BOE - who are people voting for?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The first thing I do is look for an MCEA endorsement, so I can vote against those candidates.

I do that as well but I also vote against far left candidates like Harris Stewie, and Zim.

Sometimes you just need to go with the least awful candidate. This year's candidates aren't exactly top tier.

[Anonymous]

Laura Stewart said that increases to class sizes was a moral line in the sand we couldn’t cross. Wonder how she feels about her friends on the BOE voting to cross it.

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Anonymous wrote:Laura Stewart said that increases to class sizes was a moral line in the sand we couldn’t cross. Wonder how she feels about her friends on the BOE voting to cross it.

Clearly Shebra Evans was crying crocodile tears as she voted for it, herself. What did she expect from her tenure of no oversight/backing MCPS central office?

[Anonymous]

Laura and Jill act like they care about DEI by working to get rid of Shebra.

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Anonymous wrote:Laura Stewart said that increases to class sizes was a moral line in the sand we couldn’t cross. Wonder how she feels about her friends on the BOE voting to cross it.

That's a pretty easy thing to say when she doesn't have to come up with an alternative. Most of the budget is teachers. You either need to cut the number of teachers or cut the salaries/benefits of teachers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Laura Stewart said that increases to class sizes was a moral line in the sand we couldn’t cross. Wonder how she feels about her friends on the BOE voting to cross it.

That's a pretty easy thing to say when she doesn't have to come up with an alternative. Most of the budget is teachers. You either need to cut the number of teachers or cut the salaries/benefits of teachers.

You'd think that was true but tens of millions go to stuff that doesn't really seem to matter. For example, grants to the kids museum or another antiracist audit or another comms firm or MCPS lawyers hiring other lawyers to do the lawyer work. Not to mention the hundreds of Central office jobs that if they just disappeared would either 1) improve things 2) have no impact. My point is there's so much waste in the budget that doesn't involve teachers but cutting people's pet projects is tough.

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Anonymous wrote:Laura Stewart said that increases to class sizes was a moral line in the sand we couldn’t cross. Wonder how she feels about her friends on the BOE voting to cross it.

That's a pretty easy thing to say when she doesn't have to come up with an alternative. Most of the budget is teachers. You either need to cut the number of teachers or cut the salaries/benefits of teachers.

You'd think that was true but tens of millions go to stuff that doesn't really seem to matter. For example, grants to the kids museum or another antiracist audit or another comms firm or MCPS lawyers hiring other lawyers to do the lawyer work. Not to mention the hundreds of Central office jobs that if they just disappeared would either 1) improve things 2) have no impact. My point is there's so much waste in the budget that doesn't involve teachers but cutting people's pet projects is tough.

We need the lawyers because dumb shits are suing the schools

We need the lawyers to fight against Stephen Miller and his band of crazy shits attacking our schools
We need the lawyers to stop book banning
We need the lawyers to keep outside influence of Christian nationalists out of our schools

They want vouchers which suck

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Laura Stewart said that increases to class sizes was a moral line in the sand we couldn’t cross. Wonder how she feels about her friends on the BOE voting to cross it.

That's a pretty easy thing to say when she doesn't have to come up with an alternative. Most of the budget is teachers. You either need to cut the number of teachers or cut the salaries/benefits of teachers.

Laura Stewart is in the pocket of the teachers union. The last thing she’s going to do is advocate for changes to their salary/health benefits or suggest layoffs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Laura Stewart said that increases to class sizes was a moral line in the sand we couldn’t cross. Wonder how she feels about her friends on the BOE voting to cross it.

That's a pretty easy thing to say when she doesn't have to come up with an alternative. Most of the budget is teachers. You either need to cut the number of teachers or cut the salaries/benefits of teachers.

Laura Stewart is in the pocket of the teachers union. The last thing she’s going to do is advocate for changes to their salary/health benefits or suggest layoffs.

Right, but that's going to get a lot harder if she makes it on the Board.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Laura Stewart said that increases to class sizes was a moral line in the sand we couldn’t cross. Wonder how she feels about her friends on the BOE voting to cross it.

That's a pretty easy thing to say when she doesn't have to come up with an alternative. Most of the budget is teachers. You either need to cut the number of teachers or cut the salaries/benefits of teachers.

Laura Stewart is in the pocket of the teachers union. The last thing she’s going to do is advocate for changes to their salary/health benefits or suggest layoffs.

Right, but that's going to get a lot harder if she makes it on the Board.

Making anything meaningful happen is going to be a lot harder if Shebra Evans keeps her seat, instead.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Laura Stewart said that increases to class sizes was a moral line in the sand we couldn’t cross. Wonder how she feels about her friends on the BOE voting to cross it.

