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Dr. Brabrand claps back at DeVos
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GO BRABRAND!!!!!!
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Date: July 12, 2020 01:26PM
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/politics/fairfax-co...intendent-interview/index.html
FCPS is now the national voice against Trump and DeVos's demands to go full time for all in person:
"This is the American Dream, American public education. We're here to offer it to all of our students and families, and those that would critique it, I don't think have the best interests of public education and of the United States at heart," he said, with a not-so-subtle dig at DeVos, whose goal is to move more public funds with students into private schools.
Fairfax County is one of the largest school districts in the country with more than 188,000 students in grades pre-K-12.
Brabrand said that in normal times, students are on average about 18 inches away from one another, and he calculates that in order to have enough space for all of his students to social distance, they would almost need another school system of 200 sites.
To make his point another way, he said the school system is the size of "five Pentagons."
"You would need another five Pentagons of space to be able to safely accommodate all of the students in Fairfax County Public Schools," he said, which would not only be expensive but not feasible to build in the next six weeks before school starts.
FCPS is now the national voice against Trump and DeVos's demands to go full time for all in person:
"This is the American Dream, American public education. We're here to offer it to all of our students and families, and those that would critique it, I don't think have the best interests of public education and of the United States at heart," he said, with a not-so-subtle dig at DeVos, whose goal is to move more public funds with students into private schools.
Fairfax County is one of the largest school districts in the country with more than 188,000 students in grades pre-K-12.
Brabrand said that in normal times, students are on average about 18 inches away from one another, and he calculates that in order to have enough space for all of his students to social distance, they would almost need another school system of 200 sites.
To make his point another way, he said the school system is the size of "five Pentagons."
"You would need another five Pentagons of space to be able to safely accommodate all of the students in Fairfax County Public Schools," he said, which would not only be expensive but not feasible to build in the next six weeks before school starts.
Re: Dr. Brabrand claps back at DeVos
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Libs R Hitler.
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Date: July 12, 2020 01:34PM
Terrorist liberals want to destroy our children's futures all because they lost an election to Americans. School systems that do not fully open as normal should have every penny of federal money pulled.
Re: Dr. Brabrand claps back at DeVos
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Libs R Hitler.
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Date: July 12, 2020 01:39PM
Libs R Hitler. Wrote:
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> Terrorist liberals want to destroy our children's
> futures all because they lost an election to
> Americans. School systems that do not fully open
> as normal should have every penny of federal money
> pulled.
Quit using my name, Meade.
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> Terrorist liberals want to destroy our children's
> futures all because they lost an election to
> Americans. School systems that do not fully open
> as normal should have every penny of federal money
> pulled.
Quit using my name, Meade.