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Feb 12 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Spot me in my 1975 MLK School 5th grade photo? Imagine telling my younger self to go to "Families of Color Playground Night"? That is the new segregation of today's "anti-racism," chronicled in my 1st @UnHerd essay, edited by sunny @freyaMsanders! Pls read!unherd.com/2022/02/how-to…
Meditate on the faces of these kids -- styling + self-expressed -- (yes! I'm the "mouse" on the left, front row, in a fuchsia dress my mother handmade from her silks from India) -- and let's ask: did we need "Families of Color Playground Night" or the best education we could get?
For almost a year, parents have been reporting to @esanzi, Nicole Neily, me + our amazing team @DefendingEd cases of K-12 segregation. Centennial Elementary School's "Families of Color Playground Night" made me juxtapose my reality with today's reality. Which do we want?
This week, @WheelerSchool in Providence RI, held a special "Students of Color affinity group" meeting with actress @Karyn_Parsons. White kids not only allowed. Is segregation okay with you, Ms. Parsons? We can inspire kids without segregating.
defendinged.org/incidents/whit…

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Feb 10
🚨 Ridiculous. @fcpsnews now plays James Bond. A mom told us @DefendingEd FCPS is hiring a business for $200,000 to do social media surveillance that more resembles a CIA intel op. @DormanInDc @FoxNews explains. Coming to a school district near you?
foxnews.com/us/fairfax-soc…
Read the “informal” request for proposal here @defendinged. This is the surveillance @fcpsnews wants to do:
🕵🏻‍♂️ Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
🕵🏻‍♂️ Classify aliases, usernames, emails, websites.
🕵🏻‍♂️ Visually identify relationships between people.
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Keep your tips coming! This is what experts tell me: @fcpsnews has definitely crossed serious lines with this RFP for social media surveillance. What FCPS seeks goes beyond what corporate brands track via “listening.” FCPS is outsourcing a heavy-duty security team @alisciaandrews
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Feb 7
🔥JUST IN @DefendingEd -> Dem Del @ChapPetersen, the "Joe Manchin of Virginia," sends scathing letter to @fcpsnews @FCPSSupt.
>> "As a parent I've had enough."
Yes! He writes as a #PapaBear on fire🔥He said he will work with @GlennYoungkin to END forced masks.
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No demotion!🙂 @AP @MattBarakat did a prescient profile on VA state senator @ChapPetersen in December: "Middle man: Petersen poised to play key role in Va. Senate." His centrist position makes him beloved to parents but in the crosshairs of @FairfaxDems.
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Want to message @ChapPetersen?
Email: district34@senate.virginia.gov
Find who represents you in Virginia at this link: whosmy.virginiageneralassembly.gov
and type in your address.
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Jan 25
It’s showtime with the @fcpsnews @FCPSSupt. They literally have Michelle Boyd, asst supt of special services, dealing with student disabilities, etc, giving parents the Covid briefing. They can’t do anything right.
#caringculture. If kids don’t mask, staff will “redirect” them, then if refusing to mask “excluded from in-person instruction” + must do “asynchronous” learning. Ditched that kids will be suspended? Why not tell parents? Listen to Michelle Boyd spell out “caring” @fcpsnews
Don’t miss this commentary from @mkhammer. Nothing gets past a mom. FCPS stands for Failed County Public Schools. Best school district to debacle.
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Jan 20
Prince William County VA dad Jeff Darr's voice quivered as he asked his school board for justice for his daughter, sexually assaulted at school. Watch the callous @PWCSNews @BaburLateef: "We won't be answering you but you can certainly keep asking." @armyofparents @defendinged
The way @PWCSNews @BaburLateef treated this gentle dad, Jeff Darr, clearly troubled + distraught, is appalling. Lateef is part of the Democratic cabal of @VAGovernor73 @AtifQarni + is everything @JasonMiyaresVA must clean up. Thank you @NatBrinkman for being a fierce papa bear.
Chair @BaburLateef worked with pal @AtifQarni, both funded by donors in the religiously conservative VA Muslim network, to destroy TJ, in part because too many Indian Hindus, not Pakistani Muslims (like them), gain admission. If sexual assault happened to a patron’s daughter…??
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Jan 19
Military mama + papa bears + their friends + loved ones: Express your kids #MilitaryPrivilege to these folks: Superintendent @FCPSSupt. Board chair @stella_pekarsky. Board cochair @RachnaHeizer. Members @Megan4Schools @ElaineTholen @KarlFrischFCPS @AbrarOmeish @LJ4fcps
@FCPSSupt @stella_pekarsky @RachnaHeizer @Megan4Schools @ElaineTholen @KarlFrischFCPS @AbrarOmeish @LJ4fcps More members: @MelanieForEdu @Keys_Gamarra @Karen4Schools @RachnaHeizer. Key @fcpsnews officials: @drNEKing @FCPSEquity @fezuluaga and the FCPS lawyers: @HuntonAK
#militaryprivilege
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Jan 15
🔥 Executive Order by @GlennYoungkin. “I hereby issue this Executive Order to ensure excellence in K-12 public education…by taking the first step…to end the use of inherently divisive concepts, including Critical Race Theory, and to raise academic standards.” I added a seal:🔥
🔥Exec order: Supt of Public Instruction “shall raise standards in K-12 education &..increase the number of academic-year Governor's Schools..and maintain standards of excellence for students in all such schools.” The school board gutted admissions to TJHSST, a Governor’s School
🔥 Bye-bye Woke Kindergarten. Ed Supt “shall immediately review all guidelines, websites, best practices and other materials produced by” @VDOE_News “to identify those that promote or endorse divisive or inherently racist concepts. Such shall be removed.”
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