BOE - who are people voting for?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To answer the question directly, I am going to vote for Kim, Zimmerman, and Stewart.

My "split" vote (breaking from the progressive slate) is because I genuinely think the BoE has done a shockingly bad job at its oversight function, and that too many of them are more interested in protecting the reputation of MCPS than in representing the views of their constituents.

However, I'm not going to give the far right a foothold in Montgomery County, and I want folks who have the knowledge base to ask hard questions.

To me, a former public school administrator, a current teacher, and a long-time parent advocate are a team that could maybe get us some answers on questions of academics, discipline, and infrastructure, respectively.

But Kim has been pretty much invisible this campaign season. She has no shot at winning.

If I’m not mistaken, she has been at every single community forum.

She wasn't at the one in Poolesville.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To answer the question directly, I am going to vote for Kim, Zimmerman, and Stewart.

My "split" vote (breaking from the progressive slate) is because I genuinely think the BoE has done a shockingly bad job at its oversight function, and that too many of them are more interested in protecting the reputation of MCPS than in representing the views of their constituents.

However, I'm not going to give the far right a foothold in Montgomery County, and I want folks who have the knowledge base to ask hard questions.

To me, a former public school administrator, a current teacher, and a long-time parent advocate are a team that could maybe get us some answers on questions of academics, discipline, and infrastructure, respectively.

But Kim has been pretty much invisible this campaign season. She has no shot at winning.

If I’m not mistaken, she has been at every single community forum.

She has not done any campaigning I've seen OUTSIDE of the community forums.

She has no social media, no website, nothing. That's not how you run a political campaign in 2024.

Then, you are correct. I would also say that Ricky doesn’t have a good campaign. I wanted to tweet or ask him a question, and I couldn’t find his social media presence either. Some of these candidates should have stepped up their game.

Ricky does have a Twitter account, but it's horribly branded and difficult to find: https://twitter.com/wolverinevv1

He's been active on there, but his follower numbers stink.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Smondrowski seems to have missed several of the forums. Is she still campaigning?

She’s seemed generally uninterested in performing the job for a while now.

Then why run again?

No idea. Seems like it would have been an easy time to step back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To answer the question directly, I am going to vote for Kim, Zimmerman, and Stewart.

My "split" vote (breaking from the progressive slate) is because I genuinely think the BoE has done a shockingly bad job at its oversight function, and that too many of them are more interested in protecting the reputation of MCPS than in representing the views of their constituents.

However, I'm not going to give the far right a foothold in Montgomery County, and I want folks who have the knowledge base to ask hard questions.

To me, a former public school administrator, a current teacher, and a long-time parent advocate are a team that could maybe get us some answers on questions of academics, discipline, and infrastructure, respectively.

But Kim has been pretty much invisible this campaign season. She has no shot at winning.

DP. Nobody has a shot at winning in the primary. I think it's a valid voting strategy to vote for who you want in the primary, and then choose from the remaining two choices in November. There are multiple valid voting strategies, and this is one of them.

I did the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To answer the question directly, I am going to vote for Kim, Zimmerman, and Stewart.

My "split" vote (breaking from the progressive slate) is because I genuinely think the BoE has done a shockingly bad job at its oversight function, and that too many of them are more interested in protecting the reputation of MCPS than in representing the views of their constituents.

However, I'm not going to give the far right a foothold in Montgomery County, and I want folks who have the knowledge base to ask hard questions.

To me, a former public school administrator, a current teacher, and a long-time parent advocate are a team that could maybe get us some answers on questions of academics, discipline, and infrastructure, respectively.

But Kim has been pretty much invisible this campaign season. She has no shot at winning.

If I’m not mistaken, she has been at every single community forum.

She wasn't at the one in Poolesville.

Kim wasn't at the one at Wootton either. Neither was Smondrowski.

[Anonymous]

Let’s all be real, BOE has nothing to do with students and everything to do with Unions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let’s all be real, BOE has nothing to do with students and everything to do with Unions.

I don't know about that but I try to choose the candidates whose values best align with mine and that is usually the same candidates on the Apple ballot.

[Anonymous]

It is hard. Our list came down to who we didn't want to vote for.

In the session I went to it was only people already on the board who offered wholistic solutions and talked about the diversity in the system and how solutions had to work across the system and not just for the loud parents.

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Pruned the Moms for Liberty crowd and those who want religion in school or wanted to give religious homeschoolers veto power over what kids read.

Dropped the couple who think cops are the answer to all school problems. I lived in the 80s and it didn't work.

Scratched the ones who answer every question with "it is the parent's choice" which puts the bigots in charge and also ignores how everyone doesn't have an activist school board candidate for parents. Some barely have parents at all. That all comes into the school system and was ignored by most in the session I saw.

[Anonymous]

I'll be really surprised if the top two finishers are anyone other than the incumbents and Apple Ballot people. So in November:

Harris vs. Montoya
Smondrowski vs. Zimmerman
Evans vs. Stewart

[Anonymous]

Vote out Smondrowski, Evans, Harris! So tired of the current BOE

[Anonymous]

Teachers are constantly complaining about the stench of Marijuana in the schools. Who does the Apple Ballot select as their candidate? That’s right a woman who promotes smoking marijuana. Montoya was a bad choice for teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To answer the question directly, I am going to vote for Kim, Zimmerman, and Stewart.

My "split" vote (breaking from the progressive slate) is because I genuinely think the BoE has done a shockingly bad job at its oversight function, and that too many of them are more interested in protecting the reputation of MCPS than in representing the views of their constituents.

However, I'm not going to give the far right a foothold in Montgomery County, and I want folks who have the knowledge base to ask hard questions.

To me, a former public school administrator, a current teacher, and a long-time parent advocate are a team that could maybe get us some answers on questions of academics, discipline, and infrastructure, respectively.

But Kim has been pretty much invisible this campaign season. She has no shot at winning.

If I’m not mistaken, she has been at every single community forum.

She has not done any campaigning I've seen OUTSIDE of the community forums.

She has no social media, no website, nothing. That's not how you run a political campaign in 2024.

Funny because just yesterday I got a Facebook ad for Melissa for BOE. The page was created recently on May 3 with just a couple of followers. But when I go back to look for her page, I can’t find it. So, Melissa if you are reading this, you need to interact or fix tags on that page to make it visible.

[Anonymous]

One of my parents got a robocall from the nationally-known candidate who is getting money from at least one national group aligned with MAGA. I would really like to know who contributed the money for that, and how much. When is the new FEC filing due?

For what it's worth, my parent actually listened to the whole message and then decided to NOT vote for that candidate. (It's the candidate who wrote a whole book about something they couldn't define.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are constantly complaining about the stench of Marijuana in the schools. Who does the Apple Ballot select as their candidate? That’s right a woman who promotes smoking marijuana. Montoya was a bad choice for teachers.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are constantly complaining about the stench of Marijuana in the schools. Who does the Apple Ballot select as their candidate? That’s right a woman who promotes smoking marijuana. Montoya was a bad choice for teachers.

+1

But she’s an ADvoCatE for MeDICinaL marijuana!! Better yet she’s an attorney who is an expert at finding legal loopholes. Perfect for the Board of Education.