BOE - who are people voting for?

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Anonymous wrote:Montoya won because there are plenty of kids in high school that want to smoke her weed!

Montoya didn't win

She absolutely won. There are two winners per race because this is a primary. Montoya finished in second place and about 100 votes behind Harris. BOTH Harris and Montoya won and will advance to the general elections.

1,000 votes. You missed a zero.

As of Friday, May 17: Harris 32,557, Montoya 31,585.

Voted for someone else in the primary, but even though I don’t generally want to support incumbents, I will vote for Harris over Montoya. -DP

I'm voting for Montoya over Harris. To me they're pretty similar except Harris is an incumbent and I feel we need new blood.

Harris and Montoya are both attorneys, but there is where the similarities end. You may be OK with Montoya being uninformed about education in a school system the size of MCPS, but I think it's a better idea to have an informed policy maker like Harris.

Informed policy maker like Harris? What a joke! So much for experience in policy and budget matters. They are literally voting to fire teachers in a brand new building that they are paying $50,000 in rent for. They are going to pay a settlement in the Biedelmen affair. Not to mention the McKnight settlement. Vote for Harris if you want teachers fired from new building that they clearly disregarded when it came to the budget.

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2024/05/23/will-mcps-implement-layoffs/

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2024/05/23/beidleman-discrimination-case-headed-to-settlement/

https://moco360.media/2024/05/20/mcps-school-board-relocate-headquarters-to-spiffy-new-digs-in-rockville/

The county council didn't provide adequate funding and those members knew it, Evan Glass' faux outrage aside.

Nice try. The Board always fears mongers about the budget yet has the gall to move into an expensive new building. Talk about being tone deaf.

Get your facts straight. It's not an expensive new building. It's the same building where much of MCPS already had its offices.

They removed the virtual academy and other groups from their spaces and remodeled it. It was already nice but they spent a fortune making it nicer for them. Funny how they had money to remodel their space but not continue the MVA.

They are working hard to trim the fat. You know, reducing musical instrument repair for poor kids and cutting CollegeTracks resources for underprivileged kids who want to go to college. And thank God they’ll postpone expanding pre-K programs. Give them a break. /s

Exactly.

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Anonymous wrote:Montoya won because there are plenty of kids in high school that want to smoke her weed!

Montoya didn't win

She absolutely won. There are two winners per race because this is a primary. Montoya finished in second place and about 100 votes behind Harris. BOTH Harris and Montoya won and will advance to the general elections.

1,000 votes. You missed a zero.

As of Friday, May 17: Harris 32,557, Montoya 31,585.

Voted for someone else in the primary, but even though I don’t generally want to support incumbents, I will vote for Harris over Montoya. -DP

I'm voting for Montoya over Harris. To me they're pretty similar except Harris is an incumbent and I feel we need new blood.

Harris and Montoya are both attorneys, but there is where the similarities end. You may be OK with Montoya being uninformed about education in a school system the size of MCPS, but I think it's a better idea to have an informed policy maker like Harris.

Informed policy maker like Harris? What a joke! So much for experience in policy and budget matters. They are literally voting to fire teachers in a brand new building that they are paying $50,000 in rent for. They are going to pay a settlement in the Biedelmen affair. Not to mention the McKnight settlement. Vote for Harris if you want teachers fired from new building that they clearly disregarded when it came to the budget.

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2024/05/23/will-mcps-implement-layoffs/

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2024/05/23/beidleman-discrimination-case-headed-to-settlement/

https://moco360.media/2024/05/20/mcps-school-board-relocate-headquarters-to-spiffy-new-digs-in-rockville/

The county council didn't provide adequate funding and those members knew it, Evan Glass' faux outrage aside.

Nice try. The Board always fears mongers about the budget yet has the gall to move into an expensive new building. Talk about being tone deaf.

Get your facts straight. It's not an expensive new building. It's the same building where much of MCPS already had its offices.

