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Jillian: a virginia judge dismissed a group s petition to recall a fairfax county school board member over pandemic shutdowns that suspended in-person learning for 12 months, despite volunteers collecting more than 5,000 signatures to oust that board member. here to react, parent and co-founder of the open of fcps coalition, that launched that petition, zia thompkins. good morning to you, zia. good morning, thank you for having me. carley: walk us through how you got to this point where 5,000 people signed a petition to oust this board member, her name is elaine foland. why her? so, bottom line is that we are a grass roots bipartisan organization of parents, teachers and taxpayers here in fairfax county that as you mentioned over the last 10 months, snow, burning sun, the ....
0 not a credible ally, not someone steve: that is what is so. i m sorry we re out of time, you have summarized it. have summarized it. jillian: it is monday, august 23rd. we re following two major stories this morning. first, more chaos in kabul, the biden administration defending its botched withdrawal from afghanistan while struggling to evacuate thousands of americans stuck in harm s way. this as isis poses a new threat to soldiers on the ground there. we have the fallout. tropical depression henri battering the east coast overnight, turning roads into rivers and putting millions of lives in danger. we have the latest warning as the storm settles in over new england. you are watching fox & friends first i m carley shimkus. jillian: in jillian mele. let s get to chief meteorologist janice dean, and steve bender is live in new york with a look at the damage. it is busy. carley: first, we go to doug luzader in washington, d.c. on h the latest on biden s crisis in afghanistan, qui ....
So many parents as we ve seen have been verbally against what is happening in some of these schools there? appreciate your time today, sandra. thank you so much. you hit the nail on the head in terms of bipartisanship. open cps coalition is the largest bipartisan grassroots organization formed with thousands of parents, teachers and taxpayers who saw what was happening with their kids and decided to stand up and do something about it. we re very happy to announce that after a very long campaign and tireless effort of the dozens of volunteers and thousands of parent members we finally have collected enough signatures to go to court today. the next step is the court will review the signatures and we re confident we will have a smap election here. sandra: as i noted this all stems from not being able to get kids back in the classroom full-time. obviously then critical race theory entered the picture. that s the viewer we saw go ....