parent800 Wrote:
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> From:
http://www.examiner.com/blogs/Sharp_Sticks
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> Last night, I attended the third “Community Town
> Meeting” on Fairfax County’s West County H.S.
> Boundary Study held at Oakton, H.S. and was
> shocked by the lengths Fairfax County Public
> Schools is apparently willing to go to deceive the
> public on its redistricting plans. The school
> system seems to be employing a deliberate,
> calculated strategy to force a pre-ordained - but
> highly unpopular - redistricting decision down
> everybody’s throat, hoping that voters will forget
> the insult next time the School Board is up for
> reelection.
>
> As happened at the previous “town hall” meeting at
> Westfields H.S., the public was split into small
> groups led by an FCPS “facilitator.” Divide and
> conquer is still an effective strategy, especially
> when you can get neighborhoods fighting among
> themselves instead of focusing on the big picture:
> Redistricting is not necessary, the current option
> is unfair, and nobody wants it.
>
> Our facilitator in Room 215 was Barbara Fisher,
> who must have done her graduate work with the KGB.
> Ms. Fisher demanded that Hunter Mill resident
> Bruce Bennett (who had previously been escorted
> out of the Westfields meeting by the police for
> bringing his camcorder) not videotape the
> proceedings this time, either.
>
> Bennett respectfully refused, citing his rights
> under Section 2.2-3707 (h) of the Virginia Code:
> “Any person may photograph, film, record or
> otherwise reproduce any portion of a meeting
> required to be open....” And if a community town
> hall meeting isn’t an “open” meeting, what is?
>
> Ms. Fisher then called security and seven police
> officers soon arrived , accompanied by FCPS
> facilities chief Dean Tistadt. (See The Examiner’s
> editorial:
> www.examiner.com/a-1104757~Junk_the_Fairfax_school
> _redistricting_plan.html). Even though Tistadt had
> three weeks to bone up on the law, he told the
> officers that no videotaping would be allowed if
> even one participant objected. Then he argued that
> the no-videotaping policy was intended to protect
> any underage students in the room.
>
> So once again, Mr. Bennett was escorted out of a
> public meeting for trying to exercise his right,
> confirmed by the state’s Freedom of Information
> office, to record it.
>
> But Comrade Fisher wasn’t done. When she noticed
> another camcorder in the room, she demanded that
> Oak Hill resident Jay Frost turn his off, too,
> threatening to call the cops if he did not. Frost
> icily retorted that “I’m not one of your students”
> before leaving the room voluntarily.
>
> Back in Room 215, we watched a typical FCPS
> offering – an extremely boring televised video
> that managed to evade every single objection to
> the redistricting plan raised at the previous town
> meeting. Fisher then put up large sheets of paper
> – the kind you use when you’re teaching
> kindergarteners their ABCs – to record our
> comments, deftly channeling most of the input into
> just two categories: Did we agree – or disagree –
> with the Dec. 19 “Alternative Option”? Which was,
> in fact, the only option on the table at this
> point.
>
> Several of the participants complained that there
> was no “No Redistricting Option”. Others noted
> that comments made to this effect at the
> Westfields meeting never made it to the FCPS
> website.
>
> I was not surprised. When my turn came to speak, I
> said that I thought the school system was
> deliberately misleading the public by offering
> only one option nobody wanted, and that these
> public meetings were nothing but a charade. Since
> my eyesight isn’t so good anymore, I didn’t notice
> the fact that Comrade Fisher neglected to write
> the word “charade” down; a student sitting in
> front of me helpfully pointed that out. I had to
> raise my hand and insist – twice – that this be
> done.
>
> Despite Fisher’s totally inappropriate and
> insinuating remarks that nobody should feel
> “threatened” to voice their agreement with the
> redistricting plan (she was, in fact, the only one
> who ever threatened anybody all evening), the
> overwhelmingly majority in Room 215 (16 out of 20
> – not counting Mr. Bennett or Mr. Frost) opposed
> any redistricting at all. We found this out only
> at the end of the meeting, and only after one
> woman demanded Fisher take a tally of those
> opposed to any redistricting at all. Fisher had
> initially refused to do this, claiming that it was
> “too chaotic” in the room for a show of hands. But
> this was a flat-out lie, as the group was much
> closer to docile than anything else.
>
> Offering just one option and then using strong-arm
> tactics to curb dissent and stifle debate are the
> hallmarks of a dictatorship. “This is just like
> China,” one Asian man in attendance said, and his
> comment gave me the chills. He was right.
>
> Today, I called Supt. Jack Dale’s office to ask
> why all the comments weren’t posted and why his
> stable of lawyers can’t read the Virginia Code.
> I’m still waiting....
But if the Board had ruled in your favor, they would be the most brilliant people on earth, right?
You are an asshole with your KGB analogies...do you think the worst thing that happens in totalitarian regimes is that your little darling child would have to buy a different school sweatshirt...or be separated from his precious friends whose names he won't even remember in a few years?
I have a very close friend that fled Pol Pot's murderous Khmer Rouge in the early 80's....dodging pirates in a leaky boat in the South China Sea with just the clothes on her back. Today, just 20-some years later, she owns a home in Falls Church and her children attend the oft-maligned Falls Church High School. She thanks God every day for what America means to her and her family.
She's a true patriot...not a spoiled brat like you.
Put that "comrade" shit where the sun don't shine, eh?