Learn to read. MCPS offices are at 45 Gude. BOE moved into 15 Gude.

https://moco360.media/2024/05/20/mcps-school-board-relocate-headquarters-to-spiffy-new-digs-in-rockville/

After decades of meeting in an aging former school, Montgomery County Public Schools and the school board have moved into a modern office building — at 15 W. Gude Drive in Rockville –complete with a board meeting room with fresh blue paint, a new sleek dais for members, rows of grey plastic chairs and six flat-screen TVs.


The neighboring building, 45 W. Gude Drive, was already home to “a good portion of [MCPS] operations,” such as the employee and retiree service center, division of financial services and office of facilities management, according to Seth Adams, associate superintendent of facilities management.

They’ve actually left behind at Carver some of the staff who do the day-to-day work of running the system. They will be there while renovations are done. The monthly rent for the new digs is a new expense, though a minuscule amount compared to the size of the overall budget.

[Anonymous]

Diaz just reposted garbage on Twitter.

She is unfit for any position on the BOE.

RW nonsense does not belong anywhere near education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Diaz just reposted garbage on Twitter.

She is unfit for any position on the BOE.

RW nonsense does not belong anywhere near education.

This? It was from 2 days ago


Brenda M Diaz
@BrendaMDiaz4BOE
A central component of my platform involves ensuring responsible resource allocation through diligent oversight of #MCPS.

This means:

🧹Pulling out the rot from a top heavy Central Office and transfer our precious resources back to our teachers and students our children.

🧹Then, return highly qualified Central Office staff to the classroom as teachers, subs, or test administrators in schools that report gaps in faculty as a way to boost teacher morale.

I’m glad that
@mceanea
is in agreement with this key pillar of my platform, and that Ms. Dixon is, too.

#DiazForBOE
http://DiazForBOE.com
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Jeanette Dixon
@dixon_jeanette
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May 23
Replying to @shinobe7bu7515 @ModeratelyMoco and @MCPS
This is exactly what needs to happen. They need to cut all of the positions in central office that come with 6 figure salaries and require very little work. Everyone knows what those positions are.
7:52 PM · May 23, 2024
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[Anonymous]

Apparently, the only people who are fit to serve on BOE are the people who have made students unsafe, lower test scores and lower graduation rates. That is our BOE’s track record. The BOE has blown millions of dollars to settle lawsuits that could have gone to actual education. Instead, we have incompetent board members who love status quo. I’m voting them all out in November.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently, the only people who are fit to serve on BOE are the people who have made students unsafe, lower test scores and lower graduation rates. That is our BOE’s track record. The BOE has blown millions of dollars to settle lawsuits that could have gone to actual education. Instead, we have incompetent board members who love status quo. I’m voting them all out in November.

There is no use in being a sophist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Diaz just reposted garbage on Twitter.

She is unfit for any position on the BOE.

RW nonsense does not belong anywhere near education.

are you JOF?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Diaz just reposted garbage on Twitter.

She is unfit for any position on the BOE.

RW nonsense does not belong anywhere near education.

This? It was from 2 days ago


Brenda M Diaz
@BrendaMDiaz4BOE
A central component of my platform involves ensuring responsible resource allocation through diligent oversight of #MCPS.

This means:

🧹Pulling out the rot from a top heavy Central Office and transfer our precious resources back to our teachers and students our children.

🧹Then, return highly qualified Central Office staff to the classroom as teachers, subs, or test administrators in schools that report gaps in faculty as a way to boost teacher morale.

I’m glad that
@mceanea
is in agreement with this key pillar of my platform, and that Ms. Dixon is, too.

#DiazForBOE
http://DiazForBOE.com
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Jeanette Dixon
@dixon_jeanette
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May 23
Replying to @shinobe7bu7515 @ModeratelyMoco and @MCPS
This is exactly what needs to happen. They need to cut all of the positions in central office that come with 6 figure salaries and require very little work. Everyone knows what those positions are.
7:52 PM · May 23, 2024
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Nope not that the election fraud crap.

Given her stance with "classical curriculum" = Christian Nationalism

No to Diaz

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Diaz just reposted garbage on Twitter.

