Two Montgomery school board seats will have primaries as new candidates join race

[Anonymous]

I just wasted time searching for this trevor noah episode on youtube. No mockery of her testimony. It is just a few seconds of her speaking, and it follows clips of kids talking about how they want to be back at school. Trevor goes on to talk about prioritizing teachers for vaccines so schools can reopen. Teachers were prioritized in montgomery co - right?

We can (and should) argue pros/cons of people running for the school board, but discussion of this random tv episode seems like an irrelevant distraction. Unless the goal was to make fun of students and families who wanted to go back to school?

[Anonymous]

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Ummm worst news ever. Please, someone else run. We don’t want these two deciding mcps policy for the next couple of years. Dawn is tone deaf. And Dawn don’t try and get this post removed like you usually do. As a candidate, you are now subject to public scrutiny. So heckling people at BOE meetings, wearing a MESH mask to BOE meetings (well before the mandate was lifted) in order to antagonize the BOE and those who were masked and picking on the SMOB are all things you will have to answer for.

Do you know who is on the Apple ballot yet?

[Anonymous]

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Ummm worst news ever. Please, someone else run. We don’t want these two deciding mcps policy for the next couple of years. Dawn is tone deaf. And Dawn don’t try and get this post removed like you usually do. As a candidate, you are now subject to public scrutiny. So heckling people at BOE meetings, wearing a MESH mask to BOE meetings (well before the mandate was lifted) in order to antagonize the BOE and those who were masked and picking on the SMOB are all things you will have to answer for.

Do you know who is on the Apple ballot yet?

For BOE, so far MCEA has endorsed only Julie Yang in the District 3 race.

[Anonymous]

And now the date for the primary election has been moved later, to July 19th. And the filing deadline is extended until April 15th.

https://wtop.com/maryland/2022/03/md-court-moves-primary-dates/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just wasted time searching for this trevor noah episode on youtube. No mockery of her testimony. It is just a few seconds of her speaking, and it follows clips of kids talking about how they want to be back at school. Trevor goes on to talk about prioritizing teachers for vaccines so schools can reopen. Teachers were prioritized in montgomery co - right?

We can (and should) argue pros/cons of people running for the school board, but discussion of this random tv episode seems like an irrelevant distraction. Unless the goal was to make fun of students and families who wanted to go back to school?

There was never a discussion about the television episode. It was mentioned along with a list of other things Dawn has done to embarrass herself. I am SICK of Dawn speaking on behalf of minorities. She does not represent me or my community, but she speaks on our behalf, she takes up spots at board meetings where our voices should be heard, and she never says anything different. Her endless testimonies are more of the same endless drivel. I have unfortunately met her many times. She is a typical Karen who thinks being rude= being "feisty" and "shaking things up." She is just someone who wants to appear as a challenger of status quo without actually doing anything about it other than holding up a few signs full of platitudes, pretending to care about minorities, and yelling vaguely into the abyss. She is not a challenger, she is an angry White woman doing things that a basic angry White woman does who thinks they are enacting change. She doesn't represent the majority of MoCo parents. Most of us don't have the time to be as vocal as she does. We have jobs. We don't spend endless hours tweeting,calling news stations,writing a million OpEds (that are only used to further careers and get their names out there; they aren't actually meant for the students),complaining to whoever will listen and call it advocacy.

[Anonymous]

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Ummm worst news ever. Please, someone else run. We don’t want these two deciding mcps policy for the next couple of years. Dawn is tone deaf. And Dawn don’t try and get this post removed like you usually do. As a candidate, you are now subject to public scrutiny. So heckling people at BOE meetings, wearing a MESH mask to BOE meetings (well before the mandate was lifted) in order to antagonize the BOE and those who were masked and picking on the SMOB are all things you will have to answer for.

Do you know who is on the Apple ballot yet?

For BOE, so far MCEA has endorsed only Julie Yang in the District 3 race.

She sounds great! Definitely has my vote.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just wasted time searching for this trevor noah episode on youtube. No mockery of her testimony. It is just a few seconds of her speaking, and it follows clips of kids talking about how they want to be back at school. Trevor goes on to talk about prioritizing teachers for vaccines so schools can reopen. Teachers were prioritized in montgomery co - right?

