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When it comes to the boundary issue...
Vote Vinson Xavier Palathingal for At Large
Voices of Fairfax undertook an endorsement process because community members repeatedly asked who, based upon our research, would best represent their concerns.  This has been a time-consuming process, full of intense and respectful debate with input from residents throughout Fairfax County.  We appreciate the time candidates provided in responding to our questionnaire, meeting with us, participating in debates, and making themselves available at community events.  We encourage you to exercise your VOICE at the ballot box, and we look forward to working with the new School Board.
Vinson is an engineer, entrepreneur, an immigrant passionately focused on parental rights, academic rigor and fiscal prudence.
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✓   Against proposed boundary policy 8130.8
The proposed policy 8130.8 was almost voted in by the current school board without input from the community, and would have given the board power to move more children without public engagement and rezone students based on their socio-economic and/or racial characteristics.

Vinson vehemently opposes the proposed school boundary policy 8130.8.  He opposes both the deceptive way that the board handled the process and the removal of key parts of the current policy that ensure parent involvement and preserve neighborhood schools.  He states in his responses to our questionnaire, that "racial and/or socioeconomic diversity should not have any influence in establishing or changing school boundaries."
​✓   Supports keeping families in their neighborhood school of choice
The current school board majority is interested in potentially rezoning your neighborhood out of your school of choice, ignoring the impact on your community and property values, in order to distribute the demographics across the county. The current board wanted to remove from the considerations for a boundary change the impact on neighborhoods and overall impact on families and students among other concerning changes.

In Vinsons's response to our questionnaire, he indicated that the "School board has to set aside politics and listen to its constituents first before making decisions that affect 1000s of people’s lives."  Vinson sets the example, by considering community agreement a vital ingredient for a short-term overcrowding relief.
✓   Offers innovative short term and long term solutions for overcrowding
In his responses to our questionnaire, Vinson suggested creative ideas such as a truly temporary boundary change for short-term relief from overcrowding by seeking "Great Falls and McLean communities to reach an agreement for a sort term reassignment of enough incoming freshmen students from McLean to Langley in 2020 school year."  He would in parallel "create a $500 million fund with the help of 20 major corporations with offices in the area, to ease the school overcrowding due to Tysons expansion and Amazon’s arrival in NoVa."
​✓   ​Advocates for active, ongoing community input
Parent rights is a priority for Vinson. Vinson states on his website that he wants to "regain the trust of parents and to ensure that paths for sound parent involvement in their children’s schools and their lives are not compromised." He advocates for "Total Transparency with Parents" stating that "Avenues of parental involvement should be aggressively advocated for, preserved and protected." Based on this and the fact that he has been active in the community since very early on, it is clear that Vinson is eager to represent all of us by getting our perspective on the issues.
​✓   Vinson is actively participating in making change
Vinson's active participation on the issues while campaigning demonstrates astonishing dedication.  He witnessed the proposed boundary policy in person at the July 22nd school board work session.   Vinson proactively signed up to speak at a school board regular meeting over the summer. And, Vinson was one of the first to call out Superintendent Brabrand for the misleading and disingenuous video he sent to FCPS parents on Sep 19th that obscured the role that One Fairfax played in creating the revised school boundary policy proposal 8130.8.  His dedication, passion, and rigor make a strong advocate for all Fairfax County students, families, and taxpayers.
​✓   ​Vinson had two children graduate from FCPS
Vinson has two children who both graduated from McLean High School.  ​During his children’s school years, Vinson had been a mentor to many students and has volunteered many hours in Fairfax County school programs. Such activities include being a yearlong instructor for ‘Hands on Science’ program at Haycock Elementary School, providing parental guidance to student teams in Science Olympiad at Longfellow Middle School and helping his son founding and successfully launching the Science Olympiad team at McLean High School.