Posts Tagged ‘Fairfax County School Board’
What Constitutes “Critical Thinking” in FCPS?
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…
Read MoreChairman of FCPS Budget Committee Charged with Embezzlement
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…
Read MoreLeft-Wing Indoctrination Thrives in FCPS
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…
Read MoreFLECAC Is No More!!!!
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…
Read MoreHow Many $$$ Will FCPS Spend to Defend Its Discrimination Against Girls?
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…
Read MoreFLECAC Controversy Heats Up With False Accusations
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…
Read MoreFLECAC Meeting Cancelled– Rescheduled to February 12
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…
Read MoreFCPS’s Advisory Committee “Reforms” Avoided Real Reform
Earlier this year, the Fairfax County School Board made several changes to its policies and procedures relating to its Community Advisory Committees, but the Board didn’t address the most important problem with these bodies: They tend to echo the preexisting views of Board members rather than being a source of independent advice. Background Over the…
Read MoreAlert: FCPS Students Will Be Automatically Enrolled in Unpopular Unisex Sex-Ed Classes Unless Parents Opt Out Soon.
In 2022-23, when transgender advocates urged the Fairfax County School Board to eliminate gender-separate sex-ed classes for boys and girls, 84% of the community opposed the idea in a public survey. The School Board therefore ducked the issue and didn’t vote on it. Nonetheless, FCPS administrators thereafter quietly decided to proceed with a version of…
Read MoreMore Citizens Express Concerns about School Board Actions
The Fairfax County School Board and FCPS administrators have become increasingly contemptuous of its constituents. As reported in recent posts on this site, they have recently enacted highly controversial measures, ignoring the results of their own surveys showing massive opposition by the community. For inexplicable reasons, the Board and the administration seem to care principally…
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