We can (and should) argue pros/cons of people running for the school board, but discussion of this random tv episode seems like an irrelevant distraction. Unless the goal was to make fun of students and families who wanted to go back to school?

There was never a discussion about the television episode. It was mentioned along with a list of other things Dawn has done to embarrass herself. I am SICK of Dawn speaking on behalf of minorities. She does not represent me or my community, but she speaks on our behalf, she takes up spots at board meetings where our voices should be heard, and she never says anything different. Her endless testimonies are more of the same endless drivel. I have unfortunately met her many times. She is a typical Karen who thinks being rude= being "feisty" and "shaking things up." She is just someone who wants to appear as a challenger of status quo without actually doing anything about it other than holding up a few signs full of platitudes, pretending to care about minorities, and yelling vaguely into the abyss. She is not a challenger, she is an angry White woman doing things that a basic angry White woman does who thinks they are enacting change. She doesn't represent the majority of MoCo parents. Most of us don't have the time to be as vocal as she does. We have jobs. We don't spend endless hours tweeting,calling news stations,writing a million OpEds (that are only used to further careers and get their names out there; they aren't actually meant for the students),complaining to whoever will listen and call it advocacy.

She sounds unstable and would likely make the board even less productive.

[Anonymous]

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Ummm worst news ever. Please, someone else run. We don’t want these two deciding mcps policy for the next couple of years. Dawn is tone deaf. And Dawn don’t try and get this post removed like you usually do. As a candidate, you are now subject to public scrutiny. So heckling people at BOE meetings, wearing a MESH mask to BOE meetings (well before the mandate was lifted) in order to antagonize the BOE and those who were masked and picking on the SMOB are all things you will have to answer for.

Do you know who is on the Apple ballot yet?

For BOE, so far MCEA has endorsed only Julie Yang in the District 3 race.

She sounds great! Definitely has my vote.

She is Apple ballot endorsed, which will get a major side eye from me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/two-montgomery-school-board-seats-will-have-primaries-as-new-candidates-join-race/?fbclid=IwAR1q4IcKwXMD4ggMud0CIepTWT7uTJrNsH5yyZGQhBimY1Rr_5DWIJyLZhE

Ummm worst news ever. Please, someone else run. We don’t want these two deciding mcps policy for the next couple of years. Dawn is tone deaf. And Dawn don’t try and get this post removed like you usually do. As a candidate, you are now subject to public scrutiny. So heckling people at BOE meetings, wearing a MESH mask to BOE meetings (well before the mandate was lifted) in order to antagonize the BOE and those who were masked and picking on the SMOB are all things you will have to answer for.

Do you know who is on the Apple ballot yet?

For BOE, so far MCEA has endorsed only Julie Yang in the District 3 race.

She sounds great! Definitely has my vote.

She is Apple ballot endorsed, which will get a major side eye from me.

Apple ballot:
- Endorsed by teachers? Check.
- Not an incumbent? Check.

Good enough for me - Julie Yang it is!!!!

[Anonymous]

Now that the D3 candidate is settled, what other candidates does the Apple Ballot endorse?

I will vote (and encourage other parents to vote) for anyone the teacher's union wants (except an incumbent).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/two-montgomery-school-board-seats-will-have-primaries-as-new-candidates-join-race/?fbclid=IwAR1q4IcKwXMD4ggMud0CIepTWT7uTJrNsH5yyZGQhBimY1Rr_5DWIJyLZhE

Ummm worst news ever. Please, someone else run. We don’t want these two deciding mcps policy for the next couple of years. Dawn is tone deaf. And Dawn don’t try and get this post removed like you usually do. As a candidate, you are now subject to public scrutiny. So heckling people at BOE meetings, wearing a MESH mask to BOE meetings (well before the mandate was lifted) in order to antagonize the BOE and those who were masked and picking on the SMOB are all things you will have to answer for.

Do you know who is on the Apple ballot yet?

For BOE, so far MCEA has endorsed only Julie Yang in the District 3 race.

