. County Council makes double that and they can’t exert what oversight they have over MCPS and there are more councilmembers. Your argument fails. |
Which of these 14 candidates plan to handle the issues surrounding school bathrooms? So students who need to use it have access to OPEN bathrooms.
Bathrooms that are clean. Bathrooms that are not occupied by students who do not need to use the bathroom to pee, poop, handle menstrual needs. Please list from each group of candidates which ones have addressed this issue and what exactly their plans are, an actual list of actions they plan to take. |
Why don’t you ask them yourself and report back on what they say |
You managed a few logical fallacies in.a short post, there. I'll hit the most glaring. County Council basically doesn't oversee MCPS, the BOE and MSDE (which employs the BOE) do. Council can approve the budget, but not line-item it, they can call hearings, they can back-room negotiate about things while getting to budget approval (which they've consistently shorted for a couple of decades), but that's about it. They also have the rest of the county government to attend to, which is among the reasons for there to be a BOE conducting oversight of this enterprise that takes up half the county budget. I'm not saying the Council should be making what they are or that we should have as many as we do (the at-large candidates basically ensure a supermajority for whichever party is more popular, allowing groupthink and more extreme policies -- that's been Dems, here, for a while, of course). They also have some staffers making a fair amount, I think. But saying the BOE, then, shouldn't be compensated more than the very much less they are afforded doesn't follow at all. And saying that they've failed so we shouldn't pay them anyway, if that's what you are intimating, would completely ignore the possibility of that body succeeding if better constructed -- full time and paid well enough to attract competency. And, while I'm open to other suggestions, I don't see one in your post. Rely on the combo of ideologues, whether single-issue or political extremist, and independently wealthy socialite types that might go for the job now, as poorly compensated as it is? Something else? |
I watched the Poolesville Forum for BOE. Hidayat knows Poolesville. He pledged to get Poolesville’s Athletic Fields funded. He was the only candidate that told Poolesville residents that they weren’t a broken community needing to be fixed by MCPS. He said that Poolesville’s school community is a good example for the rest of the county to follow. Good for him for not trying to fix something that isn’t broken. |
Nah, we'll wait for your fabulous report. |
You are wrong. Council has subpoena power over MCPS and they refused to use it in the Beidleman hearing. |
What was it about "they can call hearings" that you failed to read? And, again, this says nothing about whether real BOE salaries with real full time expectations would be more effective. You sound like all you want to write are negative sound bites instead of anything substantive. |
What does that mean? |
I would hope none. This is an issue for your local school to sort out. BOE needs to focus on education. |
sounds racist because it's way less diverse |
DP. It means he's pandering to the Fair Access self-image of "we don't perceive ourselves as victims (unlike everyone else in the rest of the county)" - which is kinda funny, because the Fair Access people have definitely portrayed Poolesville as victims of unfair neglect; that's the whole point of Fair Access. |
I'm wondering how you think education works. |
This is a very weird take on an issue that affects the entire school system, learning, safety, drugs, and I can go on and on. This is most definitely something that the Board of Education candidates should address. We’re not talking one school with a broken toilet. We’re talking middle schools and high schools that don’t have working or open bathrooms for kids to use. Kids who can’t find safe and working bathrooms along there route between classes. |
I can't think of a way to provide enough detail to be fair to Mrs. Montoya that wouldn't make the examples obvious to people who are in the NCC community - and that's not fair to the families and kids involved. I probably shouldn't have said anything. As another poster said, without evidence it's just gossip, and that is very fair criticism. Unfortunately, those exact dynamics are often what play out within PTA communities - which is exactly why I'm avoiding specifics. |