December 15 — Two Opportunities to Make Your Voice Heard
Next Thursday, December 15, citizens of Fairfax County will have two opportunities to tell the School Board what’s on their mind.
- At 6:00 p.m. there will be a one-hour hearing on the subject of Collective Bargaining. Twenty-five two-minute speaking slots are available. Fairfax Schools Monitor has been very critical of the Board’s process for considering whether to allow unions to organize and collectively bargain for public school teachers. Please see HERE for an October 18 post about the issue on this site. Union advocates will undoubtedly try to fill up all or most of the speaking slots on December 15. It is important for opposing voices to be heard too, so if you are concerned about unionization of teachers in Fairfax County Schools, please consider signing up. To register, click HERE.
- At 7:00 p.m. the School Board will hold one of its two regular December meetings. Citizens can sign up to speak about any topic of concern during the “Citizen Participation” segment of these meetings. At the last two meetings, some of the available speaking slots went unused, which is a shame, given the many controversial things the school system has been doing. A timely topic is a pending proposal to throw all 4th – 8th graders, male and female, into the same sex education classes. This is being pushed by a tiny minority … transgender advocates. A recent discussion of this issue on Fairfax Schools Monitor is HERE. Whether this issue or some other is of most concern to you, please consider registering to speak. Registration opens Sunday morning and closes Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. To sign up, click HERE.
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