no enclaves of FARMs. I understand the McLean argument but it isn’t really relevant to this case. But yes “We pay more in taxes therefore we need to get more out of the state” is a simplistic way for OP to phrase it.

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t need to elect Brody. However it will be another disaster if the next SB is another all-D board. Suggest voting for Moon and Davis and looking at some of the independent candidates running for at-large without a party endorsement like Gabor and Hussein.

Davis is a vapid joke. The latest in a long line of GOP closet cases who regurgitate the same 6 sentences hoping to fool voters. She doesn’t have a single qualification to lead our schools and her only track record is leading the failed recall attempts.

She came to my neighborhood association candidates forum and she couldnt answer any questions. She said flat out that she didn’t know when asked a question about state funding formulas

It’s actually refreshing that a candidate would admit that she might need to ask others to answer a question, rather than pretend to be a know-it-all like some of the current jokes on the School Board.

In any case, the stock answer about state funding formulas is to claim
Fairfax should get more from the state and ROVA should get less. That’s outside the School Board’s ability to decide, and saying Fairfax should get more doesn’t just make it happen.

ROVA gets so much. FCPS doesn't get what we put in. We need people on the board who understand this and will lobby our legislators to advocate for fixing the formula. That's why it'll be great to have people like Laura Jane Cohen and Stella Pekarsky in the GA who understand the formulas.

There is some merit to this argument.

However, if northern Virginia delegates fight for funding distribution on the state level based off the percentage of taxes paid into the state pot, then returned to the county for education, doesn't that also mean McLean, Langly, Fairfax Station and Vienna wealthy parents can also argue that since they pay the most money into the tax pot, they should receive more money than the poorer schools like Mount Vernon.

Or does the NoVA delegates arguing that Virginia should get more state tax money returned since NoVA is the wealthiest and pays the most taxes to the state, that the many times more funds given to ESOL and FARMS students across Fairfax county schools like Lewis, Mount Vernon and Justice be reduced significantly so the wealthy and English speaking students can receive an equal amount of per pupil funds or proportionally more, since the Langley, Vienna, McLean and Fairfax Station parents are paying much more in taxes?

I’m sure the board would agree.

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t need to elect Brody. However it will be another disaster if the next SB is another all-D board. Suggest voting for Moon and Davis and looking at some of the independent candidates running for at-large without a party endorsement like Gabor and Hussein.

Davis is a vapid joke. The latest in a long line of GOP closet cases who regurgitate the same 6 sentences hoping to fool voters. She doesn’t have a single qualification to lead our schools and her only track record is leading the failed recall attempts.

She came to my neighborhood association candidates forum and she couldnt answer any questions. She said flat out that she didn’t know when asked a question about state funding formulas

It’s actually refreshing that a candidate would admit that she might need to ask others to answer a question, rather than pretend to be a know-it-all like some of the current jokes on the School Board.

In any case, the stock answer about state funding formulas is to claim
Fairfax should get more from the state and ROVA should get less. That’s outside the School Board’s ability to decide, and saying Fairfax should get more doesn’t just make it happen.

ROVA gets so much. FCPS doesn't get what we put in. We need people on the board who understand this and will lobby our legislators to advocate for fixing the formula. That's why it'll be great to have people like Laura Jane Cohen and Stella Pekarsky in the GA who understand the formulas.

There is some merit to this argument.

However, if northern Virginia delegates fight for funding distribution on the state level based off the percentage of taxes paid into the state pot, then returned to the county for education, doesn't that also mean McLean, Langly, Fairfax Station and Vienna wealthy parents can also argue that since they pay the most money into the tax pot, they should receive more money than the poorer schools like Mount Vernon.

Or does the NoVA delegates arguing that Virginia should get more state tax money returned since NoVA is the wealthiest and pays the most taxes to the state, that the many times more funds given to ESOL and FARMS students across Fairfax county schools like Lewis, Mount Vernon and Justice be reduced significantly so the wealthy and English speaking students can receive an equal amount of per pupil funds or proportionally more, since the Langley, Vienna, McLean and Fairfax Station parents are paying much more in taxes?

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t need to elect Brody. However it will be another disaster if the next SB is another all-D board. Suggest voting for Moon and Davis and looking at some of the independent candidates running for at-large without a party endorsement like Gabor and Hussein.