That's a pretty easy thing to say when she doesn't have to come up with an alternative. Most of the budget is teachers. You either need to cut the number of teachers or cut the salaries/benefits of teachers.

Laura Stewart is in the pocket of the teachers union. The last thing she’s going to do is advocate for changes to their salary/health benefits or suggest layoffs.

Right, but that's going to get a lot harder if she makes it on the Board.

Making anything meaningful happen is going to be a lot harder if Shebra Evans keeps her seat, instead.

No matter how bad things are, they can always get worse. I'm definitely voting for Evans over Stewart, but I'm not happy about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Laura Stewart said that increases to class sizes was a moral line in the sand we couldn’t cross. Wonder how she feels about her friends on the BOE voting to cross it.

That's a pretty easy thing to say when she doesn't have to come up with an alternative. Most of the budget is teachers. You either need to cut the number of teachers or cut the salaries/benefits of teachers.

Laura Stewart is in the pocket of the teachers union. The last thing she’s going to do is advocate for changes to their salary/health benefits or suggest layoffs.

Right, but that's going to get a lot harder if she makes it on the Board.

Making anything meaningful happen is going to be a lot harder if Shebra Evans keeps her seat, instead.

No matter how bad things are, they can always get worse. I'm definitely voting for Evans over Stewart, but I'm not happy about it.

This.

The anti-stewart troll just won't let it go. I was undecided before, but definitely voting for Stewart now.

MCEA already has plenty of seats on the Board. We need someone that will put the needs of students first.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Laura Stewart said that increases to class sizes was a moral line in the sand we couldn’t cross. Wonder how she feels about her friends on the BOE voting to cross it.

That's a pretty easy thing to say when she doesn't have to come up with an alternative. Most of the budget is teachers. You either need to cut the number of teachers or cut the salaries/benefits of teachers.

You'd think that was true but tens of millions go to stuff that doesn't really seem to matter. For example, grants to the kids museum or another antiracist audit or another comms firm or MCPS lawyers hiring other lawyers to do the lawyer work. Not to mention the hundreds of Central office jobs that if they just disappeared would either 1) improve things 2) have no impact. My point is there's so much waste in the budget that doesn't involve teachers but cutting people's pet projects is tough.

This exactly.

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Anonymous wrote:Laura Stewart said that increases to class sizes was a moral line in the sand we couldn’t cross. Wonder how she feels about her friends on the BOE voting to cross it.

That's a pretty easy thing to say when she doesn't have to come up with an alternative. Most of the budget is teachers. You either need to cut the number of teachers or cut the salaries/benefits of teachers.

Laura Stewart is in the pocket of the teachers union. The last thing she’s going to do is advocate for changes to their salary/health benefits or suggest layoffs.

Right, but that's going to get a lot harder if she makes it on the Board.

Making anything meaningful happen is going to be a lot harder if Shebra Evans keeps her seat, instead.

No matter how bad things are, they can always get worse. I'm definitely voting for Evans over Stewart, but I'm not happy about it.

This.

The anti-stewart troll just won't let it go. I was undecided before, but definitely voting for Stewart now.

MCEA already has plenty of seats on the Board. We need someone that will put the needs of students first.

Everyone left in the race has courted MCEA. They abandoned Evans after her first term because it was clear that she had one agenda item she cared about, and left the rest to rot. Her base, and a weak opponent, kept her in last time.

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Anonymous wrote:Laura Stewart said that increases to class sizes was a moral line in the sand we couldn’t cross. Wonder how she feels about her friends on the BOE voting to cross it.

That's a pretty easy thing to say when she doesn't have to come up with an alternative. Most of the budget is teachers. You either need to cut the number of teachers or cut the salaries/benefits of teachers.

Laura Stewart is in the pocket of the teachers union. The last thing she’s going to do is advocate for changes to their salary/health benefits or suggest layoffs.

Right, but that's going to get a lot harder if she makes it on the Board.

Making anything meaningful happen is going to be a lot harder if Shebra Evans keeps her seat, instead.

No matter how bad things are, they can always get worse. I'm definitely voting for Evans over Stewart, but I'm not happy about it.

This.

The anti-stewart troll just won't let it go. I was undecided before, but definitely voting for Stewart now.

MCEA already has plenty of seats on the Board. We need someone that will put the needs of students first.

Everyone left in the race has courted MCEA. They abandoned Evans after her first term because it was clear that she had one agenda item she cared about, and left the rest to rot. Her base, and a weak opponent, kept her in last time.

Hence the need to choose the least bad option, accepting that there is no good option.