+1 Laura Stewart has been a great driving force in the MCPS capital improvement plan process for years. I know a lot of people are tired of the construction delays for new schools, the aging state of buildings, classrooms, etc., the decision to force the new Woodward and Crown HS to be built without an auditorium, the seemingly unfair and inequitable split between the Bethesda/Potomac schools and the rest of the county in getting renovations approved and implemented, etc. but Laura has the history and the knowledge to do as a member of the BOE what she was unable to get done as the CIP chairperson at MCCPTA. She’ll get it done this time around. |
You do realize you need 5 votes to get anything done, right? My point is they should have a block of 3 with Smondrowski, Harris and Stewart, it won't be hard once Shebra do-nothing Evans is gone. Although we're still stuck with Wolfe and Silvestre |
Apple Ballot endorses Smondrowski and Evans: https://moco360.media/2016/06/02/teachers-union-announces-endorsements-in-board-of-education-races/ I guess the fact that you think these 2 are so bad goes to show you how good the apple ballot is in picking successful BOE members. |
You are citing the 2016 endorsement. It is not 2016. It is 2024. The Apple Ballot in 2024 is Montoya (not an incumbent), Zimmerman (not an incumbent), Stewart (not an incumbent). |
lol. I’m old enough to remember when Evans was BOE president and fought to get the county wide boundary analysis done in the face of status quo smondrowski fighting to do nothing. |
Yes, and like the Apple Ballot endorsed Smondrowski and Evans, these 3 latest candidates will be amazing once they get to the BOE. |
How many times are you going to make the same snarky comment? We get it already. |
You need to do more homework if you don’t think the Apple Ballot is worth relying on to pick the candidates who will do the best job |
I think the job is harder than it looks - don't predict amazing just yet, 2 of those candidates have marginal experience in education affairs - Zimmerman, as a teacher, has no budgetary experience, and that is a very different job than managing oversight in a highly regulated $3.3 billion endeavor. Similarly, Montoya's experience as a PTA president of her elementary school, with no budgetary experience, does not make her a prepared candidate. |
I agree about Zimmerman. She seems like a lovely lady and a nice teacher but I don’t think she has the experience to be on the board of education. Does she have kids? I don’t remember, but I don’t think she’s the answer, even though she has the endorsement. |
Who are the most conservative leaning candidates? |
She doesn't have kids, but I don't see why that should matter for a teacher from the system. She's seen more MCPS problems up close than most parents would. |
I assume that when you say "conservative", you actually mean radical. Or are you asking which candidates are the mostly likely to conserve what there is/least likely to make changes? |
This is MoCo, so do you mean "center"? |
It's the Apple Ballot. It's not the Crystal Ball Guaranteed To Work Perfectly Ballot. It's also not the Magically Endorse Non-Existent Candidates Rather Than The Actual Candidates Who Are Actually Running Ballot. |