Davis is a vapid joke. The latest in a long line of GOP closet cases who regurgitate the same 6 sentences hoping to fool voters. She doesn’t have a single qualification to lead our schools and her only track record is leading the failed recall attempts.

She came to my neighborhood association candidates forum and she couldnt answer any questions. She said flat out that she didn’t know when asked a question about state funding formulas

It’s actually refreshing that a candidate would admit that she might need to ask others to answer a question, rather than pretend to be a know-it-all like some of the current jokes on the School Board.

In any case, the stock answer about state funding formulas is to claim
Fairfax should get more from the state and ROVA should get less. That’s outside the School Board’s ability to decide, and saying Fairfax should get more doesn’t just make it happen.

ROVA gets so much. FCPS doesn't get what we put in. We need people on the board who understand this and will lobby our legislators to advocate for fixing the formula. That's why it'll be great to have people like Laura Jane Cohen and Stella Pekarsky in the GA who understand the formulas.

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t need to elect Brody. However it will be another disaster if the next SB is another all-D board. Suggest voting for Moon and Davis and looking at some of the independent candidates running for at-large without a party endorsement like Gabor and Hussein.

Davis is a vapid joke. The latest in a long line of GOP closet cases who regurgitate the same 6 sentences hoping to fool voters. She doesn’t have a single qualification to lead our schools and her only track record is leading the failed recall attempts.

We don’t elect School Board members to lead FCPS. We elect them to exercise oversight over those hired to run the schools. Part of the problem we currently have is too many School Board members hijacking FCPS to push their own bad ideas. Davis understands this.

And if there is any “closet case” running for an at-large seat, it would be Kyle McDaniel, not Davis.

Based on her website, questionnaire responses, and Fox News interviews, the only thing she understands is how to regurgitate 4 buzz words. She would be a disaster leading our schools.

Then I guess we don’t appoint her as superintendent to replace Dr. Reid, who was hired to “lead our schools.”

On the other hand, if you look at other at-large candidates McElveen is frivolous and only known because he announced snow days to kids before the official FCPS announcements and McDaniel’s main claim to fame is that he’s a former Republican and married father of two who conveniently both became a far-left Democratic and publicly announced he’s bisexual in an apparent effort to appeal to what he now believes to be voter preferences in the county.

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t need to elect Brody. However it will be another disaster if the next SB is another all-D board. Suggest voting for Moon and Davis and looking at some of the independent candidates running for at-large without a party endorsement like Gabor and Hussein.

Davis is a vapid joke. The latest in a long line of GOP closet cases who regurgitate the same 6 sentences hoping to fool voters. She doesn’t have a single qualification to lead our schools and her only track record is leading the failed recall attempts.

We don’t elect School Board members to lead FCPS. We elect them to exercise oversight over those hired to run the schools. Part of the problem we currently have is too many School Board members hijacking FCPS to push their own bad ideas. Davis understands this.

And if there is any “closet case” running for an at-large seat, it would be Kyle McDaniel, not Davis.

Based on her website, questionnaire responses, and Fox News interviews, the only thing she understands is how to regurgitate 4 buzz words. She would be a disaster leading our schools.

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t need to elect Brody. However it will be another disaster if the next SB is another all-D board. Suggest voting for Moon and Davis and looking at some of the independent candidates running for at-large without a party endorsement like Gabor and Hussein.

Davis is a vapid joke. The latest in a long line of GOP closet cases who regurgitate the same 6 sentences hoping to fool voters. She doesn’t have a single qualification to lead our schools and her only track record is leading the failed recall attempts.

She came to my neighborhood association candidates forum and she couldnt answer any questions. She said flat out that she didn’t know when asked a question about state funding formulas

It’s actually refreshing that a candidate would admit that she might need to ask others to answer a question, rather than pretend to be a know-it-all like some of the current jokes on the School Board.

In any case, the stock answer about state funding formulas is to claim
Fairfax should get more from the state and ROVA should get less. That’s outside the School Board’s ability to decide, and saying Fairfax should get more doesn’t just make it happen.

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t need to elect Brody. However it will be another disaster if the next SB is another all-D board. Suggest voting for Moon and Davis and looking at some of the independent candidates running for at-large without a party endorsement like Gabor and Hussein.

Davis is a vapid joke. The latest in a long line of GOP closet cases who regurgitate the same 6 sentences hoping to fool voters. She doesn’t have a single qualification to lead our schools and her only track record is leading the failed recall attempts.

