Montoya is not fit for office

[Anonymous]

Her rhetoric towards constituents is unhinged, unprofessional and divisive. She owes the community an apology and the promise that she will do better.

2:05:00- “You can tell them to shut up” speaking about constituents.

Then later she talks about the ugly words thrown towards her. Ha!

2:06:20 “ So I want to be clear to this community and to all of my colleagues that a vote against this model is a vote to perpetuate the racist access to these programs that has been going on for some time.”

No. This is such a lazy and harmful comment. I haven’t met a person in opposition to increased access to these programs. You could have pushed this out a year or two to ensure the execution doesn’t further harm students in lower social economic areas. Framing in this way is reckless!

2:29:23 “That’s the racism” in response to those audience members who applauded Julie Yang’s vote against.

Just gross and shortsighted.

Let’s vote this person out.

[Anonymous]

Excuse the autocorrect- socioeconomic not social.

[Anonymous]

I don't like the behaviors you described, but I am more concerned about the BOE being incompetent and refusing to ask tough questions of the Superintendent. Ultimately I think this stems from their low stipends and lack of independent staff. I'll happily vote for alternative candidates that aren't hateful, especially if they support more physical books and learning with pencil and paper. But honestly I don't think much will change until the BOE has more resources to provide actual oversight of the Superintendent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't like the behaviors you described, but I am more concerned about the BOE being incompetent and refusing to ask tough questions of the Superintendent. Ultimately I think this stems from their low stipends and lack of independent staff. I'll happily vote for alternative candidates that aren't hateful, especially if they support more physical books and learning with pencil and paper. But honestly I don't think much will change until the BOE has more resources to provide actual oversight of the Superintendent.

More money would not help. She works for Mcps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't like the behaviors you described, but I am more concerned about the BOE being incompetent and refusing to ask tough questions of the Superintendent. Ultimately I think this stems from their low stipends and lack of independent staff. I'll happily vote for alternative candidates that aren't hateful, especially if they support more physical books and learning with pencil and paper. But honestly I don't think much will change until the BOE has more resources to provide actual oversight of the Superintendent.

More money would not help. She works for Mcps.

I have never seen or heard that Montoya works for MCPS. Where are you getting this from?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't like the behaviors you described, but I am more concerned about the BOE being incompetent and refusing to ask tough questions of the Superintendent. Ultimately I think this stems from their low stipends and lack of independent staff. I'll happily vote for alternative candidates that aren't hateful, especially if they support more physical books and learning with pencil and paper. But honestly I don't think much will change until the BOE has more resources to provide actual oversight of the Superintendent.

+1

While I DO think Montoya can be unprofessional and her conduct unbecoming, I'm far more concerned about the BOE being an impotent, useless entity that fails at its core mission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Her rhetoric towards constituents is unhinged, unprofessional and divisive. She owes the community an apology and the promise that she will do better.

2:05:00- “You can tell them to shut up” speaking about constituents.

Then later she talks about the ugly words thrown towards her. Ha!

2:06:20 “ So I want to be clear to this community and to all of my colleagues that a vote against this model is a vote to perpetuate the racist access to these programs that has been going on for some time.”

No. This is such a lazy and harmful comment. I haven’t met a person in opposition to increased access to these programs. You could have pushed this out a year or two to ensure the execution doesn’t further harm students in lower social economic areas. Framing in this way is reckless!

2:29:23 “That’s the racism” in response to those audience members who applauded Julie Yang’s vote against.

Just gross and shortsighted.

Let’s vote this person out.

so you don't like someone shining a mirror on you?

[Anonymous]

she is so unprofessional and disgusting! let's vote her out!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Her rhetoric towards constituents is unhinged, unprofessional and divisive. She owes the community an apology and the promise that she will do better.

2:05:00- “You can tell them to shut up” speaking about constituents.

Then later she talks about the ugly words thrown towards her. Ha!

2:06:20 “ So I want to be clear to this community and to all of my colleagues that a vote against this model is a vote to perpetuate the racist access to these programs that has been going on for some time.”

