Allbeit...this is a historical election...puching politics in the classroom is wrong. The kids do bring it (even in elementary school), by repeating what they have heard their parents or others say. Teachers should not show the way they are leaning in the classroom, as everybody's situation is different, as would the way their parents' lean. Children, although, need to know the election process
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I'm only guessing here, but I think you might be slightly shorter than Gilbert Arenas.
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"spics and bums?" What an enlightened group of individuals. Oy Vey!
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McNair currently a mess relative to those schools around it. The logical redistrict for Coppermine would doom them to the same fate from the start. As much as I blamed the school board for last year, I blame the county for this - they planned to have all MULTI-FAMILY housing in those areas. What did they think was likely to happen to schools. The SB is going to do the best they can to balance tha
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Must? It is not a joke. Schools affected must provide teachers to the new school.
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Okay...several views...no comments..
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How will Fairfax go in this presidential election?
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Oh my word!!! This has been decided. Fox Mill, you got to move with Floris rather than McNair to South Lakes. It has been decided.
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Google the law...or speak to an attorney.
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Wow!!!! This is the wife of someone we entrust with our children's education? Do they even have children? Thank goodness they are not my represetative. Snot nosed brats?? really? What an idiot she is for responding to the phone call...and what it says about our school board. tsk tsk.
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Because McNair opened in 2001 at the beginnings of the real estate boom. McNair doesn't have under-enrollment because modular building have been placed for 5th and 6th grades. McNair Elementary had trailers the second year they were open. They have over 900 students this year. I'm not sure what issue you are arguing here. Reston is an older community. They've raised their children. McNair is cu
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Who can say what children educated totally at McNair can do? Those children will move to high school at the end of this school year. McNair is Title I, and so it goes they have a high attendance of students in Free and Reduced lunch and children where English is a second language. Frankly, I find most of this banter against the less fortunate. I think it says a lot about most of the people here
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taxpayer -Aldrin's on the Moon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Herndon HS propaganda is Aldrin and Armstrong . > Both seem to think the people coming from other > Herndon feeders are crap. My research indicated > that pre-McNair people said "Where's Armstrong?" > since all others were in the process. Nobody on > the Herndon area even question
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taxpayer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Baffled Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > VoiceOfReason Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > This fight is still ugly at best. Yes the > > school > > > board has the right to do what t
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upset parents & kids Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Baffled Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > VoiceOfReason Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > I find this all extremely ugly and nauseating. > > Even my daughter is upset by this whole mess.
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Baffled Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > VoiceOfReason Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > This fight is still ugly at best. Yes the > school > > board has the right to do what they are > > doing....they were given that right in a vote > in > > Fairfax County. If you bought your house after
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Neen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What's wrong with school choice, for everyone? > Many people chose their neighborhood based on the > schools they wanted for their children. There is nothing wrong with it, but Fairfax County turned that decision over to the school board.
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What is wrong with Fairfax County Public Schools? Chances are...your children will fair better than most of you did, as you've all complained about checking the schools your children would attend when you moved here. Honestly, comparing the DC public school system to the Fairfax County Public School System is not fair.
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This fight is still ugly at best. Yes the school board has the right to do what they are doing....they were given that right in a vote in Fairfax County. If you bought your house after that...sorry. Your children are all students of Fairfax County (one of the best school systems in the country), no matter their ethnicity. Something, I bet many of you did not have. I still see people attacking c
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Sorry Neen, Stu Gibson is not the do all end all of this. Yes he has a vote, but this spans very wide...look at the South County....think about it. Neen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Floris Parent Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > If the school board really felt that 2000 > students > > is the ideal
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I'm tired of Floris claiming they are under the gun here. I'm tired of Fox Mill and Floris thinking they are better than McNair. Give it a rest. Our elementary, middle and high school has changed since I have lived here...please explain all your changes. We get another one in 2009. We get it...you don't want to move with us. Evidently, we've already filled your schools to capacity, because they a
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I have no doubt. Yet the rest of us are left here to fight for what we believe. Trust me the school board has already made up their mind. Neen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > VoiceOfReason Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > RIP...Obituary...clearly you are as common as > the > > rest of us. > >
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I am not in love with anyone here. I responded to the most informed post to mine. As much as I agree or disagree with it.
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RIP...Obituary...clearly you are as common as the rest of us. Obituary Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Excuse me for asking, but I saw an obit in the > Washington Post last week for a Mr William Strauss > aged 59. It said he left his beloved wife, Janie > Strauss. > > I wondered, when I read it, if she was THE Janie > Strauss, reviled sch
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Re: high school redistricting Posted by: quantum (IP Logged) Date: December 28, 2007 08:19AM Voice of Reason - you make a number of excellent points, among them that no one should have a hard and fast reliance interest in any one school in Fairfax County given that it is a large government entity and their is an assumption of risk assumed when one purchases a home here that school boundaries m
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YaY!!!! The Toilet Bowl building made it...and for the record...I've never heard it called the stargete building, and I've lived here a long time.
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tiredofthelies Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > serious guys, there is no photography. all my wife > or i can figure is that they have a religous, > racist, or cultural difference. they know the laws > well enough that if you call the cops and say > children are involved, the cops are obligated to > check it out. that is understandable. the > d
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This thread is a hard read, at best! Those of you that bought where you did for the schools your children do or will attend should have looked into the fact that the Fairfax County School Board has every right to make the boundary changes they are making. You can argue that the value of your home is going to plummet because of the changes, but that would be a hard sell in a downward spiraling rea
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