She came to my neighborhood association candidates forum and she couldnt answer any questions. She said flat out that she didn’t know when asked a question about state funding formulas

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t need to elect Brody. However it will be another disaster if the next SB is another all-D board. Suggest voting for Moon and Davis and looking at some of the independent candidates running for at-large without a party endorsement like Gabor and Hussein.

Davis is a vapid joke. The latest in a long line of GOP closet cases who regurgitate the same 6 sentences hoping to fool voters. She doesn’t have a single qualification to lead our schools and her only track record is leading the failed recall attempts.

We don’t elect School Board members to lead FCPS. We elect them to exercise oversight over those hired to run the schools. Part of the problem we currently have is too many School Board members hijacking FCPS to push their own bad ideas. Davis understands this.

And if there is any “closet case” running for an at-large seat, it would be Kyle McDaniel, not Davis.

Anonymous wrote:We don’t need to elect Brody. However it will be another disaster if the next SB is another all-D board. Suggest voting for Moon and Davis and looking at some of the independent candidates running for at-large without a party endorsement like Gabor and Hussein.

Davis is a vapid joke. The latest in a long line of GOP closet cases who regurgitate the same 6 sentences hoping to fool voters. She doesn’t have a single qualification to lead our schools and her only track record is leading the failed recall attempts.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who thinks fcps has been silent on opioids hasn’t been paying attention. In addition to Narcan, they did so many community meetings last year, in conjunction with FCPD, trying to educate families on the dangers of opioids. Almost no one came.

I think one big issue with FCPS is that they try to put their hands into so many different pots, then flood parents with multiple emails each day, that are very long and difficult to read. Sometimes the exact same email will arrive in our inboxes from multiple school board reps, multiple schools for those of us with kids in different buildings, the superintendent and the school counselor. This is in addition to any extra emails from the counselors, college counseling staff, and possible teachers/clubs/coaches. I have had days where I receive 7 or 8 very long emails from various FCPS representatives, all saying the exact same thing just a little differently, with at least 1/3 or more of the information having zero to do with academics.

Because FCPS is focusing on so many non academic things in their emails, and sending them in multiple formats from multiple people on the same day, it is SO easy to ignore, miss, or overlook the information in the emails.

FCPS needs to find a better, more efficient, and more concise way to disseminate information, and limit those emails to details that are specifically focused on academics and schools.

For example, the religious holiday messages in the emails are at least a paragraph of information, plus a huge clip art photo. Those should just be name - date - bullet point (1 sentence description).

In a recent email, fcps posted an announcement of Native American Heritage month. It was this paragraph, plus a clip art.

"Native American Heritage Month is a time to celebrate rich and diverse cultures, traditions, and histories; and to acknowledge the important contributions of Native Americans. It is also an opportunity to raise awareness about the unique challenges they have faced historically and in the present, and the ways in which tribal citizens have worked to conquer these challenges.

Learn more about the heritage months, celebrations, and traditions celebrated in FCPS."

The announcement could have been one sentence, put at the top of the email in the calendar swction with no clip art.

They do this with so many announcements that the important stuff is just lost.

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Anonymous wrote:Man I wish I saw this thread earlier. I also wish everyone wasn't "Anonymous." Even self-chosen handles and avatars like on Twitter are better than this mess of comments which might all be by 3 total people for all we know.

The school board is 12-0 Democratic because local Republicans are a bunch of rancid bigots and fascists, and the good people of Fairfax County vote accordingly, against that. If Republicans ran candidates who had a basic sense of human decency, they would compete, and win a few seats. Democrats would be a majority anyway based simply on so many Fairfax County voters liking Democrats. But we get to a 12-0 monopoly only because Republicans consistently prove they are unworthy of any respect at all. Maureen Brody is a fascist and terrorist who admits to getting teargassed trying to storm the U.S. Capitol in the January 6 terrorist attack. Harry Jackson is a violent wife-beating thug and rancid bigot who has no place in civilized society. Tony Sabio exposed himself on Twitter as fascist Trump trash approving of violence to keep/put Trump in power. The list goes on. The dimwits here championing this pathetic lot of losers are, well, yourselves a pathetic lot of losers.