She is unfit for any position on the BOE.

RW nonsense does not belong anywhere near education.

This? It was from 2 days ago


Brenda M Diaz
@BrendaMDiaz4BOE
A central component of my platform involves ensuring responsible resource allocation through diligent oversight of #MCPS.

This means:

🧹Pulling out the rot from a top heavy Central Office and transfer our precious resources back to our teachers and students our children.

🧹Then, return highly qualified Central Office staff to the classroom as teachers, subs, or test administrators in schools that report gaps in faculty as a way to boost teacher morale.

I’m glad that
@mceanea
is in agreement with this key pillar of my platform, and that Ms. Dixon is, too.

#DiazForBOE
http://DiazForBOE.com
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Jeanette Dixon
@dixon_jeanette
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May 23
Replying to @shinobe7bu7515 @ModeratelyMoco and @MCPS
This is exactly what needs to happen. They need to cut all of the positions in central office that come with 6 figure salaries and require very little work. Everyone knows what those positions are.
7:52 PM · May 23, 2024
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1,065
Views

No, this,
Brenda M Diaz reposted
"CleanSlateMoCo
@cleanslatemoco
·
May 14
"The corruption runs deep.
Received reports an unaffiliated voter received this prefilled BOE ballot in Tacoma Park…"

She's an election denier now? Amazing how they never say their is "fraud" in their own race.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Diaz just reposted garbage on Twitter.

She is unfit for any position on the BOE.

RW nonsense does not belong anywhere near education.

This? It was from 2 days ago


Brenda M Diaz
@BrendaMDiaz4BOE
A central component of my platform involves ensuring responsible resource allocation through diligent oversight of #MCPS.

This means:

🧹Pulling out the rot from a top heavy Central Office and transfer our precious resources back to our teachers and students our children.

🧹Then, return highly qualified Central Office staff to the classroom as teachers, subs, or test administrators in schools that report gaps in faculty as a way to boost teacher morale.

I’m glad that
@mceanea
is in agreement with this key pillar of my platform, and that Ms. Dixon is, too.

#DiazForBOE
http://DiazForBOE.com
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Jeanette Dixon
@dixon_jeanette
·
May 23
Replying to @shinobe7bu7515 @ModeratelyMoco and @MCPS
This is exactly what needs to happen. They need to cut all of the positions in central office that come with 6 figure salaries and require very little work. Everyone knows what those positions are.
7:52 PM · May 23, 2024
·
1,065
Views

Nope not that the election fraud crap.

Given her stance with "classical curriculum" = Christian Nationalism

No to Diaz

She must have deleted that post.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see how any incumbent survives after all of these blunders and missteps that are coming out from MCPS just this week alone....

What are all the blunders and missteps that have come out from MCPS just this week alone? I'm a relatively high-information voter when it comes to the BoE, and I am not aware of any.

ooh, and this one. https://moco360.media/2024/05/20/mcps-school-board-relocate-headquarters-to-spiffy-new-digs-in-rockville/#:~:text=After%20decades%20of%20meeting%20in,chairs%20and%20six%20flat%2Dscreen

It's interesting that you consider this a blunder, because I consider it to be a good move, both fiscally and for operations.

After decades of meeting in an aging former school, Montgomery County Public Schools and the school board have moved into a modern office building — at 15 W. Gude Drive in Rockville –complete with a board meeting room with fresh blue paint, a new sleek dais for members, rows of grey plastic chairs and six flat-screen TVs.

The move is part of the district’s efforts to modernize its processes, facilitate community engagement, consolidate the school system into one office complex, and follow through with repairs to the former MCPS headquarters at the historic Carver Educational Services Center building at 350 Hungerford Drive, according to school officials.

In addition to dealing with aging facilities at Carver, which opened in 1951 as the first and only high school for Black students in the county, district officials were hearing complaints from the community about the building and the limited capacity of the boardroom, school board Chief of Staff Lori-Christina Webb told MoCo360.