She sounds great! Definitely has my vote.

She is Apple ballot endorsed, which will get a major side eye from me.

Apple ballot:
- Endorsed by teachers? Check.
- Not an incumbent? Check.

Good enough for me - Julie Yang it is!!!!

Teachers really need to clarify this for me, does mcea truly represent teachers and if it’s an endorsement is this a real teacher endorsement? I asked this a couple of years ago and I was told here on DCUM that it was not. The entire time I always thought an Apple endorsement was supporting teachers.

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Ummm worst news ever. Please, someone else run. We don’t want these two deciding mcps policy for the next couple of years. Dawn is tone deaf. And Dawn don’t try and get this post removed like you usually do. As a candidate, you are now subject to public scrutiny. So heckling people at BOE meetings, wearing a MESH mask to BOE meetings (well before the mandate was lifted) in order to antagonize the BOE and those who were masked and picking on the SMOB are all things you will have to answer for.

Do you know who is on the Apple ballot yet?

For BOE, so far MCEA has endorsed only Julie Yang in the District 3 race.

She sounds great! Definitely has my vote.

She is Apple ballot endorsed, which will get a major side eye from me.

Apple ballot:
- Endorsed by teachers? Check.
- Not an incumbent? Check.

Good enough for me - Julie Yang it is!!!!

This is why the apple ballot is so powerful. The problem is that the apple ballot is not about support from teachers, it’s about support from the union. The priority is not education, but political influence and leverage for collective bargaining.

Here’s a Post article explaining that candidates are supposed to make contributions to the union in exchange for the endorsement. I’m pretty sure those contributions are not passed along to the individual teachers, much less applied to improving the educational experience in the classroom.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/montgomery-countys-perverse-politics/2014/02/01/98f099f2-8921-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html

Here’s an article talking about the negative impact that too much emphasis on union priorities can have. It’s great that teachers get higher salaries and better benefits, but at some point that means not hiring as many teachers, which means bigger class sizes and less support.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/montgomery-countys-wrong-education-priorities/2012/05/24/gJQA0wOBoU_story.html

Currently, the union holds the power, because when it comes time to vote, most people want to support the teachers and will vote the apple ballot rather than doing the hard work to see what the actual issues are and where the candidates stand on those issues. So, the voters support the union (thinking they’re supporting teachers). The union supports the candidates that it feels will support them in contract negotiations (and of course contributing to the union is a way of demonstrating their good will). The school board, once elected, makes sure the administration negotiates favorable terms with the union, and doesn’t interfere too much with the actual running of things, because after all, they’re doing such a great job - just ask them. The administration gives the union what they want and keeps doing whatever it wants to otherwise. Standardized test scores may be low. They may have to cancel finals because too many students are failing the finals they’ve written for courses they’ve written. Colleges are recognizing that MCPS grades are inflated. Private tutoring is a booming industry. Even a curriculum audit shows what many parents have been saying all along, that their in-house curriculum is fundamentally deficient. Then the MCPS PR department (which I think is probably the only part of MCPS that functions effectively) tells everyone that MCPS is “one of the best school systems in the nation”. Voters feel vindicated that they were right to cast that apple ballot. It’s all very cozy, and everybody’s happy, except maybe little Larlo/Larla who won’t have the skills they need to succeed academically and to be fully prepared to meet their needs, let alone follow their dreams.

According to the state of Maryland, our percent proficiency for E/M/H students is:
Math - 52% / 42.5% / 56.2%
English Language Arts - 53% / 54.8% / 67.3%

https://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/Graphs/#/ReportCards/ReportCardSchool/1/E/1/15/XXXX/2019

Think how hard it is to learn Algebra, if you’re one of the 48% who isn’t proficient in the fundamentals taught in elementary, or about absorbing complex texts in history, science, and of course literature, if you’re one of the 47% who isn’t proficient in English Language Arts. How many of these kids are functionally illiterate? These numbers include those whose parents teach them at home or take them to regular tutoring sessions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just wasted time searching for this trevor noah episode on youtube. No mockery of her testimony. It is just a few seconds of her speaking, and it follows clips of kids talking about how they want to be back at school. Trevor goes on to talk about prioritizing teachers for vaccines so schools can reopen. Teachers were prioritized in montgomery co - right?

