Perhaps the Montgomery County delegation wasn't solidly in favor of it and abandoned it, or it was pushed down the priority list during the pandemic? |
Or realized that that 60k still isn't going to attract a lot of folks to what should be a full time plus job for a professional. Double that, and you *might* start to get more qualified folks in the pool. Look at what Council and higher end county staffers make. |
True. $60k still isn't enough to attract better candidate pool than what we have today. |
I think what you are seeing here is the disconnect between teachers (MCEA) and the Central Office. Apple Ballot is teachers, who genuinely want what is best for our kids, and who want decent working conditions for themselves. While the CO has been a problem for a long time, those issues dramatically ramped up in the McKnight era. She created a new layer of senior management and filled those roles with personal cronies who were not qualified for their posts and whose first loyalty was to McKnight rather than to the system. The JB situation is a perfect example - the actual harassment spanned at least three superintendents, but the botched reporting, cover-up, and fraud all happened under McKnight. I think Harris is perceived as being on the "side" of the CO rather than the "side" of teachers/administrators/kids. |
I believe it. |
Look, I get that senior CO leadership is agenda-driven, and that that isn't always best for students and families, especially broadly. I also really appreciate the care for students that the great majority of teachers demonstrate, the amazing effort they put in and the fact that teaching in the US, generally, and even in MoCo is an underpaid profession. Let's not confuse that with the differential union aims, though, which can present burdens to the system well beyond increased salary and can shelter members (a relatively small minority) who aren't putting in that student-focused effort. I think Lynne had a pretty good view of the effect of all of that from her leadership of MCCPTA, if not from her own teaching experience. In that sense, I could see her on the side of CO, but not in a blanket sense, especially in relation to her peers on the BOE. I'd think MCEA would want someone a little easier to co-opt. |
It wouldn't make any difference. |
Seems like all the far-right groups like the Parents Coalitions, Mom's for Liberty and "Moderately" Moco are out in force here. |
Thank you +1 |
So what if board members have other full time jobs? Can they do both effectively? |
They should be taking this as a full-time obligation (and their primary, if not only, job) if we expect effective oversight of a multi-billion-dollar enterprise with about 200,000 direct stakeholders among students and staff. How many highly-paid County Council personnel are there, including council members, themselves, who oversee a budget of similar size when the MCPS piece is removed? Do these council members keep a primary alternate job? |
Hidiyat is a full time airline pilot. I highly doubt he's willing to give that up (or cut back) so that he can play school board. |
Of all the candidates, Hidayat has the most campaign money to spend:
https://www.mymcmedia.org/board-of-education-candidates-list-contributions-expenditures/ |
Not that I was going to vote for Hidiyat anyway since his only platform goal appears to be to reinstate SROs, but his being a full-time pilot is a non-starter for me. He won't have time for the board. |
He seems mostly focused on turning schools into kid prisons with little interest in education. |