“We were getting more and more complaints about people not being able to get into the board room, or how uncomfortable the hearing space was,” Webb said. “…There were just a lot of concerns about how well democracy could function in that space.”

With the move, now all MCPS operations will be headquartered in a two-building office complex.

The neighboring building, 45 W. Gude Drive, was already home to “a good portion of [MCPS] operations,” such as the employee and retiree service center, division of financial services and office of facilities management, according to Seth Adams, associate superintendent of facilities management.

Adams said MCPS started the process of moving from the Carver building to the 15 W. Gude Drive location in 2019. After the COVID-19 pandemic caused a spike in office vacancies across the county, the district took advantage of “very favorable times” to lease the space, he said.

Board President Karla Silvestre said she was excited for the public to see and use the new space.

“It’s good to be in a more modern facility where everything works and the public can all fit and hear the meetings and that we can also clear out Carver so it can get the attention it needs as well,” she said.

And I'll be happy to see the historic George Washington Carver High School and Junior College building get some love, too.

You've got to be sh**ing me. The six-figure CO has the money to renovate their own building, spend millions on "emergency" diesel buses because they screwed up, but can't renovate schools with asbesdos? George Washington Carver? Junior College building? While telling teachers to bend over and take one for the team?

Fire every one of the CO staff earning six-figures and the legacy BOE please.

Let them all go.

FIRE THEM ALL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Diaz just reposted garbage on Twitter.

She is unfit for any position on the BOE.

RW nonsense does not belong anywhere near education.

This? It was from 2 days ago


Brenda M Diaz
@BrendaMDiaz4BOE
A central component of my platform involves ensuring responsible resource allocation through diligent oversight of #MCPS.

This means:

🧹Pulling out the rot from a top heavy Central Office and transfer our precious resources back to our teachers and students our children.

🧹Then, return highly qualified Central Office staff to the classroom as teachers, subs, or test administrators in schools that report gaps in faculty as a way to boost teacher morale.

I’m glad that
@mceanea
is in agreement with this key pillar of my platform, and that Ms. Dixon is, too.

#DiazForBOE
http://DiazForBOE.com
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Jeanette Dixon
@dixon_jeanette
·
May 23
Replying to @shinobe7bu7515 @ModeratelyMoco and @MCPS
This is exactly what needs to happen. They need to cut all of the positions in central office that come with 6 figure salaries and require very little work. Everyone knows what those positions are.
7:52 PM · May 23, 2024
·
1,065
Views

No, this,
Brenda M Diaz reposted
"CleanSlateMoCo
@cleanslatemoco
·
May 14
"The corruption runs deep.
Received reports an unaffiliated voter received this prefilled BOE ballot in Tacoma Park…"

She's an election denier now? Amazing how they never say their is "fraud" in their own race.

The board of elections apologized for that a week or two ago. Are you pretending it never happened or do you just dislike the thought of a liberal Hispanic woman on the BOE so much you're willing to lie?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Diaz just reposted garbage on Twitter.

She is unfit for any position on the BOE.

RW nonsense does not belong anywhere near education.

This? It was from 2 days ago


Brenda M Diaz
@BrendaMDiaz4BOE
A central component of my platform involves ensuring responsible resource allocation through diligent oversight of #MCPS.

This means:

🧹Pulling out the rot from a top heavy Central Office and transfer our precious resources back to our teachers and students our children.

🧹Then, return highly qualified Central Office staff to the classroom as teachers, subs, or test administrators in schools that report gaps in faculty as a way to boost teacher morale.

I’m glad that
@mceanea
is in agreement with this key pillar of my platform, and that Ms. Dixon is, too.

#DiazForBOE
http://DiazForBOE.com
Quote

Jeanette Dixon
@dixon_jeanette
·
May 23
Replying to @shinobe7bu7515 @ModeratelyMoco and @MCPS
This is exactly what needs to happen. They need to cut all of the positions in central office that come with 6 figure salaries and require very little work. Everyone knows what those positions are.
7:52 PM · May 23, 2024
·
1,065
Views

No, this,
Brenda M Diaz reposted
"CleanSlateMoCo
@cleanslatemoco
·
May 14
"The corruption runs deep.
Received reports an unaffiliated voter received this prefilled BOE ballot in Tacoma Park…"

She's an election denier now? Amazing how they never say their is "fraud" in their own race.