We can (and should) argue pros/cons of people running for the school board, but discussion of this random tv episode seems like an irrelevant distraction. Unless the goal was to make fun of students and families who wanted to go back to school?

There was never a discussion about the television episode. It was mentioned along with a list of other things Dawn has done to embarrass herself. I am SICK of Dawn speaking on behalf of minorities. She does not represent me or my community, but she speaks on our behalf, she takes up spots at board meetings where our voices should be heard, and she never says anything different. Her endless testimonies are more of the same endless drivel. I have unfortunately met her many times. She is a typical Karen who thinks being rude= being "feisty" and "shaking things up." She is just someone who wants to appear as a challenger of status quo without actually doing anything about it other than holding up a few signs full of platitudes, pretending to care about minorities, and yelling vaguely into the abyss. She is not a challenger, she is an angry White woman doing things that a basic angry White woman does who thinks they are enacting change. She doesn't represent the majority of MoCo parents. Most of us don't have the time to be as vocal as she does. We have jobs. We don't spend endless hours tweeting,calling news stations,writing a million OpEds (that are only used to further careers and get their names out there; they aren't actually meant for the students),complaining to whoever will listen and call it advocacy.

You have expressed exactly what it is about her that I have found difficult to put into words. But this is💯. You absolutely nailed it. And the fact that she allegedly counsels "inner city Baltimore youth" is a slap in the face. Do you think the kid you are counseling, whose grandma and aunt died of COVID, and whose dad lost hours at work because of COVID, think your little mask tricks are cute? Do you think they appreciated you advocating on THEIR behalf for school re-opening when they were actually and legitimately too scared to return to school because they had suffered real loss?? Those schticks impress the crowd you hang out with - that is it. So arrogant, out of touch and tone deaf. Voting for her is not "shaking things up" - don't fool yourself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just wasted time searching for this trevor noah episode on youtube. No mockery of her testimony. It is just a few seconds of her speaking, and it follows clips of kids talking about how they want to be back at school. Trevor goes on to talk about prioritizing teachers for vaccines so schools can reopen. Teachers were prioritized in montgomery co - right?

We can (and should) argue pros/cons of people running for the school board, but discussion of this random tv episode seems like an irrelevant distraction. Unless the goal was to make fun of students and families who wanted to go back to school?

There was never a discussion about the television episode. It was mentioned along with a list of other things Dawn has done to embarrass herself. I am SICK of Dawn speaking on behalf of minorities. She does not represent me or my community, but she speaks on our behalf, she takes up spots at board meetings where our voices should be heard, and she never says anything different. Her endless testimonies are more of the same endless drivel. I have unfortunately met her many times. She is a typical Karen who thinks being rude= being "feisty" and "shaking things up." She is just someone who wants to appear as a challenger of status quo without actually doing anything about it other than holding up a few signs full of platitudes, pretending to care about minorities, and yelling vaguely into the abyss. She is not a challenger, she is an angry White woman doing things that a basic angry White woman does who thinks they are enacting change. She doesn't represent the majority of MoCo parents. Most of us don't have the time to be as vocal as she does. We have jobs. We don't spend endless hours tweeting,calling news stations,writing a million OpEds (that are only used to further careers and get their names out there; they aren't actually meant for the students),complaining to whoever will listen and call it advocacy.

You have expressed exactly what it is about her that I have found difficult to put into words. But this is💯. You absolutely nailed it. And the fact that she allegedly counsels "inner city Baltimore youth" is a slap in the face. Do you think the kid you are counseling, whose grandma and aunt died of COVID, and whose dad lost hours at work because of COVID, think your little mask tricks are cute? Do you think they appreciated you advocating on THEIR behalf for school re-opening when they were actually and legitimately too scared to return to school because they had suffered real loss?? Those schticks impress the crowd you hang out with - that is it. So arrogant, out of touch and tone deaf. Voting for her is not "shaking things up" - don't fool yourself.

