Fairfax Schools Monitor

What is really being taught in our public schools?

What is being taught to our children in Virginia’s Fairfax County public schools?  Critical Race Theory?  Gender fluidity?  Pornography?  Is excellence in education being sidelined in favor of other goals?

The county’s school system has been in national as well as local headlines, with conflicting claims and denials about what is and isn’t being taught.  Rather than relying on sensational news reports, this blog will expose the truth about the policies and curriculum of the public school system.  What are teachers being instructed to teach, and what are the children actually being taught?  Has the focus remained on reading, writing, language, mathematics, science, history and civics, or has the school system shifted towards implanting controversial ideologies into young minds?

We will dig into the facts and will reveal official documents, including policy statements and curriculum outlines.  We will monitor the activities of the Fairfax County School Board.  We will solicit knowledgeable input from parents and mature students.

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What Constitutes “Critical Thinking” in FCPS?

By Mark Spooner | April 12, 2025

Should our schools teach “critical thinking”?  Of course, you might say.  But what is “critical thinking”? As commonly understood, critical thinking means the ability to make rational decisions by taking into account all relevant facts and perspectives, and by analyzing those facts and perspectives objectively, filtering out biases, fallacies and unwarranted assumptions.  Is this what…

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Chairman of FCPS Budget Committee Charged with Embezzlement

By Mark Spooner | April 6, 2025

Kyle McDaniel, who heads the Fairfax County School Board’s budget committee, has been charged with embezzlement by a company he was affiliated with until two months ago.  A Complaint filed in Loudoun County Circuit Court alleges that McDaniel spent about $160,000 in company funds for personal uses, including family vacations, meals, household expenses, entertainment (including…

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FCPS Superintendent Endorses Biased Posters in High School

By Mark Spooner | March 22, 2025

On Friday, March 21, the Superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools, Michelle Reid, rendered her verdict on a set of controversial, politically-oriented posters that had recently been set up in the hallways of West Springfield High School.  Her decision:  The display is proper and commendable.  The students and teachers who were involved, and the school…

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Left-Wing Indoctrination Thrives in FCPS

By Mark Spooner | March 17, 2025

A recent article by journalist Stephanie Lundquist-Arora should be read by all who are concerned about political indoctrination in Fairfax County public schools.  See “A Is for Abortion: Public High School Teaches ABCs for Women’s History Month.” The article documents a blatant example of left-wing propaganda in the hallways of West Springfield High School.  Allegedly…

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FLECAC Is No More!!!!

By Mark Spooner | March 14, 2025

In a surprise move, the Fairfax County School Board abolished its Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee (FLECAC) during its March 13 meeting.  This ideologically-driven body had proposed controversial additions to the sex-education curriculum every year, and the School Board had usually rubber-stamped them.  This year FLECAC was poised to recommend that children in elementary…

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FLECAC Meeting Abruptly Canceled; Notice to the Public Withheld

By Mark Spooner | March 10, 2025

FCPS’s Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee (FLECAC) was scheduled to meet this Wednesday evening, March 12, to discuss a controversial proposal to teach elementary-grade students about “gender identity” issues as early as the 3d or 5th grade.  The committee’s January and February meetings had both been canceled due to snowy roads, so public attendance…

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How Many $$$ Will FCPS Spend to Defend Its Discrimination Against Girls?

By Mark Spooner | February 17, 2025

  Last week, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation of Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) and four other Virginia school systems to determine whether their transgender policies violate Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 — the federal law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs…

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The Cost of DEI in FCPS

By Mark Spooner | January 25, 2025

“Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” programs are crumbling almost everywhere, as institutions are realizing that DEI can be costly, divisive, ineffective, and contrary to American values.  The trend began before the new administration took power in Washington on January 20, and it will surely mushroom in the coming months. There is no visible sign, however, that…

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FLECAC Controversy Heats Up With False Accusations

By Mark Spooner | January 16, 2025

A recent post on this site, “FCPS Moves Closer to Gender Ideology Instruction in Elementary Schools,” has precipitated an all-out attack from one member of FCPS’s Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee (FLECAC).   The article, posted on the 4PublicEducation website, is filled with ad hominem claims against the editor of this blog as well as…

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FLECAC Meeting Cancelled– Rescheduled to February 12

By Mark Spooner | January 8, 2025

  My post of December 31 stated that the next meeting of the FCPS Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee (FLECAC) would be this evening, January 8.  Due to the weather, it has been cancelled.  The next committee meeting will be the regularly-scheduled February meeting, on the 12th, from 7 to 9 p.m. at FCPS…

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