The growing tension between Fairfax County’s government and schools leaders over funding spilled into public view yesterday (Wednesday) when Hunter Mill District School Board Representative Melanie Meren shared a hostile text exchange with Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeff McKay.
“Melanie I thought you were better than this?” McKay wrote. “We are the safest jurisdiction [of] our size in the US bc of how we fund public safety (who took a cut while schools took a large funding increase). Not to mention the massive investments we have made in ped safety and cameras in school zones. We fund all Your remaining crossing Guards and your SROs [school resource officers] too.”
McKay then sent a screenshot of his comments to an unidentified third person, stating that it was “what I sent the bimbo.”…