The board of elections apologized for that a week or two ago. Are you pretending it never happened or do you just dislike the thought of a liberal Hispanic woman on the BOE so much you're willing to lie?

Brenda, you are a nut job, not a liberal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Diaz just reposted garbage on Twitter.

She is unfit for any position on the BOE.

RW nonsense does not belong anywhere near education.

This? It was from 2 days ago


Brenda M Diaz
@BrendaMDiaz4BOE
A central component of my platform involves ensuring responsible resource allocation through diligent oversight of #MCPS.

This means:

🧹Pulling out the rot from a top heavy Central Office and transfer our precious resources back to our teachers and students our children.

🧹Then, return highly qualified Central Office staff to the classroom as teachers, subs, or test administrators in schools that report gaps in faculty as a way to boost teacher morale.

I’m glad that
@mceanea
is in agreement with this key pillar of my platform, and that Ms. Dixon is, too.

#DiazForBOE
http://DiazForBOE.com
Quote

Jeanette Dixon
@dixon_jeanette
·
May 23
Replying to @shinobe7bu7515 @ModeratelyMoco and @MCPS
This is exactly what needs to happen. They need to cut all of the positions in central office that come with 6 figure salaries and require very little work. Everyone knows what those positions are.
7:52 PM · May 23, 2024
·
1,065
Views

No, this,
Brenda M Diaz reposted
"CleanSlateMoCo
@cleanslatemoco
·
May 14
"The corruption runs deep.
Received reports an unaffiliated voter received this prefilled BOE ballot in Tacoma Park…"

She's an election denier now? Amazing how they never say their is "fraud" in their own race.

That actually happened so I don’t see how that means a he’s an election denier.

Claiming corruption is over the top but, the event did happen which raises questions on how ballots were handled at that polling place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Diaz just reposted garbage on Twitter.

She is unfit for any position on the BOE.

RW nonsense does not belong anywhere near education.

This? It was from 2 days ago


Brenda M Diaz
@BrendaMDiaz4BOE
A central component of my platform involves ensuring responsible resource allocation through diligent oversight of #MCPS.

This means:

🧹Pulling out the rot from a top heavy Central Office and transfer our precious resources back to our teachers and students our children.

🧹Then, return highly qualified Central Office staff to the classroom as teachers, subs, or test administrators in schools that report gaps in faculty as a way to boost teacher morale.

I’m glad that
@mceanea
is in agreement with this key pillar of my platform, and that Ms. Dixon is, too.

#DiazForBOE
http://DiazForBOE.com
Quote

Jeanette Dixon
@dixon_jeanette
·
May 23
Replying to @shinobe7bu7515 @ModeratelyMoco and @MCPS
This is exactly what needs to happen. They need to cut all of the positions in central office that come with 6 figure salaries and require very little work. Everyone knows what those positions are.
7:52 PM · May 23, 2024
·
1,065
Views

No, this,
Brenda M Diaz reposted
"CleanSlateMoCo
@cleanslatemoco
·
May 14
"The corruption runs deep.
Received reports an unaffiliated voter received this prefilled BOE ballot in Tacoma Park…"

She's an election denier now? Amazing how they never say their is "fraud" in their own race.

That actually happened so I don’t see how that means a he’s an election denier.

Claiming corruption is over the top but, the event did happen which raises questions on how ballots were handled at that polling place.

MoCo election worker here. Someone didn't follow the "spoiled ballot" procedure. We have a special bag for ballots where people make a mistake and want to start over. That bag is a special color and clearly labeled, so no one would be handed a ballot from there.

Based on the other people in my "class" when we did training, it doesn't surprise me. Not the smartest bulbs in the bunch but what do you expect for $100/day pay to work a 12-hour shift?