I'm curious what you creatures on the GOP side think you're going to get for all this. You just lose everyone's respect whenever people IRL match you with your musings. Maybe you'd be happier living elsewhere? People commute from Fauquier and beyond. You're just embarrassing yourselves into getting zeroed out completely here. You're certainly not doing Pat Herrity any favors, as he tries to avoid association with his own party to keep surviving in this twilight of his career.

A viable 2-party system requires 2 parties that both behave responsibly. Only Democrats fit that description today.

Very well said.

This wasn't "well said." If it were "well said," PP would have found a few other words to use besides "rancid" and "fascist," both of which made PP look silly and unhinged. And at a time when we see on the global stage the negative consequences of extreme polarization, demonizing one's political adversaries to this degree - particularly when we all know Democrats will retain control of the School Board and the only issue is whether there's room for any contrary perspectives - is wildly over-the-top and unnecessary.

It was absolutely well said, even if you don’t want to hear it.

Fighting to overthrow election results is fascist.

DP. In a more relevant scenario to schools in FCPS, the entire Democrat School Board and Superintendent acted as fascists by overthrowing the right of members of the community to have their voices heard through the results of the survey created by the same FCPS. They did so because an overwhelming majority of parents, students, and staff didn’t agree with their proposed approach on how to teach sex-ed and the inclusion of gender identity. In the words of Superintendent Reid, “Honestly, the majority doesn’t always dictate, right?”

Come to think about it, they resemble more a dictatorship, which may be why some posters in this thread don’t seem to connect the fascists at the all Democrat School Board with the need to replace them.

The survey was flawed. Easily spammed by RWNJ parents.

It’s always a “heads I win, tails you lose” situation with the current School Board when it comes to public input.

If the input supports their position, it will be touted as “strong public support.” If it does not, the results will be ignored or discounted, with a typical pretext being that a survey was flawed.

Yet one more reason why we need more diversity of views on the school board.

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The person you’re responding to continues to spam this thread with utter garbage. Report their posts.

Very telling that you think the truth is "utter garbage".

It was a flawed survey that was already extensively discussed here:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1091552.page

Anyway, the proposal didn't pass so it looks like they did follow "public opinion" after all.

So the only fascism we are left with here is the Republican SB candidate who was tear gassed at the Capitol.

I debated whether I would engage with a troll, but decided I want to see your (*credible*) links proving that any of these candidates was tear-gassed at the Capitol. Oh, and also that one of them is a “wife beater.” Provide links or STFU.

Everyone who disagrees with you isn’t a “troll”.

I didn’t post anything about a “wife beater”.

Maureen Grady
“ The first violence started on the West steps plaza and lawn when teargas was shot into a crowd of people waving flags. I was part of that crowd from minute five.”
https://gab.com/MoBro/posts/105521765155941317

She also reposts gay slurs and other lovely material.

If you are unfamiliar with gab:
“Gab is an American alt-tech microblogging and social networking service known for its far-right userbase.[2][3][4][5] Widely described as a haven for neo-Nazis, racists, white supremacists, white nationalists, antisemites, the alt-right, supporters of Donald Trump, conservatives, right-libertarians, and believers in conspiracy theories such as QAnon,[6][7] Gab has attracted users and groups who have been banned from other social media platforms and users seeking alternatives to mainstream social media platforms.[8][9][10] Founded in 2016 and launched publicly in May 2017,[3][11] Gab claims to promote free speech, individual liberty, the "free flow of information online", and Christian values.[12][13][14][15] Researchers and journalists have characterized these assertions as an obfuscation of its extremist ecosystem.[13][16] Antisemitism is prominent in the site's content and the company itself has engaged in antisemitic commentary. Gab CEO Andrew Torba has promoted the white genocide conspiracy theory.[13][14][15][12] Gab is based in Pennsylvania.[17]” - wiki

So if Maureen Brady loses is she going to storm Gatehouse?

Are you referring to something like this?

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-771751

Because this resembles more Abrar Omeish and the Dems at the current School Board who have refused to condemn her hate for the U.S. and these kind of acts.

No, I'm referring to Maureen Brady proudly being at the Jan 6th insurrection, when Republicans stormed the Capitol trying to overthrow the election results.
“ The first violence started on the West steps plaza and lawn when teargas was shot into a crowd of people waving flags. I was part of that crowd from minute five. ”
https://gab.com/MoBro/posts/105521765155941317