And the current board of education handled it so well in January infecting 9% of the student body and over 2,000 staff and teachers? Please. Go sell that to some idiot who doesn't know any better.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/two-montgomery-school-board-seats-will-have-primaries-as-new-candidates-join-race/?fbclid=IwAR1q4IcKwXMD4ggMud0CIepTWT7uTJrNsH5yyZGQhBimY1Rr_5DWIJyLZhE

Ummm worst news ever. Please, someone else run. We don’t want these two deciding mcps policy for the next couple of years. Dawn is tone deaf. And Dawn don’t try and get this post removed like you usually do. As a candidate, you are now subject to public scrutiny. So heckling people at BOE meetings, wearing a MESH mask to BOE meetings (well before the mandate was lifted) in order to antagonize the BOE and those who were masked and picking on the SMOB are all things you will have to answer for.

Do you know who is on the Apple ballot yet?

For BOE, so far MCEA has endorsed only Julie Yang in the District 3 race.

She sounds great! Definitely has my vote.

She is Apple ballot endorsed, which will get a major side eye from me.

Apple ballot:
- Endorsed by teachers? Check.
- Not an incumbent? Check.

Good enough for me - Julie Yang it is!!!!

This is why the apple ballot is so powerful. The problem is that the apple ballot is not about support from teachers, it’s about support from the union. The priority is not education, but political influence and leverage for collective bargaining.

Here’s a Post article explaining that candidates are supposed to make contributions to the union in exchange for the endorsement. I’m pretty sure those contributions are not passed along to the individual teachers, much less applied to improving the educational experience in the classroom.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/montgomery-countys-perverse-politics/2014/02/01/98f099f2-8921-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html

Here’s an article talking about the negative impact that too much emphasis on union priorities can have. It’s great that teachers get higher salaries and better benefits, but at some point that means not hiring as many teachers, which means bigger class sizes and less support.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/montgomery-countys-wrong-education-priorities/2012/05/24/gJQA0wOBoU_story.html

Currently, the union holds the power, because when it comes time to vote, most people want to support the teachers and will vote the apple ballot rather than doing the hard work to see what the actual issues are and where the candidates stand on those issues. So, the voters support the union (thinking they’re supporting teachers). The union supports the candidates that it feels will support them in contract negotiations (and of course contributing to the union is a way of demonstrating their good will). The school board, once elected, makes sure the administration negotiates favorable terms with the union, and doesn’t interfere too much with the actual running of things, because after all, they’re doing such a great job - just ask them. The administration gives the union what they want and keeps doing whatever it wants to otherwise. Standardized test scores may be low. They may have to cancel finals because too many students are failing the finals they’ve written for courses they’ve written. Colleges are recognizing that MCPS grades are inflated. Private tutoring is a booming industry. Even a curriculum audit shows what many parents have been saying all along, that their in-house curriculum is fundamentally deficient. Then the MCPS PR department (which I think is probably the only part of MCPS that functions effectively) tells everyone that MCPS is “one of the best school systems in the nation”. Voters feel vindicated that they were right to cast that apple ballot. It’s all very cozy, and everybody’s happy, except maybe little Larlo/Larla who won’t have the skills they need to succeed academically and to be fully prepared to meet their needs, let alone follow their dreams.

According to the state of Maryland, our percent proficiency for E/M/H students is:
Math - 52% / 42.5% / 56.2%
English Language Arts - 53% / 54.8% / 67.3%

https://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/Graphs/#/ReportCards/ReportCardSchool/1/E/1/15/XXXX/2019

Think how hard it is to learn Algebra, if you’re one of the 48% who isn’t proficient in the fundamentals taught in elementary, or about absorbing complex texts in history, science, and of course literature, if you’re one of the 47% who isn’t proficient in English Language Arts. How many of these kids are functionally illiterate? These numbers include those whose parents teach them at home or take them to regular tutoring sessions.

Same goes for this thread. The board decimated the magnet system by making it a lottery and plays with ES boundaries to make it look like the ES improved? Spending at least 7 million of covid money on bocce ball, discrimination training and Kid Museum? This board has got to go.