Get your facts right Wrote:
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> It just ain't so Wrote:
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> > FairfaxTimesTellsTheStory Wrote:
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> > > Wow! Did you see this story about
> > redistricting
> > > in the Fairfax Times today?!?!
> > >
> > >
> >
>
http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/news/2008/feb/26/schoo
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> >
> > > l-board-vote-boundaries/
> > >
> > > My favorite line is the first sentence of the
> > > second paragraph which reads: "Parents of
> > students
> > > at Oakton, Herndon, Madison, Chantilly and
> > > Westfield high schools have nearly
> unanimously
> > > opposed the redistricting..."
> > >
> > > This isn't a school board member. Or an
> > > "impartial" PTA president. Or an editorial.
> > This
> > > is a NEWS story.
> > >
> > > My faith in the press is restored!
> > >
> > > So, after 237 pages of back and forth on this
> > > redistricting thread, how many of you are
> going
> > to
> > > actually show up on Thursday night?
> >
> >
> > WOW - real balanced, and FALSE:
> > Times article claims near unanimous opposition
> to
> > RD by the Oakton, Madison, Herndon, Chantilly,
> > Herndon and Westfield. This is just not so.
> >
> > Fact: Herndon PTA has stated for the record,
> that
> > they are for the current staff proposal (see
> > minutes of the Feb. 9 board meeting)
>
> Yes, it is true that Herndon is for any RD plan
> that does not touch them.
>
> > Fact: Most of the parents in these respective
> high
> > schools (other than those from the elementary
> > schools directly affected Floris, Fox Mills,
> > Madison Island and Navy) have been ambivalent
> and
> > pretty much absent from the debate, in fact,
> > prompting Tina Hone to congratulate the one
> > Westfields mom who came to the public hearing
> on
> > Feb. 9 and comment that she has advised that
> the
> > "quiet" ones need to be heard. You seem to
> > confuse the opposition of the few vocal - with
> the
> > silent majority of the many, which frankly
> appear
> > not to care too much one way or another.
>
> You are making reference to Tina Hone's comments
> to Laura Flynn, the VA Run PTSA Political Outreach
> Committee chair who sent an email to VA Run PTSA
> members urging them to speak up about overcrowding
> at Westfield. Interestingly, Ms. Flynn was unable
> to get anyone other than herself to testify in the
> hearings. Tina Hone's comments in the public
> hearing to Ms Flynn reflected the fact that no one
> had to date complained about overcrowding at
> Westfield -- and that she appreciated Ms. Flynn
> coming forward to speak.
>
> The fact that Ms. Flynn herself has no students at
> Westfield, combined with the fact that she failed
> to get other Westfield parents to speak in support
> of her position is indeed an indication that
> overcrowding is NOT a real issue.
>
> So your post really has the opposite impact that
> you intended. If you took the time to listen to
> the last public hearing, only one individual spoke
> out in support of RD during the entire 6.5 hour
> proceeding. For that session, "nearly unanimous
> opposition" would certainly be an accurate
> characteriz
Of course it was, because it gave Fairfax CAPS another soapbox to reiterate the same issues that had already been stated almost verbatim per script many times before - and incidentally addressing issues that were repetitive from the past and not part of the agenda (AP vs IB), but that those folks chose to ignore on purpose.
But that's ok. They have every right to do so. After all it is a free country