No. This is such a lazy and harmful comment. I haven’t met a person in opposition to increased access to these programs. You could have pushed this out a year or two to ensure the execution doesn’t further harm students in lower social economic areas. Framing in this way is reckless!

2:29:23 “That’s the racism” in response to those audience members who applauded Julie Yang’s vote against.

Just gross and shortsighted.

Let’s vote this person out.

so you don't like someone shining a mirror on you?

DP

Montoya talked about racist access to certain magnet programs. How will the regional program model change this? If she had looked at data for DCC programs that serve DCC students they are also disprortionately White despite being located in majority Black and Hispanic schools. What about the regional program model will be more racially equitable? How has Montoya worked to advance racial equity in the regional program model and what data has she demanded to ensure this? Yesterday she approved two boundary recommendations that increase racial segregation. The new WJ boundaries will make WJ 48% White. A mile away, Woodward HS will be 27% White. Quince Orchard HS and Northwest HS currently have very similar racial and socioeconomic demographics, but with the boundary changes Northwest will have double the FARMS rate of Quince Orchard. Montoya voted for this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Her rhetoric towards constituents is unhinged, unprofessional and divisive. She owes the community an apology and the promise that she will do better.

2:05:00- “You can tell them to shut up” speaking about constituents.

Then later she talks about the ugly words thrown towards her. Ha!

2:06:20 “ So I want to be clear to this community and to all of my colleagues that a vote against this model is a vote to perpetuate the racist access to these programs that has been going on for some time.”

No. This is such a lazy and harmful comment. I haven’t met a person in opposition to increased access to these programs. You could have pushed this out a year or two to ensure the execution doesn’t further harm students in lower social economic areas. Framing in this way is reckless!

2:29:23 “That’s the racism” in response to those audience members who applauded Julie Yang’s vote against.

Just gross and shortsighted.

Let’s vote this person out.

so you don't like someone shining a mirror on you?

You make it far too easy for these self-proclaimed champions of our Black and Brown children to keep failing the very students they claim to defend. Take a closer look at what is happening in my Wheaton neighborhood and tell me honestly that you are okay with this.

[Anonymous]

The R word has lost its sting. Calling people and accusing people of racism is ineffective and overused.

At the very least she should address why she called or accused the parents of racism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The R word has lost its sting. Calling people and accusing people of racism is ineffective and overused.

At the very least she should address why she called or accused the parents of racism.

She can’t. If she could, she wouldn’t have used the word in the first place.

It’s a tiresome accusation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't like the behaviors you described, but I am more concerned about the BOE being incompetent and refusing to ask tough questions of the Superintendent. Ultimately I think this stems from their low stipends and lack of independent staff. I'll happily vote for alternative candidates that aren't hateful, especially if they support more physical books and learning with pencil and paper. But honestly I don't think much will change until the BOE has more resources to provide actual oversight of the Superintendent.

More money would not help. She works for Mcps.

I have never seen or heard that Montoya works for MCPS. Where are you getting this from?

She gets paid a small salary and excellent benefits from MCPS.


She has unreflected racial beliefs and that is a problem for an elected leader. I heard her hot mic comments last night. She appears bigoted against Asian American communities in my opinion. She does not know history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The R word has lost its sting. Calling people and accusing people of racism is ineffective and overused.

At the very least she should address why she called or accused the parents of racism.

She can’t. If she could, she wouldn’t have used the word in the first place.

It’s a tiresome accusation.

Tiresome for you, but not if you are the one she is calling racist.

[Anonymous]

If one pays careful attention in listening 2:05:31 in (~ 2 mins long for her presentation), you can clearly observe that she was mixing two things completely. She accused the dominantly White & Asian population in magnet programs (criteria-based) due to the consortium model (pure lottery). While both are not the cause of the current enrollment demographics so her accusation was completely wrong, dissolving magnet and consortium models won't help change the demographics but rather worsen the situation in the future.

I'm surprised that Montoya has law background. I have barely hearing any logic in most of her comments in the past, and this presentation was full of resentment. She is teaching kids to hate and blaim other race.