The Virginia Beach School Board Throws a Fit
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32 responses to “The Virginia Beach School Board Throws a Fit”
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aw, this is standard board dynamics… we got that up my way – all day long. When they don’t like each other – it goes downhill from there….
was there anything specific argued in the policy debate? I’m not even sure I understood what items were disagreed on.
But again – board members “acting up”… ??? pretty standard up our way…
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I’ll write up the policy debate later. I’m 75, and I’ve never seen anything like this embarrassment that rolled out in slow motion over a half hour. Watch the video when it is posted. You will be amazed.
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So what was on Facebook that set the tone? The idiocy always starts there now.
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One of the members started posting her opinions on board activities. Nothing will ever stop that except expulsion, a very difficult path. First amendment. Not sure that is where it started.
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” I’m 75, and I’ve never seen anything like this embarrassment…”
Yeah, but really, how long have you been paying attention?
Here, read this, and THEN you can feel better about VaBeach. Hell, you will feel better about Northam, McDonnell, Cuccinelli, Herring, and just about any incompetent,… Hell, this will make Bacon vote for Stoney.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Gonzalez
That’s the Clift Notes. Look about for her. There’s way many more misappropriations than listed. She rented Cowboy Statium an threw herself a party.
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Only the dumb ones get caught.
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Read this.. much better story. Covers the incredibly dysfunctional DISD. Understand going in the district is almost perfectly 1/3 white, black, and Hispanic, and that’s the board. The race of the superintendent rotates by agreement.
Before Gonzales arrived, the FBI was investgating the resigned-in-disgrace superintendent.
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Nothing to here. No big deal. Just typical Vuh-gin-yuh.
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The quality of people running and being elected to office (at all levels) seems to have declined in recent years. While I don’t really have an explanation I suspect that social media may be a contributor.
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Is that really true? Or is the dysfunction (at the local level) more apparent because video of the meeting is now put on the Internet?
I’ve heard that decades ago, the Manassas Park town/city council used to settle their differences with fist fights.
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Hells Bells – the Founding Fathers are said to have fist fights!
This is not aberrant behavior!
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By Virginia standards, it’s perfectly normal.
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aka – “here’s what I would say to you in front of others – if I didn’t have to say it to your face” Magical.
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I started sitting through local government meetings in the 70s, and it is hard to imagine what Sherlock witnessed topped some of the one’s I’ve seen. And then I came to the General Assembly…I think Sherlock has just spent too much of his life in an environment where they saw the stripes on his sleeve or star on the other guy’s sleeve and everybody toned it down.
My son when a first looey was in joint forces situation and got a bit jocular once with the captain on the other end of the phone. Sadly for my son it was a Navy captain, not USAF…..
One of the nastiest local government fights I ever saw was an Alleghany County BoS squabble over a deer damage stamp claim. Some guy seeking to tap the fund because deer on his (unposted) land had gotten into corn. Some of the board were not going to pay him, no way. It is when I coined Haner’s First Law of Government Finance: The amount of time, energy and anger spent over a financial decision is inversely proportion to the amount of money involved.
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Maybe not. Go to the video when posted and let me know.
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Knew a Army Sargeant once. Was waiting as a crosswalk at an Army Base golf course.
The golfers stopped in the crosswalk and had a conversation.
A “finger” was proffered by the Sargeant.
Up on multiple charges that afternoon…
Yes.. Sherlock is on the innocent side I agree! but odd he’s okay with Trumps antics… geeze…
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Aaron Burr killed Hamilton in a duel. We don’t do that any more either. Before more testosterone and old war stories are expended, it’s ok to demand adult oversight of our schools, boys, it really is.
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What’s the difference between the Army and the Boy Scouts?
Adult leadership.
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That, and a fat DoD budget.
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In this Covid reality school boards are making big decisions without the public having a chance to give their input. I see it happening in Fauquier and Loudoun. I would like to see all decisions by local and state government put on hold, except for day to day operation decisions. Elected leaders cannot be trusted in the current climate. Budget season for school boards begins in February. What if they get to operate and pass budgets in the present vacuum of no public voice?
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The thing about most school boards in Virginia is the it’s mostly the parents that vote and most of the time, Conservatives do not play much of a role.
They could – and maybe that might happen. We did have one Conservative elected to the School Board and of course he’s become troublesome!
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School boards in Virginia are non-partisan.
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Really? is there some rule?
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It’s a state law.
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In this Covid reality school boards are making big decisions without the public having a chance to give their input. I see it happening in Fauquier and Loudoun. I would like to see all decisions by local and state government put on hold, except for day to day operation decisions. Elected leaders cannot be trusted in the current climate. Budget season for school boards begins in February. What if they get to operate and pass budgets in the present vacuum of no public voice?
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They cannot say they are Conservative?
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They can say whatever they want. However, there are no party nominations for school board candidates.
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But people know….
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they do. The problem is that Conservatives who have kids in school are torn and do not strongly advocate for Conservative principles at schools their kids attend.
They want all the good stuff that money can buy – until their kids leave the school system!
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Right, but you can run as a Conservative, a fiscal Conservative. and they do.
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If you want to feel better about yourself and less embarrassed, take a look at any of the Prince William County Board meeting from January to the present. Each one is a ten to twelve hour hyperpartisan shit-show of incompetence, ineptitude, boorish behavior, grandstanding and amateurish behavior that would make Virginia Beach look sane and most HOA boards professional.
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I need to get out more. I feel better now.
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